Any "Buffy" fans out there?

I'll bite... yes I like me some Buffy. I have friends who watched it religiously when it aired, but I never saw a whole episode until a couple months ago. My wife gave birth to our first child, and suddenly we were spending a LOT of time sitting in the living room, feeding or caring for her.

So a friend of ours loaned us the box set. We just started season 5, and so far Buffy Vs Dracula is my absolute least favorite episode of all. The actor who played Dracula was pathetically bad looking, too young, and had a weak fake accent. I've considered the possibility that all that was intentional and part of the joke of the whole episode, that Dracula is B-Movie fare and should be treated as such, but it fell flat for me.

Then I got really annoyed with the next episode wherein Buffy suddenly has a little sister we've never heard of before I do hope the season gets better!

And not to derail, but another Joss Whedon classic is "Firefly," which you should go watch RIGHT NOW if you haven't seen it.

 

No, no, we just started season 5 after having watched every prior season over the last 2 months.

It's weird that Harry Potter and Voldemort would show up in the end of Buffy...

 

i am a huge buffy fan!!! have been for many years. i was so sad when the series was cancelled. i also love the angel series. i have all kinds of weird collectors stuff too...sad, i know. my favorite episodes are 'hush' and 'buffy vs dracula'...but in truth they are all amazing! the fifth season of buffy was kinda sad though...i still watch both shows every morning on sci fi while getting ready for work! FINALLY...more buffy converts!

 

Yep. Buffy fan here. Haven't completed my DVD collection. I was buying a season at a time and got behind.

My favorites?

Buffy: the Musical

The Gentlemen (One where no one talks.)

I also think the one where Buffy deals with the death of her mother is great TV.

Buffy was only nominated for Emmy awards for make-up. It's a shame because it was great writing, great story, great dialogue, great TV. There was a lot more to Buffy than monster-of-the-week.

 

Buffy is some good TV. It seemed to be a bit spotty, with some melodramatic episodes just dragging listlessly to a close, but most of the time it hit with humor and an amazing level of realism for a show based on vampires (the social dynamics felt quite realistic as I watched it in college). As Xander was my favorite character, I like the Zeppo episode the most myself.

You may want to check out Angel too. Not as good as Buffy, but it has its moments (the guest appearance by the Willow character was pretty amusing), and I feel it had a much better ending.

 

Man SMG was sooooo HOTTTT...



I watched all the seasons

Now I've moved on to Enterprise..

 

I agree, The Gentlemen and the Musical are the two best episodes. Another interesting one is where we can't tell which one is reality, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Buffy the insane girl. These writers were of the same ilk of the Zena TV show (there are many similarities: multiple strong women in fantasy/adventure genre). They knew how to create a good story without taking themselves too seriously as evidenced with the episode where Zander is the central hero while the others are shown in farsical-over-dramatized side story. Although the Zena writers get originality points for being the first to turn an episode into a musical, I think the Buffy writers did a better job of it. Sadly, I don't think there's anything out there since that has the same level of humor and creativity as Buffy the Vampire Slayer.



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I think the most impressive thing about the Musical is that Josh Whedon also wrote the lyrics and music. In my book that puts him on the same level as Mel Brooks at the very least.