Episode 3 of our show written by Andi Bushell starts off with our hero going through her notes as a man tries to climb into her apartment window. It turns out that he is the boyfriend of the girl next door. He asks if he can come in to get next door but Peggy just closes the window on his face. The poor guy just wants to see his girl. Said girl is found out and kicked out of the complex for it. They are very strict at this place.
Thomson and the other male agents are going over what they found out. They are still well behind Carter. But they did find a lead on Stark, things don't look good for the father of the man of iron. Peggy and Jarvis go to one of Starks houses and moments later Thomson and Sousa show up. They take Jarvis away but don't spot Carter. It's always hard watching the good guys suck so bad at their jobs. Jarvis is being questioned by Thomson while Carter watches on pretending not to know who he is. At one point in time Jarvis was charged with treason and got a dishonorable discharge. Thomson tries to use this against him. Telling him that he could use it to get him deported. Jarvis is close to cracking, or so they think and Carter takes off and picks up some paper work for the chief to sign. He is too busy watching the questioning that he doesn't even read what he signs. She then tells the chief, where Jarvis could hear her, that she found the stolen car report. They yell at her, thinking that she didn't know what she was doing. They look down on her and she played them, using it against them. A new girl named Dotty Underwood moves in to replace the one that was just kicked out. Carter, trying to get some work done, pisses of her only real friend. She then goes on to confront Jarvis but he has nothing to say. He shows her the spot where someone dug into the room. She starts to ask him about what he did that was treason but he won't answer. She doesn't push it too hard. Sousa has the hots for Carter but doesn't know how to go about it. Jarvis tells Carter why he was given a charge of treason. He forged his commander's name to save the woman who would become his wife. She was Jewish during world war 2 and was to be put to death. He did the only thing he could and Stark saved him. Despite what people say about him he is a good man. Agent Carter finds the stolen items but Jarvis points out that she can't turn them in because they will think that she is working with Stark, which she is. He tells her that she has to clear his name from the shadows. She can't be seen as the one doing the work. Jarvis puts on a voice and call Sousa to tell him where the weapons are. A man guarding the weapons almost kills Carter before Jarvis jumps in. He almost takes Jarvis out before Carter takes him out. This dude is a good fighter but our girl wins in the end. They leave him with the weapons. He can tell everyone that it was Jarvis and Carter that stopped him. That would not be good! Sure enough he tells them about an English girl who stopped him but before he could say anymore the car gets rammed and the agent is killed, as is he. Sousa think that it was a set up. That's why they called their office. The chief says that they are all in this mess because of Howard Stark. Making Carter's job even harder. Carter goes to her friends job and tells her about her day, well a version of her day. Thus fixing their friendship. It only had to come at the death of a coworker.
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The second episode, also written by Joss Whedon picks up right where the last one left off. Luke about to kill Buffy but her neckless burns him giving her a moment to get up. When she does he is gone. She rushes to the rescue of her friends but it was too late for Jessie, they couldn't find him anywhere.
The trio make it back to the library where Giles explains all about the old ones and how demons use to run the world. Xander and Willow don't want to believe any of it but they don't have a choice. They lived it. The last demon fed on a human and mixed their blood making vampires. Jessie, already bitten is brought down to the Master. He isn't happy about getting leftovers like a dog. Back in the library Giles gives a brief explanation of what a slayer is. For the first three years of the show that is what the library is for. Giving information. They also make a joke about Vampires not being able to fly, which is funny if you saw the movie where they could fly. Already poking fun at what came before. The Master and Luke figure out that Buffy is the slayer and that she must be stopped before the harvest starts. Jessie is going to be used as bait. Willow shows us some of her hacking skills. Something that is important to the early Scooby gang. Buffy figures out where Luke came, there is a tunnel entrance in the crypt. She tells Xander that he can't come help because he isn't strong enough. He takes it very personal. Flutie stops Buffy from leaving the school so she jumps over the gate like the Hulk. Moments like these always kind of bug me. It feels like her strength changes from scene to scene. In this one she can sail over the gate but later on she needs Xander to help her close a metal door. It doesn't gel for me. Angel shows up in the crypt before Buffy goes down below. He tells her that she has to stop the harvest and he is too scared to do it himself. Buffy asks him if he knows what it is like to have friends and he doesn't respond. Instead he tells her how to find her friend once she goes down under. Down in the tunnels Buffy runs into Xander. He went in after her. He didn't bring anything to help but for a flashlight that would only help warn the vamps that they were coming. We meet the one and only Harmony in the next scene. Now she is beautiful as well!! Cordy and Harm are trying to finish their computer homework but keep getting distracted by talking shit about Buffy. Willow tells her to hit deliver which Cordy takes to mean del! Which as we all know is delete. Costing them all of their homework. Willow is crafty!!! Xander and Buffy find Jessie but the vampires soon give them chase. Jessie leads them to a dead end before showing them that he is now a vampire too. They toss him from the room and Buffy closes the door with help from Xander. This is a hard moment for Xander, he sees his best friend turned into a blood sucking monster. Buffy and Xander escape into the sun light just as the vampires