Watching season two of Buffy is a real hoot.
On the Halloween episode Willow temporarily becomes a ghost and can walk through objects. But when she exits a room with a bead curtain she makes it move and sway as she brushes past it.
In the very next episode Buffy is watching a hospital to protect the arrival of blood. No vampires appear as the van pulls up and two men come to receive the shipment. Are they themselves the vampires? I ask myself. Obviously not, because I plainly see both their reflections in the side of the van. Except that I’m wrong. Buffy dusts them before we can find out what magical force allows them to cast a reflection….
Add to all this that the film is cheap so that this all looks more like an mpeg file than a TV show.
OK, so the other day I was browsing our local half-price bookstore when I saw the complete first season for around $13. I picked it up and I’m a in the middle of the second disc (watched “thepack” last night). I’ve enjoyed it so far, but I have to admit that it isn’t nearly as good as Firefly. Is it just too early in Whedon’s career as a writer to make the comparison? Do the episodes over the next several years begin to display the quality of dialogue one gets in Firefly?
Remember it started out as campy melodrama with a low budget. But I think you’ll find the dialogue keeps getting better. I think that from season three on it compares to Firefly in content. (Season Three is when they could afford decent film too.)
Glad you got hold of Firefly!