Here, she misses the Gorch brothers perched on a mausoleum ten feet away from her because she’s smooching with Angel. Up to this point we’ve only seen the positive sides of her misbehavior, the funny sides. Its an interesting level of depth for the character to start going through, now. As we’ll see in the following two-parter, Buffy’s lack of responsibility will get her into a whole hell of a lot more trouble than we’re seeing, here. This was lost on me completely, and it all leads up into the next couple of episodes perfectly. Even in her Chosen duty, Buffy is letting the ball drop. Those Texan brothers are around and she and Angel go out hunting for them… and rather than hunt they simply make out all day, er… night. Only now she isn’t even responsible in her Slayer duties. Just, you know, not in the standard fashion. But the fact of the matter is, her mom couldn’t possibly understand what she’s going through. Its upsetting, for the most part, that Buffy can’t do anything but be herself and that is seen as a negative in her mother’s eyes. Her mom berates her for it all episode long, first at the mall, then in her room at night, then after she’d saved the day. See, the theme of this episode is “responsibility” - moreover, the fact that Buffy seems to lack it. This rewatch provided me with a new take on the episode, one that I wasn’t expecting at all.
I don’t know if it was the ridiculous plot, the effects of the monster(s), the look of the huge thing under the school, or the Texan Gorch brothers… but I remember watching this episode and wondering why I was even watching it at all in the first place.
I seem to remember hating the hell out of “Bad Eggs” the first few times I watched it.
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