bubbling on season 1 of BtVS
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avreliaI found in papers that a year ago I wrote some stuff about differefnt seasons of BtVS that I never posted. I typed it and am posting it now. Nothing new, of course. Probably, nothing intersting. But I felt like posting.
Alos I found myself today thinking about potentials (also I was buying some nice pants, but that's off topic,) and I decided that I like them. They are awful and obnoxious, and sucked the time and attention, yet... I liked them. And you know who is my favourite? Vi. She is the bravest of them all. She is so obviously terrified by what's going on, but she always stands her ground.
Now, onto the past.
I love season 1 as a kind of jumping base, a starting point, where I would come back to have a look foe seeds of things to come, for roots, for comparisons between past and present.
The absence of some characters is discouraging, but those who are there are so very cute! – Giles, in tweed and constantly bewildered, Angel, thin and young, and wooden, Willow in dorky clothes, Xander, in very dorky clothes (That mushroom shirt!) and floppy hair, Buffy, cheerful, perky, and in impossibly short skirts, Cordelia, gorgeous and arrogant, as only she could be….
I am not saying they are better than their grown-up selves, and certainly not that they should have stayed that way. I like my sixteen self more than my present self. That girl is somewhere inside, but I am not her, and I absolutely don’t want to be her now.
The characters are so young and fresh, and knowing what’s ahead, my heart is breaking for them a little bit. Yet one I see it now, I pick up some clues, some tidbits – I don’t whether they were put there, just happened or are my imagination – that help to make a connection between then and the later times, help to see how they end up where they did. It’s all there.
The stories are mostly MoTW and don’t impress me that much, and I usually watch for some small moments between the characters. The main story – with the Master – bores me even more and I keep fast forwarding it. When I don’t, however, it yields some interesting details.
Like when Master says: “Here endeth the lesson” to his minions. Before that I only considered it Spike’s phrase, from FFL, but now – is it a popular quote that everyone in Buffyverse knows , and I don’t – or was it Master’s phrase that Spike was quoting – or just a cool line ME liked to stick in?
Anyway, it presents a cool parallel between Master-minions and Buffy-potentials; the transition from Buffy the student to Buffy the teacher; the relation between Spike and the Master. Or, just one overactive imagination.
There are many cool moments that I enjoy remembering or rewatching – The Pack (pretty much the whole episode,) Willow’s crush on Xander, Xander’s crush on Buffy, Buffy’s growing interest in the mysterious stranger who shows up, feeds her bits of information and disappears, Giles’s remark that vampire in love with the Slayer is romantic… The appearance of Snyder, the performance of Oedipus Rex, The Prophecy Girl… the Nightmares – as Buffy’s worst nightmare – to become a vampire, and Giles’s worst nightmare - to bury his Slayer. What was Willow’s nightmare though? I remember it to be singing before public, but what does it mean? Fear of being in the open? Fear of having responsibility?
There are no yet continuity errors, as there is no continuity, but there are already lots of “rabbit-from-the-hat” decisions, that both bother and don’t bother me at the same time.
I like it as the start. I am not sure whether I liked it by itself though. And what a nightmare would it be if we didn’t have other seasons!
Alos I found myself today thinking about potentials (also I was buying some nice pants, but that's off topic,) and I decided that I like them. They are awful and obnoxious, and sucked the time and attention, yet... I liked them. And you know who is my favourite? Vi. She is the bravest of them all. She is so obviously terrified by what's going on, but she always stands her ground.
Now, onto the past.
I love season 1 as a kind of jumping base, a starting point, where I would come back to have a look foe seeds of things to come, for roots, for comparisons between past and present.
The absence of some characters is discouraging, but those who are there are so very cute! – Giles, in tweed and constantly bewildered, Angel, thin and young, and wooden, Willow in dorky clothes, Xander, in very dorky clothes (That mushroom shirt!) and floppy hair, Buffy, cheerful, perky, and in impossibly short skirts, Cordelia, gorgeous and arrogant, as only she could be….
I am not saying they are better than their grown-up selves, and certainly not that they should have stayed that way. I like my sixteen self more than my present self. That girl is somewhere inside, but I am not her, and I absolutely don’t want to be her now.
The characters are so young and fresh, and knowing what’s ahead, my heart is breaking for them a little bit. Yet one I see it now, I pick up some clues, some tidbits – I don’t whether they were put there, just happened or are my imagination – that help to make a connection between then and the later times, help to see how they end up where they did. It’s all there.
The stories are mostly MoTW and don’t impress me that much, and I usually watch for some small moments between the characters. The main story – with the Master – bores me even more and I keep fast forwarding it. When I don’t, however, it yields some interesting details.
Like when Master says: “Here endeth the lesson” to his minions. Before that I only considered it Spike’s phrase, from FFL, but now – is it a popular quote that everyone in Buffyverse knows , and I don’t – or was it Master’s phrase that Spike was quoting – or just a cool line ME liked to stick in?
Anyway, it presents a cool parallel between Master-minions and Buffy-potentials; the transition from Buffy the student to Buffy the teacher; the relation between Spike and the Master. Or, just one overactive imagination.
There are many cool moments that I enjoy remembering or rewatching – The Pack (pretty much the whole episode,) Willow’s crush on Xander, Xander’s crush on Buffy, Buffy’s growing interest in the mysterious stranger who shows up, feeds her bits of information and disappears, Giles’s remark that vampire in love with the Slayer is romantic… The appearance of Snyder, the performance of Oedipus Rex, The Prophecy Girl… the Nightmares – as Buffy’s worst nightmare – to become a vampire, and Giles’s worst nightmare - to bury his Slayer. What was Willow’s nightmare though? I remember it to be singing before public, but what does it mean? Fear of being in the open? Fear of having responsibility?
There are no yet continuity errors, as there is no continuity, but there are already lots of “rabbit-from-the-hat” decisions, that both bother and don’t bother me at the same time.
I like it as the start. I am not sure whether I liked it by itself though. And what a nightmare would it be if we didn’t have other seasons!
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Date: 2005-02-20 08:31 am (UTC)And there are lots of funny moments to love. And silly clothes! Gotta love their costuming department, they were a crazy bunch. ;)
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Date: 2005-02-25 03:14 pm (UTC)And given a test she has no answers for.
And abandoned/rejected by her father because she's not doing good enough.
So in S6, when she's buried alive, thinks she's come back wrong, can't handle the challenges of life, and is deserted by Giles - she's literally living out her worst nightmares. For a year.
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Date: 2005-02-27 12:07 pm (UTC)I probably should go back to that episode and think how Willow’s and Xander’s nightmares correlate to their s6 problems. On the top of my head, Willow doesn’t sing – neither in her nightmare, nor in musical. I have to think about it some more.