Why do people like this show???
POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Monday, January 1, 2007 20:10
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Hey, I hope you're not talking about me, because I'm not a member of the minority sex.
OMG! How sexist of my brain! Bad brain, bad!
....at least I wasn't visiting your intentions
Be glad of that. Be very glad.
I disagree with the people who say you should watch it from the beginning. I think you can skip season 1 if you want to (although I wouldn't), but whether you do or not, I advise with first watching an episode from a later season. The first episode of Buffy I ever saw was Wish, from season 3, and that impressed me with the worth of the series enough to want to watch it all. If I had started with season 1 I might have given it up as another 'Charmed' knock-off.
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Well, I keep trying to take all your words for this show, and I keep watching it; i'm into the 4th season now, but I still think its the dumbest show on the face of the earth.
I simply don't understand how trash like Buffy stayed on the air for so long and primo shows like Firefly gets the axe in short order after only 14 episodes; it numbs the mind.
The fact that Buffy the vampire Slayer has such a huge following also blows me away; what's the matter with you people? This show is meant for pre-puberty types, that's the only thing I can think of that would make it popular. I can't imagine anyone over 18 liking it very much.
I really am sorry for knocking your show; its very clear to me that you people love it very much, and in a way I am jealous because you got season after season of Buffy, and I only got 14 episodes of my show, and then kicked to the curb...and when I really thought it was all over, I got a movie, just to find out that it was just put together so Joss could afford to make Wonder Woman; I am so angry and this crap is SO unfair
I hope he screws up Wonder Woman.
Its actually rather evil when you think of it. There is not much to shake a stick at on television, but every now and then something intelligent comes on the boob-tube and thats when I take an interests in it, just to have it yanked off the air and replaced with some thoughtless garbage.
I hate all of life and I especially hate Joss, who seems to get off playing with people heads.
This is all so depressing...I'm going back to bed.
River steps away from the table...
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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
The fact that Buffy the vampire Slayer has such a huge following also blows me away; what's the matter with you people? This show is meant for pre-puberty types, that's the only thing I can think of that would make it popular. I can't imagine anyone over 18 liking it very much.
To each his own I guess. I am a male 55 years old, and I like Buffy and Angel quite a bit. Firefly is my favorite series of all time, but I think Angel is definitely on my top 10 list, and Buffy very nearly is. So you don't like it, fine, but it doesn't alter my opinion.
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If you hate so much after watching four seasons of it why are you still watching it? Obviously it's not your thing, which is fine.
You shouldn't call it "trash" though, because it really isn't. You may not like the show, but it isn't "crap." If it was I don't think there would be classes at universities dedicated to disecting the metaphors and deeper meanings of this one little show.
I understand that you didn't like it, and not everyone does, but please don't insult it.
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I didnt say I hated it, I said I didnt like it all that much and was confused why people liked it.
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I’m sorry you don’t care for the show, River6213, but you’re coming off a bit too combative here. The show you claim is “made for pre-puberty types” sure has attracted a lot of attention from University Professors analyzing its impressive exploration of philosophy, religion, and the human through its metaphors. Don’t believe me? Check out Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, http://www.slayage.tv. Just because you can’t see the depth, the meaning, the realism, doesn’t mean it’s not there. So it’s not your cup of tea, that’s fine. But “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is not without merit for audiences of all ages.
And I think your understanding of the situation regarding Whedon’s other projects is very misinformed. Whedon did not make Serenity just so he could do Wonder Woman. Universal bought the film rights to “Firefly” in September 2003, Serenity was officially greenlit in March 2004. Filming for Serenity began in May, I think, and was over by early September 2004. Serenity was already *filmed* when the rumors about Wonder Woman started swirling (December 2004). Whedon did not officially accept the Wonder Woman project until March 2005. So, the two projects have nothing to do with each other; Whedon didn’t made Serenity so he could go on to greater things--he made Serenity because he loves the universe, the characters, the story, and the browncoats. And he decided to do Wonder Woman because there was no fixed release date for the film, no deadline--so that he would still have time to be involved in other projects, like a Serenity sequel or the proposed Buffyverse telemovies (though I guess now they might be direct-to-DVD). So, Joss made the BDM out of his love for it, not for jaded career-advancement--and he has deliberately kept his schedule open, holding back his career, so he can be able to return to the ‘verse if the opportunity presents itself. I really feel your “hatred” of this guy--who time and time again has come through for the browncoats--is misplaced.
And remember, if Wonder Woman does well, Joss could get enough clout to help push through his other proects--like more of the ‘verse.
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The first season was really only like a half
season.
The production values get a major boost
from the start of Season 3 when they first
started shooting 35mm instead of 16mm.
This was now a grown-up show with a grown-up
budget for a grown-up audience.
For me the Buffy/Angel verse is one great
epic and the best fictional creation of the
second half of the 20th century.
It achieved an entire understandable world
in a way that The X-files NEVER did and in fact
Chris Carter screwd his audience in a way Joss
at least on TV never did.
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For those who don't like the high school aspects, that starts to drop off around season. . . 5? 6? Whenever, but they do graduate and end up having to face adulthood.
And, frankly, anyone who claims to have gotten through high school without being traumatized and/or mentally scarred is probably lying, so there should be at least some sympathy. (Unless you were lucky enough to be one of the Cool Kids, in which case. . . well, just go away. ;) )
Plus, even in the high school days, there's Giles, who could just about carry his own show (especially with Xander as his comedic sidekick).
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For those who don't like the high school aspects, that starts to drop off around season. . . 5? 6? Whenever, but they do graduate and end up having to face adulthood.
And, frankly, anyone who claims to have gotten through high school without being traumatized and/or mentally scarred is probably lying, so there should be at least some sympathy. (Unless you were lucky enough to be one of the Cool Kids, in which case. . . well, just go away. ;) )
Plus, even in the high school days, there's Giles, who could just about carry his own show (especially with Xander as his comedic sidekick).
Also, I would say that "high school" is just a setting. If anyone actually attends a high school anything like they are shown on film, I feel very sorry for them... To me, the show being set in a high school is similar to a show set in an office: just a way to get the desired characters into the same setting and have them interact.
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it's wonderful if you like mythology, the axiomatic savior who confronts the dark and dank evil that threatens us all-only the dark and dank things have faboo personalities and delightful oneliners! One of my favorite things about the series is how it takes..well it twisted and funny and joyously warped ex. the covert government agency which tracks hunts and traps demons vampires all the baddies and attempts to harness their powers as a weapon well then they tred across Buffy the Vampire slayers path of course there is awe disbelief etc. that a tiny chick is taking care of all this bad business and the head of the covert operation says to her 'ithought you we're a myth and Buffy's response 'well you were myth-taken' oh how drole pardon my blithering i just took a sleeping pill and i should be sleeping rather than typing goodnight!
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