If any show could be said to be my show then Buffy the Vampire Slayer would definitely be one of them. There's angst and snark and bad fashion choices and a kick ass heroine who manages to be vulnerable yet brave, stupid but smart, all while dealing with life and death scenarios and wondering if she'll ever get to date let alone go to the prom.
Naturally a rewatch seemed like a good idea...
Episode 1: Welcome to the Hellmouth
Buffy arrives at Sunnydale High with a look that is a cross somewhere between LA hooker and former college cheerleader. With that out of the way we met some of the other high school students, namely Xander a skakeboarding klutz who is the master of snark, Willow the awkward nerdy redhead and Cordelia the bitchy popular girl. We also met Rupert Giles, the librarian who dresses in tweed and wears glasses but who is totally hot by the way or maybe that's just me.
By the end of the episode we know that Buffy is The Slayer, Giles is her Watcher, the local vampires are planning something all courtesy of this season's Big Bad The Master, a mysterious man in black seems to know it all and Xander is on the 'secret, kind of...
Note: The opening intro with the voice over is kind of annoying and cheesy, thank God that the powers that be got rid of it in later seasons.
Fav Quote: Buffy: To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing. Mostly they're just gonna kill you.
Fashion: Short skirts and boots is what every high school student is wearing... well except Willow who dresses like an 80 year grandma. A very non trendy 80 year old grandma.
Body Count: 1 possible high school student (I'm not going to bother counting all the vampires cause who really cares about them anyway)
Carries on where the first episode ended with Buffy about to be killed by a muscle bound vampire. So not what you need on your first day at a new school.
Naturally Buffy gets out of this predicament and soon Xander and Willow are all caught up on all things vampire courtesy of Giles, and Buffy is off to put an end to it or at the very least delay things for awhile as she takes out a few vamps including Mr Muscles the vampire that had earlier tried to kill her. Revenge is sweet as they say.
Note: This is the first appearance of Giles using the whiteboard to explain things. It's so totally teacher-ery and him that it still makes me smile.
Fav Quote: Xander: I don't like vampires. I'm going to take a stand and say they're not good.
Fashion: The short skirt is gone for now replaced by trousers for ease of moment when one is busy saving humans and killing vamps.
Body Count: 1 bouncer and two high school students
It's Buffy the Cheerleading epsiode featuring a mom who doesn't know when to quit and the first appearance of Amy who seems like a nice enough girl. No vampires this time instead it's all about witchcraft and Buffy trying to fit in and be a normal teenage girl, so being a cheerleader it is. No surprise that things don't quite go as planned.
The ending with the statue is still kind of creepy even after all these years.
Fav Quote: Willow: Yeah! You're the Slayer, and we're, like, the Slayerettes!
Fashion: The first appearance of the short, short shift dress. Were shift dresses really around in 1997?
Body Count: Surprisingly no one dies in this episode, which may well be the first... and last time that happens in this show. On the other hand I imagine that some serious Post Trauma theory was on hand for quite a few of the students. Therapists in this town are going to be rich in no time.
i want to do a rewatch so bad but i'm just not in the right headspace for it. in the meantime, can't wait to read along with yours :) and totally not just you, giles is fiiiiiiiine
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