The first episode I saw was "Puppet Show" during the 1997 summer hiatus. I watched all of S1 that summer in reruns and then watched every episode from there through the end of S7.
Spike/Dru was awesome! Back when Spike was a good bad guy instead of a boring, overused Angel-substitute! (I have Spike issues.)
I watched every episode from summer '97 through to the end. I was discussing with some people last night how to properly get a newbie into it and the debate was can you skip S1 or not (I was emphatically in the "not" column).
I edited my comment so I could rant. And then I killed the comment limit by about 1.5k characters.havocthecatMarch 23 2008, 20:42:36 UTC
Spike/Dru was awesome! Back when Spike was a good bad guy instead of a boring, overused Angel-substitute! (I have Spike issues.)
EXACTLY. Possibly I shouldn't get into my seething, burning hatred of Buffy/Spike. I would rant SO HARD on it.
ETA: So, like, the above was my placeholder, because at the time I typed this, my son was sitting on my lap, and it took me five minutes to get those three sentences typed out. Here's the thing. During second season, I fell hard for Spike and Drusilla, not to mention Dru/Spike, because despite the fact that they were all kinds of fucked up, even before Angelus came back into the picture and woke up all Dru's previously-latent daddy issues (oh, the Freudianism, did we have to go there?), Spike and Dru were actually one of the two devoted couples on the series. (The other was Giles/Jenny, which, not uncoincidentally, I also fell for hard. And I maintain that they were not just devoted, but healthy until the retcon of Jenny's Roma heritage came into play. Argh
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I edited my comment so I could rant. And then I killed the comment limit by about 1.5k characters.havocthecatMarch 24 2008, 13:44:47 UTC
Dru and Spike were. Even with Angelus coming back into play, Dru and Spike were devoted to each other. How else do you explain two soulless, conscienceless creatures who are supposed to be primarily devoted to their own pleasure (vampires are kinda the Freudian definition of the Id personified) going out of their way to take care of each other when the other is almost completely helpless? Which they did. Dru was toying with Angelus, and doing her best to drive Spike and Angelus crazy with jealousy, but she still took care of wheelchair!Spike. She still loved him and he still loved her, inasmuch - or more than - as any vampire could love.
And then? And then? What do we get? We get this absolutely ridiculous bullshit that ends up being "Spike is in love with Buffy." No. No, he isn't. That's not love, for one thing, that's obsession. That's also trying to become like the thing that beat you, so that you can turn around and be stronger than what vanquished your ass. That's a psychological survival mechanism at being captured
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I didn't start watching until after the show ended; I was hooked by a Halloween marathon that I randomly channel-surfed into while waiting for the doorbell to ring. Immediately watched the entire series in order and then bought all the DVDs so I could do it again.
As for the question of where to start a newbie: No, you shouldn't skip S1. No.
ETA: I can't believe I forgot Ethan Rayne in the "favorite other character" question. *fails hardcore*
I was pretty torn on "best season" and "best big bad." I still think that season 2 was the best as far as emotional impact... but season three is very, very, very close second and the Mayor was way more "fun" as a villain.
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The first episode I saw was "Puppet Show" during the 1997 summer hiatus. I watched all of S1 that summer in reruns and then watched every episode from there through the end of S7.
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I watched every episode from summer '97 through to the end. I was discussing with some people last night how to properly get a newbie into it and the debate was can you skip S1 or not (I was emphatically in the "not" column).
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EXACTLY. Possibly I shouldn't get into my seething, burning hatred of Buffy/Spike. I would rant SO HARD on it.
ETA: So, like, the above was my placeholder, because at the time I typed this, my son was sitting on my lap, and it took me five minutes to get those three sentences typed out. Here's the thing. During second season, I fell hard for Spike and Drusilla, not to mention Dru/Spike, because despite the fact that they were all kinds of fucked up, even before Angelus came back into the picture and woke up all Dru's previously-latent daddy issues (oh, the Freudianism, did we have to go there?), Spike and Dru were actually one of the two devoted couples on the series. (The other was Giles/Jenny, which, not uncoincidentally, I also fell for hard. And I maintain that they were not just devoted, but healthy until the retcon of Jenny's Roma heritage came into play. Argh ( ... )
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And then? And then? What do we get? We get this absolutely ridiculous bullshit that ends up being "Spike is in love with Buffy." No. No, he isn't. That's not love, for one thing, that's obsession. That's also trying to become like the thing that beat you, so that you can turn around and be stronger than what vanquished your ass. That's a psychological survival mechanism at being captured ( ... )
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As for the question of where to start a newbie: No, you shouldn't skip S1. No.
ETA: I can't believe I forgot Ethan Rayne in the "favorite other character" question. *fails hardcore*
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