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To still LOVE Buffy the Vampire Slayer...watching it again!

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BigRedBall · 11/04/2015 11:10

You know how your perceptions change as you grow up about some programmes, well, it's not as corny as I thought it would be!

I just finished the first season and have started watching the first episode of the second and am really enjoying it. Some laugh out loud moments, hilarious one liners remind me of why I enjoyed it so much as a teenager!

I think buffy was a really good role model and (aside from the vampire slaying!) I really felt I could relate to her.

I think joss whedon was a genius.

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Jackieharris · 14/04/2015 22:05

I'm a huge fan too.

It's one of the few things we can all watch together as a family. I know DF is under age for some of the episodes but I like that there are good female role models in it.

I try to forget season 7 exists.

LastGleaming · 14/04/2015 22:18

So NBU!! I love Buffy, my nn is the name of one of the comic episodes, and recently rewatched the entire show on Netflix. Was sad and bereft all over again when I'd finished.

Cann't stand Angel, he is such a wet blanket or Tara (boring) or Dawn (why oh why with that high pitched shriek?). Spike on the other hand I adore and Anya who is hilarious. The bunny song in 'once more with feeling' never fails to make me laugh.

QuietNinjaTardis · 14/04/2015 22:45

Of course you're not unreasonable. Buffy was and is amazing.

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BigRedBall · 15/04/2015 11:22

I watched "what's my line" parts 1 and 2 last night and had completely forgotten about Kendra!

I'm finding Angel to be a wet blanket too. I was obviously a hormonal teenager the first time around and thought his wet blanketness was endearing. Not so much now! Loving Xander same as last time, and developing a crush on Giles . I still giggle when I see him with a cup of tea in his hand as it reminds me of his Nescafé adverts.

I loved Buffy's red leather coat in the later seasons. I could never find one that looked the same though.

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OMC1 · 15/04/2015 17:09

I am the biggest Buffy geek! My colleagues think it's hilarious but I could honestly watch it all the time, much better than Friends IMO!

NotCitrus · 15/04/2015 17:42

I was living with other students when the BBC finally started showing it - various American family and people I knew on mailing lists had been going on about it for a couple years.

I eventually persuaded my housemates to let me watch it rather than some other channel, despite them going "So... your invisible friends on the internet are telling you to watch this TV programme.... called Buffy? Buffy the vampire slayer?? Okay, just this once..."

Then they agreed we could watch it the next week.

Then we were all hooked and bribing someone's parents who had Sky to record season 4 when it was shown and to post us the tapes!

ChocolateBubbleBarsmakemefat · 16/04/2015 13:14

My Dsis still hasn't forgiven me for making her watch the Hush episode when she was about 7. It still terrifies her now

love Buffy...fave episodes are when she kills Angel. Hush. The body. Once more with feeling and the very last episode....oh my goddess!

Jackieharris · 17/04/2015 04:43

I never really got why hush is so highly rated.

I tend to like the ones jane espenson wrote, especially because she referenced different episodes.

Imo you could tell with some of the writers that they hadn't watched all the other episodes so there were minor continuity errors- or just not acknowledging the past. Espenson's ones would have a little line that made the whole thing feel more connected.

Eg the one where oz sees the eyes on the cheerleader statue moving. Or when Buffy tells giles she knows he slept with her mum and he walks into a tree.

My DCs really like the 2 episodes in s3 with the vamp willow.

Sometimes I try to add up how many vamps Buffy kills or at least how many times she saves the world but there are so many I always lose count!

I preferred spike to angel too but don't watch the episode with the bathroom scene.

I also don't watch the body.

DuchessofBuffonia · 17/04/2015 07:01

I adore Buffy! I watch it all at least once a year (though 'Once More With Feeling' far more). Nothing quite comes close to it. Team Spike.

I liked most of Angel, but the Connor / Cordelia stuff was rather awful and cringe-making. The series was a million times better when Spike joined and the 'Smile Time' episode has to be one of the most hysterical episodes ever.

Firefly was awesome and I enjoyed Dollhouse too, though the premise made me rather uncomfortable.

Binkybix · 17/04/2015 07:40

Love it! In fact it was on when I gave birth although I admit I paid it less attention than normal. If current bump is a girl there's a high chance it will have a Buffy related name. As in fact does my first!

Love all his stuff I've watched. topher is just wonderful.

DrHarleenFrancesQuinzel · 18/04/2015 13:47

Im going to start watching it this week. Been thinking about this thread a lot so going to give it a go.

LeBearPolar · 18/04/2015 14:11

DS has a Buffy-inspired middle name (not Angel or Spike ).

Agree with Duchess - DH and I really went off Angel when the Cordelia/Connor storyline was playing out - it was disturbingly creepy. We felt it was a real shame as Angel had so much that we loved and one of the main things was the growth of Cordelia from a vacuous cheerleader to someone with integrity and courage and still a wicked sense of humour. And then - Connor

I am definitely Team Spike rather than Team Angel but felt (obviously) profoundly uncomfortable about the attempted rape. And felt so sorry for James Marsters who was really traumatised by being made to play that scene out as a man who couldn't even bear to watch such scenes on TV. Apparently he's never watched that episode back, and this is what he's said about it subsequently:

"Yeah, the worst of it was the bathroom scene. I went home in tears. I was crying in the bathtub, ‘I'm not a rapist.’

"I have turned roles down because they are rapists. It's something I don't even want to watch. If I even click on it on TV, I have to click it off or I'll put my foot through the screen... What you see on that screen is just my terror at having to do that scene."

fearcutsdeeperthanswords · 18/04/2015 14:20

Love buffy, 1st ever episode I saw was hush as I'd been abroad working. I've been hooked ever since.
Can't wait for dd's to get old enough to watch it. Watch age do we think is suitable?i'm thinking 13/14?

Firsttimer7259 · 18/04/2015 17:34

No you are not unreasonable!

Koalafications · 18/04/2015 17:44

LeBearPolar I don't remember that with Spike. Was that in Angel?

juneybean · 18/04/2015 17:53

It was season 6 of buffy and it led to him seeking his soul back

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BigRedBall · 18/04/2015 18:00

I vaguely remember the attempted rape but I must have watched the edited version on bbc2. Also, I was quite a naieve teen and young adult. It must have gone over my head.

I'm intrigued by these buffy inspired dc names! What are they? Alexander? Rupert? William? Hmmmm!

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britespark1 · 18/04/2015 19:33

Ha, I have an Alexander and a William (surname Summers). Tickles me anyway.....

Angelto5 · 18/04/2015 19:38

I have a ds called xander & he's just like the character

Also have a Angel tattoo.

Buffy was a brilliant programme & what made it better was the ending was perfect-unlike angel which was rushed & left so many questions!

LeBearPolar · 18/04/2015 21:35

This will possibly out me but DS's Buffy-inspired middle name is that of a certain librarian (and no, not Rupert!)

Koalafications - it was in the episode Seeing Red in Season 6, the one where Warren shoots Tara. Spike goes to Buffy's house to try to persuade her to get back together with him, and thinks that if he can just persuade her to have sex with him again, he'll be able to win her round. She says "No" quite forcefully but he ignores it and tries to rape her. She manages to fight him off in the end.

Koalafications · 18/04/2015 23:35

Ah thanks, LeBear I stopped watching Buffy when Angel started so I have all the later series to watch. I think I watched the first season of Buffy in college but I don't remember any beyond that.

Poor James Masters

MsJudgementalPants · 19/04/2015 07:37

Just started watching it again from series 1, episode 1 with dd. She loves it!

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