Being a slightly geekier person than most has its privileges. Had I not had Brian K. Vaughan as a MySpace friend (already I’m swimming in geekery twice-over…), I never would have known that Issue #5 of “Buffy: Season 8″ came out this past Wednesday, as it was due August 1st. It’s Christmas In July time… [...]
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Finally, season two. This is when the show really hits its stride, starting off strongly with the opening scene of Will and Xan walking in the dark past one of the infamous number of cemeteries in Sunnydale, playing a game of movie lines trivia. We learn that over the summer, Buffy left S-town to live [...]
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So this is my favorite episode of the first season. I know I say that a lot, but this is the first time that Buffy dies. Do you understand the magnitude of that statement? This is one of the first and only instances in a major television show that the main character bites the dust [...]
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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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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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Much to the delight (and relief) of fans of the Joss Whedon television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show’s seventh season was not its last. After the show’s cancellation, Whedon decided to continue the Buffyverse in comic form, and March 2007 saw the premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight. Whedon has completed [...]
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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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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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