Buffy: 'Earshot' is a brilliant epi, but most of it plays much better in context, when you already know the characters. Oz is Mr. Taciturn, for instance, so his philosophical ponderings when Buffy can read his mind are really funny. And the final revelation Buffy has about her mom and Giles...utterly *hysterical* if you already know them, and especially if you've seen the episode where it happened (offscreen, we never knew as fans until Earshot), 'Band Candy'. Actually, for pure wacky camp fun, Band Candy is a great epi to try out...magically-spiked marching band chocolate turns the entire adult population of the town mentally back into teenagers. Hilarity ensues. But anyway, all that said...I do adore to pieces the final message of Earshot, about how in high school (and it's true of life as well), no one is paying attention to your pain because they're all so wrapped up in your own...
You also might want to try getting into Buffy sort of backwards, through Angel. Buffy is the high school show, Angel is 20-somethings in the city. It's also got a very cool noir vibe going on. I'd recommend you trying out that show with an epi called 'Waiting in the Wings', which focuses on a haunted ballet...gorgeous stuff, written by Joss himself. And Summer Glau stars as the ballerina, it's how Joss found her.
New BSG and S:AAB? From what little I've seen so far of Space, that makes sense...
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Date: 2006-06-08 06:10 pm (UTC)You also might want to try getting into Buffy sort of backwards, through Angel. Buffy is the high school show, Angel is 20-somethings in the city. It's also got a very cool noir vibe going on. I'd recommend you trying out that show with an epi called 'Waiting in the Wings', which focuses on a haunted ballet...gorgeous stuff, written by Joss himself. And Summer Glau stars as the ballerina, it's how Joss found her.
New BSG and S:AAB? From what little I've seen so far of Space, that makes sense...