They look like season 1 characters. I'm not going to argue the finer points of the art, it's a non-photo-realist style. But neither hair nor clothes are anything even approaching their S1 styles.
They act like season 1 characters. In what way? The only resemblance I can see is the friendship between Buffy, Willow and Xander but that was there at the end of S7 and Giles's role is completely different.
Crucial plot points, like the kiss of true love, are borrowed from fairy tales. The kiss of true love was a minor distraction not a crucial plot point but there are more varieties of magical creature around. However, S1 involved no more fairy tale elements than the later seasons so rather than a regression I see it as a sign of broadened horizons, they've left the suburbs behind and the wider world is a strange place.
Writers never explained why Allan Finch has rushed at Buffy in a vampire-infested alley. In Conseqences the Mayor implies Finch was intending to betray him while shredding the paper trail he's accumulated and Buffy voices similar suspiscions.
he hides in the dark then suddenly grabs Buffy's shoulder. Actually she grabbed him. Faith and her were in the middle of a battle with the Illuminati and just before Finch turned up their tactics were for one to pull out a vamp and the the other to stake him.
When Faith staked him she honestly believed that she's saving Buffy. As soon as Buffy saw Finch was human she yelled at Faith to stop and as soon as Faith saw that her victim wasn't a vamp she went into shock there was never any indication in the way the scene was shot and acted that Finch was anything other than a hapless victim. Faith never tried to justify what she'd done as self-defence and Doug Petrie's commentary is very clear that the scene is a turning point because they'd killed an innocent human and thus committed murder (albeit accidently).
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I'm not going to argue the finer points of the art, it's a non-photo-realist style. But neither hair nor clothes are anything even approaching their S1 styles.
They act like season 1 characters.
In what way? The only resemblance I can see is the friendship between Buffy, Willow and Xander but that was there at the end of S7 and Giles's role is completely different.
Crucial plot points, like the kiss of true love, are borrowed from fairy tales.
The kiss of true love was a minor distraction not a crucial plot point but there are more varieties of magical creature around. However, S1 involved no more fairy tale elements than the later seasons so rather than a regression I see it as a sign of broadened horizons, they've left the suburbs behind and the wider world is a strange place.
Writers never explained why Allan Finch has rushed at Buffy in a vampire-infested alley.
In Conseqences the Mayor implies Finch was intending to betray him while shredding the paper trail he's accumulated and Buffy voices similar suspiscions.
he hides in the dark then suddenly grabs Buffy's shoulder.
Actually she grabbed him. Faith and her were in the middle of a battle with the Illuminati and just before Finch turned up their tactics were for one to pull out a vamp and the the other to stake him.
When Faith staked him she honestly believed that she's saving Buffy.
As soon as Buffy saw Finch was human she yelled at Faith to stop and as soon as Faith saw that her victim wasn't a vamp she went into shock there was never any indication in the way the scene was shot and acted that Finch was anything other than a hapless victim. Faith never tried to justify what she'd done as self-defence and Doug Petrie's commentary is very clear that the scene is a turning point because they'd killed an innocent human and thus committed murder (albeit accidently).