*Buffy The Vampire Slayer* Exposes Psycho Moms (1x3) | REACTION
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- I hope you enjoy my reaction to Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season One, Episode Three "The Witch". Poor Amy. Hope to see her on screen again!
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What you say at 16:36 "We're still going to get these interpersonal relationships to continue the plot for us" is the perfect way to look at this show. The writer James Baldwin once defined the difference between "plot" and "story" as The Plot being the series of events as they occur, but The Story being what the characters go through and how they experience it. On BtVS the characters and what they go through ARE the show, and the show never lets us lose sight of them. That's what makes it special.
I think this episode is such a great way to showcase what these stand-alone episodes for Buffy can be like in terms of using magic and demons and whatnot as metaphors/commentary on very real-life issues. It's definitely a cornerstone of the show as a whole
Don't get distracted about the Season 1 comments. The show does get much, much better as it progresses, but S1 is still fun on its own, and has lots of things to enjoy. Having watched the series during its original run, and having no idea what was to come, the show just continued to entertain and surprise. Tune out the comments as best you can, and just take the episodes as they come.
Honestly, I'd say the series starts to find its rhythm around episode 7 of this season. Episodes 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are all solid episodes, and all are better than a number of episodes we get in season 2.
And I think season 1 being what it is actually enhances the later seasons because it's kind of building the norm. And some other shows never even get a season as good as season 1 Buffy
I have such a deep love for season 1 tbh! It’s such a great combination of what is to be expected in a fantasy drama-comedy and those PBS kids shows like Ghostwriter. (Pretty sure it was PBS ?) Like you said, tons of fun!
S1 is definitely the campiest, and has the most weak link eps. It was also a last minute mid-season replacement with a budget of about $3.75. If you care about SFX, photography, stunts, etc. the series gets MUCH better as it goes along, and the writing gets more consistent, but S1 has its inspired moments, especially [spoiler] and [spoiler]. Oh and of course [spoiler]!
Since becoming a mother myself I understand Joyce a bit more. Wanting the best for your kid is natural. She isn't a perfect parent. But she doesn't know that Buffy is the slayer, as far as she's aware Buffy is just causing trouble, fighting, she literally burned down a school building. If my kid did that, I'd probably be pissed.
And because Buffy can't tell her why, she doesn't really confide in her mom, so she doesn't know why Buffy is doing these things. Not to mention she's a single parent, so she doesn't have anyone else to talk things over with and help her out. It's not Buffy's fault, but I get Joyce's frustration. There's no parenting manual, you just have to wing it.
I think on shows about kids, dad and mom characters inevitably get the short end of the stick. In order to show the adolescent as independent, the parent has to be portrayed as clueless.
So well put. I feel exactly the same. Joyce does get it wrong at times but don't we all..? 🤷♀️
Yeah, as I get older I do understand the mom better. We get hints that she might had not been the most involved parent before. So she is a bit late to figuring out what kind of parent she wants to be, but she also is trying and wants the best for Buffy.
@@DmGray agree with all of this!
The snappy & sassy dialogue runs through the whole series which is one of the jewels of the show. A high school cheerleader was considered a typical stereotypical victim in horror movies so when the original Buffy movie was created, Buffy was deliberately the anti-victim twist. This episode reminds us of Buffy's previous high school life pre-slayer.
I just realised, they kind of did that with the opener of the series too - they did the horror trope of boy and his date looking around somewhere spooky, with the girl playing up the being spooked aspect - but then made the girl BE the vampire - just the dark version of the same anti-victim twist that created the idea of the "slayer" in the first place.
It was rough to see Xander tell Willow she was like a guy to him, but a fun turnaround when Buffy did the same to him, saying he was just one of the girls.
should have been less of a shock for Willow as they have been friends for over 10 years and Xander has only known Buffy a few days but it's rough either way
Thank you, I personally love the monster a week format when done right, and the first season of Buffy does it right.
This episode is called "Witch", not "The Witch". It's supposed to be a play on the double meaning of the word witch and which. As there is a witch in the episode, but which person is actually the witch.
Loved your comments! You are sharper than most reactors - 5 points for figuring out the twist, which came as a complete surprise to most of us.
