Pos
|
Pos |
Character |
Played |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Average |
Medals |
Lines |
|
1 |
Buffy A. Summers |
22 |
14 |
4 |
1 |
76.13 |
19 |
1675 |
|
2 |
Willow Rosenberg |
22 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
31.18 |
4 |
686 |
|
3 |
Xander L. Harris |
21 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
29.28 |
6 |
615 |
|
4 |
Spike |
22 |
1 |
3 |
2.5 |
27.72 |
6.5 |
610 |
|
5 |
Dawn Summers |
22 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
24.09 |
3 |
530 |
|
6 |
Anya C. E. Jenkins |
19 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
23.26 |
3 |
442 |
|
7 |
Andrew Wells |
15 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
26.93 |
3 |
404 |
|
8 |
Principal Robin Wood |
14 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
23.42 |
5 |
328 |
|
9 |
Rupert Giles |
13 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
22.46 |
3 |
292 |
|
10 |
Kennedy |
13 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
20.23 |
3 |
263 |
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Buffy began the
season with Lessons and a score of 112 and a Gold, her best score in a premier since season 4.
The season continued well for Buffy as she outright won the first 4 episodes before loosing Selfless, not only
to Anya,
but also Xander and Willow, and failed to win a medal. Him Provided her
with a Gold and 102, but Conversations
with Dead People saw her lose out 73-72 to guest star Holden Webster. Normal service was resumed with Sleeper’s and a 80, and she
continued to win every episode until Potential, though Showtime was won with only 51 lines. Potential saw her lose out 82-62 to Dawn, and the Killer in Me
saw her lose to both Wllow(104) and Kennedy(72). She then failed to win three in a row with Storyteller (114—76 to Andrew), Lies My Parents Told Me (for which she again failed to win a medal, loosing out to Spike(71), Giles(59) and Principal Woods(54)) and Dirty Girls to Faith 69-60. Further
defeat occurred in Touched, which at 33 was also her lowest score of the season, where she again
failed to pick up a medal, and lost out to Faith(69), Spike(48) and Kennedy(34). The season wasn’t all bad for Buffy, she did pick
up 14 Golds, four Silvers and one
Bronze episode, and broke the 100 line on three occasions. Her highest scoring episode of
the season came with Help(121). Buffy’s
average score over the 7 seasons was 118.4, 95.5, 95.3, 81.9, 84.0, 78.4, 76.1. Season 7 was Buffy’s worst ever
season.
After last season’s success, Willow
dropped 418 lines, to her worst ever score of only 686
lines. It wasn’t all bad for Willow however she did pick up one Gold
medal (last season she won five), with the
Killer in Me(104) which
was also her third highest score of the series. As well as success in the Killer in Me, Willow achieved a further two silvers with Same Time, Same Place(82) and Showtime(38), as well as one bronze episode. Willows
lowest episode came with Lies My Parents Told
Me(6),
which was also her worst of the series. Willow’s average score over the 7 seasons of Buffy
was 47.8, 45.6, 45.0, 48.6, 35.7, 50.2 and 31.2, which just shows the scale of Willow’s drop off between season 6 and 7.
Xander, like Willow and Buffy also saw his worst season with season 7. Unlike Willow however Xander actually started the season fairly well.
Although scoring only 19 in Lessons, the next 5 episodes provided Xander with 233 lines (out of his 615), with Selfless(54), Same Time, Same Place(53), Beneath You(52) and Him(47) providing Xander with his top four episodes of the season. Such a collusion of strong
episodes gives a distorted view of Xander’s overall success in the season, after Him Xander completely missed out on Conversations with Dead People, the only episode Xander has ever missed, and after that episode the character failed to achieve
much, a 38 and a bronze for First Date and a 37 with no medal for Potential being the highlights. Overall Xander picked up 2 silver medals (Selfless(54) and End of Days(29)) and 4 Bronze medals, though Xander’s silver medal for End Of
Days was the lowest
of any silver medals awarded in the series. This was simply due to the shear
number of characters in the episode all receiving fairly even scores. Xander suffered his worst ever episode with Lies My Parents Told Me(2), and his average of only 29.2, was also bad in comparison to his overall
performance on Buffy (55.8, 52.6, 37.0, 33.8, 32.8, 40.2 and 29.2).
