Another method to rank Buffy

I just found out this interesting method to rank the seasons. Basically, what you do is put episodes in each season based on the number and choose the best episode for the week. Sounds interesting, right? So here goes.

Before that, I predict that the results of this probably wont match my previous ranking. This one only takes into consideration great eps, while mine takes several factors. Eh, it's fun and it passes the time. :)

Week 1
Welcome to the Hellmouth; When She Was Bad; Anne; Lessons; Buffy vs. Dracula; Bargaining(1); Lessons
Buffy has never been known for its great season openers, but Anne wins out for me. In this take of the theme of power and responsibility, Buffy has decided to abandon her duty, but finds that she is who she is, and it takes more than changing her name to change that. In a self-affirming line, she says, "I'm Buffy Summers, Vampire Slayer. And you are?". (3)

Week 2
The Harvest; Some Assembly Required; Dead Man's Party; Living Conditions; Real Me; Bargaining(2); Beneath You
This one's pretty easy to choose, Beneath You blows the rest of the competition away. Beneath You starts off innocently enough, as a Monster-of-the-Week feature, but the last five minutes of the show comes out of nowhere and leaves you emotionally drained.(7)

Week 3
The Witch; School Hard;Faith, Hope & Trick; Harsh Light of Day; The Replacement; Afterlife; Same Time, Same Place
This one is slightly harder to choose, but in the end Same Time, Same Place wins out over the rest because this episode makes me realize how much I missed Willow in the first 2 episode in S7 (7)


Week 4
Teacher's Pet; Inca Mummy Girl; Beauty and the Beast; Fear, Itself; Out of Mind; Flooded; Help
Again, no real competition, Help wins this through the sheer talented performance of Azura Skye (7)

Week 5
Never Kill a Boy on the First Date; Reptile Boy; Homecoming; Beer Bad; No Place Like Home; Life Serial; Selfless
Although Life Serial has a special place in my Heart, Selfless takes the prize. This is the long awaited Fool For Love for Anya, and everything works. Funny, Harrowing, enlightening, many faces from the past, and the lost musical. What more can you ask for? (7)

Week 6
The Pack; Halloween; Band Candy; Wild At Heart; Family; All The Way; Him
This one's a tough choice, Halloween is one of the best episodes in S2, but Wild At Heart makes my allergies act up like no other. Great performance by both Aly and Seth. (4)

Week 7
Angel; Lie To Me; Revelations; The Initiative; Fool For Love; Once More, With Feeling; Conversations with Dead People
Once More, With Feeling edges out over FFL and CWDP just for the fact that I'm listening to soundtrack when I'm typing this (6).

Week 8
I Robot, You Jane; The Dark Age; Lover's Walk; Pangs; Shadow; Tabula Rasa; Sleeper
Hard to choose between Lover's Walk and Tabula Rasa, but Michelle Branch cliches it. TR wins. (6)

Week 9
The Puppet Show; What's My Line(1); The Wish; Something Blue; Listening to Fear; Smashed; Never Leave Me
The Wish takes a tired cliche and does it right, making it an instant classic. Plus, Vamp Willow. (3)

Week 10
Nightmares; What's My Line(2); Amends; Hush; Into the Woods; Wrecked; Bring on the Night
Hush so outclasses the other episodes in this week that it's not even funny. (4)

Week 11
Out of Mind, Out of Sight; Ted; Gingerbread; Doomed; Triangle; Gone; Showtime
Rather slim picking this week. Gone gets the win because I was laughing all the way through the episode. (6)

Week 12
Prophecy Girl; Bad Eggs; Helpless; A New Man; Checkpoint; Doublemeat Palace; Potential
How does one choose between the "I don't wanna die" speech and the "Who are you" speech. Both SMG and ASH gave their best performances in those scenes, and made us believe. I'm going for Prophecy Girl so that S1 gets at least one win. (1)

Week 13
Surprise; The Zeppo; The I in Team; Blood Ties; Dead Things; The Killer in Me
No choice. The Zeppo is the best Xander episode, ever. Not only that, but the way it constantly pokes fun at the series sometimes over-dramatic scenes, and then just undercuts it, it's just laugh out loud funny. (3)

Week 14
Innocence; Bad Girls; Goodbye Iowa; Crush; Older and Far Away; First Date
Innocence. Is anyone even remotely surprised? (2)

Week 15
Phases; Consequences; This Year's Girl; I Was Made to Love You; As You Were; Get It Done
Another slim pickings. I'd give this to Consequence, for the way it showed how much the gang trusted Buffy. (3)

Week 16
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; Doppelgangland; Who Are You?; The Body; Hell's Bells; Storyteller
This is the hardest choice of the list; Doppelgangland and The Body are tied as my most favourite episode on Buffy, ever. Uhhh.... The Body. (5)

Week 17
Passion; Enemies; Superstar; Forever; Normal Again; Lies My Parents Told Me
Passion. Not so much for Jenny's death (though she will be missed) but for the way it was all done. The irrelevant way Angelus killed her. The way he set it up so that Giles finds her. Giles breaking down. (2)

Week 18
Killed By Death; Earshot; Where the Wild Things Are; Intervention; Entropy; Dirty Girls
Earshot. Most shows would just focus on the cool part of being able to read minds, never the darker side. And this is where Buffy excels. And the last scene in the clock tower hits me on so many levels that's it's frightening. (3)

Week 19
I Only Have Eyes For You; Choices; New Moon Rising; Tough Love; Seeing Red; Empty Places
Seeing Red. The only episode harder to watch than this would be The Body. (6)

Week 20
Go Fish; The Prom; The Yoko Factor; Spiral; Villains; Touched
Villains, just because of the 180 degrees change to Willow. Everything that's been bubbling just beneath the surface bursts open with bloody consequences. Most chilling line: "Bored Now" (6)

Week 21
Becoming(1); Graduation Day(1); Primeval; The Weight of the World; Two To Go; End of Days
This is another hard choice, but not for the reason you think. Part one of most Buffy two-parters are always weaker than the second half, and most of the week 21 episodes are first-parters. I'm just gonna give this to Grad Day(1) for the uber-cool Buffy/Faith fight (3)

Week 22
Becoming(2); Graduation Day(2); Restless; The Gift; Grave; Chosen
Chosen, an incredibly satisfying conclusion to the series. (7)

So, totaling up everything:

Season 1 : 1
Season 2 : 2
Season 3 : 6
Season 4 : 2
Season 5 : 1
Season 6 : 5
Season 7 : 5

So, there you go. Doesn't really differ from my previous ranking, which kinda surprises me, though S5 really dropped in this rating, and S4 did way better.