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“Once More With Feeling” and “The Body” are to this day some of the best episodes of television I am ever watched. Ever. I have never seen a musical episode at nearly the same level as OMWF, and I physically cannot watch The Body is one sitting without going to hug my mother at some point.

I love the Eleventh Doctor’s theme mostly because of how it was established and how it established him as the Doctor. In this very first episode, when viewers are still trying to decide if they can accept this new guy after the departure of David Tennant, Matt Smith delivers his first big speech and concludes it with, “Hello. I’m the Doctor. Basically…run.” And then his theme just swoops in and takes over and suddenly you almost feel it in your chest that this guy is here to stay.

I feel like Supernatural pulled a lot of its best elements from Buffy, as did many other television series. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was just revolutionary. However, Buffy had a wider ensemble, whereas Supernatural always returns to the relationship between the two brothers. I would argue that Buffy is the better series and the one more worth watching, but both combine the supernatural and the normal life well, as you pointed out.