Buffy: The pilot is decent, but not the best place to start. The whole first season is fun but mostly campier. They only had a half season...it was the second season where they really spread their wings. So yeah, epis to check out...Hush is definitely a great one. I would also suggest...
Surprise/Innocence: The classic two-parter where Buffy's vampire boyfriend Angel goes bad. One of the best examples of the metaphors the show was so brilliant at employing.
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: One of the funniest and most fun eps IMHO...a love spell gone wrong.
Once More With Feeling: The in/famous Buffy musical. Personally I think it's brilliant. If you're a Sondheim fan at all, I'd especially recommend it...Joss has commented on the Sondheim influence and it shows. The songs are fantastically layered...often fluffy on the surface but most of the lyrics have a double meaning, a bittersweet undertone.
Of course all of these play even better in context, I'd say...Buffy was an inspiration for the new Who, actually, in so far as how it would build character and story arcs often subtly through the season, and things would pull together towards the end. And the musical especially...that one, while still standing alone as a story, takes about four or five different plotlines involving each of he major characters, stories that have been building through the season up to that point, and spins them all off in a different direction.
Forever Knight: Heh. But gah...I do hate those nihilistic finales! One reason I don't know if I'll ever bring myself to really watching Space: Above & Beyond, despite the love I know some Scapers have for it...
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Date: 2006-06-07 02:14 pm (UTC)Surprise/Innocence: The classic two-parter where Buffy's vampire boyfriend Angel goes bad. One of the best examples of the metaphors the show was so brilliant at employing.
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: One of the funniest and most fun eps IMHO...a love spell gone wrong.
Once More With Feeling: The in/famous Buffy musical. Personally I think it's brilliant. If you're a Sondheim fan at all, I'd especially recommend it...Joss has commented on the Sondheim influence and it shows. The songs are fantastically layered...often fluffy on the surface but most of the lyrics have a double meaning, a bittersweet undertone.
Of course all of these play even better in context, I'd say...Buffy was an inspiration for the new Who, actually, in so far as how it would build character and story arcs often subtly through the season, and things would pull together towards the end. And the musical especially...that one, while still standing alone as a story, takes about four or five different plotlines involving each of he major characters, stories that have been building through the season up to that point, and spins them all off in a different direction.
Forever Knight: Heh. But gah...I do hate those nihilistic finales! One reason I don't know if I'll ever bring myself to really watching Space: Above & Beyond, despite the love I know some Scapers have for it...