Buffy - Season 4, Episode 2: Living Conditions
In which Buffy's roommate sucks. Souls, that is.
This episode kind of bored me. Not much really happened, just roommate drama that has never interested me in the first place. I also guess at the start that the "she" that the demons were talking about, for whatever reason that it may be, was Kathy and not Buffy. I'm glad Kathy is gone, though. Having a roommate character that Buffy has to tiptoe around would've been an annoying obstacle throughout the season, and things will be much smoother with Buffy and Willow as roommates.
So far I'm not liking the college era. Things have seemed a lot more rough around the edges, which I guess I'm not surprised about. It was a lot easier to have the characters around each other in high school. But now you have both Giles and Xander not on campus with the rest of the gang, so you have to write reasons for them actually being around. I wouldn't be surprised that if once the writing figures out how to seamlessly have the characters around each other and not make transitions from campus to off campus seem, I don't know, forced perhaps, I might end up liking the college era more than high school.
They just need to pull a Boy Meets World and make Giles the dean of UC Sunnydale. Or, like, a librarian. It's convenient, but much like with the whole Dean Feeny thing, I wouldn't care because it gives Giles more of a reason to be in the gang's lives.
Next: Buffy Episode 3
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