In Contrast to Xander, Spike started the season very badly. Although
the episode Beneath You(75) provided Spike with a silver and his best score of the
season, after this episode Spike hit his worst ever run, between Same Time, Same Place and Conversations
with Dead People (in which Spike failed to speak at all) Spike scored just 48 lines. Spike recovered somewhat with another silver and 64 in Sleeper, and a 43 and bronze in Never Leave Me, but was then kidnapped for two episodes
and scored just 11 lines in two episodes. Spike began to make a real imprint on the season after Showtime, in the last 11 episodes scoring 360 lines (out of his 610), more than any other character save Buffy, he also picked up his third ever Gold with Lies My Parents Told Me(71), and another Silver medal with Touched(48) as well as bronzes in Get It Done and half a bronze for Chosen (which he shared with Faith). Overall Spike picked up one Gold, three Silver, and two and a half bronze medals, and
averaged 27.7 lines per episode. Season 7 was his worst
season since season 4, though his ranking of fourth is the highest the
character achieved (though he also achieved this in season 5), and it was the
closest Spike has ever come to finishing third, indeed
the margin of five lines is so narrow that I cannot be certain
that Xander actually had more lines than Spike.
Dawn again finished in fifth, making her the only regular to occupy the
exact same place in the rankings throughout her Buffy career. The season began well for Dawn, indeed at several points during the season she was second in the
rankings. Lessons saw her score a 68 and silver, and Him provided her with her highest score of
the season, and the second highest of her career, as well as a Silver medal,
whilst Potential provided Dawn with a Gold and 82 lines. After Potential, Dawn slumped badly, scoring only 110 lines in the remaining 10 episodes (an average of only 11 lines per episode), in 6 of the episodes Dawn scored 10 lines or less, and in Storyteller and Lies My Parents
Told Me suffered her
worst episodes of the series since Buffy
vs. Dracula, scoring just 3. Overall Dawn picked up one Gold, two Silver, whilst
averaging 24.1 lines per episode, making season 7 her
worst ever (this is a common theme)
Anya also saw a
massive drop off in lines (275) from last season, however she started the season
bright enough despite missing Help, picking up her third Gold for Selfless(74),
and Bronze medals for Same Time, Same
Place(58) and Sleeper(26), as well
as gaining a respectable score for Beneath
You(37). But
this early success fell off almost immediately after Selfless,
she missed her second and third episodes of the season with Conversations with Dead People and Dirty
Girls, which surely is stretching
the definition of the word regular, and in Lies My Parents Told Me scored only 1 line (her worst of the series). After Sleeper she
failed to win a medal in any episode, and her most successful episode came with
Get It Done(31). Overall in Season 7 Anya averaged 23.3 lines per
episode, for episodes she appeared in (or 20.1 if you
feel Anya should have been in every episode), in the last 11
episodes of the season Anya scored just 158 lines, 10 characters did better than this, and
though season 7 was a lot worse than season 6 for Anya, it was
actually a narrow improvement on season 5 (11 lines)
Back Eleven Table
|
Pos |
Character |
Played |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Average |
Medals |
Lines |
|
1 |
Buffy |
11 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
69.5 |
9 |
765 |
|
2 |
Spike |
11 |
1 |
1 |
1.5 |
32.7 |
3.5 |
360 |
|
3 |
Willow |
11 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
29.9 |
1 |
329 |
|
4 |
Andrew |
11 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
25.3 |
2 |
279 |
|
5 |
Wood |
8 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
31.8 |
4 |
255 |
|
6 |
Xander |
11 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
22.5 |
2 |
248 |
|
7 |
Faith |
5 |
2 |
1 |
0.5 |
46.4 |
3.5 |
232 |
|
8 |
Kennedy |
11 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
19.8 |
2 |
218 |
|
9 |
Giles |
8 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
25.5 |
2 |
204 |
|
10 |
Dawn |
11 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
17.5 |
1 |
193 |
|
11 |
Anya |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15.8 |
0 |
158 |
|
12 |
The First |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15.2 |
0 |
122 |
Contains only characters who scored 100 or
more in the last 11 episodes
Andrew was
the only relevant character to increase his season 6 score. In season 6 Andrew
had failed to win a medal, but in season 7 he won one of each kind, as Storyteller(114) saw
him become the thirteenth character to pick up a Gold, and only the tenth
character to pick up more than 100 lines in one episode. It also saw him achieve the second
best score of the season, after Buffy’s 121 in Help. Andrew also picked up a silver and 47 for Never Leave Me, and a
bronze and 27 for End of Days. He
also had significant scores in Conversations with Dead People(33) and First Date(34). Andrew averaged 26.9 lines per episode and appeared in 15
episodes in total. Andrew’s former cohorts in the Troika, Jonathan and Warren both appeared, though Warren is only
credited with 3 lines through flashback, and Jonathan picked up 30 lines before being murdered,
and becoming reliant on Andrew’s flashbacks for a further 23 lines.