I think your the first person I have seen pick up on the possession before Buffy does - good catch on the snacks
Yeah she's sharp, that's going to be good to watch.
I wish I could remember if I picked up on it right away. Probably did around the same time as Buffy? It's been too long.
I love Buffy and all characters, but Willow has a special place in my heart
Willow is actually *the main reason* I decided to keep watching this show!:-3 ❤❤❤❤
@@Nicamon yeah! She IS badass and Sweet at the same time. And she is the one that got most mature
@@ArethaVGuedes SPOILER
She became everything and the opposite of everything,as we would say in Italian.
Same
This episode is just called "Witch" without the article "The", to be homonyme to "Which". But several sources have it wrong, so the error is probably not your fault.
Homophone.
@@happyslapsgiving5421 You are correct. I shouldn't write in a foreign language. ;^)
Interesting.. nothing I ever picked up on!
Joyce is trying her best, and for a single parent who just moved to a new town and is more or less starting all over after her daughter burned down a school building, Joyce is doing a good job of keeping it all together for herself and her teenage daughter. She has a lot on her plate, and I think her talk with Buffy at the end of the episode is actually really good. She said the best thing she could to Buffy at that moment: “I don’t get it.” She’s communicating to Buffy that she may be the adult/parent but that this is all new for her too and she does not have a manual. I think that Joyce’s honestly reassured Buffy.
Yeah. Joyce gets flack, but I couldn't imagine being in her position. Her daughter burned down a school building and got to fight like a delinquent, causing her to uproot her life, new home, new job/career, new town, already she's getting calls about her daughter skipping school, while trying to keep everything together by herself. How she has time to even her hair is beyond me lol...
@@AshLee92490 LOLLL her hair always is on point that's so true
I agree after a certain episode in season 2 things really pick up (people don't spoil).....I think in a future season (won't say which season or episode at this time) is one of the best individual TV episodes of any show ever
Season 1 is experimenting, trying to figure out what the show is. Season 2 it hits its stride. But season 1 is still fun, and lays a lot of the ground work for the later seasons.
@@claudiadarling9441 I prefer S1 *heaps* compared to S2...I don't like _this_ episode in particular,but I love *a lot* of S1 episodes...which I can't say for S2.
I just love that we get what you are saying… this fandom will always be my favorite ❤️
omg I love how quickly you got the twist just from the mom eating brownies
An interesting thing in this episode, Amy's mom tried to relive her glory days and in the end, she succeeded, by being imprisoned in the trophy she won, she will forever relive her single greatest achievement (in her own mind that is). The lesson being, be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
I remember (when I was a kid) when my puppy was teething. I was her favorite person in the world. She was the sweetest and did not realize that her favorite way to teeth--my legs--hurt even when I wore sweatpants. Never bit me at any other point in her life, but the teething era was painful.
Honestly I'm sooooo over these so called fans who keep dumping on the 1st series. It was originally a one off season as nobody expected it to be a hit, not even Whedon himself which is why it's self contained with hints of potential future storylines. It's also a homage to classic horror/sci fi/monster movies of the 50's & 60's. I urge you to continue with an open mind, without this series there would be no other series of this iconic show. darcie's watching buffy really summed it up in her Buffy season 1 thoughts video, she just got it ❤
Have people watched Season 4?
Now Season 4 definitely has some good episodes, including the only Emmy Award nominated episode, but Whedon didn't know what he was doing with the season. I still think it was a crime that a certain Season 5 episode didn't get an Emmy nomination!
In the official Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine that came out near the start of Season 4, Whedon said he didn't know what to do with Season 4. He had almost all of Season 5 mapped out, and part of Season 4 would be setting up Season 5, but he was having troubles figuring out the arc for the season.
I think people dump on s1 more because they really want people to give the show a good chance. They are just warning that it's very cheesy and low budget, so reactors don't feel like it's maybe not worth continuing and give up on it.
I think the joke about turning down the Lakers is funnier knowing that Charisma who plays Cordelia was a professional cheerleader before the show.
