Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Buffyverse task force/Episodes

Use this page to discuss episode articles & what work needs to be done to them before they can be 'striked off'. Please try and keep this page updated so that Wikiproject Buffy can map the progress of the task and know where work needs to be done.

Key

That means:
- keep punctuation and spelling accurate to the episode's official name
- synopsis completed ('Summary' of episode (prferably 100-300 wrds), & 'expanded' synopsis (preferably 500-600 wrds)
- A filled in infobox, with memorable screencapture from episode
- Some behind scenes information
However articles at this stage still benefit from editing
- Often they could use additional behind the scenes information
- Or cleaner writing..
- Such tasks remain a much lower prioroty than completing the synopses and infoboxes.
Episodes are stubs, or need to be completely rewritten. Buffy eps in bold may need a synopsis, or a cleanup.
Episodes that remain in editing stages. Almost all unformatted eps could benefit from further editing specialist information such as 'Production details' sections and 'Arc significance'...

Progress

This page is up to date as of:

July/August 2007
  1. All episode articles have been created and appropiately named. All episode names that require disambiguation due to other articles with the same name should be appended with "(Buffy episode)" or "(Angel episode). For episodes that don't require (Buffy episode), a redirect from Episodename (Buffy episode) may be created for ease of linking.
  2. All Buffy eps have a synopsis/infobox/image
  3. Angel Seasons 1-4 have at least a synopsis/infobox/image
  4. Buffy Season 1 has been adequtely completed
  5. Some other episodes have been completed, please help by striking an ep (see key) once it is completed.

Contributors and their contributions

This section lists some of the key contributors and their preferred area of expertise, this maybe useful for coordinating work on the episodes. Users may also add themselves, or correct their descriptions and explain the areas of the episode articles they will be working on.

In alphabetical order:

Short term tasks

Each season has its own short-term tasks listed. Please update them and the appropriate episode annotation as you complete them.

Synopses

Every episode needs a well-written synopsis section, including 2 sub-sections:

1 - 'Summary' - aim for around 20-100 words
2 - 'Expanded overview' - aim for 500 words (almost all of these should be done)


Episodes without any/enough quotes

Several Angel episodes have very few (or no) quotes:

Behind Scenes

This needs to be expanded upon hugely in the sections. Try not to overuse quotes, there is alread a Wikiquote. Cite sources but try to do it fluidly within writing rather than clunkily.

Sections

  • Writing and acting - Relating to writing, writers, or actors, but avoid POV
  • Production details - 'Translations' and 'Music' can have their own sub-sections in here. Other topics might include special effects, sets, camera work...
  • Cultural References - So far very few episodes have this section, but Buffy is a show that contains lots of pop-culture references every episode (and these are sometimes obscure especially to foreign viewers, so these sections maybe potentially be very useful for the wikipedia Buffyverse guide). For an example of how this section can be written see, Ted (Buffy episode)#Cultural References
  • Quotes and Trivia (include link to each ep to its place at Wikiquote). Keep quotes without analysis to a minimum since the wikiquote is a place where those can go.
  • Continuity - Sub-sections: 'Arc signficance', 'Timing' (includes table of surrounding Buffyverse stories). Themes or events that have a wider impact on the arc (or are the result of earlier themes/events.

Researching Buffy/Angel eps

Research using:

  • Unofficial guide books
  • Official guides:
Watchers' Guides Vol.s 1-3
Monster Book
Angel: Case Files Vol.s 1-3
  • interviews in magazines
Especially official Buffy/Angel mags for UK which have been running for years (US version has been being released for past few years)
  • DVD commentaries, (transcripts can be found on the net - see below)
  • interviews on internet
  • internet including these:
Restlessbtvs.com - INVALUABLE for Buffy trivia
Restlessbtvs.com - List of resources
Buffyguide.com - esp useful for references/music info
Cityofangel.com - features such as interviews
Angel DVD commentary transcripts
Buffy DVD commentary transcripts

Each ep article should contain its link to that episode at Wikiquote. See all quotes on these pages:

Here are examples of the wikiquote links to the right and slightly below this text:

Buffy Season One (1997)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

0. Unaired pilot
  1. Welcome to the Hellmouth
  2. The Harvest
  3. The Witch
  4. Teacher's Pet
  5. Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
  6. The Pack
  7. Angel
  8. I, Robot... You, Jane
  9. The Puppet Show
  10. Nightmares
  11. Out of Mind, Out of Sight
  12. Prophecy Girl

Buffy Season Two (1997-1998)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

  1. When She Was Bad
  2. Some Assembly Required
  3. School Hard
  4. Inca Mummy Girl
  5. Reptile Boy
  6. Halloween
  7. Lie to Me
  8. The Dark Age
  9. What's My Line, Part One
  10. What's My Line, Part Two
  11. Ted
  12. Bad Eggs
  13. Surprise
  14. Innocence
  15. Phases
  16. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
  17. Passion
  18. Killed by Death
  19. I Only Have Eyes for You - needs behind scenes,
  20. Go Fish - needs behind scenes,
  21. Becoming, Part One
  22. Becoming, Part Two

Buffy Season Three (1998-1999)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

  1. Anne
  2. Dead Man's Party
  3. Faith, Hope & Trick
  4. Beauty and the Beasts
  5. Homecoming
  6. Band Candy
  7. Revelations
  8. Lover's Walk
  9. The Wish
  10. Amends - reqs clean-up and behind-scenes info
  11. Gingerbread
  12. Helpless
  13. The Zeppo
  14. Bad Girls
  15. Consequences
  16. Doppelgängland
  17. Enemies
  18. Earshot
  19. Choices
  20. The Prom
  21. Graduation Day, Part One
  22. Graduation Day, Part Two

