Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 1x5 Full Reaction
Added 2023-04-23 01:43:34 +0000 UTC
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I absolutely LOVED all your shipping guesses. I can't wait to see you experience this entire series.
indaeo
2023-05-15 22:47:51 +0000 UTCWillow is the best wingwoman a Slayer could hope for, Giles is best supporting sarcastic Brit, and that russet shirt-jacket thing Buffy has in the last scene looks great, I don't care what decade it is. Owen...was never going to work, sadly, even aside from Slayer secrets. Buffy may be a manic pixie dream girl but he wanted a broody gothy dream girl, and she wouldn't have been able to fake interest in graveyard poetry readings for long.
Marith Lizard
2023-04-26 05:04:54 +0000 UTCI've always enjoyed the humor in this episode, I can't explain exactly what it is but I never get tired of rewatching it. I've been impressed by your analysis of the side of Buffy's character explored in the episode, it could seems obvious to someone who watched the entire show multiple times, but hearing such deep and structured character discussion from a first time viewer with just 5 episodes under the belt it's been … well … impressive, and makes me want to hear your thought on the next episodes even more. Talking about characters, I would like to point out another important thing explored in this episode, the character of Giles and his relationship with Buffy. It seemed quite clear to me that in the beginning he had no idea how to interact with her, probably he read a lot about the slayers but he never met a real slayer in real life, and now he has to deal with this strong minded, determined, independent young woman, definitely not a follower or someone particularly inclined to take orders. So, to work with her, he needs to know her, understand her as a person, and meanwhile she learns to know him, this of course means that their relationship will evolve beyond the initial Watcher/Slayer or mentor/mentee relationship, and I think that the last scene with Buffy and Giles is particularly emblematic of this change in their relationship. A last thing to keep in mind about Buffy to better understand her character, she never asked to receive her superpowers, she never choose to be turned into a slayer, and she never decided to take the responsibility for protecting the world, it was something cast on her without worrying about her consent. A couple of little notes on some little details that I think you're still a little confused about. Nothing uncommon, as I said the show feeds you informations at a pretty fast pace and, unlike most modern shows, it doesn't go overboard trying to make everything super clear to the audience but expects you to piece the story together, so ... Yes, the Master is a vampire. As Giles explained in episode 2, he's a very, very old one, but at the end just a vampire, so a man who has been killed and then brought back. About the “being brought back”, this seems to generate some confusion in many new viewers mostly 'cuz the lore in the show it's quite unique. I'll try to make it the more simple and clear possible for you. The vampire drain your blood up to bring you next to death, at that point he makes you drink his blood. You die, a demon sets up shop in your body, and it walks, and it talks, and he has your memory, but it's not you. That's why vampires in Buffy are always evil. Last thing, the little boy is dead, period, and they brought back as a vampire. This is a fact because in the lore of the show a vampire can only create another vampire, no other type of creatures. What we see in the last scene of the episode is basically a demon walking around in a little boy suit.
G.Un.
2023-04-25 02:38:31 +0000 UTCThe scenes in the funeral home mortuary (the embalming room) were excellent. Suddenly we're in a horror movie! And the quiet evidence of struggle when Buffy gets there, broken door, bent bars, trashed room, has this great ominous impact after we saw the before state of the room. One thing that was really unlike anything I have ever seen in a tv show was the monologuing by the religious murderer guy after he woke as a vampire. He was still in a religious frenzy, but felt "saved", free from moral restraint, given permission to fulfill his evil desires, -- I mean whoah. Really some incredible writing there. The "Master" vampire has this thing he does where he goes all gothic and epic, then he will throw off some funny line like a comic mafia boss, and break the tension, showing he can riff with the rest of the cast.
spikeysnack
2023-04-24 06:58:32 +0000 UTCThe Master is only ever called The Master. I'd like to think he's a Leroy, though.
Tim Pierce
2023-04-23 22:04:07 +0000 UTCGreat analysis!
Vicky N
2023-04-23 21:31:57 +0000 UTCI always like the reveal of the anointed one at the end of the episode.
Negative
2023-04-23 13:09:36 +0000 UTCThere were only five people on the bus. The driver, the mom and the kid, a lady and the crazy dude. All died and the kid from the bus is the Anointed. A favorite season 1 episode for me.
Bud Haven
2023-04-23 04:29:06 +0000 UTCGreat reaction! And your interpretation of the Owen of it all is spot on. It wasn’t about Owen as much as it was about Buffy’s desire to be a “normal” girl. The villains of the previous two episodes were adult women with teenage desires/interests. “Witch” had a mother who wanted to be a high school cheerleader and “Teacher’s Pet” had a teacher who wanted to seduce teenage boys. This episode didn’t include any adults with teenage desires per se, but instead focused on Buffy - an actual teenager, who incidentally wanted to be a high school cheerleader and is interested in teenage boys - prioritizing her perfectly normal (for a teenager) interests over any growing sense of responsibility. In the end though, and in contrast with the adult women from the previous two episodes, Buffy chose to let go of Owen, a representation of her teenage desire, out of respect for, and understanding of, the more adult responsibilities of her role as the Slayer.
tc3
2023-04-23 03:56:21 +0000 UTC