As a person who have watched this show alot of times, your post-episode talks make me more and more hyped for the continuation of this series :D
Also, many of the episodes of S1 has a kinda obvious paralel to real life problems kids back in those days faced, it's kinda fun once you pick up on it going "ohh yeah this gotta be about this thing"
Season 1 is a rollercoaster ride but it gets much better very quickly. As a Buffy stan there are episodes even I skip when I rewatch.
Puppy love is true love
Your comments are so thoughtful and incisive. You're about to become the biggest fan of Buffy.
You were made for this series and to your Mom who organizes the comments; you should be proud of the young woman you raised. She’s smart, confident and the camera loves her.
Sharp observations! You may actually be able to survive BVS! Are you the chosen one? Time will tell.
I love rewatching season 1, constrained budget and all. The story behind it all is really interesting, being a mid-season replacement for which all 12 episodes were shot before it even aired (nowadays that might be the norm but back then you shot a few episodes, took a short break, then shot some more). What carries the show the most though that first season is its writing which is really sharp. And the Witch episode really sets a precedent for the rest of the show. We get the three genres summed up within the show's title: Buffy (comedy) the Vampire (horror) Slayer (action).
Apocryphally, Joss Whedon was the person to coin the term "dramady" used to describe the blend of a dramatic story arc with comedic bits.
i've never heard that one, but certainly whedon has had significant influence on the english language.
I thought it was Norman Lear.
in this world, anyone can indeed practice witchcraft! another great reaction as always.
Soo excited for you to take this buffyve4se journey, things really pick up in season 2. Also you look so amazing in pink
I love the irony of Amy’s mum wanting to be a cheerleader forever and now she is 😁 in statue form lol 😂 XxXxX
To each their own, but I think it's time to change the narrative regarding season 1. It's like a mantra whenever a new reactor starts watching the show: "It really starts to pick up steam in the second half of season 2". Not all episodes of season 1 are top-notch, but in terms of character introduction, world building, humour, dialogue, and pure campy fun, it's great!
Agreed. I liks season 1 better than a couple of other future seasons. It's cheesy but it's enjoyable!
It's just a bit too campy for me. I like Season 1 though. We're only worried people might stop watching before they're really hooked.
@G. Smith yeah, I get that. I watched this season when I was around 10 years old, it was the only season I was allowed to watch at that age, so it has a special place in my heart 😂
You are my new fave reactor! Love your enthusiasm and you are very observant. Best combo!
I'm impressed on all the things you're picking up in like the snacks. I don't think I ever noticed that.
Good observations and analysis, i Liked you "guessing" Amy's mom wanting to relive her glory days.. will be joinin your reactions :)
Wow, so fun seeing the moment you realized what was going on.
14:05- She’s also Darth Vader apparently
Well done on calling the twist. Always fun to watch a reactor that is clearly paying attention. ^^
The obligatory comment that Charisma (Cordelia) was briefly a San Diego Chargers pro-cheerleader.
One thing that reactors and people introduced to the show via DVD or streaming have are episode titles. I don't believe the titles were mentioned on the original broadcast. Sometimes the titles can give away the plot.
I'm watching you react to thing abd someone else reacting to another show. You have been guessing correctly (no future spoilers implied) and other has been very far off. LOL
Am I the only one who thinks Amy doesn't seem to be too bothered by Xander holding on to her at the end?
I don't think S1 is the worst season at all. But 2 and 3 are the best.
I related to the not really a love triangle at this time. More like three points on a one-way line. Willow -> Xander -> Buffy but not in reverse.
They didn't actually kill the mom. They just don't know what she accidentally did to herself.
I ran into Kristine (Joyce) in a West Los Angeles mall once about 20+ years ago.
I do wish we got more Amy as a recurring character, but good news we do get to see her more later on and her character certainly pushes one of the best story arcs. That's all I'll say without spoiling.
16:25 People look down on the monster of the week type episodes way too often (and not just in Buffy). In Buffy - like in many other shows like Supernatural for example - many of the best episodes in the entire show (not just Season 1) are Monster of the Week Episodes.
17:50 Has nothing to do with Buffy being the slayer or having saved Xanders life - think about episode 1: The very first time Xander sees Buffy he's so attracted to her that he skates directly into something.
