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[frelling_tralk]

Gateway episodes: Buffy The Vampire Slayer


So if you’re a late-comer to Buffy, and want to know whether you’ll actually enjoy the show, which of these standalones should you give a shot? Start with “Earshot,” the 18th episode of Season 3. Seasons 1 and 2 of Buffy relied a bit much on excessively campy bad guys—fish monsters, a ventriloquist’s dummy, a giant man-eating insect, a robot—who served as narrative crutches clumsily telegraphing real-world evil. The bad guys of Season 3, on the other hand, embody villains we all know: adolescent alienation, romantic jealousy, teenage insecurity, high school frenemies, parents who just don’t understand.

Do people consider Earshot a good choice, or do you prefer to go earlier than season 3? (That would be me! I hate introducing newbies to a really late episode in a show as it spoils a lot of what comes earlier, so I try to choose the earliest classic episode that I can). Which episode do you generally consider the perfect episode to introduce newbies to Buffy? Do you have more than one?

Heh someone recommended Ted in the comments, and someone else responded with "You do want people to watch the show, right"? :P


ETA What was your first episode of Buffy, and did it win you over right away and make you want to see more?

Comments

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I used to be really into vampire literature back then and I even watched the Buffy movie, so it's weird that I didn't give the show more of a chance when it first aired, instead I started switching off around the time that Bufy first goes to school and meets Cordelia. What can I say, I was young and impatient *g*

[ruuger]

I refused to watch Buffy for the longest time because the name and the promopictures of Buffy in sexy miniskirts made it seem like some kind of a campy soft porn series. I did watch the movie, though, because while I was too intellectual to watch a show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I was not above watching a movie called Buffy the Vampire Slayer if it had Luke Perry in it :D

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Heh yes, Luke Perry may have been a small part of the appeal for me too :P