For the sake of the first thing being the first thing, I have things to say about the thing, if the thing is the episode... The Pack.
First, and most importantly for the episode, did they, at any point, refer to the chimps in the zoo as monkeys? If they did, then shame on them. I think the signs might've, but I'm not entirely sure.
Who came up with the line "Like the Heimlich with stripes"? Seriously, that is quite the line, and I'm not sure if I should find it hilarious in the good or bad way.
Does Lance remind anyone else of Jonathan? They probably should've just made him Jonathan -- I mean, Danny Strong has been around with them since the pilot.
Willow knows Xander's blood pressure. I just want to put that thought out there.
"He's turned into a 16-year old boy." -- this whole scene is some great dialogue, and sums up the thing about Xander's character that some people have brought up. I went through that when I was 13 or so, but it happens to everyone. I know some people in their 20s still going through that kind of thing.
I remember the Principal Flutie thing being really jarring before, but his acting makes it a little more comical than I remember. Plus the fact that the others aren't the best actors. Now, between Xander and Buffy, that still is really jarring, in a positive way.
When Xander's in the cage, Willow first shows her intuition with when people are manipulating her -- this comes back later on... (Parker) She knows how to figure out if people are manipulating her without getting hurt
Okay, I love the ending of this episode. Xander's pretending to not have a clue what happened, and Giles saying that he won't tell. Too bad they let it out just the next season -- I'd have expected that to last a little longer.
Overall, this episode is actually pretty good. I mean, it's nothing great, but it does mess around with the characters and give us some insight into them. I mean, the main plot is pretty dumb, but the character stuff is interesting.
-Overall, Xander's daydream is pretty unrealistic. I'm pretty sure that he didn't kill the vampire by throwing the stake and having it hit his breast plate on the right side. Heart's on the left there, Xan
- Again, while I hate seeing Xander act like a complete pervet and just overall hormone-filled teenager, I can relate to what he's feeling
- I've really got no other notes or thoughts on the episode. It's a very forgettable episode in the grand spectrum of things. Really, nothing more than a filler episode, but that's not to say that its not enjoyable.
Never Kill A Boy On The First Date
- So, we're back to Buffy trying to have a normal life. She should know by now that she'll never be able to have that 🙁
- The B/A shipper part of me gets kinda mad seeing Buffy with this simple throw-away character. I'm glad Angel showed up at the Bronze 😛
- And so we see the start of the Annointed One...god, Joss what the hell were you and the other writers thinking?
- Again, I feel like this is simply just another filler episode. I can understand why its there though, considering that they are still trying to get the show to walk on its own two feet
Yes, dreams always hold up to the strictest standards of logic.
Been there, done that.
It's a filler episode that doesn't even do anything interesting with the characters or present a well-executed story. That makes it not enjoyable for me.
Buffy hasn't screwed up trying to get a normal life enough times yet, so she still thinks it's possible.
Agh, shipping... must stay away... (won't work in season 3, I can tell you that, it just gets too much fun there)
They were thinking that they could have a sense of continuity between the seasons if they managed to get another season out of it. They got it, but in a different way.
Another filler episode that doesn't really do anything all that interesting, but at least they don't fumble the execution as badly as Teacher's Pet.
- Giles' comment about her having poor technique makes me laugh every time. Not to mention when he was all "what do you want?" to Owen.
-This seems like an extremely boring date that Owen and Buffy are on.
- "Hello salty goodness!"
- Yay, the annoying one!
That poor technique think makes me think of Gwendolyn Post -- seriously, I really have a problem.
Hence the reason she keeps looking at the beeper. ("Hence" and beeper -- are we really in the 21st century as I'm typing this?)
Isn't that line called back to in "Spin the Bottle"? Or was it a different S4 Angel episode?
We look forward to his demise in only about 10 episodes.
"Never kill a boy on the first date" is one of my favorite episodes(and not just because I love Buffy's gold dress). I love the Buffy tries to be normal and fails, I love the awkwardness/ teen crush between her and Owen and later added awkwardness when Angel arrives. I can't claim to like the Anointed story line but I do like that the anointed one is a kid and not a big bad vamp.
For me the whole episode just a perfect teen meets monster of the week mix. Not too serious, a good I between ep that still pushes the story along.
Never Kill a Boy on the First Date is probably one of my least favorite episodes of the show. I didn't like Owen at all. I felt he didn't have chemistry with Buffy very well. I was also never a fan of the Anointed storyline either, which gets its start in this episode. I like that it shows how Buffy is unable to do ordinary things like date an ordinary boy (because her slayer duties occupy most of her time, and it also risks the guy getting seriously hurt or killed), but I thought the episode as a whole could have been laid out better.
Well, I got both extremes with this episode, yet everyone hates the Anointed One. Interesting. However, I think that most of the hatred for that comes from the fact that he's basically only in the way once it reaches Season 2 -- I mean, the twist is really well executed in this episode, so it at least worked well for the time being in the immediate sense. I got a little redundant there.