close in on them. It is a close call but they make it! The Master picks Luke as the vessel while Buffy tells Willow that Jessie is dead. Willow doesn't seem all that upset that one of her best friends is now a vampire. Xander is at least upset. Giles fills them on all about the Master's history as well as the history of the Hellmouth. He got stuck in an earthquake while trying to open the hellmouth. The harvest only comes once a century so he needs it to go off without a hitch. Xander tells the gang that the vamps are going to the Bronze. Buffy goes home for weapons but Joyce grounds her. She is mad that Buffy missed a few classes. Buffy sneaks out, after all if she doesn't go out it really is the end of the world. If only Joyce knew how right she is. Cordy tells her friends how boys their age are loser, Jessie more than most. He asks her to dance and finally takes charge and she agrees, taken with his force. It only took him becoming a monster to get the girl he wanted. Sad commentary on young dating. Darla leads the vampires into the club as Luke kills the bouncer. Giving the Master strength. The Harvest has begun and Buffy is nowhere to be seen. The Scooby's arrive when the doors are all locked. They split up trying to get in. She wants them to get the people out while she fights the vampires. Xander wants to save Jessie but Giles yells at him and tells him that their friend is dead. Jessie tries to keep Cordy for himself but Darla won't let him. Buffy stops Luke from draining Cordy and fights Luke. The fate of the world in the balance. The Scooby's get everyone out the back while the fight goes on. Jessie tries to bite Cordy while Xander threatens him. Someone knocks Xander into Jessie killing him. This always bothers me. Xander, Willow and Jessie were best friends and they see him turned into a vampire, hell Xander slays him himself and they never speak about him again. I feel like this doesn't make any sense, they would mourn him. He would be the one they talk about whenever things get dangerous. But they never do and it drives me crazy. Darla almost kills Giles but Willow hits her with holy water and drives her off as Buffy distracts and then kills Luke, thus stopping the harvest. Angel steps out from the shadows, having done nothing. Not a damn thing. Lazy ass. The next day at school everyone acts like nothing happened. They think it was gang work or something. No one wanted to deal with what really happened. The three friends walk off as Giles watches them and starts the longest sentence in history. "The Earth is Doomed" A sentence that he won't finish for 7 years when he says "The Earth is definitely doomed" in almost the same scene. Very beautifully done. And this brings to a close the first story of the TV show. And what a story it was. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is born!!! Welcome to episode 3 of the cartoon that just keeps on ticking, well only to six. This episode was written by David Mandel & Kevin Smith. After the live action segment the cartoon starts with Kevin Smith's wife writing into Dante and Randal reading questions from the audience. They ignore the lack of women question but adds a black man to the cast. Just so they can fill like they are including people.
Dante gets call to sleep in, unfortunately he is already at work. No matter he goes home to sleep, telling Randal not to leave the box of burritos outside. Randal leaves it out there and Dante tells him he now has to throw them out. The token black guy in this episode walks by and says hi. They couldn't even be bothered to add him into the plot, only on Clerks. Next to the store a new pet store opens up where Patrick Swayze works as a stable boy. He tries to make it seem like he is working on a movie, but he isn't. He's just a stable boy. Randal wants to kill the monkey before he can cause another outbreak like in the movie. He even tells Dante that this is a tv show something that Dante doesn't believe. Dante runs out to get Leonardo Leonardo a bandaid while Randal brings the burritos back inside. LL eats one and Randal thinks that LL is infected since he was bite by the monkey. He gets sicker and sicker as Randal once more says hi to the token black guy. Randal calls the CDC and they lock the stores all down. They aren't allowed to leave. They think that LL is the first infected with the virus. When really he is just sick because he ate the burritos. We also learn that LL's aid is a robot. The mayor of the city is stuck in a hamburger costume and gives a fake press reading because his guards switched out his papers. How the hell did he get elected? Randal and Dante are clean, but the government still thinks they are going to die. They are told they can do anything they want so they go get burgers. Why is that their last wish? If I could do anything I'd do so much more! They then go back to the store and write a letter to the fast food joint complaining. They go looking for the monkey but Jay and Silent Bob stole him and are teaching him how to smoke. LL feels better and he goes to eat another burrito. Dante figures out what is really making him sick. He blames Randal and it makes Randal think that Dante is a robot as well. He's a fool but a loveable fool. Randal tells the CDC that they aren't affected by any virus but it is too late. The military is sending a missile to blow up the town. They find a helicopter and call on a man named Lando to fly it, not the token black guy because that will be asking too much. It's a white guy with the same name. SMH The chief of police is also stuck in a hamburger costume and gets asked questions by a crowd that has Steve-Dave and Fan Boy in it! It's Bryan Johnson and Walt Flannigan!!!! Dante and Randal call the bomber about to blow up their whole town. Randal makes a jokes about Dante being gay. The chopper pilot tells him he won't blow up the town if he admits he is gay. Dante does it and saves the town. It makes the news. What is with Jay and Silent Bob always hanging out with monkeys? They must love them so much. This episode, Mallrats and Jay and Silent Bob Strike back. All monkeys. those crazy kids. This was another great episode! The third episode of this crazy show about people turned into mindless dolls who are rented to the highest bidder is written by Joss Whedon's own brother, Jed Whedon and his wife, Maurissa Tancharoen, the same people who run Agents of Shield.
