Buffy nerds?

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:42 am

hi wondering there are any others around here that are hopelessly addicted. i've got an interesting idea for an off-topic thread but it won't fly without a flock of like-minded individuals...

jp · Post by jp » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:03 am

I've seen most of Angel...

... but thats all I got.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:10 am

that's a shame jp. buffy kicks ass, and if i was you i'd check it out. deep characters, great acting, funny as all hell (yes, hell is funny)...

and angel is good too, but seeing as the angel character is all about redemption and what-not the whole show sort of coasts with a darker, more serious tone...

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:19 am

Huge fan of the movie when I was a kid. Pee Wee Herman one of the bad guys, no way! I always wanted my senior prom to get invaded by vampires too, there's still hope this May *crosses fingers*

I rented it as much as I did Encino Man and Fern Gully back in the day.

Watched an episode back when the show first came on, wondered what happened to Kristy Swanson and didn't check it out for years. When the show finally ended, I caught some reruns on FX and kinda liked it. Decided not to put anymore time into it since it was already over, tho.

D · Post by D » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:58 am

Buffy rocks.
Nowadays I'm more into "buffy the body"

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:23 am

Buffy possibly was the best written show of the 90s and was a trailblazer for all those story-arch type of shows that have become popular now (as opposed to the all-goes-back-to-0-at-the-end-of-each-episode shows). Great characters, anything goes, no-one is save.

Unfortunately the childish-sounding name and the premise alone scared away many potential viewers, who had no idea what they were missing out on: One of the best things ever to hit mainstream tv.

If you haven't seen it yet, get the whole show on DVD and watch the episodes successively. I guarantee you are in for a real treat. Do under no circumstances watch random episodes on tv, that would spoil it.

EDIT: punctuation corrected

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:19 pm

I still think the silent episode and the musical episode were groundbreaking stuff. Experiments like those don't happen on TV very often.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:03 pm

Ceph - absolutely right, 100%.

Herr Schatten - you're right on both accounts. That was groundbreaking TV. Don't forget the Season 5 episode "The Body" where Buffy's mom died. That is also groundbreaking because I think the emotion in that episode is so powerful & stark. I think starting w/ Season 4 (w/ "Hush") every season after that had "that one episode" where the writers did something really different. "The Body" was "that one episode" for Season 5, for sure.

Yeah, I'm a Buffy nerd all the way. It's my favorite show (followed by Alias). I have all 7 seasons on DVD & w/ the exception of Season 7 (since I only recently acquired that), I've watched every season at least 3 times, though the first 3 or 4 seasons have seen the most action in my PC & DVD player w/ somewhere around 5 views. I'm hopelessly addicted to that show - my wife gets irritated sometimes when she comes in to the office & finds me watching Buffy on my PC w/ my headphones on. I have yet to paraphrase Darth Vader in response to her expressing said irritation for fear that she'll haul off & smack me.

"You don't know that power of the Vampire Slayer!"

mice · Post by **mice** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:00 pm

First two seasons were great, then it started to fade and then they introduced a whining Dawn...and it was all over. Still bought and watched it all though. Spike and Xander were the poles holding the show above water.

Found that it all depended on who wrote the episode, if it was good or not.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:01 pm

all in all, i think that 1 and 4 were the weakest. 1 is sort of assumed, the show was new and they were just finding their legs. 4, is decent, but the progression seems off to me. riley is a character that seems servicable but often is pretty irritating (not so bad in five after initiative is gone), and adam could have been a great villian. it just seemed that the conclusion was very sudden. all seasons of buffy have ended because they found that "right thing," but with 4 it seemed a lot more far fetched.

i liked dawn quite a bit, my only problem with her is michelle trachtenburg didn't seem very familiar with a real sense of drama. sarah and allyson[sic] could communicate pain, and make you feel it. death of tara, angel stomping all over buffy after he lost his soul, the final scene in "amends", all are just amazing.

and anya is just adorable...

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:49 pm

captain ahar wrote:and anya is just adorable...

Quted for truth. I only went to watch Darkness Falls because of Emma Caulfield.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Fri May 05, 2006 1:39 pm

mice wrote:Found that it all depended on who wrote the episode, if it was good or not.

I never found that to be true - I thought the whole thing was pretty cohesive, despite who was writing, w/ a couple exceptions. I think season 7 feels the least "together" of any of them. Of course, that's because I've only watched those episodes once (didn't have a UPN affiliate when they were on the first time), so I may have missed some of the nuances that you pick up after multiple views. Anyway, Season 7 was the right time to end it because I think the show (despite returning to its roots in some fashion) was beginning to run out of steam. However, the final battle sequence was excellent. I mean, I thought Buffy was going to die a 4th time, which would really have sucked.