Fun fact: Elizabeth Anne Allen, the actrice who plays Amy, Julie Benz (Darla) and Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) all originally auditioned for the role of Buffy.
The one actrice who didn't originally audition for the role of Buffy was actually Sarah Michelle Gellar - she originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia.
Over the course of seven seasons, there is not a single bad episode of Buffy. They all rank from pretty good to absolutely amazing. The thing with Season 1 (and the beginning of Season 2) is just that they can feel a bit cliché. This show has had a huge impact on TV history as it pioneered tons of things that are just really common today. So nowadays Season 1 can sometimes feel like "Yes, I've seen this stuff 100 times." They also didn't really have the lore down 100%. So some details from the first couple of episodes just kinda don't add up later.
You're picking up on all the right things though and asking all the right questions. I predict that this show will make you laugh, gasp and cry and you'll be sad when it's over. :)
"I wanna do something safe."
Well, Buffy, cheerleading might not be it. :)) Hope your neck and spine are flexible and that you can fall ok.
Trying to guess the creature in the next episode 😅
Honey, if you got it right, we would all be concerned for you 😂
Willow became my fave watching this show. I loved her entire arc and who she becomes. I'm also a zany book nerd kind of girl and could really identify with her insecurities and passions. Such a sweet character.
The witch mom got a fate worst than death
OMG she's binging! Are you binging?! I hope you're binging
Great reactions! This show is so much fun! Looking forward to the next one!
Loving your reactions and discussions on the show so far!!
This was the 1st Buffy I saw, during the initial broadcast. I had heard of the show and thought it was silly. I was channel surfing and came across the episode right at the start and didn't change the channel. I missed a few episodes, saw I Robot you Jane and The Puppet and was hooked. Considering this was a midseason replacement on the 1st season of the 6th broadcast network, it's amazing it is such an iconic show.
I love this episode. This show is fun even at slower monster of the week episodes cause the characters are all fun and all episodes actually move the plot forward in a way or another
love this episode ,one of my fav's of season1
You got a lot of it right really early on, good job :D
I'm loving this journey. And good job, Columbo!
I understand that this is an edited reaction, and the full length is on Patreon. However, I find it interesting that all the reactors cut out the joke about Xander signing out all the books on witchcraft. It always cracks me up that Willow essentially says, I know you're not evil, you're just a pervert.
I've always really enjoyed S1. I know people get down on it for the MOTW format, but it's got real charm and lays a lot of characterisation for the main gang. Good catch realising that Amy's mum had swapped bodies with Amy and I do love how dark the ending is with Catherine Madison trapped in her own cheerleader trophy.
Great reaction again, love your enthusiasm for the show. The bit where Buffy and Joyce are talking in the kitchen and Buffy refers to Joyce having 'Farah Hair' was a reference to Farah Fawcett Majors who was in the original Charlie's Angels, and was one of the most famous women of the 70's, every woman that time wanted the 'Farah Flick'. Witch was one of the better episodes of Series 1. Although S1 was a bit rough due to low budget and show finding its feet, it lays the groundwork for the upcoming episodes. Once this show reaches mid S2 it really picks up in every way, and produces some of the best TV drama ever written. In this episode the metaphor here is the 'pushy parent' who forces their child to things and is annoyed with them when they don't excel. The ultimate pushy parent, Amy's mum criticising her child and forcing her to do things she may not be able to do, then taking over her body. A decent little episode for early on in the show. Great positive reaction again
Well done, you picked up on the body swap in record time. This theme will be revisited over the series run.
"She's not just a witch; she's a full-on M.M.A. fighter!"
Well, she may not be _that,_ but she _is_ a cheerleader. Those are pretty much the same thing, right? 😝
Enjoy your thoughts/analysis which makes me eager for your reactions to future episodes.
Anyone can become a witch? Yeah, at least on the Hellmouth. Scary isn't it? Also like the spellcasting in this episode.
"I will look upon my enemy..." Too specific targeting there, with the mirror.
I also love the Charles Dexter Ward plot, it's scary.
