Well I may have been old enough to enjoy it technically, but only on a level like my sister does. She finds it entertaining. That's it. I want to FANGIRL a show for several years in a row. That just sounds like so much fun.
Hm, it's just oh god the sadness is going to leak out.
It was pre-internet fangirling, but I'd say it was hardcore fangirling all the same. As in, quoting lines between me and a friend, picking names, keeping scrap books and well, lets not get into it all, it is sordid and dirty. Writing fanfic in ntoebooks before I knew what fanfic was
And then s3/4 I got the internet and oh my god it was fun, fic, crossovers, discussions, trivia contests between fans, trying to figure out what was going to happen next. Coutning down to boxsets.
But yeah, I can barely remember a time I didn't know what buffy was. Standing in a school playground instead of playing tag talking about buffy with the other Sarah. (there were two of us and we both liked buffy).
But maybe you mean a different type of fangirling?
I am personally ready for another character but I am still worried about whether the second season will be able to live up to the first season, with new characters or without. That is my stand on it.
See, the way I see it is that the first season wasn't exactly the epitome of quality. I'm in it for the pretty and the porn, and girls can be pretty too. *g*
Somehow my interest in it goes way deeper than that - I'm so ridiculously invested in Sam and Dean's relationship that I have a hard time imagining how I could love the show without it as the centerpiece.
Yea to say the least I am very very worried about the second season, as much as I love the show I don't know if they are going to be able to pull it off. Joss Whedon did it with Buffy and Angel but I don't know, I am really worried here.
I hate to say it, but Kripke just isn't another Joss. (Not that anybody could be, but you know) I don't have nearly that kind of faith in him, especially after that peek I got of the original pilot script *shudders* So yes, I am worried. :(
I have read the spoilers and I had the exact same reaction (it's what prompted this post) - things are going to be DIFFERENT. Ack. It's terrifying, really, and it was kind of a smack in the face to have Jensen talking about these things so nonchalantly. *sighs*
Of course it makes sense. It's true for me too. This show, and these boys, have kept me going for the last 6 months. A little sad, but oh so very true, and I'm not about to deny it.
I really, really hope the second season doesn't suck. Sophomore slump is a real possibility. I want to be able to SQUEE MY BRAINS OUT at Winchester Con. *crosses fingers*
Having never seen Dawson's Creek, and tiring of The OC halfway through Season 1, I can't say either of those examples really hit home, but I know you have a point. I'm trying to think of shows I've watched several seasons of and how that worked out. The X-Files - lots of people came and went, but in the end (or, you know, before seasons 8 and 9 which, let's forget about them shall we?) it was still Mulder and Scully. Them against the world, always will be. And I liked that. I liked that most of the other main characters that were around multiple times were bad guys and kept at a distance from the Dynamic Duo, or good guys who were only consulted occasionally. Neither of them had any kind of lasting relationship with anyone else, and that worked. The one snag is that while Mulder and Scully could actually become a couple, and eventually did, Dean and Sam obviously can't, so they're less likely to leave them as is
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For me, it's not so much the cast I'm worried about as that the ideas need to be BIGGER. You can't have a show based on one idea and expect that to keep the audience engaged season after season. I'm envisioning it more like Angel than Buffy, really, with a truly overarching plot line that will be series-long, and smaller plots that feed into that. I think there are a lot of places SPN could go, but they need better writers. And logistically, other characters would be nice. Like in Buffy, we really got to know the bad guys. Spike and Drusilla? SO BRILLIANT. The Mayor? EVEN BETTER. This is something SPN could do really well while preserving the SamandDean-ness of the show. New cast members don't necessarily need to be allies, but they can't be retarded like Meg, either.
Oh, that's a marvelous point! I hadn't even considered better characterization of the baddies as a way of mixing things up, but I think that's inspired. It really was one of Joss's strongest points, that he was able to make the villains just as fascinating as the heroes. Gah. I think we may be digging ourselves into a hole here, making comparisons to Joss, since after all, Joss is GENIUS. Oh dear. I agree, they really need to improve the writing staff on this show and really start sinking their teeth in. No more Megs, thanks very much.
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I'm sure you're old enough to have done that with buffy...not fandomwise, but follow it and fangirl it and such. No?
(also, think we've talked about this before)
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It was pre-internet fangirling, but I'd say it was hardcore fangirling all the same. As in, quoting lines between me and a friend, picking names, keeping scrap books and well, lets not get into it all, it is sordid and dirty. Writing fanfic in ntoebooks before I knew what fanfic was
And then s3/4 I got the internet and oh my god it was fun, fic, crossovers, discussions, trivia contests between fans, trying to figure out what was going to happen next. Coutning down to boxsets.
But yeah, I can barely remember a time I didn't know what buffy was. Standing in a school playground instead of playing tag talking about buffy with the other Sarah. (there were two of us and we both liked buffy).
But maybe you mean a different type of fangirling?
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I wish I had been aware of Buffy when it was airing.
Cmon sas, you know not to interpret what i say so rigidly :P
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Dammit.
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See, the way I see it is that the first season wasn't exactly the epitome of quality. I'm in it for the pretty and the porn, and girls can be pretty too. *g*
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ps. That icon is beautiful.
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I really, really hope the second season doesn't suck. Sophomore slump is a real possibility. I want to be able to SQUEE MY BRAINS OUT at Winchester Con. *crosses fingers*
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