I re-watched High Fidelity a couple of weeks ago. In that flick, John Cusack, Jack Black, and a bald dude hash over music with this sense of ferocity and intensity and constantly make top 5 lists about the various topics. This got me to thinking about the Slayage column. People dig lists I think. I know I do. So I’m doing an article entirely comprised of bizarre Joss-related lists. And without further ado, many, many lists.
Top 5 Joss-directed Camera Angles
5. The eerie wide shot of the desert in "Restless"
4. The almost Hitchcockian shot of Buffy carrying the rocket launcher in "Innocence"
3. The voyeuristic shot of Dawn finding out about Joyce’s death through the window in "The Body", the camera panning to the painting of negative space.
2. Buffy running across the rooftop in "Chosen"
1. The gun through the glass table in "Restless"
Top 5 Fights
5. The Battle in "Chosen"
4. The War in "Graduation Day Part Two"
3. The first time the gang fights The Beast in "Apocalypse, Nowish"
2. The Buffy/Angel swordfight in "Becoming Part Two"
1. The big Glory blowout at the end of "The Gift"
Top 5 Two-Parters
5. Two To Go/Grave
4. Five By Five/Sanctuary
3. Surprise/Innocence
2. Graduation Day
1. Becoming
Top 5 Characters
5. Rupert Giles
4. Willow Rosenberg
3. Alexander Lavelle Harris
2. Angel
1. Buffy Anne Summers (I know it isn’t the popular choice, but she is the most layered character in the history of TV)
Top 5 Villains
5. The Beast
4. Darla + Drusilla
3. The First
2. Angelus
1. The Mayor
Top 5 Worst Things Joss Has Ever Done
5. Brought on Ashanti for "First Date"
4. One Word: Kennedy
3. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Movie (the final product, not the original script)
2. Waterworld
1. Alien Resurrection
Top 5 Buffy Episode Titles
5. "The Body"
4. "Earshot"
3. "Welcome To The Hellmouth"
2. "Conversations With Dead People"
1. "Lies My Parents Told Me"
Top 5 Character Haircuts
5. Gunn’s bald head
4. Spike throughout the show
3. Floppy Xander from season one
2. Willow’s hair in season four
1. Buffy’s short hair in season six
Top 5 Sexiest Buffy Scenes
5. Dawn making out with the vampire in the car in the otherwise forgettable "All The Way"
4. Willow kissing Xander’s ear in "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"
3. Buffy’s trench coat in "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"
2. The Buffy dance in "When She Was Bad"
1. Spike and Buffy’s first time in "Smashed"
Top 5 Most Heartbreaking Moments On Buffy
5. Giles finding Jenny’s body in "Passion"
4. Buffy’s voiceover at the end of "The Gift"
3. Anya’s speech in "The Body"
2. Dawn saying, "Where’d she go?" in "The Body"
1. The fake-out Joyce gets better scene in "The Body"
Top 5 Guest Stars
5. Kristine Sutherland
4. Danny Strong
3. Julie Benz
2. Juliet Landau
1. Eliza Dushku
Top 5 Monsters
5. The Gentlemen
4. Clem
3. The Beast
2. Sweet
1. The Host
Top 5 Character-centric Episodes
5. "Selfless"
4. "Conversations With Dead People"
3. "Fool For Love"
2. "Restless"
1. "The Body"
Top 5 Deaths
5. Jesse in "The Harvest"
4. Doyle in "Hero"
3. Tara in "Seeing Red"
2. Anya in "Chosen"
1. Buffy in "The Gift"
Top 5 Most Realistic Emotional Buffy Breakdowns
5. Washing dishes in "Listening To Fear"
4. When she wakes up in "The Weight Of The World"
3. Leaving town at the end of "Becoming Part Two"
2. With Giles at the end of "Innocence"
1. The whole of season six
Top 5 Most Underused Characters
5. Hank Summers
4. Larry
3. Jonathan
2. Doyle
1. Whistler
Top 5 Worst Characters
5. Umm...there aren’t 5 bad characters
4. Kate Lockley
3. The Gorch Brothers
2. Rhona
1. Kennedy
Top 5 Buffy Websites Other Than Slayage.com
5. Bitten.info (because it’s hard to find genuinely good-natured Buffy sites on the internet and this is an excellent example of one)
4. Aintitcoolnews.com (for the brilliant episode FAQs)
3. CityOfAngel.com
2. BuffyGuide.com
1. Slayage.com (because I don’t want to be fired for plugging other Buffy sites)
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