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I was suspecting that the show would get better. I don't think Whedon hit the ground running with a conception of who the characters really were. It was something he figured out as the series went along.

To use two dissimilar examples, in the Buster Keaton movies, Buster plays social dunces who achieve grace and purpose through physical action; in the Magnum P.I. TV series, week in and week out the main characters overcome their pettiness and incompleteness by being forced to confront danger (often thereby acting on each other's behalf). Nothing close to that meaningful is happening in Buffy action sequences yet, though there was one quick comic moment in the heat of battle where Xander slugs someone in the face and knocks him out, surprising Xander himself - he says "Hey! I got to hit someone!" indicating that, like wow, maybe he can be an action hero too.

I would be astounded and shocked - pleasantly - if Buffy gets anywhere near the quality of Keaton or Magnum.