They are familiar with it in that they know what it is about and have seen the movie. I was trying to explain how the tone of the series is completely different.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Tamara - Mar 31, 2008 1:14:31 pm PDT #5790 of 10469
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Laga - Mar 31, 2008 1:19:16 pm PDT #5791 of 10469
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I was trying to explain how the tone of the series is completely different.
I might start with season 3
Ginger - Mar 31, 2008 1:24:35 pm PDT #5792 of 10469
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think "Prophecy Girl" would be good. Once you get into the second season, the mythology starts to build and it's harder to just jump in. I watched it from the first episode, though, so what do I know.
Tamara - Mar 31, 2008 1:33:00 pm PDT #5793 of 10469
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
I am not expecting to "convert" this person and get them to watch all of it. Just give them a taste so that they know what the fuss is all about.
beth b - Mar 31, 2008 1:42:57 pm PDT #5794 of 10469
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
The Body is really good television , but not anything that will convince anyone unless they are an analytical television watcher. The power comes partly fro knowing the characters and partly from knowing the usual way tv is deals with death.
Prophecy girl is good and Hush and OMWF but I might also pick something like BB and B or the Zeppo or something like that where Buffy is far from the focus of the episode
Gris - Mar 31, 2008 1:47:11 pm PDT #5795 of 10469
Hey. New board.
(Shrug) I was sucked in by Buffy vs. Dracula and believe that pretty much any "standard" episode is a good introduction. I actually think that Hush and The Body are very bad first episodes because they are so much more impressive as "WTF this is different!"s. Surprise/Innocence wouldn't be a bad place to start, maybe, as the only backstory you really need to follow it is "Buffy and Angel are totally in love, k?" and it's one of the best examples of the central metaphor, though rather lacking in the funny.
Jessica - Mar 31, 2008 2:47:54 pm PDT #5796 of 10469
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The first ep I remember seeing* was "Fear Itself." There was some character backstory I didn't really understand, but it didn't scare me away, it made me want to come back for more.
(*Asterisked because the operators down in the mods used to have BtVS on all the time, and I would hang out and watch with them when I wasn't editing. But because we were watching it in a basement on an old TV with rabbit ears, the reception was (a) very dark (b) very staticy and (c) very pink. So I don't count those eps because I had no idea what was actually happening on screen while we were watching.)
Jessica - Mar 31, 2008 2:49:02 pm PDT #5797 of 10469
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also, recruitment is covered in the FAQ.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 31, 2008 2:54:22 pm PDT #5798 of 10469
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I like Pangs for new people because they can identify with trying to have Thanksgiving despite many obstacles.
Vortex - Mar 31, 2008 3:02:29 pm PDT #5799 of 10469
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
One of the reasons that I like Hush is that you can explain things without messing up the dialogue.