Some weeks ago, I caught about five minutes of the Glee premiere before turning it off when the choir director's wife (I don't know anyone's names) made me want to attack her with a sharp, pointy object. Ah well, I figured, I didn't need another show anyway. But then all manner of my acquaintances, fannish and otherwise, have exploded with love for
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Much of what you say about the adults vs. the kids, incidentally, sort of confirms that this may not be the show for me. I find that I'm usually tremendously uninterested in the high school trope, and in the instances where a show about high schoolers does appeal to me (ie, Friday Night Lights), it's the adult characters I'm really most invested in and find most fascinating. Obviously there's a huge cultural appeal of stories about high school, but it's something that's never really worked for me. (Much in the same way that I don't really get the appeal of vampires. The combination of the two is why I never have and quite possibly never will watch Buffy, no matter how much people love it!)
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I am not fond of Vampires and similarly don't get the appeal (and yet seem to keep watching shows with them in spite of the vampires, which is odd) but I really enjoyed Buffy in spite of the vampires. I can't really speak to the high school aspect since I watched the first few seasons while I was in high school and thus was more disposed to being interested in high school stories.
Not saying you should watch it, just that the vampire thing wasn't, for me, a turnoff despite the lack-of-appeal thing.
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