We open this episode on a singer in a sexy outfit dancing in a cage before driving the crowd wild. They love her. Everything is going like clockwork until the pyrotechnics go haywire and burn one of her back up singers. The creepiest white boy watches on with a smile. Boyd is still recovering from his arrow wound and he has to talk Dr. Saunders into allowing him back on to duty. She doesn't want to because he isn't ready but she does it so that he can look after Echo and make sure nothing happens to him. Victor tires to break into Ballard's house but the neighbor girl catches him and scares him off but not before he scares her. She promises to leave a message for him but you can tell she wants no part of Victor. The manager of the singer from the start hires the Dollhouse to send someone to protect her, turns out that the attack should have hit her instead of her back up singer. They send Echo and the manager pretends not to like her, thus convincing the lead singer to hire her. Who knew Eliza Dushku could sing so well? She should have been on Once More With Feeling, she would have been great! The lead singer is easily stressed out, I can relate, but she takes a quick liking to Echo. The two of them seem to have hit it off fast. The programing has worked like a dream. Meanwhile across town Ballard meets with Victor and the two go over what he has learned about the dollhouse, nothing. After all he is a doll pretending to help him. Echo goes to the manager and starts giving him tips on where to put added security. Echo's first night on stage sees the return of the creepy white guy. Meanwhile Sierria turns up as a crazy fan. Yet another doll set to protect her. The white boy starts going where he has no place. Nothing happens at the show. Sierria and the creepy white boy both show up at the party. Some guy comes up to take a picture of the singer but Echo tosses his ass hard on the ground. She plays no games. Victor sends Ballard to an old house. He gets attacked in the house and even gets shot, but he still manages to take them both down before calling for help. The singer has been talking to the guy who has been attacking the show. She defends him. She loves her crazy fan. Weird lady. She wants to be killed on stage, so that she will be free of all this and go down as a legend. The manager orders the show shut down but no one will listen to him. Echo saves the singer just as the bullets start flying. Ballard is being treated for his gun shot. The singer is pissed at Echo for saving her life. She fires Echo and her fan kidnaps Sierra and puts a video out of him about to kill her. Her manager finds out that she knows the guy. That she wanted this all along. The singer won't even try to help Sierria because she is so full of herself so Echo knocks her out and forces her to help. Echo has the singer tied up and tries to offer her in trade for Sierria. Echo is far off book. Boyd goes looking for them. The singer flips the script and begs to be let go. She doesn't want to die anymore. Echo pushes her off the edge, but she has her tied up so that she won't fall. She then takes out the kidnapper and saves the day. Echo didn't go off task at all, she saved the singer from herself. She made her want to live again. Echo finished her task perfectly. Once more the security guard wants to send her to the attic but DeWitt won't hear it. She thinks that Echo is perfect. The neighbor girl comes to the hospital to visit Ballard as he recovers in the hospital. She really cares about him. Meanwhile Echo, in doll form is starting to get smarter and smarter. Things are starting to heat up in the Dollhouse. Safe House, not the new one with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds that came out not long ago but the one from 1998 with Patrick Stewart written by Eric Steven Stahl, John Schalter and Sean McLain is a movie that I use to watch all the time as a kid. It didn't seem like something I would like but I always loved it. It just always got me thinking.
