Buffy Season One Episode Two: Suspension Of Disbelief Not Fully Achieved

[koganbot]

(1) Why doesn't Buffy get more scared?
(2) Why do she and her gang need to keep this all a secret? (Still not explained.)
(3) Absence of cops not yet explained either. Obviously Buffy and crew won't call 'em, but kids who are being attacked in dance clubs would. (And hey, this was maybe 12 years ago, but cell phones existed, and so did worried parents.)
(4) Don't, like, any other students use the library?
(5) Angel WTF?

(Please, no spoilers in comments.)

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

1) Remember she has faced and killed vampires before. Again, we do get fear now and then, but no spoilers.
2) Never really explained, but we can come up with reasons of various kinds, but I can't think of anything that gives clear support to any of them. Habits of the watchers seems to be most of it.
3-5) No spoilers. Yes, all are covered to one degree or another in due course. In due course means over the next few seasons, I'm afraid. #5 is revealed before too long.

[koganbot]

For 1) what I'm wrestling with is that she seems to believe - and the vampires definitely believe - that she can be killed, and in any event it's been shown that, when she fails, her friends can be killed. (And I've faced and written hundreds of pieces and I'm still afraid of the blank screen. But that may not be relevant here.)