Post by Shanmac on Apr 3, 2010 7:55:32 GMT -4
Heh, "Something Blue" is awesome. It always pissed me off that they made Spike and Buffy a real couple (kind of) because part of what made "SB" so funny is that it never would have happened without Willow's spell. I always loved Spike, though.
Yeah, I was rewatching S1 and it's pretty campy, but even that season had its moments. "Prophecy Girl" is probably the first TV episode that made me cry -- SMG is brilliant in that. She also tore me to pieces in the ep where Buffy's mom dies. Ugh.
Yeah, "Hush" is by far the scariest episode -- I get the creeps just thinking about The Gentlemen.
What I love about the show is that it could be cheesy one minute, then totally tongue-in-cheek and in on the joke, and then absolutely brilliant. They did some pretty cool experimental stuff just in the episodes I mentioned -- the totally silent ep ("Hush"), not using any music in the episode where Buffy's mom dies (which made it almost unbearable to watch because it seemed so real and so tense), the musical episode (which is cheesy, but you've got to give them points for originality).
I just pretend season 7 never happened, though. I actually think Buffy's death in S5 might have been a better way to end the show. But I guess it would have been a let-down after all those years if the show had ended with the heroine dying.
Yeah, he was horrid. Heh. I love him now on "Bones," but early on in BtVS, he was ... not good. He got better by the time "Angel" started airing, though. There's a case of a guy getting really, really lucky -- cast pretty much based upon his looks alone (and let's face it, he is gorgeous and was especially pretty back in S1 and S2, but he has an odd kind of face that made him especially believable as a vampire). I have to kind of giggle, though, because between the start of S1 Buffy and the end of Angel, his looks changed so much, it kind of hurt my suspension of disbelief (and I think the "Buffy" writers kind of acknowledged that in S7 when they had him on for a guest spot and he told Buffy, "I'm not getting any older," heh, yeah, right, dude). Even in comparison to James Marsters, who was quite a bit older, DB aged a lot for someone who's supposed to be the same age forever (not that he's not still ridiculously good looking).
Yeah, I was rewatching S1 and it's pretty campy, but even that season had its moments. "Prophecy Girl" is probably the first TV episode that made me cry -- SMG is brilliant in that. She also tore me to pieces in the ep where Buffy's mom dies. Ugh.
Yeah, "Hush" is by far the scariest episode -- I get the creeps just thinking about The Gentlemen.
What I love about the show is that it could be cheesy one minute, then totally tongue-in-cheek and in on the joke, and then absolutely brilliant. They did some pretty cool experimental stuff just in the episodes I mentioned -- the totally silent ep ("Hush"), not using any music in the episode where Buffy's mom dies (which made it almost unbearable to watch because it seemed so real and so tense), the musical episode (which is cheesy, but you've got to give them points for originality).
I just pretend season 7 never happened, though. I actually think Buffy's death in S5 might have been a better way to end the show. But I guess it would have been a let-down after all those years if the show had ended with the heroine dying.
I rewatched Season 1 awhile ago, for the first time since Buffy was actually on, and WOW was David Boreanaz bad. Especially in the pilot. Those are some of the weirdest fucking line readings I've ever heard. He sounds like an alien. Or like he learned his lines phonetically and has no idea what he's actually saying.