Principal Wood also made significant impact on the
season for a recurring character, averaging 23.4 lines per episode, and appearing in 14 episodes. He also picked
up two Silver and three bronze episodes, and in a run of four episodes picked up
a medal on every occasion, scoring silvers in First Date(43) and Get It Done(49), and bronzes in Storyteller(35) and Lies My Parents Told me(54) (the other Bronze medal was for Lessons(28)), Lies My Parents Told Me was also Woods highest
scoring episode.
Giles again
finished in ninth position, but although he appeared in 13 episodes (5 more
than season 6), he picked up 50 lines less than season 6. He did however pick up 2 silver episodes, with Bring on The Night(38) and Lies My Parents Told Me(59), he also picked up a bronze for Empty Spaces(33). Overall season 7 was Giles worst ever season, both in terms of number of lines and line
average. Giles average score over
the 7 seasons of Buffy was 56.0, 40.7, 33.7, 32.1, 25.3, 42.8 and 22.5.
Kennedy was the most
successful of the potential slayers, picking up a silver and a 72 with the Killer in Me, and bronzes
with Showtime(35) and Touched(34). She also did
well in Get It Done(36). Amanda was the next most
successful potential slayer, scoring a bronze for Potential(43), though she
only beat the 10 line mark in one other episode (End Of Days(11)). None of the
other Potentials made significant enough impact on an episode to win a medal,
indeed Rona’s score of 24 in Showtime was the
highest score any of the other potentials got. However 11 of season 7’s 55
qualifying characters were potentials, and combined they scored 555 lines which
would have seen them finish fifth if they were treated as the same character.
The First achieved two
Bronze medals for Conversations with Dead People(48) and for Bring on the
Night(27), it also had a significant score in First
Date(36). Rather
bizarrely for a big bad, especially a season long big bad, the First actually had more
lines of dialogue it the first eleven episodes than the last eleven (136 lines compared
to 122). Fellow bad
guy Caleb picked up a
bronze for Dirty Girls(48). None of The Firsts other minions
such as the ubervamps and bringers count as qualifying
characters as they never spoke.
Faith returned to Buffy, after a 3 season
absence, and had a phenomenal five episode run. Picking up Golds for Dirty Girls and Touched, both 69 lines, a silver
for Empty Spaces(46), and shared honours with Spike in Chosen(30) for a bronze. Faith scored 232 lines in just five
episodes, which is an average of 46.4 lines per episode, which is more than any other
character achieved in season 7, save Buffy. Also returning after a two season absence was Angel, who picked up his
first silver medal since Graduation Day part 2, with a 32 in Chosen, this is despite
only being in the episode for the first 7 minutes. Angel is now the star of
his own spin off, where he does considerably better than he ever did on Buffy.
Holden Webster became the first and only Buffy One-off guest star to win Gold, when he defeated Buffy 73-72 in Conversations with Dead People. This feat was undoubtedly helped by getting both
the first and last line in with Buffy,
and by the fact that there was only him and Buffy in either of their scenes. Holden was dusted at the end of the episode, however actor Jonathan M. Woodward will be reprising his Angel character Knox,
on Season 5 of Angel. Cassie
was the only other one off guest star to win a medal, picking up a silver for Help(53). Cassie also failed to survive her episode, but her image
was used by the
First in Conversation with Dead People (see image above).
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