I think my personal least favorite was the one where the eggs that they were treating as babies for health class were controlling their brains (Bad Eggs I think?). But yeah, Beer Bad is not a fan favorite - just a little too clunky in its message delivery.

Problematic how?

Oh, the show got very, very goofy - for better and worse. I think Band Candy is one of the best goofy ones, but basically any time when Ethan Rayne (a recurring minor baddie) showed up it got a bit silly.

I think you highlighted all of Adam's high points. I agree, it wasn't terrible, but if the pacing had been a little better handled, it could've been great. The way it was, though, a lot of plot points didn't carry the emotional weight they were supposed to.

Wasn't the one where Giles turns into a demon a season 4 episode? That was a cute one-off, and Ethan Rayne was always an amusing baddie.

That makes waaay more sense - explains why they had to rush her plotline and exit so much also.

Adam was a little too one-note. With Spike, The Mayor, Drusilla, etc, they always had multiple aspects to their characters besides just "evil". Adam didn't have anything relate-able to him. I think they were going for a childlike wonder thing with him, but it didn't convey right.

The pacing for the initiative storytelling was off, and the soldiers didn't get enough character depth. We should've gotten invested in the partnership with them and the camaraderie between them before we found out they were evil, so that those discoveries could carry more emotional weight. Instead, Walsh turned on…

Not to the best of my knowledge (for the CIA anyways). They're supposed to be pretty targeted in their information gathering, focused on specific targets and missions.

I dunno, there's always speech to text - just lots of weird typos in his emails.

His "that's fair" reaction to the really negative review of his band was good too. I think my favorite Oz moment, though, was when he stopped Willow when she was trying to awkwardly put the moves on him, because he felt like she wasn't ready/wasn't doing it for the right reasons.

My favorite Adam moment (not that it has a ton of competition) was in Restless, when Buffy has a conversation with the man that he used to be. It's the only time we get any sort of view of something more to him.

That's always one of the weirder bits of vampire rules in books I've read. Some authors go with the notion that you'd be stuck with the hair you had when you died, so it's your bad luck if muttonchops or some nonsense were in style when you died, whereas others gloss over that aspect of being immortal and unchanging.

The Buffy villains were always at their best when the writers gave them enough humanity to be relatable (while still being utterly evil). It's one of the things that I think Whedon is really good at in general.

People are not supposed to be tolerant of misogyny, racism, homophobia, anti-semitism, or other forms of bigotry. We are supposed to be intolerant of those forms of hatred, because tolerating them tells the targets of that hate that we won't support or protect them. It tells the bigots that their hatred is ok, and…

To paraphrase Justified, "If you talk to one guy who's an asshole to you, then he's an asshole. If all day, you run into nothing but assholes, then you're the asshole."

Well, you've got a month - can probably watch a lot of Buffy between now and then, at least. But, definite bummer.

I liked the argument for why, in this current political climate, Warren is the most relevant bad guy from Buffy (prototypical MRA that he is), but the Mayor is definitely my personal favorite. Love the part where Buffy declares that he truly is evil, when she realizes he's going to still make them sit through his…

Still wouldn't be in the CIA's running lanes - they're not allowed to perform surveillance domestically unless it relates to a pre-existing foreign target. So, that protester would also have to have ties to ISIS or something in that vein.

I know that the NSA has gotten attention for bulk collection, but I didn't think I'd seen anything in the news about the CIA violating its charter. They are allowed to spy on Americans if those Americans are talking to intelligence targets overseas, though.