In the two or so years I've had this journal, I don't believe I've ever made a post exclusively about Buffy. So, in honour of finishing my re-watching of season two, here it is.
I was a relative late-comer into the Buffy world. Season six late. I had seen bits and pieces of episodes while flipping through channels and one of my aunts was a huge fan, but the first episode I watched all the way through - and the episode that brought me into the rest of the series - was "Once More, With Feeling", affectionately known as the musical episode. After hearing one of my friends at high school raving about it and reading a very positive review on Sci-Fi Weekly, I decided to give it a watch when UPN re-aired the musical episode [I think it was about two weeks after the original airing].
Despite being somewhat confused by who all the characters were and the plotlines that had led up to that point, I thoroughly enjoyed the episode and continued with the rest of season six, using weekends and the summer between seasons six and seven to watch almost all of the earlier episodes through reruns.
Starting so late in the series, I was rather partial to Spike and Tara, as opposed to Angel and Oz. Thus, my first time through the early seasons, I watched the episodes while still in a later-season mindset and didn't understand or appreciate them on their own merits.
By the time season seven started, however, I had had enough exposure to the earlier seasons to know that Buffy could be better than this. I have never liked the seventh season, though to be fair, it is the only season I haven't re-watched; it was hard enough watching it the first time through. The only two scenes that I still vividly remember enjoying from it are the one with Spike burning on the cross [in "Beneath You"?] and the D&D game in the series finale. Well, three; the 'we are as gods' scene with the prancing in the fields was pretty funny.
After a year of watching Buffy, I already had my season preferences. Season five my favourite, followed by four and six. Not that there weren't things I didn't like in those seasons - I've never cared for Riley or Anya and Dawn is by far my most disliked character - and not that there weren't episodes from other seasons that I did like ["Passion", for instance], but it was what I was comfortable with.
It's only in the past year or so that I've come to deeply appreciate and love Buffy's early seasons. Really love them. Season two has become my favourite, followed by season one. After that's season four [how could you not, with episodes like "Hush", "Pangs", and "Restless"?], then three, followed by five, six, and ending with seven. It's almost a complete turn-around; funny how time will change your perspective like that.
"That's everything, huh? No weapons, no friends, no hope. Take all that away . . . and what's left?"
"Me."
--Angelus and Buffy; "Becoming, Part II"
In other news, I'm behind on comments and journals. Again. Will hopefully be rectified tomorrow.
I was a relative late-comer into the Buffy world. Season six late. I had seen bits and pieces of episodes while flipping through channels and one of my aunts was a huge fan, but the first episode I watched all the way through - and the episode that brought me into the rest of the series - was "Once More, With Feeling", affectionately known as the musical episode. After hearing one of my friends at high school raving about it and reading a very positive review on Sci-Fi Weekly, I decided to give it a watch when UPN re-aired the musical episode [I think it was about two weeks after the original airing].
Despite being somewhat confused by who all the characters were and the plotlines that had led up to that point, I thoroughly enjoyed the episode and continued with the rest of season six, using weekends and the summer between seasons six and seven to watch almost all of the earlier episodes through reruns.
Starting so late in the series, I was rather partial to Spike and Tara, as opposed to Angel and Oz. Thus, my first time through the early seasons, I watched the episodes while still in a later-season mindset and didn't understand or appreciate them on their own merits.
By the time season seven started, however, I had had enough exposure to the earlier seasons to know that Buffy could be better than this. I have never liked the seventh season, though to be fair, it is the only season I haven't re-watched; it was hard enough watching it the first time through. The only two scenes that I still vividly remember enjoying from it are the one with Spike burning on the cross [in "Beneath You"?] and the D&D game in the series finale. Well, three; the 'we are as gods' scene with the prancing in the fields was pretty funny.
After a year of watching Buffy, I already had my season preferences. Season five my favourite, followed by four and six. Not that there weren't things I didn't like in those seasons - I've never cared for Riley or Anya and Dawn is by far my most disliked character - and not that there weren't episodes from other seasons that I did like ["Passion", for instance], but it was what I was comfortable with.
It's only in the past year or so that I've come to deeply appreciate and love Buffy's early seasons. Really love them. Season two has become my favourite, followed by season one. After that's season four [how could you not, with episodes like "Hush", "Pangs", and "Restless"?], then three, followed by five, six, and ending with seven. It's almost a complete turn-around; funny how time will change your perspective like that.
"Me."
--Angelus and Buffy; "Becoming, Part II"
In other news, I'm behind on comments and journals. Again. Will hopefully be rectified tomorrow.
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