Right away you feel the age of the film. The computers are so 90's. Stewart has a fake mannequin in his bed and he gets a call from someone he calls the Admiral who tells him what time it is. It turns out that this general is running for the office of President. He has a list of names on his computer and a third name was just crossed off, right after the news says that he was murdered and it looked like a professional hit. Stewart puts in a manual override stopping a signal from sending out. He is clearly a military man who has a lot going on. Some one tries to break into his house and he opens up a cabinet full of guns that would fill the Punisher with envy. The two men fight it out until the intruder takes the maid as a hostage. He takes his shot and kills the intruder, the maid gets hit as well. Turns out the rounds were paint and the two men were practicing. His daughter is not happy. More like pissed. She takes him to the hospital but first he puts on a disguise and hides in the back seat. He seems a bit off, like overly paranoid. He doesn't like to leave the house because he feels that it isn't safe. He tells the doctor that he isn't crazy, that he knows someone is after him and he knows who it is. His daughter tells the doctor that her father never served in the military, that he is just making stuff up. He does have the signs of early Alzheimer's disease but that it shouldn't be causing him memory problems yet, but if it is making him this paranoid than he could go fast into full on Alzheimer's. His daughter tells her husband that she might have to lock him up, but he tells her that her father would never allow that. That the best they can do is hire someone to live in the house to take care of him. He scares them all off one by one with his target practice. He is an expert shot. Until a woman named Andy, no relation to the asshole teacher at NLC, comes in. She plays along with everything and the daughter likes her. He wasn't going to hire her until he finds out that it is that or being put into a home. He is not happy about it. He starts to study Alzheimer's disease on the odd chance that they are right He starts to see that he does have some of the symptoms. He goes out of his way not to be friends with his new live in help. He knows she is there to help him but he is not a fan of hers. He doesn't want to believe that he needs help. She tries to change his diet and he freaks out, truth be told I don't blame him. I'd have her fired right on the spot for that. No one messes with my food! He goes out of his way to piss her off as he should. He has started to forget simple words, such as code. The disease is starting to attack him so he starts doing memory tests and playing games to help improve his mental state. He doesn't take any of his meds. Truth be told that is probably for the best. There is a van that has been parked outside his house for days and another name from his list has been crossed off. The help tries to put Stewart in his place but he doesn't take any of it. He snaps at her hardcore like. He won't let someone come into his house and take over. The admiral is on the way to town. Something he is not happy about. His mental tests are getting worse and worse. He is having a harder and harder time holding on to information. The help finds out that he went through her room and is pissed. They get into a big fight about it and moments later he comes out with his gun, she thinks that he means to use it on her but she spots a rope dropping into the house and then spots him getting jumped by a man in a mask. His help saves his life by beating the masked man with a golf club. She finds out that it is his friend and plays along by not telling his daughter what happened. The two of them start getting along. We think that they are having sex for a moment before finding out that they are just having really good dessert. He tries playing the guitar and forgets the cods and then starts repeating himself. He catches himself. The next couple days everything starts getting harder for him. He messes up putting together his gun, his aim is off. When he focuses he can remember things but when he says things that are simple he forgets things and gets them confused. There is what looks to be c-4 under his daughter's chair. It turns out that it was just another one of his friends tricks. His daughter tells him that if he ever does something like that again she will put him in a home. Her husband tells her that she needs to get power of attorney. They are taking away his guns and there are no more war games for him. It's the end of what he lives for. The admiral is winning the election. He is on his way to the national. Steward misses the games because they kept him sharp, his house keeper replaces it with chest. He isn't into it so she tells him that he can do his drills. She beats him and forces him to go outside. He puts on swat armor on before agreeing. He starts to lose it, shooting into the ground to kill pests. He might have really lost it by now. Even his friend who use to do the drills with him has turned against him. Everyone thinks he has gone over the edge. Stewart's old team is all but gone. He tries to put in his override to stop the transmission but he keeps getting it wrong. He just can't seem to remember it. He gets it on his last try but it was a close one. He can't seem to hold onto new thoughts anymore. He starts forgetting people's names. He is taking a shower when someone cuts his power. He is in the dark. His emergency power kicks on and he goes looking for the intruder. There are two attackers this time, telling him that it isn't a drill. It's his friend and the house keeper, he hits them and they hit him but he freaks out and starts crying and screaming. He admits that they are right and he can no longer defend himself. It terrifies him. He goes to the doctor, not dressed up for once and even agrees to take the meds the doctor tell him. It means that he has to leave the house every week and he agrees to it. He has changed. The doctor tells him that any stress could make him forget everything. His house keeper watches him take the meds every day. They seem to help which is good since he is the last of his old unit still alive. He can walk outside now and everything. All his old habits seem to be dying off. His housekeeper is changing him for the better, although he still hides guns all over his house. She takes him dancing in his own backyard since he still won't go out t a club. We learn that the admiral had senators killed back in the day. He still believes it but his house keeper still doesn't. He sleeps in his own bed for once. He is starting to slip up. He is also falling for her more and more each day. A car tries to run him over but he pushes the house keeper out of the way and opens fire. It turns out it was just his neighbor. The three of them plan on going through the house and taking everything from him that could be a weapon. He has spent his whole life collecting weapons. His family is taking everything from him. He manages to save one sword that is 300 years old. They take everything else. He keeps the sword with him everywhere he goes. He has to go check the mail and it's a new guy he doesn't know. The only weapon he has is a knife. It freaks him out. He leaves the mail man outside while he goes for a pen but the guy comes inside and give him a pen. His daughter has gone to court to try and get power of attorney. The meds aren't working anymore. He is getting worse and worse. He is starting to doubt himself more and more as time goes on. His house keeper is watching his personal logs, who the hell does she think she is to go into his private office and watch his videos? He goes to make another log and finds out that she was watching his videos. She tells him that she was just worried about him. He throws her own words in her face. She convinces hi that she is on his side. He believes her and tells her about his deadman switch. If he doesn't reset it every day it sends the life story of himself and the admiral to every news source in the world. He asks her to help him escape the country. He offers her half a million dollars if she will help him. She agrees. The next morning he awakes with a nightmare of being killed, he finds his house keeper trying to hack his e-mail. She is trying to crack his deadman switch on her own. He pretends to have slept through it all. He leaves the house and follows her, he put a tracking device on her car. He follows her to her house where she gets some bags and puts them in her trunk. He breaks into her house, it's a mess and full of junk food. Doesn't fit with who she says she is at all. Not to mention that most of the house is empty. She even has one of those spy phones you see on the movies. It seems he was right all along and the government is after him and the one person he started to trust is out to get him. When she is in the restroom he pulls out her cell phone, she spots him and pulls out her own gun. She tells him that if she doesn't believe in honor like he did. She isn't a soldier, she's a merc. He has no guns and she has one on him. He either has to give her the deadman's switch or die. He won't give her anything. I mean what is the point of a deadman switch if you just give it up. His friend shows up and spots the gun and tries to be funny but she kills him and steward pulls out one last gun and kills her. He gets shot in the arm. He arms the deadman switch and fires it off. All the files are now sent out to all the news outlets in the world. He starts to clean up and then stops and calls 911, he can't remember what happened any more. His mind is gone, it was all too much for him. It is a sad sad ending, he took out the admiral and lost his mind at the same time. As I said at the start of this, I love this movie. It is so good. It makes you think and makes you feel. This is an underrated masterpiece and everyone needs to check it out. They don't make movies like this anymore. It's gold! At long last we made it! The episode that started it all by airing on the WB, back when the CW was the WB. It rebooted the failed movie and gave us an ever expanding universe that was true to Joss Whedon's vision and gave us Sarah Michelle Geller as the blonde with a stake.
