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Scooby
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- Dec 16, 2011
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Hi! I have been a big buffy fan for 10+ years and i am glad to have finally found a place online to discuss it in depth with other like minded fans.
My Buffy experience is a bit different from most people's and I think I look at Buffy as a whole (the Tv series anyway) from a different angle than many fans.
You see, I started watching in season 4, because I was given the season 4 boxset for Christmas. This is the season that many say is the worst of Buffy. I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but it is the season that introduced me to Buffy so to me it is the "standard"... the Buffy "default" by which everything else in the series is measured.
So to most people watching season 4 for the first time, they are a bit dumbfounded by how different everything is, no more school, no library, no Angel... I didn't have any of that. And actually season 4 is a pretty awesome introduction to the series, because of the fact that it's such a clean slate.
Then I had the added bonus, after watching season 5 on video and then season 6 and 7 as they came out on TV, of going back and watching series 1, 2, 3 - and seeing the amazing backstories of these characters I had grown to love and characters and finally witnessing events that had been referred to in later episodes.
"You didn't sense a hyena posession did you?"
and
"Wait until you have an evil twin and see how you handle it!"
"I handled it just fine."
Finally these quotes made sense to me!
It was like watching a really good movie and then 2 years later they bring out a really good prequel which answers everything you questioned about the series.
One thing that's quite funny now I look back on it - I had no idea for ages that Buffy had any super powers. It is not actually mentioned (or at least I didn't pick up on it) for much of season 4 that she has any mystical quality to her. She just came across like a girl who had joined a mission (of which Giles was some kind of elder) to fight vampires and demons. And for a long time I thought it was very unrealistic that this ordinary person could recover from various serious wounds and beatings so quickly. It was not until the whole "super-strength" thing came up when she and Riley start play-fighting, that it made a lot more sense!!
Anyway that was my introduction to the show, and this has been your introduction to me 🙂 😀
My Buffy experience is a bit different from most people's and I think I look at Buffy as a whole (the Tv series anyway) from a different angle than many fans.
You see, I started watching in season 4, because I was given the season 4 boxset for Christmas. This is the season that many say is the worst of Buffy. I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but it is the season that introduced me to Buffy so to me it is the "standard"... the Buffy "default" by which everything else in the series is measured.
So to most people watching season 4 for the first time, they are a bit dumbfounded by how different everything is, no more school, no library, no Angel... I didn't have any of that. And actually season 4 is a pretty awesome introduction to the series, because of the fact that it's such a clean slate.
Then I had the added bonus, after watching season 5 on video and then season 6 and 7 as they came out on TV, of going back and watching series 1, 2, 3 - and seeing the amazing backstories of these characters I had grown to love and characters and finally witnessing events that had been referred to in later episodes.
"You didn't sense a hyena posession did you?"
and
"Wait until you have an evil twin and see how you handle it!"
"I handled it just fine."
Finally these quotes made sense to me!
It was like watching a really good movie and then 2 years later they bring out a really good prequel which answers everything you questioned about the series.
One thing that's quite funny now I look back on it - I had no idea for ages that Buffy had any super powers. It is not actually mentioned (or at least I didn't pick up on it) for much of season 4 that she has any mystical quality to her. She just came across like a girl who had joined a mission (of which Giles was some kind of elder) to fight vampires and demons. And for a long time I thought it was very unrealistic that this ordinary person could recover from various serious wounds and beatings so quickly. It was not until the whole "super-strength" thing came up when she and Riley start play-fighting, that it made a lot more sense!!
Anyway that was my introduction to the show, and this has been your introduction to me 🙂 😀
