The Harvest

Mark here... this episode, "The Harvest" is a continuation of the last, basically a two-part pilot.  I'd like to note the fun theme song here. Good tv shows have a theme song that makes you look forward to what's coming, and the rockin' totally 90s theme here fits the bill.  This episode's not quite as fun as the last but serves to lay some groundwork.  For one, the school library serves as team headquarters for Buffy and her friends.  Which brings to another, Buffy's friends are in on her being the Slayer from the beginning and by the end of the episode, so is school bitch Cordelia.  The premise of the episode is Buffy preventing Head vampire "The Master" who's trapped in another dimension, from being able to enter ours.  The character stuff is way more relevant...Cordelia making fun of Willow while in computer class, then asking how to finish her assgnment.  Willow responds, "hit Deliver"...meaning Delete.

Laurel here...I continue to be surprised/impressed by how the characters who I know from later are introduced in these early episodes.  They all acknowledge the importance of  Buffy's mission  (even if she doesn't) and are all down with keeping her secret.  The only one who has been introduced so far that we dont know about yet is angel, who seems to understand about buffy's role as the slayer and it is unclear to us at this point what his role is...but the sexual tension between him and Buffy is already building...

As a side note it is interesting to me how many actors playing vampires on this show I have met as extras working on commercials.   For those of you who don't know, I make my living as a teamster/set dresser on tv commericals and it is nice to see so many extras that I have worked with on commercials being cast as principal (vampires) in this early stage of the show.  It means way more money for them as working actors, right on!

Quotes of note this episode...

Cordelia to Willow:  "Who gave you permission to exist?"

Cordeila to her shitty friends regarding not dating high school guys:  "It's like when I go shopping, I have to have the most expensive thing, not because it's more expensive, but because it costs more."

I love what a bitch she is.