*knock knock knock* HOUSEKEEPING! Since Kali and Sarah both share a brain for the most part and are also bored by most of Season 1 and part of Season 2, we are going to review every other episode with each of us commenting on the other's post about that episode. This way we avoid being repetitive AND we get to our favorite episodes faster. Onward!
This episode obviously is dealing with Buffy learning the sacrifices she must make because she's the Slayer. Throughout the episode she keeps putting things that need to be done off in order to attempt at having a "normal" date with this guy Owen (who's a real catch *eye roll*). Oh, yeah, and some funny stuff happens along the way. I think my notes will be funnier than me trying to write complete sentences so I shall just leave you with these thoughts I had while watching this episode:
This episode obviously is dealing with Buffy learning the sacrifices she must make because she's the Slayer. Throughout the episode she keeps putting things that need to be done off in order to attempt at having a "normal" date with this guy Owen (who's a real catch *eye roll*). Oh, yeah, and some funny stuff happens along the way. I think my notes will be funnier than me trying to write complete sentences so I shall just leave you with these thoughts I had while watching this episode:
-LOL Giles popping up after Buffy slays the vampire
-Master: If you allow Buffy to stop you, I shall throw you really far!
-“I was beginning to suspect that was a myth”- Giles (about students coming to school and checking out books to read and learn)
- Owen talking to Buffy about going into a dark room and reading. Why would you read in a dark room? Wouldn’t that hurt your eyes?
-LOL Giles telling Buffy that her wanting to check out a book is cause for a national holiday
-“how’d the laying go? No I don’t mean that either”-Xander
-Cordy’s a bitch; Buffy paid for that disgusting food.
-“she doesn’t like fun” – Cordelia
-I’m a slayer, ask me how. I really want a button that says that…
-Buffy sees Owen dancing with Cordy and is sadface.
-Who the hell carries a pocket watch?! And what a jerk explaining to her how a clock works. Why does Owen think Buffy's an idiot? And if he actually thinks that, why would he want to date her?
"Boys like em dumb, right Jackson?" "If you can make your way around a tree, keep on walkin'."
-How short is Buffy’s shirt? Was this actually the dresscode in the 90's?
Hey Giles, look at me in my slutty shirt!
-“Buffy’s not home” lol
-Xander telling Owen that Buffy doesn’t like to kiss or touch and that he shouldn’t even look at her hehe
-Let’s tell our date that there are a lot more important things in life than dating. Good job, Owen. Now let’s tell her she’s weird! Man, no wonder Buffy was dying to date him.
-And while Buffy is out on her date, Giles is getting into trouble.
-If I ever went on a date and she told me that she “almost felt like a girl” I would think that were kind of a strange thing to say. Why does dating make one feel like their gender?
-“she has a beeping thing” Giles is all up on modern technology.
-Why the hell does Owen actually want to go to the funeral home? “Buffy why do you want to go to the funeral home without me?” Owen seems like a real winner. I sort of wish he had died. At least we never see him again.
-Lol Owen came. I’m very immature.
-I love that Willow and Xander are both drinking juice; it's so random
-Owen is an idiot. I really, really hate him.
And then the episode ends with the moral of our story. Giles sees that Buffy is hurt by the realization that she'll never be able to lead a "normal" life and the fact that she has to be concerned that if people like her that they like her for her and not the fact that she can almost get them killed which is apparently a rush. He goes to her and tells her how his father told him he was destined to be a Watcher when he was 10-years-old and how he wanted to be a fighterpilot (haha). Buffy and Giles have a really great relationship and I think that this conversation is the best part of the episode. Buffy now knows how important her job is and that she should really value her relationship with Willow and Xander because they could just as easily have reacted like Owen and used Buffy and she would have no one. Buffy really begins to grow up in this episode and it's nice to see.
