Comments | agilebrit: All the cool kids are doing it...

agilebrit

All the cool kids are doing it...

Mar 11, 2007 11:06

And while I have no illusions about being one of the "cool kids," I might as well do it as well, even though I'm late to the party. Yes, a Buffy retrospective.

It seems only fitting that I'm late to this party, since I was late to the show and very late to the fandom. See, I'm one of those strange people who really loved the movie beyond all ( Read more... )

firefly, buffy, angel, writing

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crayonbreakygal March 11 2007, 18:32:05 UTC

I too got into the game very late. Season three of Angel late. Angel was what made me fall in love with the whole universe though. I loved Buffy, but it was indeed second place to Angel. I did go back and buy all the DVDs, loving every minute of each show. I too discovered fanfiction on a whim, just one night looking on the internet, bored out of my skull. I needed new stories that the shows weren't providing. This was how I fell in love with Wesley. And here I thought that Angel was my favorite.

Joss sure has made it wonderful for each and every one of us to read some great stories. Thanks for sharing.

baron_waste March 11 2007, 19:01:36 UTC

I'm tickled to read this. Ol' Joss might be too. You ought to find a fan-club site that can actually communicate with him, or at least tell you the name of his agent.

Me, well, as I mentioned, I tried to watch the show, and skated right off it. The self-conscious atmosphere of "Aren't we Cool? Couldn't you just squee at our coolness? As you're told to?" didn't help: It was like a bad combination of Trekkies and 21 Jump Street, with a heaping spoonful of Young Pioneers politically-correct group-think.

We define the good. Absorb. Conform. I think I'll just sit back and outlive that, thank you. (And indeed, has anyone seen Sarah Michelle Whatsername around lately? Dyed her hair, last paparazzi shot I saw of her - or was that C Diaz? These days both are on track to "Hollywood Squares"...)

On the other hand, so it spurs your own efforts, it could be Car 54 Where Are You? - what you do, is what matters.

agilebrit March 11 2007, 19:54:10 UTC

Well, I think the general consensus is that the first season kind of sucked a little. It was still finding its feet, and it was a mid-season replacement, so they didn't even know if it was going to be picked up for another. However, IMO, S2 is made of awesome (because of Spike and Drusilla, naturally), S3 was pretty cool, and S4 and S5 ROCKED. Then S6 and S7 kind of sucked again.

And for me, Angel is still the shining show that died too soon. We needed a S6, dammit. Buffy would have been fine had it ended with S5, but Angel? Nonono. And Angel is the more "adult" show, which is probably why I like it better--it resonates more with me. Buffy was about kids growing up and all that entails, and Angel was more about people who were already grown-up that still had some personal growth issues to deal with ( ... )

baron_waste March 11 2007, 20:51:43 UTC

Thank heavens for Internet search engines. They let me round off the corners of my squareness.

palmaceae March 11 2007, 20:31:24 UTC

I've always loved Angel more than Buffy. My friend got me started on Buffy in S6 and I watched and caught up on reruns, but Angel (S4) captured my heart. I attribute it to the fact that I don't enjoy watching high school based shows, and Angel was definitely more in the adult range. I remember how I first got into fanfiction, desperately searching for buffy/spike, and then getting into lilah/wesley and my motivation for writing fanfic was just to get a story into Notorious, the Lilah archive lol.

bojojoti March 12 2007, 05:13:30 UTC

I didn't start watching anything Whedon until the end of 2004, so I came really late. I didn't realize Firefly was his project, but I watched and told my husband he needed to see this "western in space" but the show jumped around, was pre-empted, and cancelled before he had a chance.

I still haven't seen all of Buffy yet, only a few seasons of Angel, and practically none of Firefly. I am so lucky!

texanfan March 12 2007, 15:21:05 UTC

I came late to Buffy myself. I started with s3. I'm the opposite of you in that Buffy (particularly Xander) is my first love and Angel a second. Firefly blows them both away. Partly because the hubby likes it as much as I do. :)

I'm grateful to Joss for being the impetus for me meeting so many wonderful online friends such as yourself. :)