Need Help Converting a Friend to AtS
POSTED BY: Delia
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 21:16
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i agree that angel can be understandable on its own, but it just seems...kinda wrong. i mean, that's cool if u wanna do it, but eps like i will remember you, five by five/sanctuary, and darla would just be so much more meaningful and amazing if you had already seen buffy.
~lissa, spwhore
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I started into the Buffyverse with the first episode of Angel, and I had little problem following what was happening. Occasionally a rather large question would come up, and I'd check on the Internet to look up the information. I started watching Buffy at the same time. I figure half of my questions would have been answered if I had watched "The Graduation Parts 1 &2."
I hope you like Guinness, sir. I find it a refreshing substitute for . . . food.
-Jack O'Neill
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I strongly recommend that you start your friend with Buffy. I know it's kind of daunting because there are three seasons worth of TV to watch (60 hours?), but it really does unfold very purposefully. My one regret about the Whedonverse is that I wish I could go back and watch everything in sequence from start to finish, because there is so much going on that is interrelated. For example, the Spike/Angel/Drusilla/Darla relationship - when you watch the later Angel episodes, you have to understand the Buffy flashbacks to get the full impact of what is happening during the Boxer Rebellion. Harmony, Cordelia, Wesley - they all live in rich, complicated story arcs that deserve to be experienced in full.
Because it's a TV show, people automatically fail to assign it any significance, but these characters rate right up there with any in our mythology or classical literature. They live, they change, they die. It's a saga.
As Mal said, "You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle."
"Why're you arguin' what's already been decided?"
Mal to Jayne, "Jaynestown"
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Phoenixship,
Thanks for the advice, and I totally agree with you, but it's hard to make a 27 year old man who lives in another state do anything he doesn't want to do, and it's not really a question of my "starting" him with anything. It was an effort on my part to get him to wait and start at the beginning of the Angel series (he was all ready to jump head first into the middle of the Connor plotline).
Delia
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