Ever feel like you’re invisible? This episode opens with Cordy lamenting on her May Queen status, and Buffy stumbles out of the library, dropping her bag full of weapons and feeling outcast from the popular people. Cut to “If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh, if [...]
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So you know that dream you have where you’re naked and everyone in school can see your unmentionables? Multiply that by a thousand, and that is this episode. It opens with Buffy going down into the Master’s lair, and looking back, this is a sneak preview of what’s to come in the season finale. This [...]
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One of my least favorite of the first season is this one about a horny ventriloquist’s dummy who is quite literally a walking piece of wood. However, Cordy’s rendition of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” and Giles as the producer of the school talent show is perhaps a few of the greatest moments of [...]
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One of my favorites of the first season (I feel like I’m always saying this….but who wouldn’t? It’s Buffy!) this episode exemplifies the classic debate (well, classic in the sense of the last twenty years) of the good and bad of technology typified between the characters of Giles and Jenny Calendar. Is the printed page [...]
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He’s like, 240 years older than she is, and he’s chock full of salty goodness. Yep, here’s the episode that begins to build the backstory of Angel and Darla. As the episode opens, the master and the Anointed One agree to allow Darla, his pet, go after Buffy as the scene cuts to the Bronze’s [...]
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One of the best episodes of the first season, “The Pack” rings in as one of the greatest metaphors of the television series: a group of bullies who think they are the epitome of social Darwinism pick on the shy and weak. Who out there – who survived high school – did not have a [...]
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The beginning of this episode has one of the best postmodern lines ever: “I’m Buffy…and you’re history!” Such a good line, in fact, that it’s part of an essay title in Fighting The Forces: What’s At Stake In Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Season One may not hold up to all the seasons following, but as [...]
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Buffy for Beginners is back with a new writer: Sabrina Boyer. Sabrina is a Ph.D. student in Education and Cultural Studies, a huge fan of pop culture – especially any that deals with bad ass women with weapons – an angry feminist, a disgruntled English teacher, and all around Buffy fanatic. She has organized a [...]
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Submissions for “Buffy for Beginners” are now closed. Thank you to everyone who has expressed interest in taking over the “Buffy for Beginners” column. We have received a big stack of submissions, and there are a lot of really good contenders. I’m thinking about sending swords to all of the potential contributors and letting them [...]
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Are you looking for an excuse to watch your Buffy DVDs again? Do you have a lot to say about the Buffy-sodes? Pink Raygun is looking for a writer to take over the weekly column, “Buffy for Beginners”. To get an idea of what we’re aiming for, take a look at the previous “Buffy for [...]
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The episode begins with Buffy informing Giles of her plans to join up with the high schools Cheerleading Team. Giles tells her, in his very British way, that he thinks it‘s a cult and irresponsible of her to join. Needless to say Buffy shows up to try outs. At tryouts Buffy meets Amy. A very [...]
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In the last episode we were left with a cliff hanger. Buffy was trapped in a crypt about to be bitten by the large and scary Luke, (The Master’s pet vampire). Willow, Xander, and Jesse had escaped into the cemetery, but had several blood thirsty vamps hot on their tail. It’s all very exciting. Related [...]
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I saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it was a campy movie with Rutger Hauer playing a vampire. I didn’t catch on to Joss Whedon until Firefly, so I never watched his Buffy series (I know, I’m a bad Whedonite, please stop throwing things at me). Luckily, Katie Renouard is coming to my rescue with [...]
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It’s Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day. The entire 7 season run of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on 40 discs for 51% off of the list price of $199.98. For the next eleven hours (or until they run out) you get the entire set for only $98.99. Hurry, they’re not going to last! Click [...]
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