Yeah that's probably true, though Season 4 has some of the best stand alone episodes. Actually, thinking about it early Season 1 (and really almost all but the first episode and the last few episodes of Season 1) is still much worse than Early Season 4. I'm sometimes amazed Buffy managed to survive that start.
But that wasn't really a suggestion so much as a way of pointing out how much of the show doesn't even take place in High School
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