Nandi: I ain't her. Mal: Only people in this room is you and me.

'Heart Of Gold'


Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!

Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.


AllAroundPsycho - Sep 18, 2006 6:47:01 am PDT #3720 of 10469
If wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak.

I found Buffy late in season 2 when I moved to a brand new apartment complex that was so new that they didn't have any of the cable lines hooked up yet. I was far away from the big city and the only channel I could get over the antenna was the WB. I turned on my TV to my one channel, expecting to quickly turn it off in favor of PlayStation or a movie. WB was rerunning "Surprise" and "Innocence" to refresh viewer's minds in the lead up to the finale. Despite not knowing what the hell was going on, I was hooked. Then came the frantic search for the 24 episodes that came before "Surprise"; a very difficult task in 1999 with no iTunes or TV on DVD yet.


Sean K - Sep 18, 2006 6:48:51 am PDT #3721 of 10469
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I caught Buffy once or twice in the first two seasons, but it was always as a sort of background thing, with distractions, so it was never anything that really grabbed me.

Then when I moved out here to California, on that first Tuesday (I'd moved out just before the new seasons were starting), 8:00 rolled around and all the people I was with (including MM, Aimee, and a few others) told me to sit down and be quiet. I proceeded to watch Alice and was unalterably hooked by the end.


P.M. Marc - Sep 18, 2006 7:11:07 am PDT #3722 of 10469
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I caught Buffy once or twice in the first two seasons, but it was always as a sort of background thing, with distractions, so it was never anything that really grabbed me.

Sean is me, only it was moving back to Seattle and getting cable, and I wasn't watching with anyone, and "Anne" came on, and I watched it, and soon I felt like I was cheating on X-Files.


Sean K - Sep 18, 2006 7:16:44 am PDT #3723 of 10469
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Anne. Not Alice.

I must have gotten confused by waitress "A" names.


Sue - Sep 18, 2006 7:26:37 am PDT #3724 of 10469
hip deep in pie

I have to thank Megan for hooking me on Buffy. I had seen part of an episode here and there and had blown it off thinking it was pretty lame and cheesy. When I started working where I'm working, I met Megan. Shorly after I started working there, I got cable, on the day my cable was installed, Megan said to me, "You have to go home and watch Bufffy at 8PM." (This was during Season 3.) I came back the next day and I was hooked. I just looked at her and said, "I have many questions."


Topic!Cindy - Sep 18, 2006 8:24:32 am PDT #3725 of 10469
What is even happening?

I think season three was extra fertile ground, for that. There was Faith! And there were illicit smoochies with Xander and Willow, and you knew Angel and Buffy were a big thing, but you hadn't seen season 2, and season 3 was all star-crossed. It was all intrigue, no fatigue, if you were a new viewer. And there was the Mayor. So, so, so, so good.


SuziQ - Sep 18, 2006 8:39:43 am PDT #3726 of 10469
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 18, 2006 12:16:36 pm PDT #3727 of 10469
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Is it just me, or did Sunday evening turn out to be a lot easier to do the watch-and-post than Tuesday?


Gris - Sep 18, 2006 1:17:15 pm PDT #3728 of 10469
Hey. New board.

I downloaded Season 5 of Buffy off the campus network on the recommendation of a friend my junior year, during a very depressing time when I both had mono and wanted to break up with my basically live-in girlfriend, but was too chicken.

I ended up watching the whole thing in a weekend. Bought the Season 1 DVDs, watched them and Season 6 in some weird alternating fashion, then started catching up on earlier seasons (Season 2 came out in January of that year. Seasons 3 and 4 were found through much less convenient internet means, as I could not wait for DVD releases.) Angel joined soon thereafter. At the same time, I was watching Season 7 as it aired.

Everything was done by February, except for the last episodes of season 7, and seasons 4/5 of Angel. Firefly, I had downloaded the pilot, and mourned its cancellation a few months too late. I could tell you my top 10 episodes, and had done marathons with a few friends including "The Top 5 Most Depressing Episodes of Buffy" (angst-heavy). I had seen the musical at least 6 times.

It was a crazy period.

Since then, I've been a TV fiend. Before that... never watched it.


-t - Sep 18, 2006 1:34:57 pm PDT #3729 of 10469
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I can remember looking forward to Buffy before it started because the movie was one that my friends and I would quote constantly ("Now it's retro", etc) and the buzz was that the TV show would be darker but still funny.

And, lo, it was, and it was good.