How did you discover BtVS?

[Bangelxx]

How did you discover BtVS? How long ago? What did you like about it? What kept you hooked on it?

I discovered BtVS because my parents had bought all the seasons on DVD and I figured I'd start watching them! I started april 2007. At first, I thought Buffy was just some show that was...entertaining but then.....I was hooked. I watched at least one episode every day and now i only have 4 eps to go!!!! ahhhhhh! (then I'll start all over again!)

 

[TrueVengeance]

Hmm....maybe about three years ago? I was bored one summer afternoon and flipping through channels, and found a rerun of Bargaining Pt1! I was hooked!! Then the next day I tuned in for the next episode, but then I missed Afterlife 😛 I soon discovered that they were showing season five episodes later that night and went from there hehe. But yep, first episode Buffy really wasn't in!

 

[Kean]

Once apon a time there was a channel called Sky One!.. thank God for you!!! It was ten years ago (God I feel old), a fine May evening, I happened to fall upon a fight scene. There were swords, a big rock and possibly the saddest tv scene I had ever witnessed up until that point. So while Buffy sent Angel to hell I became a Buffyite and a Bangel shipper for life. And the rest my dears is history...

 

[Joyce Summers]

I discovered it back in 1997 when I was 16-Oh yes, the 90s. God they rocked, haha, but now like Keanoite said I feel old, haha-when it first aired on TV. On the new WB network. Well, fairly new anyway. I just saw the commercials and promos and thought that looks unbelievably cool! Mom also agreed so the two of us sat down to watch it and were hooked by the end of Welcome to the Hellmouth.
I think my Mom immediately crushed on Giles, bless her. I knew by the fact she asked 'Isn't he the guy from the coffee ads....' in this raisey-eyebrow way.

And what I liked about it/kept me hooked was the supernatural theme at first. I've always loved anything fantasy or supernaturally so this just completely drew me in. Plus a blonde girl that kicked monster/vampire butt? Hell yeah. I also remember loving the fact that on top of Buffy being blonde like me, she was also 16 like me, an only child with a single Mom. I was like 'Oh my god...no freakin' way! That is so cool!'

 

[Edmund Blackadder]

I was working at Blockbuster Video and season 2.2 came out as a video Boxset. I was intrigued by it so I 'borrowed' it and went home. It was a Thursday evening and as luck would have it there was an episode on that night which from season 3. The episode was 'Doppelgangland' and it was brilliant.

I was hooked from the moment I saw Alyson in a corset - guys and ladies who love ladies, you know why!!!

That was way back in 99.

Interestingly, Buffy/Angel/Sky One also got me to love Scrubs because I remember Thursday nights from like 2002 it was Buffy 8pm, Angel 9pm and Scrubs 10pm - good times!!

 

[Kean]

I don't have a night to really look forward to now - except the 13 nights a year for Dr Who, but even then I can watch it later - Thursdays way back when I would not miss it for the world

I used Thursday as my own personal reference to the days of the week..Monday was known as ' 3 days till Buffy Thursday' and so on...I lived for those few hours on a thursday evening...there hasn't been another show on tv that has hooked me liked that...I miss it🙁

 

[Edmund Blackadder]

I used Thursday as my own personal reference to the days of the week..Monday was known as ' 3 days till Buffy Thursday' and so on...I lived for those few hours on a thursday evening...there hasn't been another show on tv that has hooked me liked that...I miss it🙁

Thursday night was the absolute best and worst night of the week.

It had Buffy/Angel BUT 21.58, when Angel finished, it was the longest possible time until the next new episode of my favourite show.

Yeah, sure I get excited over Dr Who and 24 but not in the same way.

I frequently tape these shows because I have other things where as Buffy/Angel, I would NEVER have other plans.

 

[VisionGuy]

I discovered Buffy when the movie first came out in the early nineties.

 

[Wiccaness]

I first discovered about five or six years ago on FX. I was just surfing the channels looking for something to watch, and then i stop on one channel that caught my eye, a blond girl kicking some guys butt. i think it might have been a rerun of early season three or four, Well i watched what was left of that episode, about 15 minutes, i thought it was an awesome show and was bummed when it ended, but then it say *up next: Buffy the Vampire Slayer on FX* with a clip of the blond girl....fighting some more....and i was all sorts of giddy, i prepared my self for some more action and was hooked from then on into watching 2 episodes a day.

 

[LittleMissLikesToFight]

i have been with buffy since day 1, since way before when they were showing teasers for the show, and being amped, and fell in love with the airing of Welcome to the Hellmouth when i was 11.

And the rest is history.

