It's great watching Buffy while packing.
In the past couple of days, I've had to start with tape 2 but watched I Robot, You Jane, Angel (my fav ep from that season--shock), Puppet Show, and Nightmares.
It's always so weird starting over in the first season with willow all nerdy and having a huge crush on Xander, Xander having a huge crush on Buffy, etc.
Loove Ms. Calendar too, and felt the same way about her death.
Again just...especially in the first season, all of those "nonarchal" episodes that featured villians of the week had some aspect of importance to the series and continuity and stuff.
Take I Robot You Jane. Aside from introducing Jenny, it was the first time in the show Buffy and Willow fought, the first, unfortunately misguided, time Willow stood up to Buffy and got some strength/force, there was a hint of Xander jealousy, the first time that some people participating in the evilness were non-demon, nonpossessed, non-magical students. And it's the first hint of someone noticing how often the 3 of them are in the library.
The Puppet Show of course introduces Snider perfectly. The first time we see Giles have to interact with any students but the Scoobies...
I could give more but I'm getting tired.
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