I never knew Drusilla was Martin Landau and Barbara Bains daughter! The episode with Jack Ritter playing an abusive potential stepfather is one of the best filler episodes. Wentworth appears in the swim team episode where Xander bares almost it all in a speedo. The writers like to use the word orgy. It's been used by the teen characters 4 times so far and I'm near the end of season 2. The monolith from Agents of Shield is also in Buffy. The universes connect somewhere.
Buffy Observations Upon Third Viewing on Tubi
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 2, 2024 12:27 AM |
I heard so many good things about this show, so I tried to watch it.
Couldn’t get through one ep.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 27, 2024 6:04 PM |
What episode is Wentworth in. Buffy used to be my shit yo. First 4 seasons is amongst the best scifi television of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 27, 2024 6:05 PM |
R1 what? Blasphemy. Was it the quality of the graphics. I don’t know why the quality looks so cheap in reruns. It didn’t look like that when it was out. They need to convert it to HD or something.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 27, 2024 6:07 PM |
I loved this show when it was on but I have to imagine it hasn’t aged well.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 27, 2024 6:11 PM |
It helps if you're a nostalgia watcher. DFX were PRIMITIVE at best, especially for TV. But I remember it fondly and get sucked in if ever flipping through channels and it's on. Insane, IMO, that it's actually on one of the MTV brand channels on weekdays.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 27, 2024 6:11 PM |
I'm a HUGE Buffy fan but you couldn't make me watch the first three seasons again (with the exception of certain select episodes) because they're so dated at this point. I know the story still holds up well but man, those visuals and references...
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 27, 2024 6:25 PM |
I still watch it from time to time when I run across episodes streaming live on the Comet station and it still holds up for me. Season 4 episode Hush is still a masterpiece.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 27, 2024 6:34 PM |
Quality of camerawork picks up substantially with the fourth season, it's like they got brand new lenses or something. It's like a jump from the '90s into the '00s overnight.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 27, 2024 6:41 PM |
R8 lol. But it didn’t look poor when it was out, even in syndication in the early aughts of the early seasons cuz that’s how I really got into Buffy. It’s something they’re not doing with those 90s shows that were filmed on maybe cheaper type lenses or something. They aren’t converting them properly, probably because of such low viewership.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 27, 2024 6:43 PM |
Yeah, everything looked great on those shitty cathode TVs back in the day. Plus your youthful imagination did a lot of the heavy lifting, compensating for any lack in production quality.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 27, 2024 7:26 PM |
R2, here’s the Wentworth Miller episode.
Angel rejects biting him bc he’s got sea monster dna, but the scene with the near miss is kind of hot.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 27, 2024 8:05 PM |
R6, season two had the return of Angelus and season three featured the mayor and Faith. The finales of both were fantastic.
The look of the first three seasons is dark and grainy on contemporary screens, but the stories win out over the images for me.
I do love season six, though I’m one of the few. Dark Willow!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 27, 2024 8:17 PM |
[quote] Buffy used to be my shit yo.
Good grief, have you no shame?
So embarrassing.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 27, 2024 8:30 PM |
R14 Bruh Imma talk how I want to talk. Get off me. Block me. Do what you need to do. Yall are getting older. The world is changing.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 27, 2024 8:34 PM |
[Quote] [R1] what? Blasphemy. Was it the quality of the graphics.
Shut up Defacto. Nobody wants to talk to you about anything.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 28, 2024 12:13 AM |
R17 Bruh. It’s 430 on the west coast. Where are you at? Cause it’s late. You still haven’t eaten. Why is you still so hungry?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 28, 2024 12:27 AM |
I would pay good money to travel back to 2004 and re-experience the excitement of renting season two of Buffy on VHS, four episodes at a time. (I got into the show after it ended.)
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 28, 2024 12:31 AM |
[quote]because they're so dated at this point
How on earth is this show "dated"?
Murphy Brown? Sure - dated as hell. The jokes, the references, the wardrobes, etc. Still can be entertaining, but certainly a product of its time.
How is a show about a Hellmouth, vampires, and the supernatural dated? Not like these things were 90's specific.
If you are referring to the practical effects ... I do not know that I would take today's over reliance on CGI (especially for lower budget shows like Buffy), than what they did.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 28, 2024 12:40 AM |
R20 It’s not dated at all. Buffy set the foundation for long story arcs in non soap opera shows. It invented the concept of the Big Bad which all these sci-fi, fantasy shows implement today. Put some respect on Joss Whedon’s name.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 28, 2024 12:45 AM |
Season 1 is very quirky and high schoolish. But 2 on is very good, compelling TV. Watching it now for the first time. I didn't know how good it really was.
If a show like West Wing or The Sopranos had done an episode like The Body at that time, it would have been showered with Emmys. I do wonder if it being a WB/UPN show made the critics thumb their noses, but it was nice that Hush received a nomination.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 28, 2024 12:49 AM |
R22 oh most definitely. None of those shows on UPN/WB got Emmy nods. They blocked them out. Hell Moesha should have got an Emmy nod. Monique’s big ass should have gotten Emmys nods for her acting.
One summer I was down south and my cousin and I were watching those black UPN shows. That shit came on Fox on Saturdays. They didn’t have UPN lol.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 28, 2024 12:55 AM |
Hush was mesmerizing and terrifying at the same time.
Ranked first here. Rightly?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 28, 2024 1:51 AM |
Seasons 2 & 3 of Buffy are some of the best television ever. The show began a slide into mediocrity in Season 4, culminating in the unwatchable seasons 6 & 7. But I still dust off 2 & 3 every few years to relive that magic.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 28, 2024 11:39 AM |
I would read a behind-the-scenes account of Buffy and Angel in a heartbeat.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 28, 2024 6:35 PM |
Among other things, there was a behind-the-scenes war between the stunt coordinator and I think the set designer, which ultimately resulted in the former's firing.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 28, 2024 7:19 PM |
More: Angel was cursed by gypsies just like Barnabas Collins was cursed by gypsies in Dark Shadows.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 2, 2024 12:27 AM |