Amy's a Witchy, oh yes she is

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Some shallow thoughts about the third BtVS season 1 episode, The Witch (with screencaps shamelessly lifted from the same site that gillo got hers - all power to them), in which Giles shows us he's not just some stuffy Brit caricature, while looking extremely gorgeous.

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[velvetwhip]

I actually love Season 1, so yes, I enjoy this episode a lot.

Gabrielle

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Yay!

[trepkos]

Buffy is just wonderful in this!

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She is! She's also so cute I just want to pat her on the head and take her home with me.

[shapinglight]

Love the screen caps, and your comments on them!

Making up silly captions is pretty much my only forte. ;)

I like this episode for lots of reasons, many of which have to do with Giles. I realise that stuffy Brit in a tweed jacket is a time-honoured cliche on American TV, but I'm just so glad when he turns all dark and scary at Amy's house and breaks the spell on Buffy.

[readerjane]

This may sound silly since we never meet him on screen, but I feel bad for Amy's dad when I watch this.

I mean, he broke up with Amy's mom (which was safer for him, but it meant he probably didn't see Amy much). Then he got custody of Amy after Amy's mom was statue-ized, and from what we hear he's overprotective in a sort of endearing way.

Then Amy disappears just before graduation, which in a town like Sunnydale would mean presumed dead. Then poof! She's back again, but traumatized. Then at some point it becomes clear she's just as vicious as her mom was.

Mr. Madison must not have known which way was up.

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You're right - and the character really should get a ficlet.

In fact, there are lots and lots of characters in the show like that (some of whom, like Mr Madison, never even appear in person). I've often thought of doing a series of ficlets about them, but so much time had gone by since I watched these early episodes that I'd sort of forgotten their existence.

[readerjane]

Agreed.

That's one of the things I love about the show: that there's so much room for expansion. It's as if there are people and events just outside the frame of the painting, and if only we could peer around it, we could see even more.

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Very good way of putting it. :)

[snogged]

I agree that this episode is worthy of being loved to pieces. The cast definitely seemed to have more fun with this than the pilot. I'm guessing that by episode 3 they started to feel more gelled with their characters.

[shapinglight]

Yes, probably. Also, it's just...fun, and the Master and co really aren't in the first two episodes.

The Master gets better as he goes along, though.