Starting to get into this more. The action still sucks but I can forgive it.
In which Buffy tries to have a regular social life.
"i almost feel like a girl."
Buffy's really getting into its groove by this point. There's some great chemistry between the cast. The action is fun. There's enough arch Gothic camp to overcome the sometimes painful 90s delivery. I could watch people run around creeping cemeteries and mausoleums all day.
The singer at The Bronze's outfit in this episode is the most 90s thing ever - and its glorious! And where is this, where there are so many young people dancing with each other to live music? I've never seen that in my life, even in the 90s.
Heh. The main cast's chemistry is improving. That scene at Bronze was great.
Owen: You see that ? He tried to bite me. What a sissy. :sob:
This one feels a bit more familiar but not like the other ones. It has been a very long time since I’ve seen most of them. Love the pager technology. I used to have a beeper like that.
i would forever choose a man with a tweety bird watch over a guy with a fancy pocket watch.
This was a very good episode, but I'm rating it even higher because of how damned effective it was at pulling at my heart strings. There are genre shows, some enjoyed as a guilty pleasure, with Mary Sue or Gary Stu-ish protagonists, and sometimes they're just tolerable, but that's not at all the case here. I absolutely love Buffy and relate to her despite being far from a girl in high school myself, and that's something that Joss's shows have all seemed to triumph in-- making female leads/main casts that anyone can relate to and become emotionally invested in due to their depth and humanity.
The gang-- Angel included this time --are perfectly in character and work together seamlessly. It may be funny coming from someone watching Buffy later in life, but I'm usually not big on single-episode romance plots, but I actually teared up a little for Buffy this episode, on a second watch after forgetting I'd seen it before. I fully empathized with Buffy and was on the edge of my seat as she was trying to juggle everything, and wanted to see her happy with Owen. SMG gets to put on an array of emotions this episode, and it was at turns delightful and painful to go on the journey with her.
When this episode aired, the actress playing Buffy was 19 years old, Willow was 23, and Xander and Cordelia, 26. Aren't they supposed to be highschool teenagers? :rolling_eyes:
Fun episode though.
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