Meme taken from shivver13

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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-FilesWhat I like about it

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What I like about it: Well of course the main thing I like about it is that it's our first intro to Buffy and the other characters. And it's been said many times, but the opening teaser with Darla really is a great set-up of the show with the twisting of expectations

What I don't like about it: I know it's a pilot and they're still sketching things out, but I wasn't a fan of the characterisation of Giles or Cordelia. I felt like Giles was written as too much of a clichéd stuffy librarian, and Cordelia was written as too much of a shallow mean girl. Of course those characters do get developed more as the series went along, but my first impressions weren't great when I first watched the show, because they seemed like such flat and obvious character types

Favorite line: Buffy: "Why waste time being all shy and worrying about some guy and if he's gonna laugh at you. Seize the moment. 'Cause tommorow you might be dead."
Willow: "Oh... that's nice"

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: Hmm I guess everything with the Master and the vampires underneath the church? It was interesting to ponder the background of those really old vampires

Best performance: I think that Sarah did a nice job with instantly making Buffy likeable, and in this episode it was easy to relate to Buffy's determination to have a normal life, especially when we have Flutie and Joyce guilt-tripping her over how badly it all went back in L.A

Something I would have changed to make the episode better: Well it's hard to say with a pilot episode, because they're never the easier ones to get off the ground, I don't think they did a bad job with it overall though. ETA Oh I've thought of something! This is probably completely unpractical and wouldn't have worked at all, but I always thought it would be cool to get a few flashbacks to L.A and do a better job of linking it to the movie, it felt like we missed a pretty big part of Buffy's journey for her to arrive in Sunnydale already knowing that she's the slayer. They did do flashbacks later on in Becoming obviously, but still it would have added something to the pilot for me if there wasn't that assumption that viewers would already be familiar with all the basic ideas from the movie. I was someone who had seen the movie first, and I remember feeling a bit let-down in season 1 when I wanted to see the tv shows version of how Buffy first became the slayer