Just under the wire...
Happy 10th Anniversary to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Series!
You have changed my life more than I thought any one thing could. You provided me with over 144 hours of viewing entertainment which caused and still causes me to laugh, cry, gasp, and root for our heroine. Earshot, Hush, The Body, Once More... With Feeling, The Killer in Me, Chosen. These episodes will always stick out in my mind as some of the most poignant television I have ever seen. You provided me with countless hours of reading entertainment. You opened me up to new music and new bands, some of which I now list among my favorites. You gave me the inspiration to write a book proposal and send it to Simon & Schuster. (It wasn't picked up, but that is more than most people can claim they have done.) You brought me more friends through tournaments and other events. You gave me several outlets to contribute to charity. You brought me out of my shell even further. You provided me a reason to travel to LA by myself (further than I've ever gone where I didn't know anyone) where I met people who I still consider close friends to this day, some of whom are reading this entry from all over the country. You gave me a reason to go to Madison (a Buffy CCG event) the day after I lost my job due to the store I was working at closing, allowing me to meet Steph and share some of the best times of my life with her.
I have been a fan of things in the past, but never with such passion as I have with Buffy. I never understood why other people did it until I became a part of the Global Scooby Gang. I never understood the sense of community and shared experience until I became a part. Until I started tuning in on Tuesday nights.
Thank you for allowing me to become a part of something bigger than myself. Something that I still continue to open people's eyes to. Thank you Joss for not giving up when they took your movie script and made it into something it wasn't supposed to be. Thank you Sarah for breathing life into a character we can get behind, criticize, and worry about all in the same hour. Thank you to all the cast and crew who over the years contributed to my one hour of escape every Tuesday night.
And finally, thank you Joss for teaching all the fans out there what it truly means to still be cookie dough. Still good, but not quite ready yet. A perfect description for what life truly is.
Buffy Anne Summers
She saved the world a lot.
You have changed my life more than I thought any one thing could. You provided me with over 144 hours of viewing entertainment which caused and still causes me to laugh, cry, gasp, and root for our heroine. Earshot, Hush, The Body, Once More... With Feeling, The Killer in Me, Chosen. These episodes will always stick out in my mind as some of the most poignant television I have ever seen. You provided me with countless hours of reading entertainment. You opened me up to new music and new bands, some of which I now list among my favorites. You gave me the inspiration to write a book proposal and send it to Simon & Schuster. (It wasn't picked up, but that is more than most people can claim they have done.) You brought me more friends through tournaments and other events. You gave me several outlets to contribute to charity. You brought me out of my shell even further. You provided me a reason to travel to LA by myself (further than I've ever gone where I didn't know anyone) where I met people who I still consider close friends to this day, some of whom are reading this entry from all over the country. You gave me a reason to go to Madison (a Buffy CCG event) the day after I lost my job due to the store I was working at closing, allowing me to meet Steph and share some of the best times of my life with her.
I have been a fan of things in the past, but never with such passion as I have with Buffy. I never understood why other people did it until I became a part of the Global Scooby Gang. I never understood the sense of community and shared experience until I became a part. Until I started tuning in on Tuesday nights.
Thank you for allowing me to become a part of something bigger than myself. Something that I still continue to open people's eyes to. Thank you Joss for not giving up when they took your movie script and made it into something it wasn't supposed to be. Thank you Sarah for breathing life into a character we can get behind, criticize, and worry about all in the same hour. Thank you to all the cast and crew who over the years contributed to my one hour of escape every Tuesday night.
And finally, thank you Joss for teaching all the fans out there what it truly means to still be cookie dough. Still good, but not quite ready yet. A perfect description for what life truly is.
Buffy Anne Summers
She saved the world a lot.