Buffy and Willow attempt to adjust to college life with varying success. Willow loves the atmosphere of academia while Buffy feels like a fish out of water.

Buffy and Willow attempt to adjust to college life with varying success. Willow loves the atmosphere of academia while Buffy feels like a fish out of water. She chokes while talking to hunky TA Riley, her room-mate is deeply irritating and her first new friend gets vamped by local bad girl Sunday. She and her crew prey on the students, steal their stuff and leave notes in their rooms explaining their disappearance. Buffy finds this is being done to her, but is cheered up when she meets Xander at the Bronze. She raids the nest while Xander picks up some weapons, but she's rusty and gets her ass kicked until Sunday snaps her Class Protector Award. Big mistake. Buffy slays the lot of them, all except one vamp who escapes, but is tasered by some mysterious Special Forces types.

Review:
Sunday is almost a new Darla, and it's a bit of a shame she and her slacker/stoner henchvamps are taken out so early, as they are a lot of fun to watch. Already we have a glimpse of the shady Initiative, who will prove to be of crucial importance throughout the season. New looks for the cast, most noticeably Willow, as is usual for a new season. The fight scenes are a lot more sophisticated, and the vamp make-up is more stream-lined and flexible. Altogether a 'prettier', more polished tone.

Best line: Willow: "It's just in high school, knowledge was pretty much frowned upon; you really had to work to learn anything. But here, the energy, the collective intelligence, it's like this force, this penetrating force, and I can just feel my mind opening up, you know? And letting this place just thrust into and, and spurt knowledge into ... that sentence ended up in a different place than it started out in."

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Trivia: Good old Mr Pointy is referenced again - he should get a whole episode.

Katherine (Sunday) Towne looks exactly like a younger Nell from Ally McBeal.

Pop culture reference: “OK, remember before you became Hugh Hefner, when you used to be a Watcher?” (Buffy to Giles.)