nightlydvdreviewBuffy Season 1 - Favourite Episodes!
May 27th 2008 00:48
Im am now onto my ‘American Dreams’ marathon after purchasing some bootlegged copies, but 2 weeks ago I was just coming out of Sunnydale after a Buffy marathon month.
I fell in love with Buffy when I was staying at my Aunts house in 1998, sleeping on the couch watching Foxtel one night; I changed the channel to fox 8 and since then I’ve been a Buffy fanatic/ aficionado. Scooping every DVD box set lemming like, paying far more than I could afford as a young teen. Then having to replace them as I scratched them, sad I know.
Im not going to get into the specifics as to why I love the show so much, other fans will know exactly why its practically one of the best shows created, but im still trying to turn other friends onto it.
How can a show studied by scholars be ludicrous and stupid, quite simply its not!!
I thought I would have to do seven posts, for my favourite 3 or 4 episodes a season, seven seasons in total.
In no particular order:
SEASON 1
1. Welcome to the Hellmouth (1)
I very well could not create a list of my fav episodes and not include the pilot to the series, Buffy was unlike anything else when it started, primarily because of the female heroin. The very first sequence in the pilot shows what looks like a scared, defenceless blonde sneaking into the high school with some guy, after hearing a noise, both look around, only then to turn to each other and the blonde (Darla) reveals her ‘vamp’ face.
The next episode Buffy reveals to her new friends Willow and Xander that she fights the forces of evil.
2. The Witch (3)
This episode makes me laugh every time I see it, the Buffy ‘drunk’ scenes where she’s cheerleading, and Xander giving her the bracelet, then telling him that she loves him, only to reveal she loves him because he’s completely one of the girls (the sly smile by Willow its great).
This episode deals with a mother trying to go back to her glory days as head cheerleader, switching bodies with her daughter Amy (a character that later reappears now and again right up to season 7, and im going off on a short tangent now. Joss Whedon uses this episode specifically with the character Amy to foreshadow the magic use she will be abusing in coming seasons). The mother then casts spells on the cheerleaders in her way and eventually hexes Buffy.
3. Prophecy Girl (12)
The season finale, a taste for the finales we would have to look forward to in future years. The episode is the final confrontation with the Master, as well as Buffy dealing with the burden of slayerhood, and ultimately letting it consume her to an extent, knowing that its what she was chosen to do, and even allowing her self to die to fulfil those wishes (she was revived by Xander) as well as activating a second slayer Kendra.
Well I could talk your ear off about Buffy, next we have season 2……..
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