What’s the point?
I am a latecomer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I only started watching it after five rebroadcast the first series in March 2005. After we realised it was cut we borrowed a friend’s box set and we were off: buying and selling video copies on Ebay until we decided to buy the region 1 box-set, the Chosen Collection. We finished season 7 at the beginning of January 2006.
I can declare my passion for BtVS from the Oz/Willow/Tara arc of season four when I became smitten with the latter two. I can safely say that the ending of Seeing Red broke the part of my heart that loved BtVS and season 7 would have had to be brilliant to compensate for the loss of Tara (and the luminous Amber Benson). And season 7 wasn’t brilliant…
You can see how old I am on my Last.fm page. I live in west London with my son who is too young for season six of BtVS, two cats (a male tabby and a female tortoiseshell), and one husband who isn’t as obsessed as I am with BtVS but did watch two episodes a night until we were done and happily called our cats Wash and Tara.
4 Responses to “What’s the point?”
Hi. I happened upon your Season 4 comments and was intrigued that they were so recent. I was interested enough to check your age and now I can tell you: I’m older. Coming to BtvS comparatively late myself (first UK showings on the Beeb conflicted with preparing dinner for young child), then missed so many that during late Season 2(for example), I hardly knew what the three vampires were on about in their scenes isolated from the rest of the episode. For the same reason, ie missing several, I was unaware where we were in the seasons and saw Buffy and Angel swearing undying love one minute (late Season 3) and her jumping into bed with someone else (Parker) the next. At that point, I didn’t know she’d sent him to hell, didn’t know he’d come back, didn’t know they couldn’t have sex.
Anyway, I find your reviews interesting and agree with a lot of what you say. I may well add comments as time goes on.
Thanks for voicing (or netting?) another mature point of view.
By Queen Astilon on Tuesday 24 April 2007 – 16:10
Hello, your majesty…thanks for the comment!
I’m not sure exactly why I didn’t watch BtVS initially but it was likely the silly name, its setting and the man from the Gold Blend adverts which put me off. Plus I was a new mother and when I went back to work I worked long shifts.
Eventually, the positive vibes I heard wore me down and the rest is history (well, in the above post anyway).
I often wonder how mature my views are but I can’t deny that I am technically middle-aged. Please add comments because I am fascinated by any discussion of this great great TV show.
By Hazel on Tuesday 24 April 2007 – 16:46
Hey!
Just found your link from whedonesque.
Nice one. Have bookmarked it and will return to it for updates.
Well done!
By GoyaP on Sunday 13 May 2007 – 6:32
Thank you Goya for the compliments. I like reading your comments on Essence of Amber and I’m looking forward to the same here.
By Hazel on Sunday 13 May 2007 – 19:14