The first episode I saw had Buffy running away from a monster or villain or something. She takes a short-cut and runs into a dead-end alley.
I lost it right there. You’re fighting a war…and you haven’t even studied your own home ground?
Shrug. No prob. It’s still a good show, with lots of clever bits. It just isn’t the right stuff for some of us. I’ll watch re-runs of Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, and be content. Hell of a world if everyone liked all the same stuff!
In the first episode, Buffy is not meant to be an experienced and skilled warrior.
The first episode he saw might not have been the first episode of the series…she did do dumb stuff.
I lost track of the series about the time Riley landed on campus. Nice that they were able to build and operate a massive underground complex without anyone knowing.
This. Exactly so.
Other things irked me… In one episode, they had a computer program that identified demons, very quickly, from descriptive details. It was a powerful weapon and should have been a mainstay of their strategy. But it wasn’t.
The show grated against my inner wargamer. My old high-school nerd squad wouldn’t have made those mistakes. (Other mistakes, sure!)
I think that was just the internet.
There was an online demon database that they used all the time in Angel, so they didn’t have to bother with research anymore. (Except when the writers needed them to and then the demon was rare and missing from the database)
Honestly, the Buffy/Angel split kind of bothered me. I know they tried to justify their independence from each other, but when it comes down to it I can’t really swallow the teams not calling each other when Glory is about to end everything*. I know they deal with apocalypses kind of regularly, but it’s hard to swallow their independence when it looks like they’re well and truly fucked. And why? Because Buffy was kind of a big jerk when Angel was trying to save Faith?
I know, I know, money and network reasons. I just felt like the justification needed to be stronger.
Actually, the Fang Gang were in Pylea during the confrontation with Glory.
Right, but it was kind of weird that nobody mentioned trying to call Angel with a throwaway line about them not responding. But conservation of detail and all that.