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Buffy Reviews: The Witch

1. omg i wish i could just copypasta the entire first scene bc everything about it is gold

Giles: This is madness! What can you have been thinking? You are the Slayer! Lives depend upon you! I make allowances for your youth, but I expect a certain amount of responsibility, and instead of which you enslave yourself to this, this... Cult?

Buffy: You don’t like the color?

2. buffy’s face when she says “and you’ll be stopping me how?” I CAN’T

3. ok so no offense to high school cheerleading but... why is it so big here? like this is a one-starbucks town, no one needs to be hiring coaches to get on their high school team?? wtf

4. we can all agree xander’s gross custom ID bracelet is pretty ewww right?

5. i love how in awe of buffy willow is after buff saves amber, like it’s so cute / appreciative and this is how i choose to remember willow always

6. i do love referring to Buffy & Co as the Scoobies but part of me kinda wishes “Slayerettes” had stuck

7. this fucking outfit BUFF U INSPIRE ME

i love that there’s usually some feature that just MAKES the look, ya know? like these tights!!! i want this whole Look and i want it NOW

8. this is not a good episode for the self-appointed captain of the joyce summers defense league. my notes literally say “joyce??? :( indefensible” there’s literally no good here. like first joyce doesn’t even know what she’s trying out for?? and then instead of ASKING she just gives generic platitudes?? and THEN when buff calls her on it, joyce gets an attitude? and still even after all this, buff starts hinting about wanting to spend more quality time with her mom and joyce just blows it off. just like... why must u make this so hard for me, joyce???

9. buffy is honestly so empathetic to amy and it warms my heart. like no one deserves her. totally understanding where amy is coming from and the pressure she’s under and doing her best to make her feel better even tho she only met the girl yesterday? the world does not deserve buffy summers.

10. lmao i love cordy’s scene in the locker room with amy. it’s like just the right amount of chilling and then u remember it’s cordy and they’re talking about cheerleading . it really homes in on the terror of high school without being heavy handed about it, as the show is prone to do sometimes.

11. willow’s crush on xander isn’t as obvious in these first few episodes and i always forget. like he’s talking to her about buffy and she doesn’t seem like *as* bothered as one might expect and even suggest him asking her out? ofc she’s p confident buff would say no i’m sure so maybe she was just trying to get xander over her faster. regardless, it’s definitely not as blatant as it will become.

12. another cringey convo with joyce. i’m trying to remember when she starts to get good?? like this is painful:

Joyce: Whatever your own thing was got you kicked out of school!

pls, joyce. pls.

13. i have mixed feelings about this outfit.

like the shirt literally just has a cupcake on it which i LOVE and i like pink pants in theory but... the pants + the jacket is just not good

14. on the other hand cordy stopped dressing like a soccer mom so props to her

15. did student driver cars not have passenger side breaks in the 90s or something?? i feel like they did and this is an oversight but to be fair by the time i was old enough to drive they weren’t even teaching drivers ed in schools anymore so

16.

Giles: Why would somebody want to harm Cordelia?

Willow: Maybe because they met her. Did I say that?

yes u did and i’m proud of u

17. this scene where they see who checked out the library books is weird. it doesn’t rly make sense from a “how do we figure out who is the witch” standpoint and serves no purpose plot-wise. and “haha xander looks at nude ingravings bc he’s a teenage boy” is just not a very good joke, but it seems like they made this whole scene to make that one bad joke. i don’t get it and i don’t like it.

18. i like the continuity of showing the same bio teacher that’ll be in the next episode

19. again, buffy astounds us all with her amazing sneakiness and incredible lying skills

Buffy: Amy, help me. Um, which is the hydrochloric acid and which is the, uh, ammonium hydroxide?

Amy: Well, the bottle that says 'hydrochloric acid' is usually the hydrochloric acid.

followed by buffy very not-subtly dropping her pen and then not-subtly grabbing a fist full of hair out of amy’s brush. like come on, girl.

20. buffy’s spell-drunk / macho man / giddy whirl scenes r like in my top 15 scenes for the whole show. seriously. she is so cute and SMG is acting with her entire body and her skirt is twirly and her hair is bouncy and she is so funny and cute and delightful. also every time i drink juice i now say “hey look, juice” the same way buffy does in the breakfast scene.

21. i am HIGHLY embarrassed to admit that it took me until this viewing (at least my eighth) to see the parallel between xander calling willow “my guy friend” and buffy calling xander “one of the girls.” but now that i have noticed it I LOVE IT

22. so even when buffy still thinks it’s amy doing the magic, she is REMARKABLY empathetic for someone about to die. like she thinks amy is literally killing her and her response is

Buffy: It’s not Amy’s fault. She only became a witch to survive her mother.

23. the body-switch twist where it’s actually amy’s mom in amy’s body is literally SO GOOD and just elevates this episode to rly one of the best, esp for the first season. like i just can’t get over how good it is. i didn’t see it coming my first watch-through, it keeps with the theme of the hellmouth making metaphor-problems a reality (”my mom is trying to relive high school through me!) without being too on-the-nose, and the revelation scene is just incredibly well done. like when amy is explaining how she woke up in the wrong bed, i genuinely get chills.

Amy: She said I was wasting my youth. So she took it.

CHILLS I SAY

24. “Go Sunnydale Go” repeated over and over and over and over is probably the most boring cheer i’ve ever heard

25. does giles casting this spell count as Ripper!Giles? bc he says it’s his first casting whcih ofc could be a lie but could also be retcon . either way it’s sexy af (as Ripper always is)

26. this shot will never not be hilarious to me

27. idk about this outfit, buff. like it’s v put-together and all but... stick to the cheerleading uniform

28. overall one of the best episodes in the first season and honestly even holds its own compared to the rest of the series. like i don’t think it’ll be on anyone’s Top 10 list but it’s a really good episode. it’s compact (with the exception of the library book scene), it’s on theme, it’s creepy, it’s funny, and it’s got willow comparing xander to a chewed up pen. what more could u want??

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #the witch #1.03

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