The episode, of course written by Whedon himself, starts off by throwing us for a loop. A young couple breaks into Sunnydale high late at night. A troublemaking boy, who only has his mind on one thing and his sweet date who clearly wants to be anywhere else. She's a good girl who fell for a bad boy and is going along for the ride as he takes her through the dark empty hallways. Or at least that's how she wanted it to look like. She shows her true face, her vampire face and kills the boy. Darla is back! Buffy herself is dreaming of the Master and all the crazy things that are to happen this year. It's a lot, including the Vampires storming the school when the Master rises. Joyce calls out to Buffy and tells her she can't be late for her fist day at. . . You guessed it, Sunnydale High. It's here that we meet Xander for the first time, riding a skateboard of all things, the only time that will ever happen and you can see why. He is not good at it. He quickly finds a quirky looking Willow and his best friend Jessie. The trio's conversation is all about the slayer herself. Principle Flutie rips up Buffy's records to show her that she has a fresh start, as soon as he reads that she burnt down the gym he starts to tape it back up. He wants to be everyone's best friend but at the same time he is very by the book. Not nearly as cool or understanding as he let's on. Xander finally meets Buffy and the first thing he says to her is "Can I have you?" He is so smooth. Even points out that they both go to school. He is Jon Don if I've ever seen one. He finds a stake that fell out of her purse, that isn't normal. Buffy is in a history class that thinks the Black Plague being used for germ warfare is fun. That is the type of school she has entered. She quickly makes fun with one of the most beautiful women who has ever lived. Charisma Carpenter, or Cordelia Chase as her character is named. She tells Buffy all about the town and the bronze. They become fast friends, how the show could have been if Buffy stuck with her. She is so beautiful. Beyond words. She dropped Buffy off in the library where we meet Giles, guess he won the job in the comics. He gives Buffy a book on vampires and Buffy runs out of there. She wants no part of her old life. I guess Pike ditching her left it's mark on her. Buffy becomes friends with Willow so that they could study together. Willow suggests the library but Buffy vetoes that idea. She is creeped out by that place. Xander and Jessie show up moments later and returns the stake. She says it's to defend herself and Xander and Jessie try to figure everything out about her they can. Cordelia tells Buffy about the dead guy in the lockers. Jessie tries to hit on Cordelia but gets shot down dirty. Buffy and Cordy's friendship is already falling apart and it just started. Damn the luck. Buffy finds the bite marks on the body and goes to yell at Giles, as if it is his fault. Giles tells her he is to be her watcher but she wants no part of it. The job of slayer is just too much for her. She can't do it again. She storms out and Xander walks out, he over heard all of it Giles chases after her and tells her that something major is coming to Sunnydale and only she can stop it. We see underneath the high school a cavern full of vampires. One named Luke is reading from the vampire bible over a pit of what looks to be blood. Back at Buffy's house she is trying on clothes to go to the Bronze. We see Joyce talking about making it work and her gallery. She is over doing it with the whole good mom thing. She is trying to relate to Buffy but keeps making her feel worse and worse. She heads to the club but a mystery man starts to follow her. She spots him and leads him towards a back alley, where she gets the drop on him. Literally drops down on him. The mystery man turns out to be Angel! He knows all about Vampires, we all know how and why! Buffy on the other hand has no idea who he is or how he knows about any of it. He wants to help her with the vampires but she wants no part of it. He hints at the hellmouth down below and tells her about the harvest, but not really. He is the king of vague. We enter the Bronze and see just how lonely Buffy really is. It isn't long before she finds Willow and we learn that at age five her and Xander dated till he stole her doll. Buffy tells Willow that her life is short and she should go out and seize the day. Buffy spots Giles upstairs and goes to talk to him, leaving Willow alone. Giles had never heard of the Harvest. It worries him. She also tells Giles about the mouth of hell. He tells her that everything might be fine as long as she isn't having the nightmares, you know the ones from the start of the show. Jessie gets shot down once again by Cordy so he moves on to. . . .Darla! Buffy says she doesn't have warm feelings for vamps, now that is funny. The slayer who falls for vampires over and over, she does have warm feelings for them. While watching the crowd Buffy spots a vampire talking to Willow and she rushes to her aid. Willow leaves with the vamp before Buffy can get there. Buffy makes a stake and goes through the back halls of the bronze where she attacks Cordy by mistake, thus ending their friendship, at least for the time being. Although they never do become as close friends as they could have. Back at the pool of blood the Master rises. He is a vampire but looks more bat than man. We learn that the Harvest is to restore him to health and free him from being trapped underground. Willow and Jessie are being taken to the Master. Willow's date is taking her through the cemetery, why would she go with him? Buffy runs into Xander while looking for Willow and Xander tells her that he knows she is the slayer but doesn't