Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Every Season 1 Episode Ranked
1. Prophecy Girl
Buffy the Vampire Slayer would do far bigger and far better finales than this, but even so Prophecy Girl is still one of the show's best episodes.
The main focus of the season is all about Buffy and the disillusionment she feels about her destiny. She spends several episodes avoiding and sabotaging it so she can have some semblance of a normal life, but in the finale she must officially face it and accept herself once and for all.
Putting her high school drama on hold, Buffy wanders into the lair of The Master safe in the knowledge that she's going to die, and comes to terms with her fate. Though she does die, she's revived by Xander and kills The Master, but by then the episode has already reached its peak.
Driving home the show's themes of acceptance, destiny and friendship, Prophecy Girl was really only the beginning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's phenomenal run, and what a fantastic start it is.