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I written this hours ago but Internet wasn't cooperating. Well next time I'll try for real not do this at the last minute. I hate real life - it's so distracting. I'm generally not great in summarizing and since you already did that kind of review I'll make a longer one. If I make review for next ep first I'll try to summarize



I loved the intro. It sounds very dramatic and as you said cool and short way for explaining what (and who) is the Slayer. I love that Buffy's image at the end of intro.

One of reasons I love S1 so much is that it's scary. I mean look and that gliding scene in the beginning. Showing school like some house of terror (accurate in Buffy's and our world I suppose:), dark hallways and classroom with animal skeletons and that BAM! Breaking of glass. I turned up volume little too high and I must confess I jumped a little I love that! I think entire first season was the best with horror aspect. Many scenes were filmed with as little lighting as possible, scary music, Buffy's somewhat inexperience (and ours ignorance about Buffyverse). OK, to continue with episode...

I realized now that in the the teaser we don't know to the very end of it who is the monster. First it seams it's the guy - but then there is noise so it's something in dark that will get them. And then another shock. It's (not so innocent) blond girl! Way to turn cliche on it's head. I laughed when I first saw this scene and still love it now. So original and unexpected. Only thing I kind of wonder now - why Darla asked the boy did he hear anything? She's got the way better hearing, right? But that's probably just to throw us off. And boy, how they did!

This is the first ep so I'll say something about the opening credits. I loved them then and I love them now. I like how it starts with howling and organs and then suddenly turns to rock. Classical horror and legends with modern times and thinking. That's Buffy and BtVS in the nutshell right there. If I didn't realize before I would known now that I'm Buffy fanatic. I can connect every single scene with full name of the episode I like that cat with green eyes that appears before SMG. And did you notice that Angel appears two times even if he's not credited and in one scene Buffy is smiling to him? Aww

For some reason I don't like very much first part of the music playing during Buffy's dream but I like when it' speeds near the end. Poor girl - can't have rest from the demons even in her sleep. And here is the first hint that Buffy is connected to Master in some way. He was only one who looked at her in the dream and she woke up. Continuity rocks!

I agree with you - good parenting of Joyce until «Try not to be kicked out.» It was included in funny way and it sounds funny but now that I know everything Buffy had to go trough (original script of movie and comics about pre-Sunnydale Buffy) I say «Bad Joyce, bad!» But truth to be told she never really changed - some good and then bad parenting because of not understanding Buffy's life.

That scene with Xander was awesome. He was great with skateboard. It's so funny when he says: Please move, whoa, 'scuse me...(seeing Buffy) Whoa! (staring and hits the handrail).
He was literally head over feet. And doesn't that scene describe their triangle so good. He's watching Buffy who doesn't notice him and when he crashes Willow appears to help him.

Funny scene with principal Flutie. Well at least Buffy wasn't kicked out for bad grades. Burning up the gym sounds so much better. Maybe not to Flutie if we can judge by his astonished look when he sees it on the piece of her file. I guess he thought that nice girl like Buffy probably didn't anything too - extreme.

Xander is cute as with his stammering and I liked Cordelia when I first saw her - for about five seconds. When she started to talk about «hanging with me and mine» and «coolness factor» all bitch alarms went off. Yeah she is easy to hate but does have good lines. It's really interesting to me how Buffy immediately liked Willow and didn't like Cordelia behavior to her. She would maybe became cordette if she didn't became the Slayer before she came to Sunnydale. I think she matured after all she experienced in L.A. and saw things differently. Not just seeing and caring about the surface like shallow Cordelia.

Scary music when she comes in the library. Foreshadowing what's under the library or I'm reading too much into it? I love how Giles looked so happy to give her that Vampyre book. He really likes his job doesn't he?

I really liked Willow with her sandwich and excitement about the books. Another great scene and dynamic when Buffy talks to Willow, Xander and Jesse and they really get along pretty well then Cordelia brings the news that turns atmosphere 180. And Buffy is annoyed when she sees vampire bite mark on the body. Ha! No fear or horror but annoyance!

Buffy & Giles dynamic is great. They really bounce of each other well. And Giles may be the Watcher but here Buffy gave him the lesson. She is real human girl with real life not some mindless soldier who only thinks about killing demons. In this episode is shown how they better each other - he becomes more open minded and she becomes a little more accepting to her destiny.

Another great camera work with showing Sunnyale above and then below the ground. That's good metaphor for Sunnydale in general, too. Sunny and happy from the outside - scary and dark in the inside. That Luke has one deep voice. I like him too in disposable cliché bad guy way.

Hey, that black shoes following Buffy are so shiny. Guy can't be bad, right? To be honest even back then I knew that is Angel especially when I saw spiky hear of the silhouette and face in the blue light. But it surprised and amazed me to see Buffy on that pole. She really is pretty spry. Ah, Buffy and Angel sparkage is amazing. Angel is so hot and I won't even start about the smirk because I want to finish this review today. I and love his all gentlemanly and polite «Is there a problem ma'am?» while she pins him to the ground with foot. They both surprise each other in the good way - she is strong and imaginative Slayer and he is not the stalker but helper who gave her warning and cross (slayer weapon in a sense). But I always wondered - what he meant when he said that he is not hers friend.

Conversation between Willow and Buffy is very indicative of their experience (not to mention funny). Buffy as popular girl at Hemery probably knew more boys who don't care what girl says as long as she's pretty and popular. Jocks and the like. On the other hand Willow knows less popular kind who are maybe lonely and like to converse more. But she can talk to Xander just fine and she likes him. Maybe she meant that she can't say to the boy that she likes him. And Barbi is perfectly normal reason for break up. Some things are just sacred Buffy philosophy is not original but aplies great to her and her Slayer status. I felt for Buffy when Willow says that is real easy for her and Buffy suddenly becomes serious. Poor Buffy. And Willow not expecting for Buffy to come back was sad but Buffy immediately reassured her and then later really come back and saved her life too. I wouldn't mind having Buffy for friend.