believe her. Buffy doesn't care she tells him that Willow is in danger and he goes to help. She is one of his best friends after all. Speaking of Willow, her date throws her into a crypt. She is finally scared but can't escape. Darla shows up and Jessie runs in after her. She already fed off him a bit. Buffy and Xander show up in time to save them. Buffy makes a joke about living in the crypt, something that Spike will do in a few years time. Buffy slays one vamp quickly before going after Darla. Xander gets Willow and Jessie out of there. Buffy starts to kick Darla's ass. She is messing with the oldest of the whirlwind, not cool slayer. Luke comes and saves Darla, tossing Buffy aside like a ragdoll. Darla takes off as Luke and Buffy fight. He is stronger than her. Not something many vampires can say. Xander and co are surrounded by vamps as Giles reads up on the Harvest and Luke starts to move in on the kill. Buffy is doomed and that is how they ended the first episode of the greatest show ever!!! Is Joss Whedon great or what? Starting a little before the ending of the origin story, we learn that Buffy finds out soon if she is going to be expelled or not. Spoiler alert, she gets expelled. In this story written by Scott Lobdell and Fabian Nicieza we see what happens when Buffy goes on the promised Vegas trip.
Buffy and Pike learn that a great deal of Vampires are coming out of Las Vegas and Buffy's home life is becoming harder and harder. Her parents are fighting more and more every day. And she knows a lot of it is about her. Going to Vegas isn't just about fighting vampires but it is also vacation from her life. Right off the bat I have a glairing issue with this story. Dawn has no place in it. I understand that she was placed in all of their memories but this story unlike Origin isn't a flashback so why is she there? It takes me out of the story a bit if I am to be honest. She gets expelled from school, her dad acts like a jackass about the whole thing. It helps paint a picture of the ending of the marriage that we kept hearing about on the show. Now there is an added problem with this story. She gets expelled in her freshman year and has to redo her freshman year. But when she goes to Sunnydale High it is the middle of her Sophomore year. So does she get expelled again? How does it work? I really think it was an over sight and those are never fun. Anyways, nitpicking done for now. So Buffy talks Pike into going with her to Vegas. A mystery man named Angelus follows her. I lied, one more nitpick, why is he going by Angelus and not Angel? Let's assume it is to sound more intimidating and that it wasn't a mistake. This is the real first time we see Angel in the timeline, he was never really in the Spike Vs Dracula series so this is a big deal. We get to see his first appearance at last! He sneaks after Buffy and Pike to Vegas to help her from the shadows. When they get to Vegas Buffy gets a job collecting coats and Pike gets a job parking cars. They quickly finds the place littered with vamps. Angel gets a job with the manager who he soon finds out has a side thing going. He crosses the boss and gets stuck in the past. Where everything is black and white. The only way for the spell to break is for a vampire to enter the zone. But only a vampire without a soul. Angel crosses a line and turns the owner from the past into a vampire. Thus causing another problem. He says on Angel that the only vampire he turned with a soul was on that German sub. There are a great deal of continuity issues with this story and it does tend to bother me. But the story over all is really good and a fun read. So Angel gets back to the present and tosses the manager back into the past just before the spell ends, leaving him stuck there. Now back in the past he has to help the old owner or die. It's karma at it's best! Back with Buffy and Pike, they find the current owners. They are twins, stuck at the waist. The brother is a vampire and the sister is still human. It's a very weird idea that I love. It's simply genius. The fight turns against Buffy and Pike and Pike feels like he is going to get her killed so he jumps off the building. He lands on the ground and lives. But Buffy doesn't know that, at least not yet. Buffy kills the vamps and goes to find Pike, she is pissed that he tried to kill himself but they don't have time for that yet. They still have to get the owners and the casino is over run with vamps. Buffy changes tactics, she gets a priest to bless the water supply and turns on the sprinklers, killing all the vamps inside, including the brother. Leaving the sister finally free. Not to mention rich! Buffy and Pike head back to LA and Pike takes off, telling Buffy that he can't stay around and be the reason that she dies. They never speak again. I know I complained a lot about this story but it is really good and well written. Just small issues with fitting into the larger universe that I take issue with. Next up we finally make it to the show! Welcome to a Tim Minear penned episode that starts off with what is basically a basketball game with a volleyball. This scene has always meant a lot to me. I fell down the rabbit hole of Joss Whedon through Buffy and Angel as everyone knows. But the time when I fell into it hardest was when Serenity was coming to theatres soon. So I wanted to check out Firefly, but I wanted to watch it all at once so I had to buy it on DVD. Before I had a chance to, I went to my aunts house where they had Firefly on, it was this scene. I didn't want to watch it because I wanted to watch it all at once from the start, but I couldn't look away from the screen. This was the first scene of Firefly I ever saw. To me it is key to what Firefly is.
