How did you discover BtVS?

When i was about 4 i went in to our living room to see my 14 year old sister watching a blonde girl do cheerleading i figured i had nothing better to do so i sat down and imediatly feel in love with the show the episode was The Witch.
 
It was in summer 2001. Polsat (tv channel in Poland) was starting to air a few new tv-shows and Buffy was one of them. I saw some adverts and articles about it in magazines and thought it might be interesting. I saw the first episode and was totally hooked. I was taping the episodes because it was airing at midnight( strange time for tv show, I think)and I couldn't be up so late then.
I still have some of that articles. One of them is funny. It tells Buffy plot in some diffrerent way:
"Buffy Summers starts a new school. She meets handsome boy- Xander and they fall in love with each other. But in her life happens something unusual: the girl discovers her destiny is killing vampires! She has to save the world from demons.In her first fight she'll defend her lover"
Interesting,isn't it?
 
nerd4hire
nerd4hire
That was interesting.
Watched it when it first aired, just saw it advertised and tuned in. Never missed an ep either, watched it and Angel when that started airing, all the way through to the end 🙂
 
Do you Remember??

What was the 1st time you saw Buffy?

The first time i saw Btvs, it was 2000, and i was flicking through the channels n came across the last 20 mins of a re-run of innocence.

i was really suprise it was quite good, enough to make me watch the brand new episode
later that week, and it was harsh light of day(then in the dark after it) and i was hooked
right away. Addicted to it.

but thank god i dint come across beer bad or reptile boy or i might not have given it a chance.
 
The first episode that I ever saw was the first run of "Once More With Feeling," that a friend asked me to tape for him because he wouldn't be at home when it was on. The chemistry between Sarah and James did it for me. Hooked, reeled in, and landed. I didn't miss another episode. FX was showing 2 episodes back to back just when I got home from work, so I was able to catch up quickly.
 
I saw season 4 alongside the 2nd half of s2 and the 1st half of s3. i ended up seeing 2 3 and 4 before one. but it was good like that, it gave it a different spin to it.
 
I watched Welcome to the Harvest when it was first aired in Australia. Can't remember what year it was but I was quite young and didn't 'get' it straight away but my mum loved it so I watched a couple more episodes with her. I wasn't completely sold until Season 2 though. I remember being about 11 or 12 and watching Buffy on foxtel at my Grandmas house and asking her to tape every episodes so I could have it on tape and watch it.

I also remember trying to be just like Buffy when I was about this age. I tried to dress like Buffy, got my hair done like Season 3 Buffy and even asked my mum if I could take kickboxing classes! When I was 13 I even stole a lipstick from a department store because it was the exact shade that Cleo said SMG wore!
 
Hmm it was a rerund during '98 I belive, and it was The Pack from the first season...My younger sister had seen a few episodes and told me to give it a try (that it was actually pretty good) nothing else was on at the time, so I wacthed it. This may not be many peoples favorite episode but I fell in love with the show after watching this, it was just so different and dark and hilarious, and Buffy was the same age I was, so her high school years were the same as mine. I could go on....but I'll just sit and sigh:happy59:
 
i do not remember the episode but it was the first season in 1995 or 1996
it was the talent show episode with the dummy the ending was funny when they where performing that greek play
 
oooh i can remember once seeing it on TV it was in season one now i look back I'm pretty sure the episode was Prophecy Girl... I was so scared of the Master, seriously I thought he was like terrifying.. I was 7 btw. lol... The first full episode I ever sat down to watch was Beer Bad I think, and even tho this episode kinda sucks it was still good enough to get me hooked... ooohh and for someone to see beer bad followed by the rest of s4 and still get hooked is pretty impressive.. Shows was a good show we have on our hands 😉
 
Well I always thought 'Flooded' was the first episode I ever saw. I was over at a friend's house and her sister had taped this episode the previous night (it was the new episode, and those always aired like at 10 in Germany, and we were all rather young so she taped it) well and when I was over we were watching it. I liked it, but couldn't really watch a lot of episodes at home because of my parents. But I also remember this was around the time they played 'Walk through the Fire' a lot on Viva (a second MTV we have here).
Well, so I thought. Recently I read some old posts of me on a forum, and like 4 years back I wrote somewhere on this forum the first time I saw Buffy was when I was 9, which would be around 1999/2000, so probably s3. The problem is I can't recall this at all. Am I just repressing or what is the matter with me? lol
 
Well I watched it when it first aired way back in '97. I was sixteen and loved anything supernatural so my Mom was like 'Look, this new show's starting, might be cool'. So me and Mom sat down and....both were hooked within minutes. And since it was just us two there were no other family members or Dads or whatevers telling us to change the channel each and everytime we watched it. Which was regular. Haha.