Giles sticks out like sour thumb in Bronze that's for sure. They have completely different ways of finding vampires - fashion vs textbook with arms. I loved entire conversation. And yes calling guy gorgeous really says you don't like him, Buffy. We again have dark slightly scary scene and Buffy ends up choking Cordelia. That was entertaining. To bad she didn't threaten to do that to her again after hers nasty comments later in the series. Maybe that would shout her up.

Master is in my top tree of bad guys too. He is scary and funny. How he almost cries - "I need my strength." One more scary dark scene. We're in the graveyard for the first time. Yay! OK that sounded strange. I was really scared for Willow in this scene. I was sure he would bite her when he moved her hair. And Darla's vamp face is ugly and scary. We see contrast between how ordinary people react to seeing vampire and Buffy. Willow naturally screams and Xander is shocked but Buffy comes to the rescue and starts to talk to them like they're old acquaintances. It throws them off, Willow said it right in S3. That's Buffy stile of fighting - quipping and hitting. It even rhymes She kicked Darla's ass pretty well. I'm glad she didn't dust her - dusting later is better for known reasons

It looks pretty painful when Luke throws her in the wall and especially at edge of that coffin. Ouch! I think he can overpower her here because he has surprise factor and think he is older and stronger than Darla. And that cliffhanger! Do you see what was I talking about S1 being scary. Especially first couple episodes. Boy I was on needles when I first saw this ep and then had to wait for a week to see what happened. Did she survived? How she survived? I hate cliffhangers but tomorrow I'll see next ep so I don't have to wait long this time.

Overall this episode was great opening of the series, it introduced characters in interesting way without boring expositions but with great flow and sparkling dialogue. And I noticed how well balanced is scary&serious with funny&normal. It exchanges in every scene seamlessly. Amazing! I forgot how good this ep was.


You already picked many good quotes but I feel that I could quote almost entire episode so I'll put ones you didn't. My quotes will overflow so don't worry about yours being full. It's not like we have restriction or something. Lets go wild!

Quotes:

Willow: Okay. Do you have 'Theories in Trig'? You should check it out.
Xander: Check it out?
Willow: From the library? Where the books live.
Xander: Right, I'm there! See, I wanna change...


Buffy: I know my transcripts are a little... colorful.
Mr. Flutie: Heeey... We're not caring about that. Do you think, uh,
'colorful' is the word? (tapes the paper) Not, uh, 'dismal'?
Buffy: Wasn't *that* bad!
Mr. Flutie: You burned down the gym.


Aphrodisia: The new kid? She seems kind of weird to me. What kind of
name is Buffy?
Girl: Hey, Aphrodisia!
Aphrodisia: Oh, Hey!

Willow: Buffy, this is Jesse and that's Xander.
Xander: Oh, me and Buffy go waaay back, old friends, very close. Then
there's that period of estrangement where I think we were both growing
as people, but now here we are, like old times, I'm quite moved.
Jesse: Is it me, or are you turning into a bibbling idiot?
Xander: No, it's, uh, it's not you.

Jesse: Well, you know, we wanted to welcome ya, make ya feel at home,
unless you have a scary home..

Cordelia: Some guy was stuffed in Aura's locker!
Buffy: Dead.
Cordelia: Totally dead. Way dead.
Xander: It's not just a little dead, then?

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. Why am I still talking to you?

Buffy: Oh, come on, stake through the heart, a little sunlight... It's
like falling off a log.
Giles: A, a Slayer slays, a Watcher...
Buffy: ...watches?
Giles: Yes. No! (sets down the books) He, he trains her, he, he, he
prepares her...
Buffy: Prepares me for what? For getting kicked out of school? For
losing all of my friends? For having to spend all of my time fighting
for my life and never getting to tell anyone because I might endanger
them? Go ahead! Prepare me.

Angel: Truth is, I thought you'd be taller, or bigger muscles and all
that. You're pretty spry, though. (massages his neck)
Buffy: What do you want?
Angel: The same thing you do.
Buffy: (lets down her guard) Okay. What do I want?
Angel: (steps toward her) To kill them. To kill them all.

Buffy: Well, my philosophy, do you wanna hear my philosophy?
Willow: Yeah, I do!
Buffy: Life is short.
Willow: Life is short!
Buffy: Not original, I'll grant you, but it's true. You know? Why waste
time being all shy and worrying about some guy, and if he's gonna laugh
at you. Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.
Willow: Oh, that's nice!

Giles: You don't know...
Buffy: Oh, please! Look at his jacket. He's got the sleeves rolled up,
and the shirt! Deal with that outfit for a moment.
Giles: It's dated?
Buffy: It's carbon dated. Trust me, only someone living underground for
ten years would think that was still the look.
Giles: But you didn't... hone.
Buffy: Was there a... a school bulletin? Was it i-in the
newspaper? Is there anyone in this town who doesn't know I'm the Slayer?

Buffy: Well, this is nice. I-it's a little bare, but a dash of paint, a
few throw pillows... call it home!
Darla: Who the hell are you?
Buffy: You mean there's actually someone in this town who doesn't know
already? Whew, that's a relief, I'm telling you! Having a secret
identity in this town is a job of work.

I'll answer your last two posts properly tomorrow. I'll fall to asleep at my desk if don't go to bed. It's 4 am here).

Good night (or morning if you're reading this in the morning)