As the crew is playing an alarm sounds and Wash runs up to take control of the ship. A floating body hits the ship and they find a dead ship floating in space alone. River says simply that it is a ghost. The crew decides to check out the other ship to see what's wrong. As Simon makes his way towards the ship Jayne punks him out of going. Jayne can be a real ass sometimes. They enter the ship, it really is in the words of River, a ghost ship. There is no one there but food is still sitting out ready for eating. Whatever happened it happened quick fast and in a hurry. It looks as if people just vanished. To the point of someone writing a journey log when it happened. It's Firefly doing their version of a Star Trek story. Jayne tells Simon that he has to wear his space suit, remember when I said he was an ass? Well they didn't need to wear suits anymore. He shows up looking like a fool in front of everyone else. It turns out they didn't even need him on the ship. Mal isn't amused but sends him with Kaylee, who tells him that he has the suit on wrong. He's lucky he didn't really need it. Mal and Zoe figure that the logs are wrong. Not everyone could have fit on the escape pods. Kaylee sees that there is nothing wrong with the ship itself either. The farther into the ship they go the less like a Star Trek episode it becomes. It starts taking on more of an Alien vibe. Mal and Zoe find food supplies to last a good long time. They find out that nobody escaped. All the crew's bodies are chained to the roof. Mal orders everyone off the ship but just as quickly someone attacks Jayne. Mal knocks out the attacker and brings him onto their ship. Jayne says that he must have been the one to kill everyone. Simon tries to help the guy but he keeps mumbling about everyone being weak. The man is the sole survivor of a Reavers. Book says that Reavers are just men and that there is nothing they could do that the crew couldn't undo. Mal shuts him down. Mal wants to still get everything off the ship but Jayne is too scared to step foot onboard the ship. Simon and Book go to help put the dead to rest, Jayne is forced to go with them to help out. Mal doesn't accept that he has faith but says on the off chance that there is that these people could use some peace. Could it be that part of Mal still believes? Not so much, it turns out it was busy work for them while Mal and the others deal with the fact that ship has been locked together with an explosive and they have to do the hard task of unhooking them. Jayne gets the food of the ship just as River screams and the rescued man escapes from the bridge. Kaylee frees the ship from the booby trap and everything seems to be working out for the crew. All is perfect for once. Until the alarm goes off, Reavers on the way. Or an Alliance ship coming just in time to arrest them all. The head officer orders Simon and River to be shot on sight since they don't know why they are wanted. Mal tells Simon to go and get his sister, Simon thinks that Mal is trying to sell them out. Book of all people jumps to Mal's defense. The Alliance storms the ship and River and Simon are nowhere to be seen. A solider tells the officer something and everyone is arrested and brought onto the Alliance ship. Now comes the interviews with the crew. One of my favorite scenes from the show as a whole. It's so fun to get into all the characters heads. Zoe won't talk about her and Wash's marriage due to them being private people but Wash won't shut up about how sexy his wife is and what it's like in bed with her. Very different people. River and Simon are outside the ship in space suits hugging the ship. Ironic since Simon was talking about earlier about how the thought of having nothing but that suit to save your life scares the hell out of him. The officer tells Mal that it is odd that he named his ship after a battle he was on the wrong side of. Mal says that it may have been the losing side but he isn't convinced that it was the wrong one. The survivor has cut his own tongue. Mal and his crew are arrested and the survivor starts attacking the medical personal trying to help him. Mal tries to tell the officer about Reavers but he won't listen. Until he figures out that the survivor is attack his men. He handcuffs Mal and orders him to lead them through the ship. Simon and River have returned to the ship and now must hide as the Alliance is back on Serenity. Mal takes down the survivor, saving the officer's life. He takes all the goods from Mal and co and lets them go before he blows up the ghost ship. This is such a great episode that really shows the heart and soul of Firefly. Welcome to a cross between a John Hughes movie and Star Wars. Which John Hughes movie? Weird science. Our story starts off with our heroes, make that nerds, at the convince store checking out a hot girl while her boyfriend defends her honor by making fools of them both. He is after all a jock.