Buffy and Willow are my favorite characters of the whole show. But I will say I love Amy as well and you will see her again without spoiling anything. I'm also bi and am super attracted to her physically too, and like u said love and relate personally to her fashion style as well as her character
Great reaction! Thanks for sharing ❤
Yes. Anyone can become a witch, it is a learned skill and not a separate species from the rest of humanity, unlike vampires, or being The Slayer.
It does take a certain amount of talent though.
@@TheRealGSmith, just like any other creative art, rote learning can grant you an adequate skill base, though talent will allow you to elevate that base. Or are you talking about being The Slayer?
Season 1, like all first seasons, may be the weakest but the series was taking its first steps and finding its voice/tone.
I’m loving your videos watching this show through your reaction is like watching it new all over again I love Buffy it’s definitely in my top three favorite shows the first season is the weakest for sure but still good enough but get ready season 2,3,4 are so good with amazing certain individual episodes but definitely season 5,6,7 are amazing story telling with certain episodes that will well spoilers can’t say lol 😂 just get ready for an amazing ride
The witchy woo is some of the best I've seen, and I watched supernatural shows involving magicks a many for instance...Charmed, American horror story (Coven), Vampire Diaries and its spinoff The Originals. Also have to mention The craft tho it's a movie and not a show is one of the best portrayals of Magic along with Buffy in my personal opinion
The name of this episode is not "The Witch". It is "Witch" which is a homonym of "Which".
Double comment but same here - I also don't mind monster of the week type shows and I also hate love triangles :D
Great reaction. Also, you might be a werewolf now thanks to that incident with your dog, according to Hellmouth logic anyway.
Great reaction! Thought you would enjoy this one :)
OMG, for the third time in a row, there are one or more speculations I can't even acknowledge without it being a spoiler...
So here are the answers in no particular order: Yes, more than once. Wait a couple of seasons. Yes, more than once, but wait a couple of seasons.
Spoilers below.
The questions were:
Buffy + vampire. Redeeming vampires. Amy returning.
The show is all about Metaphors. The main metaphor of the show as a whole is "Highschool is hell". So it's literally on the Hellmouth. There are other metaphors in various episodes. This one is about as you said parents living vicariously through their children, in this case it's done literally. I think this episode was somewhat influenced by a case previous to this episode where a woman actually hired a hitman to kill her daughters high school cheerleading rivals. So her trying to actually kill Buffy, IS extreme and crazed, but a woman actually did try to have highschoolers killed in real life.
I started watching towards the end of the first seasons and the episode I watched has since become my least favourite of the season, but it still gripped Me. There are so few low points, it's really quite amazing.
13:24-13:26 Let's put it this way: Amy's mom was the one talking to Buffy and friends at the beginning of the episode by thinking she was playing nice aka acting as she would think her daughter acted. Amy confirms it was "a few months" when she mentions waking up in her mom's bed.
We didn't see the cat scare Giles or the reaction to it. 😥
Did Amy cast the mouth spell then?
@@TheRealGSmith No, because Amy from months before the episode started to Giles reversing the spell wasn't in her body. It was Amy's mom who did that pretending she wasn't their "Sabrina" because she knew they stole "bits of [her] hair."
There are definitely monster of the week episodes in all the seasons.
Greetings to a grown Karma
First off, congratulations for getting the switcheroo plot exactly right, in advance. I literally applauded when you did that.
Secondly, I hope you do get your comments moderated (I see somebody has spoiled a character name; not a big deal, but below the standards that keep you safe from major spoilage) even if it means the comments dry up because so many can't resist playing the "wait until blah blah blah" and "it gets better" game, which is flat-on ridiculous.
No series EVER has "gotten better" with each and every episode. (Of the 144 episodes, I consider the series finale FAR from the very best one, and the pilot FAR from the worst.). There are ups and downs and "good" episodes will have weak points and "bad" episodes will have strong points.
For example, I consider this the weakest of the three so far, because IMO the characterizations are just a little bit off. Giles feels a little TOO ghoulish here (ask Amber about "the thrill of living on a Hellmouth", why don't you? I mean *her hands were on fire* for pete's sake), Buffy's mom is a little TOO negative (the grounding last episode was plot-inconvenient but we could see that she cared; now she's just griping for an entire scene and can't be bothered to pay attention to Buffy's life) and as bad as Willow chomping that pen for the sake of a clunky metaphor is, I like Willow trying to talk Xander out of asking Buffy for a date even less. That's more something Cordelia might do.
