Meme taken from shivver13

[frelling_tralk]

Name an episode (or episodes, as many as you like) from one of the following shows and I will tell you the following about it.

Buffy, Doctor Who, Farscape, X-Files


What I like about it.

What I don't like about it.

Favorite line.

Best performance.

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me.

Something I would have changed to make the episode better.

Comments

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

What I like about it: Oh I'm totally a fan of this episode, mainly for the intro of Spike and Drusilla! I felt like that really kickstarted season 2 in an awesome way when Spike throws the anointed one in the cage to fry. SH is the first suggestion that season 2 is going to be all about creepy gothic vampire love from the main villains, can't really go wrong with that!

What I don't like about it: Joyce was being pretty unreasonable in this one, Buffy was clearly doing everything she could to help out with parents evening for Synder, and yet Joyce isn't even going to consider that maybe Synder just has it in for Buffy when he gives her a bad report anyway?

Favorite line: 'You see, Miss Edith? If you'd been good, you could have watched with the rest'

Best performance: I'll go with James and and Juliet, they both did a great job with making their characters as charismatic and memorable as possible in their debut

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: The hints that Synder knew more than he was letting on were pretty intriguing, it was a shame that the show didn't further develop that idea of certain authority figures in Sunnydale being in the know. I mean there's like one more mention in IOHEFY, but that's about it

Something I would have changed to make the episode better: Honestly I can't think of much. It's obviously not an all-time classic episode or anything, but I think it's a pretty fun intro to Spike and Dru, and it does everything that it sets out to do with that whole idea of the school being siege by the new vampires in town. What was it you didn't like about it?

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

creepy gothic vampire love

True, that's my aesthetic.

Actually, I pretty much agree with your take. I just find the main plot of everyone being stuck in the school tiresome, there's no palpable tension or suspense IMO... Though I guess it's worth it for Buffy and Spike's first showdown and "it's gonna hurt a lot." /the foreshadowing is real