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.

I have never been miserable during anyone second of watching Buffy, except for when I shot Vanilla Coke out of my nose lauging at the "we are as gods" portion of Storyteller.

Some of the speechy ones were pretty painful viewing to me.

The speechy episodes become so much better with judicious application of fast-forwarding.

I know it was *supposed* to be painful - but Empty Places ...I was fidgeting, cursing, I don't think I have ever been so uncomfortable during a Buffy ep ever. I understand where they were going but I don't like that episode - and not in the same way I don't like DMP or other eps where folks are mean to Buffy.

eta: essential "h"s

I understand where they were going but I don't like that episode - and not in the same way I don't like DMP or other eps where folks are mean to Buffy.

Oooh, I ranted at those bastards after that episode (the character bastards, not the writer-bastards). I liked it, in the sense that I hated what they did to my Buffy. I wanted to smack everyone who wasn't Xander or Faith.

I wanted to smack everyone who wasn't Xander or Faith.

You are kind Cindy. I wanted to smack Xander, too - eyepatch or no.

See - I got that I was supposed to be upset by it - but they just didn't sell it to me, personally. I did not buy them moving that quickly to kick her out of the house. I didn't buy her interactions with Giles through the whole episode. And I really thought two things that could have been great fell REALLY flat. Faith at the Bronze: I will watch a whole episode of nothing but sexyandbad!Faith dancing at the Bronze but redeemedandsober!Faith - NSM. And Spike and Andrew on a Road Trip - so much fodder there - but the onion thing just got a big ol' eye roll from me.

The entire kicking out of the house thing made me so angry. I wanted to slap Rona and kill Kennedy (thought that urge wasn't limited to this episode). I thought that Xander was the only one with sufficient current justification to do that to Buffy - and I was still surprised, because I thought he'd at least try to back her up, even if he rejected her idea. Mainly, though, I wanted her to tell Dawn that it would be her house too once she'd paid for a full copper re-pipe...

And what was the reason for getting her out? So she could cuddle all night with Spike? Was there not a better way to do this? Or, at least, could it have been because of the FE getting its fingers into things?

I thought that Xander was the only one with sufficient current justification to do that to Buffy - and I was still surprised, because I thought he'd at least try to back her up, even if he rejected her idea.

I would have loved it if Xander had been the only one to support Buffy, despite his injury. It would have been more like Xander, imo.