I started watching the summer before S3, when they were showing reruns from S1 and S2 twice a week on our affiliate. I didn't really have a lot going on at the time-- I ended seventh grade with a social life that makes Xander and Willow's, pre-Buffy, look exciting-- and I liked the show.
Starting from either Invisible Girl or Nightmares, I caught up to the end of S2, and was totally, irrevocably hooked by the end of Becoming. Came back to school in eighth grade with a Willow-instilled sense of self-confidence and a whole new kind of geeky.
Starting from either Invisible Girl or Nightmares, I caught up to the end of S2, and was totally, irrevocably hooked by the end of Becoming. Came back to school in eighth grade with a Willow-instilled sense of self-confidence and a whole new kind of geeky.
This seriously made me sniffle. I wish there'd been a BtVS when I was younger. I really needed it.
Came back to school in eighth grade with a Willow-instilled sense of self-confidence and a whole new kind of geeky.
Makes me wonder how I would've felt about the show if I'da had it back then (back then in me-time). Be fun to sneak the tapes back in time with me and show them to myself then and see what I thought. Except, you know, then I'd be spoiled for all kinds of culturally reference-y things. Although -- that could be good, too, because maybe I could have avoided things like Episode 1 (bad). And, heh -- I'd have some other key messages to give myself, too, but that's a whole 'nother thing.
eta: x-posty w/ Cindy
This seriously made me sniffle. I wish there'd been a BtVS when I was younger. I really needed it.
Awww, you turned out okay.
And I turned out warped on a fundamental level, so maybe you were better off without.
I was more enamored with Dawson's Creek for a long time, but the WB was the golden channel to me when I was a teenager (nineteen is not teenaged. it's almost drinking-aged. there's a difference) and I watched it every night religously. So, like, I knew everything that went on but I wasn't addicted. I cried like a baby at The Gift, and I'd watched steadily from Welcome to the Hellmouth to The Gift, with a short bypass in season four 'cause I thought it Buffy was acting to stupid to live. (I have since edited my opinion.) I really only got back into it with the musical episode and the Year of Boredom that was my senior year of high school. Plus, we didn't get UPN, so I had to beg off tapes from a school friend.
Then I found my friend Lee, who had her husband instal an antennae on the roof so she could get UPN, and watched with her. Sometime in fall term I'd discovered fanfiction, by January I'd discovered Herself, and she linked me to WX. Became a Buffista, never looked back.
I'm starting my relationship with Angel, though I started watching again in Season Three. I lost Angel when I shied away from Buffy, so I missed a lot of the first and second seasons.
And I turned out warped on a fundamental level, so maybe you were better off without.
I'd wager that Warped by Buffy=Not a Bad Thing.
If I had it when I was 10, I'd never have had a hard time picking a Halloween costume.
Came back to school in eighth grade with a Willow-instilled sense of self-confidence and a whole new kind of geeky.
This seriously made me sniffle. I wish there'd been a BtVS when I was younger. I really needed it.
No. Shit. Cindy. (to the whole thing, I got sniffly, too)
I wonder how different my high school years could have been with a Rosenberg/Harris role model set.
And I turned out warped on a fundamental level, so maybe you were better off without.
HOLLI, NO!!!!
Your fundamental warpedness (along with the warpedness of our other young'uns - Hil, SA, RLiz, there's somebody else I'm forgetting...) is our HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY!!!
It's a good thing. I promise.
