By Chris Snellgrove | Published
While Buffy The Vampire Slayer Had a season 1 Rocky because of its small budget, this lack of money has helped to accidentally create the final of the perfect season. This episode (“Prophecy Girl”) has had many breathtaking moments, including the revelation of a giant demon who lives in Hellmouth and is still waiting to emerge, hungry and voracious. Initially, BuffyThe producers wanted to use CGI to create their tentacles, but the small budget forced them to use human actors for each tentacle in a little guerrilla cinema which created (if only by accident) the perfect final of season 1.
If you need a summary of “Prophecy Girl”, here is: our heroes discover a disturbing prophecy that the master (the first big bad guy of the show) will escape imprisonment the next day and that Buffy will die. The killer is traumatized when he heard this prophecy, but she ends up bringing his courage together and confronts the master, who kills her leaving her drowning; Fortunately, Xander is able to relying it via the RCR, and she continues to defeat her enemy as a vampiric and save the day. Meanwhile, Giles, Cordelia, Willow and Jenny Calendar all fight a three -headed Hellmouth monster whose representation looks great, thanks to the use of practical effects.
The Hellmouth Demon was a strange tentacle monster, the one we can only suppose was a star player in a very strange fan fiction. Even in the 90s, it became more and more common to use CGI to give life to such ambitious creatures, but apart from big budget emissions as Star Trek: The next generationMost of the computer effects of the television series of this time have aged very badly. THE Buffy The producers wanted to use CGI for this final appearance of season 1 of this monster, but because they could not afford, they rather chose to animate each tentacle by putting an actor who could manipulate these tears if necessary.
And here is the thing: relatively speaking, this monster looks great: It is greater than the lifespan and clearly larger, more serious and more hungry than anything that our heroes have ever faced before. It looks honestly Buffy by way of The thingAnd this final of season 1 of practical effects by season 1 is a large part of the reason why the episode has aged so graciously. Such practical effects are why we always Laud John Carpenter’s The thing As a scary masterpiece while his 2011 prequel is a monstrosity filled with CGI which looks so bad that even the presence of the charming and talented Mary Elizabeth Winstead cannot lead us to see him again.
We are much more grateful for these practical effects in BuffyFinal of season 1 of the season, because many of the effects of this season seem squarely bad. The HD conversion of the show actually worsened this … The bad crop reduced the important visual elements, and an added brightness reveals how things like things like the makeup of the vampires were at the start of the series. The large forced screen makes things completely wacky: in “Prophecy girl”, for example, we can now see the master when he hides (originally hidden by formatting 4: 3), and it is difficult not to laugh at Buffy incapable of finding someone who is obviously Standing in the middle of the same room.
Had BuffyThe final of season 1 disappeared with CGI to give life to the Hellmouth monster, it is sure that the low -budget computer effects would have seemed terrible, and the last Remaster HD would have made even uglier. Fortunately, human actors and practical effects have been used to create one of the most scary monsters of the show, and we are eternally grateful that one of the best television finals was not marred by bad computer effects. These days, the horrible computer effects on television and cinema are absolutely rampantLeaving us with a major question: since the Apocalypse CGI is already there, can we still beep Buffy to save the day?
