So, anyway.
Kate was on about this Buffy the Vampire Slayer show because they've been watching bad tv or something. And I'm like, shrug. But a few weeks later I see Season One of BVS in the used book store. So I buy it.
Kate's kindda, oh and too bad and stuff because she thinks Season One is boring silly. (She's into deep stuff and doesn't like Start Trek TOS either, so... you know.)
But me: I'm all about Season One Buffy now.
It was Wonderful!
All 1950's Nancy Drew meets Scooby Doo in the Night of the Living Dead with this Seattle grunge-band soundtrack.
Did you see that episode where a guy named Wendell opens a book and these spiders crawl all over him? Or that creepy puppet one? Man, it disappears from the chair and my feet came right up off the floor! And when the show wasn't scary it was hilarious with guy-in-a-monster-suit villain-of-the-week feel.
The Giles character / actor is kindda weak. But the Master's totally Malfoy or something. Well, anyway, he's way cooler than Snape. And Willow's more interesting than either Ron or Harmonie. True, some of Xander's shows are better than others - they don't seem to know who he is. On the other hand, I just knew Cordelia was going to turn out okay. And I was right.
And now Season One's over.
I can hardly wait til next year.
How come nobody tells me about these shows?
1 comments:
It never occured to be to lay Buffy against Harry Potter et al, but now that I do, you're right. Willow's a way more fab Hermione and Buffy has a very Potterlike angst about being the Chosen One.
And yeah, you'll probably complain in the next season when the show gets deeper. Just like I'll complain when Kirk wrassles yet another blueskinned alien in a desert.
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