BWAH!

Holy Crap, I just heard that song last night on Sams Club radio at work. Twice.

Maysa, I also separate the seasons by the look of the show.

Back in s.6, I complained that not only the darker lighting but the increased use of indoor night shots made the show more depressing. The advantage of setting the show in high school was also that lots of time spent together during the day contrasted effectively with the darkness of night stuff. But now that I'm rewatching the eps in order, I notice lots of morning type light in the first seasons-- for awhile I toyed with the idea that bright morning light characterized s.1 and 2, midday s.3, and afternoon s.4. S.5 was just a mess, s.6 was always at night, and s.7 had more daylight. I don't think this progression was really intentional, though.

Some of the S1 episodes are impossibly dark to watch on VHS tapes. Thank god for the DVD's which made it better after years of squinting.

I toyed with the idea that bright morning light characterized s.1 and 2, midday s.3, and afternoon s.4. S.5 was just a mess, s.6 was always at night, and s.7 had more daylight. I don't think this progression was really intentional, though.

That's so interesting and the more I think about it the cooler it gets. I really like the morning light idea for S2.

Odd: I looked up Todd Babcock (Tom Warner from "Reptile Boy") on tvtome.com after seeing him in a commercial from an Angel season 1 ep tonight. Seems he was born the day before me—I would have guessed several years after. But happy to see he's getting semi-regular guest appearances on Days of Our Lives now.

Odd: I looked up Todd Babcock (Tom Warner from "Reptile Boy")

He's dreamy. All of the guest cast in Reptile Boy is remarkably good.

Oh yeah. Also plays recreational hockey in Century City in his spare time (or at least did back in 1998) and shares my utter antipathy for the swaggering egotists of the Colorado Avalanche.

I can't believe I didn't realize upon first meeting him that he'd played Lt. Barnard in Gods and Monsters. (I somehow mistakenly thought it was Zeljko Ivanek in the role.) But he had funny stories to tell about working with Ian McKellen at the next Posting Board Party.

It was just so different and there was nothing else to compare it to.

Oh yeah. The WB at the time had a lot of entirely unmemorable shows, but Buffy was what first peaked my interest in the network. Granted, I stayed for Dawson's Creek, but Buffy remained in my viewing schedule for four years before I gave up for a little while.

I honestly can't compare season one with any of the following seasons, because season one means something different to me than later seasons did. It really was exciting, at the time. I still adore the first season most out of all of them for that.

I watched the first episode of Buffy and was hooked right away. At the time, where I was, Buffy came on WGN. And it kept being pre empted and moved around because of basketball, at least I think it was basketball.

Anyway I had to follow the show around and make sure I watched and tried to catch when they were showing it after pre-empting it.

I loved it and tried to convert people to watching it but the shifting schedule made it impossible to really recruit any one to watching it.

I'm not sure how I'd rank all the seasons but I know after watching all of Season 7 it's my least favorite. Even with the stand out episodes, over all I was mostly miserable watching it.