I like Dawn.

I also don't hate Riley as much as everyone else does.

Mr. Trick for me.

Ethan Rayne too if it would have meant more Giles in the last couple of seasons.

I really liked the shopkeep in Passions and I would have liked to see him in more than one scene.
It'd be nice if we saw more of Kendra in season 2 too.

Oh wow people were serious? I thought it was tongue in cheek like the meet up with Harry at King's cross in 20whatever meme, but I really should have known better.

I was going through similar stuff when I started watching too. Also a big part of why I love season 6 of Buffy so hard because I really could relate to the feeling of not knowing your place in the world and the scariness that you might be stuck in the same spot, like, 10 years from now.

YES I am like that too, unfortunately, and normally when this show tries to be deep I roll my eyes but that line is so true and I totally forgot about it.

TBH I don't think there's any one character that I look at and think that's me.
To some extent I see me in Faith when I was in high school except you know less interesting and violent and hot. I was just really anti social and would never ever do anything if I was supposed to do it, and I spent a lot of my 20s trying to figure out how to be normal and sort of responsible and feeling bad for making other people's lives really hard before, and I still have trouble separating who I am now from who I was ten years ago in my head and I feel like the black sheep a lot. If I had super powers, I'm pretty sure that's how I would have handled it.

If you asked anyone who knew me they'd probably say I was a Tara or an Anya, alternately shy and awkward, or unintentionally funny/not having a filter on what I say always. Or Dawn cause I'm bratty. It depends what part of my life really.

I remember that from the commentary, it definitely shows. I always felt like his song got overlooked with all the character stuff going on in the episode, but it's always been one of my favourites.

Me too! That was the only episode I ever saw when the show was actually airing and man that is the most wtf thing to watch out of context. I didn't start watching the show till like 8 years later though, which now that I think about it, probably has more to do with Buffy not being in syndication on any channel I got while Gilmore Girls was.

I adore Doublemeat Palace. I like lots of episodes that everyone hates but I think that one's awesome and gross and funny while still tackling the serious.

Actually since I've come to discover that I like most of the episodes that everybody else hates, I was expecting to like Beer Bad too. It's not the worst thing ever by a long shot but on rewatch I actually didn't care for it much-I just thought it was too slow. Then I was all excited to agree with everyone on the blog for once but then the post happened and I saw that everyone hated it because they were outraged because they thought it was a morality play on excessive drinking, while I thought the moral of the story was "don't be an asshole to the people that handle things that you put in your mouth"-which is actually a pretty good lesson. So apparently even when I agree with the fans I don't : (

I will also go with the Mayor-Mr Trick being my honourable mention.

Also for monster of the weeks I think the troll in Triangle is way underappreciated, watching that guy always puts me in a good mood. I also like the OMWF demon as a disney-style villain.