So, as cool as the plot twist might be, the character work IMO holds this back. Whereas somebody else might be all about the plot and not care about the character work. Which is why I get so annoyed when people jump on S1 because it doesn't have what THEY like. I hope we can move past this.
(And again, I wish you wouldn't spoil yourself for the episode titles. Thankfully here we literally saw the witch's cauldron in the second scene of the teaser…but if they'd waited until later to do that reveal, you would already have been spoiled. By season 3 they get past this, but early on the titles are a bit too spoilery, IMO.)
Good point about Amy's relative lack of trauma at the end. One might say they're trying to keep it consistent with the "I guess it was just gangs" rationalization from last episode, but those were strangers in a club. This is your (abusive) mom DYING (you believe). A bit too bubbly, indeed.
As for Amy's possible return…some characters come back, some don't. And quite often even the show had no idea which ones were going to return. Stories evolve. Enjoy the ride.
I should note there's plenty of good characterization as well: the "Willow, you're a guy"/"Xander, you're a girl" poorly-received "compliments" nicely define the relationships, Buffy's caring about Amy even when Buffy herself is about to die is true heroism and Xander and Willow, although they fail to stop "Amy", show well by trying. And Giles's protective nature is cool. (Is that meant to contrast with Buffy's mom not knowing about her life? Unfair comparison if so, IMO.). It's just that the bits I don't like drag it down for me.
Heck, it's useful to know that Cordelia was struggling with her driving even before the witchcraft. I guess Ms. Confident isn't always as competent as she'd like to think she is.
In the Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie (which, no, is not connected to the show, but they're both by Joss Whedon), Buffy was basically the head cheerleader, and her Watcher was *so* over it. I definitely recommend watching the movie at some point, if you haven't. It's so fun.
Fun is one way to put it ;)
The first season is the worst, but it does have really strong episodes (like the first 2, and at least 2 more by the end, I'm not gonna say which, just in case). I really like this one as well. And I love how you were right in all your predictions. It's such a twist the fact that Amy's mom switched bodies, and not everyone gets it at the first watch, even though there's hints.
Even watching Buffy for the first time I thought episode 3 "witch" was named after Joyce and I have watched the show many times since and my opinion has not changed. I am sure you will love this show I came for the Buffy reaction but will stay because of you're thoughts and amazing puppy :)
Season 5 is the best and most epic
Season 2 was, indeed, good. But season 3 is really where my friends and I labeled it a must-see show and made Buffy Day a weekly community event.
There are a lot of episodes I really like from Season 1, which pretty much cemented me as a fan. I just love the swerves the show takes, which was established right in the first season. But, yeah, the show just gets better from here. Plus, I love how with “The Witch” it establishes that there’s a lot more going on other the vampires/Hellmouth plotlines.
I actually *started* to watch"Buffy"from S3(I believe my 1st ep was 3x04)!Which means I got *tons of spoilers* 😅 but I still think it was the best thing ever! S3 is the best season IMO and I'm *GLAD* I started with that!💚
"There are a lot of episodes I really like from Season 1" I agree!Some of my _favorite_ episodes of _the whole show_ are actually from S1! Not _this one_ specifically,but...a lot of them!💙
@@Nicamon For sure, I’d name some of them, but I only know them by what happens and not episode titles. Lol And that’d be total spoilers.
@@mojoshivers Since we're out of spoiler territory by now,my favorite episodes from S1 are:
1x04-Teacher's Pet This is my least favorite among my favorite episodes of S1 but still one of my favorite.
1x06-The Pack One of my favorite episodes *of the entire show!* 🤩
1x08-I Robot,You Jane Apparently _the most underrated_ episode of the whole show!!🤖📖🖥
1x09-The Puppet Show Another criminally underrated episode!
1x10-Nightmares C'mon...this one *nobody* can say it's not good!!
@@Nicamon I would second The Pack and The Puppet Show. Those were standouts for me as well.