She invites them to the party but her boyfriend quickly adds that they need a hot chick in order to get in. Their room is full of the coolest star wars toys ever! One of the nerds is falling in love with the writings of fan fiction. He longs to meet the writer, while his friend is trying to figure out how to get into the party. He wants the girl from store. The friend who likes the mystery writer rips open a slave Leia toy. He has a crazy unrealistic idea. He is going to bring the toy alive and make a woman. The two friends get to work putting together the machine that will change their lives forever. A wild storm erupts in the house before the hottest action figure ever walks out, or well she is a woman now, in a slave Leia outfit. What guy doesn't want that?! Well no guy I know would then show her Star Wars. I mean they are great movies, the first 6 anyways, but that's not what you do with a sexy woman with magic powers. She turns them into Han and Luke and lets them fight it out for her honor. Now that is more nerdy. I'd be down for that fight. They even have the force! How cool would that be? She takes the boys out to a local bar. It isn't their type of place, at least until she makes it a Star Wars bar. I've never been much for hitting up clubs or bars but I'd go to that one in a heart beat. These guys are so nerdy that even at a Star Wars bar they can't fit in or find anyone who likes them. At least until they start cracking jokes and turns the crowd against Darth Vader. Causing a fight that they escape from almost as soon as they start it. Bleeding cowards. Kevin Smith shows up to give the boys advice! It's Kevin Smith!!!!! He turns into their Yoda more or less. Do or do not, there is no try! The boys show up at the party. The guy who likes the mystery writer tries to win some points with Leia, I mean why not? If you ever watched the old Weird Science TV show I always wanted to date Lisa. Beautiful, funny and magic! What's not to love? The door opens and Leia is pulled into the house, leaving the guys outside. The two friends decide that they have to break into the party and free her. They go dressed as the pizza guys. Luke, the guy who likes the girl from the store hides out in the bathroom as the store girl comes into the restroom with her friend. She talks about how she is going to break up with that asshole jock. She wants a nice funny guy. He has his in! Meanwhile Han makes his way upstairs looking for Leia who is alone in the room with the asshole jock. Luke goes outside and starts showing off his force powers to the crowd outside. The store girl is impressed. The crowd turns against him when he messes with their beer. Han pulls a George McFly trying to save Leia, he is only saved by the jock going outside to fight Luke. Han tells Leia how much he loves her but she lets him down softy. Luke keeps the jock at bay using the force. Leia tells Han that she has to go, she can't stay anymore. When she leaves the force stops working and the jock can finally get Luke, who is now back to just being a loser. Han, also back to being a loser sits outside alone and sad. He is reading aloud from the fan fiction he loves when a girl repeats the same line. It turns out that she is the one who writes the fan fiction. She talks him into helping his friend, but before he can get there the girl from the store shows up. He knocks her down and Han kicks the jock where no man wants to be kicked. Saving the day. Luke helps the store girl up and it looks as if they are about to kiss but she walks up. He tries to help the jock up but he slaps his hand away and the store girl pours her drink in his hair before kissing the nerd. He got the girl! They go off to watch Star Wars, his friend brings the writer and it ends with a scene right out of the Breakfast Club. This short film is amazing and made for fans of the 80's. You can't love the movies people my age grew up with and not love this film. It was made for us and should be talked about more! The moment is here at last. We finally meet the one and only Buffy Anne Summers. The slayer. The girl who this universe is named after.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Origin is a comic book written by Christopher Golden and Daniel Brereton, based off the movie. When it gets right down to it, it really is a retelling of the movie but fitting into the TV universe. Buffy is just your normal everyday Freshman girl, not wanting anything other than having fun with her friends and her boyfriend. She is popular and a cheerleader. A bit of a air-head really. A couple of loud mouth drunks by the name of Pike and Benny cause her and her friends trouble but they aren't really bad people, just annoying. Well that is until Benny gets turned into a vampire. Buffy meets her watcher Merrick, he explains all about her destiny. He takes her out to hunt, telling her that she won't need to do anything. Just watch. He is quickly proven wrong as the vampire gets the upper hand and Buffy has to save him. She tries to run away from her duty but Merrick keeps pushing her and it causes tension among her friends. Pike finds out about Benny being a vampire and tries to flee. He doesn't get far before the vampires attack him. Buffy saves him and they meet an old vampire named Lothos, who kills Merrick. Pike gets Buffy away to safety. She breaks down and throws in the towel. She goes to buy a dress, wanting to be a normal girl again. Pike is not happy about it. He feels like she is running away from who she is. At the dance everything goes to hell. Buffy finds out that her boyfriend is dating her friend now and vampires pick this time to attack. The students freak out and the vampires start killing. Buffy and Pike fight and soon start to turn the tide. Pike kills Benny, a lot like Xander kills Jessie in the show. Buffy over comes Lothos control and slays him. The vampire army bears down on Buffy and Pike and they are stuck, so she lights the gym on fire. The two of them escape and watches the gym burn down. Buffy is expelled and her friends all turn on her. Her parents end up getting divorced and she runs out to Vegas with Pike. When does she end up in the insane asylum? This was a fun tale that retold the Movie but better. You can see Whedon's voice shine through even in this story, he may not have been the writer but you can still see that it is his story. Any fan of the show should give this book a read! |
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