My wife and I just started a watch-through of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It took a few appearances before I noticed, then had to look it up. The shows overlapped for about 2 years.
I had a similar reaction on my second playthrough of Bioshock when I realized Andrew Ryan was also Quark.
I love that one episode where Sisko is, like… Seeing the past where he was a writer at a magazine or something in the 50’s on Earth. You get to see pretty much every alien cast member without the alien makeup. Including Jeffery Combs as random FBI Agent.
I know Principal Flutie would have said, ‘Kids need understanding. Kids are human beings.’ That’s the kind of woolly-headed, liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.
Probably my favourite principal Snyder quote.
And ‘boss Nox’ in SG-1
(Yes the character probably had a name. No I don’t remember it)
Antaeus, for anyone curious.
Is buffy (still?) good? I’ve never watched it, but everyone around me at the time was into it.
I still regularly go back and watch at least “Once More With Feeling,” (the musical episode) if not the whole show, once a year.
It mostly holds up.
Some of the tropes it started seem less interesting than they were when it was on the air, but not too bad.
Some of the too glib slang usage is a bit more immersion breaking when binge watched, but I think that would be less intrusive for a new viewer compared to one of us old farts that were watching it over years.
There’s high points and low points for sure, but getting any two fans to agree on which seasons/episodes were high or low is difficult lol. I’d say that it’s pretty consistently good overall, with its worst episodes and arcs being better than anything else of the era. It’s high points were and are amazing, even when I’ve seen them dozens of times.
The first season stayed closer to the vibe of the movie, which can be confusing to people that have heard about the series as a whole because the tone and style evolved massively during the second season. The movie, btw, is pretty damn awesome in its own way, but it’s not the same character almost. The vampires are also a lot different.
I always tell anyone asking what you did that it’s worth watching the first two seasons for sure. You kinda have to watch both because the changes by the end of the second season are more like what the rest is like, but you can’t just jump into the second season and the characters/setting make sense.
But, if you aren’t hooked by the second season, you’ll never like the rest.
It’s a little hard to get into because the first season is pretty weak in my opinion. But if you like the characters and stick with it I think you will fall in love. It gets a lot better later when they find their groove and start telling stories with long arcs.
I had a crush on Alyson Hannigan as a kid, so I’m not sure how I never watched Buffy. I can push through a bad first season, I think.
