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Amy's a Witchy, oh yes she is

Feb 13, 2015 16:55

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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catko February 16 2015, 00:11:26 UTC

Great recap, and reminds me that this is one of those episodes that i found both deep and kinda cheesy when viewed years later.

I agree that one of the issues was that I didn't really "get" Amy, though the storyline was good, and yes, the character-building continues to be delightful.

shapinglight February 16 2015, 17:34:47 UTC

There is a cheese element in all these season 1 episodes. In fact, maybe in all the early season episodes? But like you say, they're also deep, and wittiness of the writing and the great (and sometimes not so great) acting lifts them up further.

catko February 16 2015, 18:31:01 UTC

This may sound silly, but I think the cheesiness made the show more...accessible? Like it lures you in with the snark and the funny and the horror, then whomps you with the feels, the heavy insights, the amazing life philosophies and struggles. It's kind of the signatur of the show, at least in the early years....

shapinglight February 16 2015, 22:18:14 UTC

Oh, I agree. Yes. The humour makes it all far more relatable.

rebcake February 17 2015, 01:11:07 UTC

My Pivot recording of this has disappeared, so I haven't rewatched it yet. I do remember liking it a lot, though.

I also remember hearing Joss say that it was with this episode that they realized that they could really do anything through metaphor and it was creatively very exciting.

There are people who think Joyce is a terrible mother, but for me the closing scene proves otherwise. ¡Yay Joyce! Go on with your bad self, being an adult.

shapinglight February 17 2015, 08:07:17 UTC

I think Joyce is a great mother, but she does, unfortunately, get put in some situations where it looks like she's neglectful for plot reasons, and Buffy points those situations out quite forcefully in Becoming 2.

I guess you have to put Joyce's blindness down to the whole 'Sunnydale Effect.' Once she knows Buffy's the Slayer, things are quite different.

rebcake March 5 2015, 22:43:04 UTC

Okay, one more very late point! Remember in S7 when Anya says that Buffy isn't better than everybody else, she's just lucky? Putting aside the issue of what constitutes luck, I'd like to note that when Amber catches fire, Buffy is the only person who responds. It doesn't take any Slayer-powers to do what she did - Xander or Willow could have extinguished the flames - but nobody else did. Buffy is a hero.

I plan to point out instances where Buffy is a boss, regardless of her Slayerness, because: science.

shapinglight March 6 2015, 09:12:58 UTC

Oh no, I entirely agree. Buffy never freezes (except that once at the end of season 5). She always knows what to do.

I was planning to make note of every time she gets thrown onto a tombstone by a vamp, lands on her back the way she does in Seeing Red, then gets up and carries on fighting, but I forgot and anyway it would be pointless.

That sort of consistency just isn't what Joss cares about.