Welcome to the Harvest, Teacher's Pet, you Witch!

Some random musings about my rewatch so far (and I am finishing S1 today - go me!):

• OMG! I just realized that the first guy killed in WttH is Danny from CSI:NY!!


• Man, were the FX cheeeeap. In The Harvest, I swear the shot of the sun going down was somebody hanging a sheet beside some shag carpeting and lowering a flashlight behind it.


• I don't care how goofy Xander is, there is no way in the hellmouth that a guy who looked like him (especially in that black long-sleeved tee with the red striping in The Witch) wouldn't have girls other than Willow throwing themselves at him.


• st_salieri covered this in her post as well but, SHUT UP ANGEL! GOD! I'm finding on this rewatch I have a lot less patience with his cryptic bullshit, regardless of how he looks in a wifebeater.


• Not only were Buffy's skirts/dresses short, her pants were tight as hell. Smidge had the cutest shape. And I don't know if I'm just noticing this because I'm watching on HD this time, but Buffy's 2nd trip down to find Luke in The Harvest, Buffy had on blue sateen pants with that cute black blazer. Blue. Sateen. Pants.


• I never really had a problem with Joyce until later seasons, but she's pissing me off this time around. She's the worst combination of clueless and authoritative, and I don't think she ever truly grew past it.


• As cheesy as this season was, it was also pretty damn clever in carrying through the high school is hell metaphor and developing characterizations that lasted throughout the series. And I've laughed out loud more times than I can count.

If we have a snow day tomorrow -- fingers crossed!! -- I'm going to dive into S2.