Happy Birthday Buffy. And really, my Buffy love is all Megan's fault.
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.
Buffy vs. Dracula was the first episode I watched all the way through, because I was sick with mono, depressed over a girl, and wanted to watch something. Buffy Season 5 was on our campus network, so I started there.
I don't know what single thing hooked me, but that episode is filled with pretty humorous bits, which probably had a lot to do with it. And I'm a big fan of clever camp, which the episode has in spades. By the time Dawn appeared (which was more confusing than shocking, considering my Buffy virginity) there was no way I was going to stop watching. And by the end of that weekend (I watched all of Season 5 that weekend) it was my favorite show ever.
I happened to be home with the flu the night of the series premiere, and while I hadn't been wowed by the movie I thought it would make for an enjoyable night's brainless cheese watching.
Then the nervous born victim schoolgirl turned around in vamp face and Joss had me for life.
The opening to WttH, still awesome.
Cool, Buff's delivery of "That's no what I'm looking for" is very much like Xander's "That's not the way out".
Other way around, logically, I suppose.
And, there's Buffy and Giles looking down at the crowd at the Bronze...
Grr. Argh.
Giles, Buffy, Willow, and Xander standing in the high school one last time.
I can't pinpoint when I fell for this series. I was kind of determined to like it before it started - I had enjoyed the movie and had heard that the series would be darker, not so silly, but still funny. Which it was, so, sweet.
Has "1843. Madrid." Ever been expanded on? In a comic or somewhere?
I'm looking forward to that one, Aimee.