We're proud to say that the Class of '99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history.

Jonathan ,'Touched'


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.


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.


Fern Armstrong - Sep 18, 2006 2:26:11 pm PDT #3730 of 10469
TV news psychic

I had friends who started watching from the beginning, and kept telling me I should check it out, but I didn't listen. I caught a few episodes here and there, but it was the post-Columbine discussion in the media, and specifically the "Earshot" episode, that made me take a look again. By the end of GD1, I was in love, and I didn't even really know what the hell was going on. I watched "Angel" from "City of" clear through "Not Fade Away." Excuse me, I, I seem to have something in my eye.


Glamcookie - Sep 18, 2006 2:45:51 pm PDT #3731 of 10469
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I didn't watch until Season 5 (Willow has a girlfriend!). I did tune in once before that due to all the praise I was hearding, but it was the Halloween one when Willow was a ghost and Buffy was a Southern belle and it didn't do anything for me at the time.

It took me years to get into the X Files as well. The first one I saw was that one with the black dude who was sucking pigment out of people. I was hooked!