The later seasons gear so much more toward season-long arcs and run-of-the-mill monsters, rather than the “mystery-of-the-week” episodes more common in S1, that I’d forgotten how involved Buffy can get in the “searching for clues” aspect of cases (and see how easy it is to use the word ‘case’? I can’t do that much in later seasons).
Yes. One thing I've learned from watching SPN is that I actually really enjoy those kinds of stories. In Buffy S1 (and, let's be honest, quite often on SPN) the case is pretty cheesy and logic is optional, but the basic, "helping people, killing things" storyline is one I enjoy a lot. It's the reason I like "Killed by Death" so much that I put it in my top ten - it's Buffy being heroic while feeling yucky, which is like heroism squared.
boy does Xander’s comment about using invisibility to guard the girls’ locker room annoy me more now than I'm sure it did five years ago.
I have nothing good to say about Xander until probably mid-S5. And the show's ongoing misapprehension that hormones = humor pretty much drives me batty. I was going to talk about SPN a whole bunch here, because it also develops that misapprehension later on, but you haven't really seen it yet. OTOH, we just had an episode where Sam bawls a kid out for spying on the women's locker room while invisible, so the show gets it right sometimes. :)
Buffy concentrating really hard on Marcie and willing her to go Technicolor makes more sense to me than the silly “goes calm and listens” bit at the end.
Yeah. Seems like that would have been neater all around than the FBI thing, which never, ever gets brought up again.
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Yes. One thing I've learned from watching SPN is that I actually really enjoy those kinds of stories. In Buffy S1 (and, let's be honest, quite often on SPN) the case is pretty cheesy and logic is optional, but the basic, "helping people, killing things" storyline is one I enjoy a lot. It's the reason I like "Killed by Death" so much that I put it in my top ten - it's Buffy being heroic while feeling yucky, which is like heroism squared.
boy does Xander’s comment about using invisibility to guard the girls’ locker room annoy me more now than I'm sure it did five years ago.
I have nothing good to say about Xander until probably mid-S5. And the show's ongoing misapprehension that hormones = humor pretty much drives me batty. I was going to talk about SPN a whole bunch here, because it also develops that misapprehension later on, but you haven't really seen it yet. OTOH, we just had an episode where Sam bawls a kid out for spying on the women's locker room while invisible, so the show gets it right sometimes. :)
Buffy concentrating really hard on Marcie and willing her to go Technicolor makes more sense to me than the silly “goes calm and listens” bit at the end.
Yeah. Seems like that would have been neater all around than the FBI thing, which never, ever gets brought up again.