BUFFY ep review 4.01 "The Freshman"
When these BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER eps had aired in USA but before Australian airings, I did some reviews from videotapes I obtained direct from the USA. The fan website where these reviews were originally posted has been defunct for some time now. I found my magnetic floppy disc with my own backups so here they are (i haven't corrected them, or re-edited them, save for cutting off the original email headers and footers).
My Original review follows
I have been deliberately vague in places and especially not given away
major spoilers , but have included what I think is plenty of details to
make the review interesting (for example Eddie becomes turned into a
vampire and is killed by Buffy, as is the female vamp Sunday, howvere I
avoided naming them as the one's she got, in my review)
NOTE That it is a deliberate part of my writing style to use commas and
hyphens more than average. I do this to make things read in a more
true-to-verbal style.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ep 4.01 The Freshman
The teaser opens with Buffy and Willow in a graveyard and Buffy seems to
have well lost her focus, Slayerwise.
At the episode opening, over a background of lonesome and lonely music, we
see Buffy wandering around lost and well out of her depth, at UC*D college
orientation day <<
Willow though is in her element and already has herself 100 % organised.
At the University bookshop Buffy has a run-in with a spunky young Tutorial
Assistant. Buffy is instantly attracted to him, but he seems only to have
eyes for the more academic Willow.
Buffy doesn't much like her new room-mate and wishes that she and Willow
had been assigned a room together.
Day one of classes doesn't start at all well, when Buffy gets booted out of
her lecture by a grumpy professor. Her second class is only marginally
better, the professor there's a hard nosed bitch, who barks her words out
to the class. But at least the ol' Buffmeister makes it through the class.
Later, lost on the campus at night, Buffy has a chance encounter with a
nice freshman boy called Eddie. The next day he fails to show up for class.
He has supposedly dropped out of school but Buffy isn't so sure.
The next night, Buffy is attacked by a group of vampires. She takes out one
of them, but their leader, a female vamp named Sunday, fair whips Buffy's
butt. Buffy escapes with her life, barely. She is injured and thoroughly
humiliated.
Buffy skips college for the day and returns home for a time-out and to
regain her composure. Unfortunately there's no place for her there, her
bedroom's already been taken over (by her mother for storage).
Returning to her college dorm-room she finds she's been "dissappeared". ie
someone has nicked all her stuff, and left a "I've dropped out of college
and run away" note, with her name forged on the bottom.
Buffy wanders around, she's at her lowest ebb ever, when she runs across
Xander. He helps her regain some of her focus. "Let's put this bitch in
the ground" he says and they head off together.
They discover where the vampires might be hiding and go for a reccy. Xander
goes away to secure weapons leaving Buffy to keep an eye on the vampires
lair. She drops in on them, weapon-less, a bit earlier than planned.
The battle starts poorly for Buffy, but she regains her focus partway
through the fight, killing 2 vampires while 2 others escape. Moments later
Xander arrives with weapons and reinforcements. But it's all over, Buffy's
back to her good old Slayer self and her confidence in her slayer abilities
has returned.
As Buffy and the Slayerettes reclaim her belongings from the lair, and
return to her room, we see that one of the vampires that escaped, running
away through another part of the campus grounds, is stunned unconscious, by
an electrical "Taser" gun, and taken captive by a group of masked men.
Review by Catherine Jemma 3 Feb y2k
"It's just fate, Mom.
I'm The Slayer. Accept it."
B, ex BTVS ep 2.22 @ 18 m
My Original review follows
I have been deliberately vague in places and especially not given away
major spoilers , but have included what I think is plenty of details to
make the review interesting (for example Eddie becomes turned into a
vampire and is killed by Buffy, as is the female vamp Sunday, howvere I
avoided naming them as the one's she got, in my review)
NOTE That it is a deliberate part of my writing style to use commas and
hyphens more than average. I do this to make things read in a more
true-to-verbal style.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ep 4.01 The Freshman
The teaser opens with Buffy and Willow in a graveyard and Buffy seems to
have well lost her focus, Slayerwise.
At the episode opening, over a background of lonesome and lonely music, we
see Buffy wandering around lost and well out of her depth, at UC*D college
orientation day <<
Willow though is in her element and already has herself 100 % organised.
At the University bookshop Buffy has a run-in with a spunky young Tutorial
Assistant. Buffy is instantly attracted to him, but he seems only to have
eyes for the more academic Willow.
Buffy doesn't much like her new room-mate and wishes that she and Willow
had been assigned a room together.
Day one of classes doesn't start at all well, when Buffy gets booted out of
her lecture by a grumpy professor. Her second class is only marginally
better, the professor there's a hard nosed bitch, who barks her words out
to the class. But at least the ol' Buffmeister makes it through the class.
Later, lost on the campus at night, Buffy has a chance encounter with a
nice freshman boy called Eddie. The next day he fails to show up for class.
He has supposedly dropped out of school but Buffy isn't so sure.
The next night, Buffy is attacked by a group of vampires. She takes out one
of them, but their leader, a female vamp named Sunday, fair whips Buffy's
butt. Buffy escapes with her life, barely. She is injured and thoroughly
humiliated.
Buffy skips college for the day and returns home for a time-out and to
regain her composure. Unfortunately there's no place for her there, her
bedroom's already been taken over (by her mother for storage).
Returning to her college dorm-room she finds she's been "dissappeared". ie
someone has nicked all her stuff, and left a "I've dropped out of college
and run away" note, with her name forged on the bottom.
Buffy wanders around, she's at her lowest ebb ever, when she runs across
Xander. He helps her regain some of her focus. "Let's put this bitch in
the ground" he says and they head off together.
They discover where the vampires might be hiding and go for a reccy. Xander
goes away to secure weapons leaving Buffy to keep an eye on the vampires
lair. She drops in on them, weapon-less, a bit earlier than planned.
The battle starts poorly for Buffy, but she regains her focus partway
through the fight, killing 2 vampires while 2 others escape. Moments later
Xander arrives with weapons and reinforcements. But it's all over, Buffy's
back to her good old Slayer self and her confidence in her slayer abilities
has returned.
As Buffy and the Slayerettes reclaim her belongings from the lair, and
return to her room, we see that one of the vampires that escaped, running
away through another part of the campus grounds, is stunned unconscious, by
an electrical "Taser" gun, and taken captive by a group of masked men.
Review by Catherine Jemma 3 Feb y2k
"It's just fate, Mom.
I'm The Slayer. Accept it."
B, ex BTVS ep 2.22 @ 18 m
posted by Catherine Jemma at 10:35 am
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