No.4: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Episode 1

The episode I chose to watch today was the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1. I like to watch shows from the very beginning so that I can understand everything as the stories move on. The reason I choose this series is that I am a huge fan of vampires, and this series is related to vampires. However, maybe because I have read too many books and seen too many movies about vampires, I always picture them as beautiful and graceful creatures. The figures of vampires in this series were so different and overturned my imagination. I mean, their faces are wrinkled and ugly; their nails are sharp and long, and their clothes are old and outdated. But the thing amazed me was that I still enjoyed the episode!

The first episode is called Welcome to the Hellmouth. Buffy Summers is the heroine in this series of shows. She moved to a new town with her mom and started her first day in a new high school named Sunnydale High. It was only her first day, and someone is killed by a vampire. As a vampire slayer, Buffy had the responsibility to destroy the monsters in the town, but she considered herself as “retired”. She didn’t want to fight vampires anymore. Willow, a shy girl that Buffy met during classes, was encouraged to “cease the moment” in a club, so she went out with a guy who turned out to be an ugly vampire. Buffy now had to run after the vampire and protect her new friend. She killed one of the vampires, but more and more were coming. And that’s the end of the first episode.

The ending of this episode made me want to continue watching the rest of the series and finish it. The vampires were waiting for the day that they could walk on the ground and rule the human world. The slayer Buffy definitely wouldn’t let that happen, so there would be some gruesome fighting to take place later. I cannot wait to see what will happen next. However, it’s too late for tonight. I’ll probably continue tomorrow.