Buffy Season Four (1999-2000)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

  1. The Freshman
  2. Living Conditions
  3. The Harsh Light of Day - more triv
  4. Fear, Itself
  5. Beer Bad
  6. Wild at Heart - adequate but more be-sc would improve
  7. The Initiative
  8. Pangs - adequate but more be-sc would improve
  9. Something Blue
  10. Hush
  11. Doomed
  12. A New Man
  13. The I in Team
  14. Goodbye Iowa
  15. This Year's Girl
  16. Who Are You
  17. Superstar
  18. Where the Wild Things Are
  19. New Moon Rising
  20. The Yoko Factor
  21. Primeval
  22. Restless

Buffy Season Five (2000-2001)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

  1. Buffy vs. Dracula - more be.-scenes
  2. Real Me
  3. The Replacement
  4. Out of My Mind
  5. No Place Like Home
  6. Family
  7. Fool for Love
  8. Shadow
  9. Listening to Fear
  10. Into the Woods
  11. Triangle
  12. Checkpoint
  13. Blood Ties
  14. Crush
  15. I Was Made to Love You
  16. The Body
  17. Forever
  18. Intervention
  19. Tough Love
  20. Spiral
  21. The Weight of the World
  22. The Gift

Buffy Season Six (2001-2002)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

  1. Bargaining, Part One
  2. Bargaining, Part Two
  3. After Life
  4. Flooded
  5. Life Serial
  6. All the Way
  7. Once More, with Feeling
  8. Tabula Rasa
  9. Smashed
  10. Wrecked
  11. Gone
  12. Doublemeat Palace
  13. Dead Things
  14. Older and Far Away
  15. As You Were
  16. Hell's Bells
  17. Normal Again
  18. Entropy
  19. Seeing Red
  20. Villains
  21. Two to Go
  22. Grave

Buffy Season Seven (2002-2003)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

  1. Lessons
  2. Beneath You
  3. Same Time, Same Place
  4. Help
  5. Selfless
  6. Him
  7. Conversations with Dead People
  8. Sleeper
  9. Never Leave Me
  10. Bring on the Night
  11. Showtime
  12. Potential
  13. The Killer in Me
  14. First Date
  15. Get It Done
  16. Storyteller
  17. Lies My Parents Told Me
  18. Dirty Girls
  19. Empty Places
  20. Touched
  21. End of Days
  22. Chosen

Angel Season 1 (1999-2000)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

  1. City of
  2. Lonely Hearts
  3. In the Dark
  4. I Fall to Pieces
  5. Rm w/a Vu
  6. Sense & Sensitivity
  7. Bachelor Party
  8. I Will Remember You
  9. Hero
  10. Parting Gifts
  11. Somnambulist
  12. Expecting
  13. She
  14. I've Got You Under My Skin
  15. The Prodigal
  16. The Ring
  17. Eternity
  18. Five By Five
  19. Sanctuary
  20. War Zone
  21. Blind Date
  22. To Shanshu in L.A.

Angel Season 2 (2000-2001)

Project progress:

Short-term tasks:

  1. Judgment
  2. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
  3. First Impressions
  4. Untouched
  5. Dear Boy
  6. Guise Will Be Guise
  7. Darla
  8. The Shroud of Rahmon
  9. The Trial
  10. Reunion
  11. Redefinition
  12. Blood Money
  13. Happy Anniversary
  14. The Thin Dead Line
  15. Reprise
  16. Epiphany
  17. Disharmony
  18. Dead End
  19. Belonging
  20. Over the Rainbow
  21. Through the Looking Glass
  22. There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb

Angel Season 3 (2001-2002)

Project progress

Short-term tasks:

  1. Heartthrob
  2. That Vision Thing
  3. That Old Gang of Mine
  4. Carpe Noctem
  5. Fredless
  6. Billy
  7. Offspring
  8. Quickening
  9. Lullaby
  10. Dad
  11. Birthday
  12. Provider
  13. Waiting in the Wings
  14. Couplet
  15. Loyalty
  16. Sleep Tight
  17. Forgiving
  18. Double or Nothing
  19. The Price
  20. A New World
  21. Benediction
  22. Tomorrow

Angel Season 4 (2002-2003)

Project progress

Short-term tasks:

  1. Deep Down
  2. Ground State
  3. The House Always Wins
  4. Slouching Toward Bethlehem
  5. Supersymmetry
  6. Spin the Bottle
  7. Apocalypse, Nowish
  8. Habeas Corpses
  9. Long Day's Journey
  10. Awakening
  11. Soulless
  12. Calvary
  13. Salvage
  14. Release
  15. Orpheus
  16. Players
  17. Inside Out
  18. Shiny Happy People
  19. The Magic Bullet
  20. Sacrifice
  21. Peace Out
  22. Home

Angel Season 5 (2003-2004)


Project progress

Short-term Tasks:

  1. Conviction
  2. Just Rewards
  3. Unleashed
  4. Hell Bound
  5. Life of the Party
  6. The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
  7. Lineage
  8. Destiny
  9. Harm's Way
  10. Soul Purpose
  11. Damage
  12. You're Welcome
  13. Why We Fight
  14. Smile Time
  15. A Hole in the World
  16. Shells
  17. Underneath
  18. Origin
  19. Time Bomb
  20. The Girl in Question
  21. Power Play
  22. Not Fade Away