My Mom immediately fell for Giles ('Isn't he the coffee guy...?') but me in my young state was immune to his Gilesy charms dammit, so I was a typical teen and went slack-jawed at the sight of Angel. Add into the total oh-too-coolness of the kickass show and great characters and well, I sure as hell wasn't gonna miss an episode.

Eleven years later and I'm still as hooked as ever- and Mom and me regularly have Buffy-themed conversations. Most common debate being who is the better vampire- Spike or Angel (Spike usually comes out on top of that one, haha). I think we drive my husband insane. (Wait till our daughter's old enough to get addicted too, then we'll REALLY drive him nuts, mwa haha).
 
I was in a friends house about 6 years ago and he said that he wanted to see a tv show in some French channel while I wanted to play video games..I agreed finally and I saw my first Buffy episode,"Amends"...then for a long time I didn't get to watch because the show was not aired in Greece..then two years ago I realized that my cousin had the first two seasons on DVD..I watched them and was thrilled..then I bought the rest of the series+AtS and since then I can't stop watching or reading the comics xD
 
First episode i watched was "Welcome to the Hellmouth" on DVD last april. I never watched it on TV🙁
 
i don't really remember when I saw it on TV. We didn't get the WB while I was growing up and when it actually aired I was only 11 so my parents felt like it was "too scary for me."

But every once in a while it would be on Fox on Sat. afternoons and I would be able to watch it then. I can specifically remember Band Candy, which is still one of my favorite episodes.

What really got me hooked was one year I was going through a huge Eliza Dushku phase and was buying everything she was in, The New Guy, Bring it On, etc. And I saw that she was in season 3 of Buffy. So I grabbed that season and started watching it. After about the 2nd disc I was like I have no idea what is going on. So I went and got the first 2 seasons and started watching. When it got to Prophecy Girl in the season 1 and Sarah had the "Giles I'm 16 years old.....I don't wanna die." BAM! I was hooked instantly.
 
leethehost said:
got to admit, we are the new trekkies!!!
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ADVANCE APOLOGY FOR THE OT: Hey! 🙂 Maybe it's because I have issues w/Star Trek, but I think we're a far smarter gaggle of freaks than TREKKIES! All the "trek" shows, in their many incarnations and spin-offs, are waaaaay more focused on the ideas than the characters. It's all about the cool future-y technology and a human species that has become waaaaay more enlightened than I think we ever will be.

Ahem. Back on topic. BtVS, despite it's demons and monsters and hellmouths--IS all about characters. Characters who react to their situations in ways that feel authentic and real, even when they are petty and unsympathetic. Which finally brings me to THE TOPIC: I don't know about the 1st episode--but I do know that I would never have started watching Buffy if not for FX. I was in College. My Junior year. And I wanted background chatter while I studied to drown out Dorm Noise. But I didn't want it to be something I would actually pay attention to. And with my schedule at the time, my hours of study lined up with when the FX network was airing re-runs off all kind of crap I never watched, including Buffy. So I'd flip on the FX network and hit the books. Well, when Buffy came on I would occasionally chuckle at a line or two--sometimes flat-out laugh. But I still didn't put down the books. As the weeks went on I slowly learned the names of each character . . . and I so didn't realize I cared about any of them UNTIL the one where Angelus grabs Willow by the throat. I snapped my book shut and glued myself to the screen. I thought "No! Willow can't die! You let go of Willow!" Damn. I cared. I had to know what happened next. From then on my study period started after those 2 eps. of Buffy aired on FX. And now I own the whole series on DVD. My Buffy love is a total fluke. But I'm glad for it. 🙂
 
leethehost said:
but thank god i dint come across beer bad or reptile boy or i might not have given it a chance.
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Actually, even the weaker eps of the series are good enough to get hooked on. We tend to forget just how much better Buffy and Angel are than other TV shows. Ah, we're spoiled geeks.

Proving my point is that the first ep I watched was the German first airing of "Inca Mummy Girl" (I can hear you guys give out a collective moan), guess this must have been either late '98 or early '99 if I remember correctly, and I fell in love with the series - and Willow :: red :::buffy_wil: lovey : - immediately. Actually it took me a friend to suggest watching the show for the first time, as the German title is even cheesier than the original - so I first thought the show would have been crap... boy was I proven wrong.
 
yeah, the weaker episodes are stil good.
Whats btvs called in Germany?
 
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