I'm too biased to answer that. As much as I liked Angel, Buffy was my show first. So, yeah, in my mind WttH was better than CoA.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
SailAweigh - Jun 18, 2005 2:37:30 pm PDT #1124 of 10458
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
JenP - Jun 18, 2005 3:24:57 pm PDT #1125 of 10458
It's hard to make that call also because of how familiar some of the characters were when Angel aired. I'd have to say I was more taken with the first ep of Buffy when I finally saw it. I'm not sure the first ep of Angel, had I seen it cold, would have pinged me the same way.
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That pilot was a trip. Wow. So funny seeing some of the mannerisms and gestures from SMG from way back that carried all the way through. It's been a while since I watched any BtVS, so maybe that's why it was so striking. She was very different by S7, but there were still some things....
And, yeah, yay for AH.
You know what I'd love to see - and who knows if such a thing still exists, if ever it did - CC testing for Buffy, and SMG testing for Cordelia. Who knows if there was ever any footage of it, but that'd just be fun to see.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 18, 2005 3:28:28 pm PDT #1126 of 10458
What is even happening?
I didn't see the first episode/season of Buffy until after I was in love with it. I found BtVS in season 3. I have often wondered if I'd caught WTTH/TH, if it would have captured me--and maybe not. By the same token, I know that for well into season 1 of Angel, I held on and kept watching it, simply because it was an expansion to the 'verse, and a spin-off. I watched not strictly out of loyalty, but it was a sort of loyalty, in that I had faith in the creative team, and an interest in what happened to Angel and Cordelia.
P.M. Marc - Jun 18, 2005 7:47:03 pm PDT #1127 of 10458
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
AtS 1x01 was tighter, and holds up better on rewatch.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2005 1:42:38 am PDT #1128 of 10458
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, WttH/TH is a bit cheesy upon rewatch. But it's kind of a Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back deal where the second one is better, but the first one is more fun.
Anne W. - Jun 19, 2005 3:45:53 am PDT #1129 of 10458
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Thanks for posting the link, Lyra Jane!
beekaytee - Jun 19, 2005 5:03:01 am PDT #1130 of 10458
Compassionately intolerant
AtS 1x01 was tighter, and holds up better on rewatch.
Me.
Susan W. - Jun 19, 2005 5:43:05 am PDT #1131 of 10458
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I can burn many copies, no worries.
Belatedly, please count me in, too.
JoeCrow - Jun 19, 2005 5:33:05 pm PDT #1132 of 10458
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Another belated plea for counting-in-age, accompanied by promises of shipping and materials recompense.
DCJensen - Jun 19, 2005 5:55:20 pm PDT #1133 of 10458
All is well that ends in pizza.
If I didn't make it clear, I hereby request to add to your burden.
Of course, since it's digital, we could establish a burning tree (maybe it's a bush..) whereupon those able to duplicate the DVD are given the first go-round, and each distributes from there.
It's the Buffista trapazoid scheme.