And now nothing else happens because the annointed one is dead and the Master will be pissed and--ZOMG THE ANNOINTED ONE WAS THE KID ALL ALONG, HOLY CRAP! THE WORLD IS GOING TO ENDDDDD D=
Favorite quote: “My watch broke and we don’t have any clocks in our house so I didn’t know what time it was or even what day it was..” -Buffy
Kali's Notes:
Sarah, I think on Zazzle or CafePress they sell buttons and T-shirts that say "I'm a Slayer, ask me how!" Which leads into the fact that this episode has a lot of great lines. In the olden days, pastors or priests or whatever they were called then would end the sermon with "Here endeth the lesson". It's a great line and I love how it comes up again in future episodes. It also makes me wonder who The Master was before he was a vampire because in Darla related episodes on Angel he seems even more like some sort of a priest. Of course, Cordelia saying "Hello salty goodness" comes up again in Angel, and whether intentional or not it foreshadows an Angel/Cordelia relationship. Giles says some good stuff too, like how he'll just "jump in his time machine" so Buffy can "take in dinner and a show". All of these lines make up for the fact that the vampire who we think is the Anoited One starts yelling "pork and beans, PORK AND BEANS." I have no words for that because my brain just can't figure out WHY.
The "love triangle" gets more screen time. I usually hate love triangles but this one is ok because it's not 2 guys fighting over one girl. It's Xander likes Buffy, but Willow likes Xander, and Buffy likes just about every cute boy but deep down has the hots for Angel. I'm still getting a bit annoyed by Xander and Willow. We get it already, Xander, either man up and ask Buffy out or quit your bitching. And Willow, I know you are shy, but stop making sad faces and let Xander know how you feel since he's an idiot and will never figure it out on his own. There is another Xander moment, but I'm going to save it for tomorrow's episode because it directly relates to it.
Lastly, THIS IS HOW YOU FORESHADOW!!! You don't tell someone exactly what's going to happen and then let it happen later like in "Teacher's Pet". (e.g. "The teacher is some sort of creature and preys on younger boy" "Oh look, the teacher is a preying mantis that preys on virgin boys") <---BAD. The way they do it in this episode is perfect! At the very beginning The Master is reading a book about the Anoited One and says "The Slayer will not know him and he will lead her into hell". Through some misdirection we all think that she kills the Anoited One, but we learn that it was really the kid because she "will not know him". That is how you foreshadow people. You hint at something, but you don't flat out give it away. 10 points to this episode for the correct use of foreshadowing!
Favorite line and a good way to end my notes "Here endeth the lesson".
-Kali!
-Sarah
Kali's Notes:
Sarah, I think on Zazzle or CafePress they sell buttons and T-shirts that say "I'm a Slayer, ask me how!" Which leads into the fact that this episode has a lot of great lines. In the olden days, pastors or priests or whatever they were called then would end the sermon with "Here endeth the lesson". It's a great line and I love how it comes up again in future episodes. It also makes me wonder who The Master was before he was a vampire because in Darla related episodes on Angel he seems even more like some sort of a priest. Of course, Cordelia saying "Hello salty goodness" comes up again in Angel, and whether intentional or not it foreshadows an Angel/Cordelia relationship. Giles says some good stuff too, like how he'll just "jump in his time machine" so Buffy can "take in dinner and a show". All of these lines make up for the fact that the vampire who we think is the Anoited One starts yelling "pork and beans, PORK AND BEANS." I have no words for that because my brain just can't figure out WHY.
The "love triangle" gets more screen time. I usually hate love triangles but this one is ok because it's not 2 guys fighting over one girl. It's Xander likes Buffy, but Willow likes Xander, and Buffy likes just about every cute boy but deep down has the hots for Angel. I'm still getting a bit annoyed by Xander and Willow. We get it already, Xander, either man up and ask Buffy out or quit your bitching. And Willow, I know you are shy, but stop making sad faces and let Xander know how you feel since he's an idiot and will never figure it out on his own. There is another Xander moment, but I'm going to save it for tomorrow's episode because it directly relates to it.
Lastly, THIS IS HOW YOU FORESHADOW!!! You don't tell someone exactly what's going to happen and then let it happen later like in "Teacher's Pet". (e.g. "The teacher is some sort of creature and preys on younger boy" "Oh look, the teacher is a preying mantis that preys on virgin boys") <---BAD. The way they do it in this episode is perfect! At the very beginning The Master is reading a book about the Anoited One and says "The Slayer will not know him and he will lead her into hell". Through some misdirection we all think that she kills the Anoited One, but we learn that it was really the kid because she "will not know him". That is how you foreshadow people. You hint at something, but you don't flat out give it away. 10 points to this episode for the correct use of foreshadowing!
Favorite line and a good way to end my notes "Here endeth the lesson".
-Kali!
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