Yeah I enjoy season 1 more now than I did at the time because it's nice to go back to that place of innocence with the characters, but I can understand why it wouldn't have dated well for someone who is starting off with season 1 for the first time. A lot of it seems like quite traditional horror with the Master terrorising his minions underground, it's really the arrival of Spike and Dru in School Hard that first shakes things up a bit IMO