Val's Rewatch Attempt

[Valjavertjinn]

Hello, all! I was thinking that I would give this rewatch thread a shot. I think that I'll try to do Season 1 for sure, and then see how it goes. Ready?

Season 1

1. Welcome to the Hellmouth
Good: 1. Student death on the 1st, well, technically -1st day of school. Whoo, starting out strong this year, guys!
2. Cool tunnel-through-hedge-into-strange-underground-church-thing-with-wrinkly-raisin-face-vampire-dude shot about halfway through.
3. Nice necklace! Buffy totally started that trend.
4. Slayer basics! Need to know 'em!

Bad:
1. Joyce's hair. It's like a mini soccer-mom afro.
2. Angel's shiny jacket. Why is it shiny? I don't know, but it looks UGLY.
3. Steve did not get to answer the teacher's question about the Black Death. He didn't even try to respond. Now the teacher will feel like a failure in her job, quit, get drunk, and get run over walking home from the bar. Nice job, Steve.

Stuff that I've learned:
1. If you instantaniously grow bug lumps on your face, a good way to avoid a messy breakup over your extreme ugliness is to quickly munch your boyfriend's neck.
2. And they make orange Kit-Kats! That has nothing to with this, but the world has the right to know!

???: Is it just me, or is Angel's head really teeny during this episode? It just sort of seems... thin. Angel's hair length-head width ratio is totally whacked.

Well, that was my first try. 😀

2. The Harvest
Good:
1. Jesse’s death! That was so lame, it was funny!
2. Cool fashion-trend necklace is also vamp-proof! Who knew!
3. Rain of toads! How would you drive with toads bouncing and splatting on your windshield? And the street-sweeper machine would be gross! And how would you clean your yard? With a rake? A shovel? Ahh, the unforeseen complications of a rain of toads.

Bad:
1. Darla has a lisp. HA! “Hith blod ith pure!” I guess it’s kinda hard to talk with those big honkin’ teeth, though.
2. Xander’s shirt has a mushroom pattern. I mistook them for umbrellas at first!

Things That I’ve Learned: If you are a raisin-faced Master vamp, even your faceplants of failure must be dramatic and awesome.
3. Angel's head seems balanced better. Nice job, buddy.

???:
1. Why doesn’t anyone clean up that puddle of cherry Cool-aid in the middle of The Master’s church-hangout-thing? Somebody is going to slip and fall into it. They should get some “CAUTION: Wet Floor” signs down there. But it would probably kill the mood. Maybe is they had little skulls drawn on them…
2. Do we ever see that “quality fencework” again? Because that would be a handy thing to have around Sunnydale High.

 

[Tome]

Yessss!! GO VAL! I love these threads. 🙂

Darla has a lisp. HA! "Hith blod ith pure!"

Bahahaha! I also laugh my ass off at that part!

 

[Valjavertjinn]

3. The Witch

The Good:
1. Amy actually looks sort of okay in this episode. Her hair in Season Three... not so much.
2. 'XANDER! *Kersmack* *Thump*' I love that line!
3. They keep the black eyes=dark magic thing consistent throughout the whole series, even starting here!


The Bad:
1. The cheerleader at the beginning doesn't seem to notice that her hands are catching on fire. That's usually the kind of thing that you pick up on right away...
2. Buffy, at one point, is wearing a dress the color of tuna fish. Or soap. Or tuna fish soap. It's ugly.
3. Joyce was originally supposed to be a one of those spacy, brainless moms that never really know their kids, before our good buddy Joss decided to make her the Joyce we know and love. The spaciness is noticable here, and it freaks me out.

Things That I've Learned/Noticed: Hey! That science teacher from Teacher's Pet is here! Isn't it neat that they didn't just have him for one episode? Too bad he gets his head munched later...

???:
1. Her nickname was Kathryn the Great? Cheerleaders aren't very original.
2. Xander voulintarily compared himself to a rug. He's finally stopped denying the truth.
3. They keep large axes laying around in a HIGH SCHOOL? Okay. 🙂

 

[wickedtiger86]

Haha! These are awesome.

I feel the same about Joyce's hair in the first ep. It's like WHA?!?!?!?

 

[Valjavertjinn]

4. Teacher's Pet

The Good:
1.Picket fence vamp staking!
2. Principal Flutie sending Buffy to therapy!
3. Ha! Angel is happy for Buffy because she slayed a vampire. ONE vampire! Ahh, those were the days...

The Bad:
1. Ms. French is a weird lady...
2. Amendment: Ms. French is a weird, creeepy lady...
3. Amendment 2: Ms. French is a weird, creeepy bug lady...

Things I've Noticed/Learned: I will never trust anyone with green eyeshadow EVER again.

???: What exactly was the point of fork-handed vamp guy? He was just like, "I have fork hand! I slice and dice! I get captured! I get nailed by a little garden picket fence stick and POOF!"


5. Never Kill a Boy on the First Date

The Good:
1. I love Emily Dickinson! This guy knows his poetry!
2. Aww, this guys super clueless and nice! Until he's a jerk-thrill-seeker at the end!
3.Willow says this guy is a major brooder. I guess Buffy has a thing for brooders...

The Bad:
1. THE. ANNOYING. ONE.
2. The Vampire in the first scene is SO ugly. When he popped up, I freaked out!

What I've Learned: When I fist saw this, I was sort of spoilered for Buffy. I kinda... thought that he was Oz, and kept expecting him to turn into a werewolf. Looking back, the idea is really weird. So, guess what! Oz is NOT this guy!

???: Buffy's sweatshirt is HIDEOUS! I mean, why would you even wear that?

Using my AMAZING art skills, I have made Owen into a werewolf. 😉

 

[wickedtiger86]

LOL!!! I love Owen as a werewolf! That's awesome! 😀

 

[Valjavertjinn]

6. The Pack

The Good:
1.Ooh! Xander's shirt has a RAINBOW on it! 😀
2. Xander makes some awesome faces here.

The Bad:
1. Oh man, Flutie just got MOWED!
2. Poor Piggy 🙁 .
3. Buffy nailing Xander with a desk.

Things I've Noticed: This episode makes me feel like this:

???:
1. WILLOW! Did you just make a mean comment about zebras "doing it"? Naughty!
2. Xander does not like Croissants. How sad.



7. Angel

The Good:
1. Angel is a vampire?!?! I SO did not see that coming! 😉
2.Toasting Fork! Poor Joyce...
3. Bangel begins! And is shot down! And is sort of left hanging! But there's two kisses...

The Bad:
1. Everyone's favorite lisping blonde vamp is killed (for the first time). Pity. They could've done so much more with her.
2. The Annoying one exists. Need I say more?

Noticed: Look at The Master's nose. does it not resemble some strange deformed root vegetable?

???: Why does Xander keep wearing these weird little necklaces?

 

[Valjavertjinn]

8. I Robot, You Jane

The Good:
1. JENNY! 😀 And she's wearing a leather jacket!

2. Giles and Jenny being snarky!
3. Giles' "Smelly Computer Speech".

The Bad:
1. Creepy Robo-Demon-Cyber-Stalker.
2. Fritz. He also has a lisp. Maybe he and Darla should form a club...

I've Noticed/Learned: I read somewhere that Jenny was supposed to be a one-time character, but since she and Giles were funny and cute together, they decided to keep her around. YAY!

???: Not many people like this episode, but it's when Jenny shows up! And she calls Giles a snob! I love it. 😀

The Lisp Club: