Now is a good time if you get FX, beacuse as mentioned upthread, their reruns are currently early in Season 2. (They rerun 2 eps. a day, and then usually repeat those same eps. the next morning.)
While the first season is good, there’s very little in it that you need to know to appreciate later episodes. Also, the DVD’s of the first season can be purchased for around $30, so if you find you like the show they’re easy to get your hands on.
–Cliffy
Awww man, you missed an FX marathon of the entire first season on New Years Day, what are the odds? Check your local listings, our local FOX network is airing the pilot (welcome to the hellmouth) on the 6th at 12am, and showing the second episode a week later (ABC shows weekend eps too). Unfortunately FX is only on season two this time around, so it’ll be a few months before they’re back to the first season again.
Dammit, I did miss it, didn’t I? Oh, well. I’ll be sure to find reruns whenever. Thanks a bunch!
~Ferry
Urk. Buffy. Off to Cafe Society.
Thank you kindly, UncleBeer!
FYI (if you don’t already know) you can do two-week searches at www.tvguide.com use keywords “buffy vampire” and you’ll probably get a couple pages worth of channels, dates, and times for your local stations.
I did not know. Thank you so much, elfkin477!
First impressions–awesome opening credits. Alyson Hanigan (sp?) (Willow?) is really gorgeous! It’s only the first commerial break, but…I think I’m hooked!
~Ferry
Well, because it’s a fact. No male can be a superhero, either. Superheroes don’t exist. Nor do vampires, demons, or vampire-slayers.
Almost nobody agrees with me that I know ( lament: nobody ever agrees with me 
), but if that had been the very last episode and they had made in unequivocal that it was all just a psychotic delusion, I would have been overjoyed. Just the sort of downbeat, but bold ( in this case, because many fans would howl in righteous indignation )“sting-in-the-tail” ending that made the original Twilight Zone my all-time favorite TV show.
Uh…Tamerlane, BtVS isn’t just about a “superhero” it’s giant metaphor for female empowerment. The point of the whole series is to turn the tired cliche of the “helpless female” on its ear. JW is not going to end the series by simultaneously making his female lead insane and helpless. JW is a sick, cruel, sadistic man, but he’s not going to undermine his whole series–also, this would jeopardize the other show in the Whedonverse–Angel. Buffy’s so insane that she not only created her whole world but also continued to imagine the adventures of her First Love?
It’s official, I’m hooked. It was absolutely incredible. I’ve got two questions, however. 1) Who is this Giles fellow, and 2) I thought Willow was gay?
Anyway, I was very surprised! I thought for sure that Sarah Michelle Gellar was going to bother me, but she didn’t! (I’m not quite sure why she would’ve.) I was also pleasantly surprised to see Seth Green in this show (I like him a lot ^^). I hope to see more of him, though I was slightly confused by his interest in Willow…surely nothing comes of it; she’s gay, right?
I was only slightly disappointed that this episode did not include vampires, though I’m sure they’ll come along soon. On a scale of one to ten, I’d give this a 9!
~Ferry
The character of Willow really evolves over time, from nebbishy, book-girl dweeb with a crush on Zander to powerful Wicca in love with Tara.
Don’t rush it, just go with it.
If you’re watching a show with Oz, you aren’t starting at the beginning, you should really start at the beginning. See if you can rent the first season DVD or something.
I was thinking next vacation I get I would rent season one, but I was told now was good to just jump in. So in I jumped. I’ll backtrack later, I guess.
~Ferry
Giles is the drool worthy bookish Watcher of Buffy whom I lust after…
ahem
Every Slayer has a Watcher, who trains her in fighting, strategy, etc, and helps her be the best Slayer she can be. Giles is Buffy’s Watcher. He has an enormous library of which he makes frequent use when monsters and demons roll into town (for identification, weaknesses, etc). He evolves into more than just a Watcher and takes on an almost father-figure role as well.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… Giles… [sub]sorry[/sub]
Sure and masterfully done, too.
I’m sure he won’t. But he should of. Or to amend that slightly if you are concerned about Buffy’s theme of empowerment being undermined ( which personally I don’t see as an issue - her heroism, delusional or not, were real to her and thus just as exemplary - the actual results are immaterial ), have her make a full recovery into a healthy, happy, “normal” person. Add a scene showing how her experience has strengthened her if you must ( we do gain strength in adversity ), however much it also arrested her life in other ways.
The fact is it would be a wonderful thing to end the show by saying - “No, this has never been a fantasy show, because fantasy isn’t real.” Art, I’m telling ya - art.
Hell they didn’t even have to go that far - Don’t change the episode at all, just make it the terminal episode and let everybody decide all in an uproar themselves, with no commentary.
But naturally all of this is long past moot. I just like the idea of it. Echos a book I never like to mention the title of, because it ruins the ending. Spoiler:
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick
Well, Angel has descended into the monumentally craptacular IMHO, so I have a hard time caring ;).
But jeez, they’re just TV shows - Who cares if they contradict each other? You can just choose to believe whichever one you prefer :).
I’m trying to imagine walking into a production office and pitching that. :eek: