Summary: This is the Hellmouth Podcast episode for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 01 Episode 05 - Never Kill A Boy On The First Date. In this episode of the Hellmouth Podcast we get down and dirty as we talk about the evolving plot of the Master in his quest to free himself from his underground entrapment and re-open the Hellmouth. We talk about the Buffy-Xander-Willow-+ Love Trapezoid which is now offiicially the Buffy Love Rhombus. ------------------------ Show Notes ------------------------- Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1 Episode 5 – “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date” * Intro * Wanted to say a big thank you to LannaKate for the first review of the Hellmouth Podcast on iTunes. * Opening scene – Buffy fighting a vampire in the cemetery. One of the LBVs (Low Budget Vampires). Teeth look awful, one of the vampires that really just look like a costume. * Once again, Buffy is fighting this vampire, really kind of having her way with him, not in a sexual sense… * We find out that Giles was behind a crypt taking notes and observing Buffy’s technique. * This is the first time we have seen Giles do this, observe the Slayer in her natural habitat. * This is the first time we see Buffy have someone go along on patrol with her. Some of the best scenes happen while Buffy is on patrol. Everyone from Xander, Willow, Oz, Dawn, etc. This is a little bit different because it is her watcher. This is the first real training that we have seen the two of them do. * He tells Buffy that she should be more efficient in her slaying, spend less energy. It should simply be plunge and move on. * She tells him not to worry about thanking her for making the world safer for humanity. * As Giles is talking he notices something about the vampire she just staked. * A ring, this is not a ring pop sighting, at this point not he is not sure what it is. * They are both concerned that this could be an indication that this vampire was more than just a random slaying. * So right off the bat we are introduced to the impending big bad of this episode. * The Master’s Lair * The Master is reading from a big ancient book. * Spoiler – Once again I think that this is the Codex that he is reading from. The book that Angel steals for Giles which prophesizes Buffy’s death. * The Master is reading a passage about the “Anointed” * “And the Slayer will not know him, will not stop him, and he will lead her into hell.” * Spoiler – the slayer will not know him and will not stop him * This is indicating what we find out in this episode, that this was not some big uber vampire from the ancient texts that she can study up on, it was just a child. * Will not stop him meaning she doesn’t prevent his coming or kill him. In fact, Buffy never kills the anointed, if you remember Spike kills the anointed one in the beginning of season 2. * He will lead her into hell, indicating at the end of the season when the anointed one leads Buffy to the Master’s lair near the Hellmouth and she confronts him in the season finale. * Five will die and from their ashes the anointed shall rise. * Master talks about how the Order of Aurelius will bring the anointed to the Master. * The Master pretends to read from the book about how one of the brethren of Aurelius will get himself killed because he couldn’t wait to do his job before he ate… * He is angry – he warns them that they better not let the Slayer stop them from bringing the anointed one to him. * Credits * Library – Giles is consulting his books about the ring that Buffy found. * Buffy notices the Sun and three stars symbol on the ring. She immediately finds the same symbol in the book that Giles has been scouring looking for answers. * The Book describes the Order of Aurelius. * Owen walks into the library. * This is the first time we have seen Owen. This is his introduction to the Buffyverse.