 

[Clem Rocks]

One afternoon a few years ago, i was eating my dinner and there was nothing on tv, so i just left it on Sky One and Buffy was on, and it turns out, Buffy was good! XD

 

[white avenger]

I saw the movie and I must have been one of the even dozen people in the world who liked it, though I really thought Rutger Hauer was badly miscast as the Dracula rip off. Donald Sutherland was great as he always is, and Kristy Swanson did a good job as Buffy. The first I heard about it being made into a series, though, was when a friend asked me to tape "Once More With Feeling" for him because he was going to be out of town Tuesday night. I didn't know who anybody was, and had only a very basic idea of what was going on, but I knew that I was hooked. The rest is history.

 

[Entiel]

It was some years ago...I was about eleven years old and I was in some friend's house and watched French tv channels..he told me his favorite show was about to start..it was the first time I watched Buffy...the episode was Amends from season 3...I really loved the show but here in Greece it was never aired..some years passed and two years ago while I was in my cousin's house I realized that she Had seasons 1,2 and 6 on dvd..until that moment I didn't even know that she was a fan..I saw the first two seasons and then I waited until I bought the other seasons(and Angel) and started watching endlessly since last summer...good days..I remember I watched one season in 2-3 days🙂

 

[DarklyDreamingDrusilla]

I had seen Buffy on television before and I never really got too into it. I just watched it when it was on and I thought it was a good show. Then this past August my Aunt took me to the Buffy sing-a-long because I asked if I could go when she mentioned going because I am a huge Rocky Horror Fan and when I heard audience participation I was all over it! Then I was hooked I loved the episode and the next day I went out and bought the first three season ... the rest was history. =)

 

[The Chosen]

I'd seen the movie a whole bunch of times as a kid and I'd enjoyed it. I pretended that my plastic alligator was a stake lol! And then one day I was going through the digital TV guide and saw that Buffy was on. I'm like, "Hmm...I'll watch this!" and voila, the Buffy nut you have grown to know is here!

 

[Lyri]

I've been tagging along with the Scoobs since day 1. Some friends and I were walking down the hallway at school and someone mentioned something about a new TV show that was starting that night. They were making fun of the name 'Buffy, the Vampire Slayer'. They thought it sounded lame. But I thought it sounded interesting. So, that night, I set the VCR and taped 'Welcome to the Hellmouth', 'cause I think it was on too late for me to watch it, 'cause I was 12, lol. I watched it when I got home from school the next day and I was hooked. I think I watched that ep about 5 times while I waited the whole week for the next ep. And here I am, ten years later, and still as addicted as I was that night! lmao

 

[Hello Cutie]

Oh god it was when they were airing Season 4 (for the first time) on BBC in England... so would have been before Season 5 on sky, i think??? I was maybe 14, so 7years ago??

But I've always been mad-keen on sci-fi and fantasy, in particular vampires (im not a goth or anything btw, although i have done the whole scene in my teens, people always expect me to be some sort of goth girl just cuz i say i love vampires.... im always drawn towards the darker side in any fantasy/sci-fi thing... i think i was the only person that wanted Sauron to win in LOTR 😛) so i've always watched vampire movies and the such, always had posters of them in my room, read books on them (stories and proper 'factual' accounts of vampires and the occult).

I'd heard about Buffy before then, and I'd watched an episode or two before (actually it was Reptile Boy and I'd seen the same episode twice... not one of my favourites) which hadn't endeared me to the whole thing... then i was bored so i sat and watched it, and got totally addicted... and considering i think season 4 is the weakest of the lot, its pretty impressive!!

 

[FeastOnScraps]

It would have been when they where showing season 5 after the Simpson's on BBC2. I actually accidentally caught the first 5 minuets of "The Body" but I was just mesmerised by that first act, the performance my SMG scared the hell out of me I loved the drama of it. After that I caught the rest of that season and they showed season 2 late nights on BBC. Soon after I bought all the VSH box sets to catch up then I caught season 6 on sky one not to long after.

 

[November]

I saw Buffy when it first aired over here, I was 11 or 12, I think it was '97. But the opening credits used to scare me! Then after the first season it got moved to a later timeslot so I wasnt allowed to stay up and watch it. I sneaked a few eps here and there until about 01 when my friend had it on DVD and I nicked it from him! I eventually brought my own set (and angel and firefly and scrubs and the office and pretty much every other show I "borrowed") when I finished school and got money from working 😛 So yeah I can safely say that I am hooked 😀

 

[eponinethen]

I hated BtVS, I thought it was pretty much the silliest most pointless show ever. Then again, I had never given i a chance, of course. So one day I accidentally watched an episode on TV after school (I was lazy and avoided studying). This was about four years ago and the show was already canceled and over (but I didn't know that at this point). And well, it was alright, actually. It was funny, and after a while I fell in love with Willow/Tara.. etc. etc. etc. etc.