I also like Witch because I feel Amy was an amazing secondary character that they really do a good job of setting up in this season.
@@mojoshivers I was never a fan of the"Witch"episode...it was pretty forgettable IMO 😕 so much so that I completely *forgot* who Amy was until...let's say much later. I remember her *very well* from a later season,but not from earlier,probably because she was underused for obvious reasons!;-P
Also,there's a couple of things about her that don't make much sense to me...
I don't get why season 1 gets a lot of hate, people are crazy 😂. I personally think that season 1 is the best season of buffy. I've been watching buffy since the very beginning, I was 7 years old when it first aired and I've loved it ever since. (I was obsessed with vampires when I was a child)
Good Ups.
Team Cordy.
Did Amy mention vampires?
2:22 Jesse was in the credits.
Guest credits, not main title credits.
Subscribing to follow your Buffy journey.
I prefer the monster of the week format. That is the problem with most modern TV shows. Every episode has to be connected. You can't just catch an episode and be fine. You have to watch them all in order to get it.
It sounds like your bringing other fandoms rules into the Buffyverse. Definitely not recommended. Maybe for generalization purposes but I’d draw the line there. I’m referring to your theory on witches being a hereditary phenomenon. It’s been a long time since I watched ‘Vampire Diaries’ but wasn’t witchiness hereditary in that show? Is that where your theory came from? In the Buffyverse it’s pure book learnin’ to Witch 101.
It's not a triangle, it's a line. ➖ not 🔺
Most love triangles are actually arrows, come to think of it. 🤔
I would suggest getting the Buffy DVD's and watching the show that way. Streaking services usually show the HD version and the HD conversion of Buffy is an abomination. Seriously, as anyone in the Fandom and they will tell you that the HD is aweful and you need to be watching in the original aspect ratio.
0:15 yOuTuBeR sAvAgElY ATTACKED by PuPpeR!
The fashions, music, general TV series vibe: reminds my of all the old WB and FOX series from the 90s like Renegade, Kung Fu the Legend Continues, Xena... this is a real nostalgia trip. Just a lot more hazardous than my school.
EDIT: and you guessed the plot of this pretty early, congrats!
Those shows were syndicated.
@Roy Phillips I've seen Buffy reruns and maybe Xena but for sure not Renegade. If that show is in syndication I've not seen it.
I hope you get some help with modding if it becomes too much for your mum. I already see spoilers in the comments and we're 3 episodes in....
I'm not sure the first episode is the weakest, necessarily. It is definitely the most campy, and the supernatural allegories to coming of age tropes are more on-the-nose. The characters round out once the writers knew they had a whole season to do it.
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Just for the fun of it, what do you think are the ages of the actors , the female ones? Don't look them up.
I'll offer a alternative opinion: I actually like season 1 more than some of the subsequent seasons. Oddly, I find I'm not as big of a fan of the even-numbered seasons. I like season 1 better than seasons 2, 4, and 6. I could explain a bit more, but it might be a bit spoilery, so I won't.
Personally I disagree about season one. It's my second favourite season; containing several of my favourite one-shot and/or recurring characters. Only one of the eps is one I'd skip if I was doing a partial rewatch, and a couple of the usually regarded as worst eps are amongst my faves. kerk
Season One was also a short season (by network standards) as the network did not want to commit to a full season to start with. However, once a fanbase began building the show was (as they say) "off to the races."
It was a mid-season replacement for another canceled show. So it is the full package rather than feeling like something that was cut short.
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Giles told a god damned lie at the end there. Of course, due to the nature of the kinds of spells he used to cast, I understand why he lied to a teenager about it.
That's a Watsonian explanation of course. The Doylist explanation is simply that the writers didn't give Giles much backstory in the series bible yet.
@@alexmckee4683 Or they did. I don't know what was planned in advance and what wasn't.
@@alexmckee4683 If all that stuff was planned in advance, it would still be a logical writing choice to have him lie there.
@@alexmckee4683 In my opinion, obviously.
@@jonathannoble7845 he needn't have said anything at all. British people tend to lie by omission if they must lie. But certainly open to interpretation of course.
Buffy figured the mom twist out herself, at least Amy didn't rat out her mom to them.