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Watched some more Buffy today.
I realised why I get confused about what episodes come where re: S2 and 3. When it was aired in the UK on BBC 2 (as opposed to Syfy), S2 was split for some reason that escapes me. So, I had it in my head that the episode where Jenny is killed by Angel was the end of S2. (Though why I thought the Judge was in S3 is a mystery unto itself). ANYWAY. That was the middle of S2 - which will have been where the BBC stopped showing it for whatever reason. I remember seeing the rest of the series when I was living on my own in Wales (the final episode I saw today - Go Fish - gives me strong flashbacks to then, for whatever reason. Brains are weird).
Also I don't know if I noticed it more this week because I'd already mentioned it last week but holy heck Xander treats people in a really shitty way. I honestly don't know why I used to like him back then (he used to get compared to Chandler (Friends) a lot back then, and I don't even find Xander funny any more. I don't know that I would with Chandler, though, since I have little to no desire to ever watch an episode of Friends EVER again).
Talking of shitty characters, if I ever tell you that I like Riley, what I mean is that I like S4 Riley. S5 and beyond Riley doesn't exist to me (I was SO MAD about that, let me tell you. I can't remember a lot about S5, save that I thought it was kind of boring, and they wrecked Riley for me).
P.S. Tagging spoilers because![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
helvetica has started watching Buffy for the first time today, and I don't know what she knows re: anything. Hence the warning for the rather large spoiler above, and the following one.
In one of the eps, I forget which now, Xander totally hipster'd the rest of the Scoobies when he said (paraphrasing somewhat), "Yeah, well, I hated Angel well before you all jumped on the bandwagon!"
Yes, Xander, you did. Because you were JEALOUS OF HIM.
I think I might have to buy all the seasons on DVD so I can watch it when my mum doesn't have to endure it with me (she watched it with me when it aired*, but I know she's not into it). The boxset is a fairly reasonable price, so I'll just have to hope it stays that way till I have some cash.
(Today I learnt that I am among that rare breed (apparently!) that saw the movie first and then went on to watch the TV show. I can still remember my mum telling me about that - I was all heavy sighs and, "OH I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE AS GOOD AS THE FILM!" because I was a teenager. And here we are exty years later and the TV show is my favourite magical girl thing ever, and I haven't seen the film in forever...)
These paragraphs are only related to each other in that they're all about Buffy, so apologies if this entry feels somewhat disjointed. I'm going to go off and finish readingruuger's old entries about the show, because I'm having enormous fun doing so.
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*So much so we had a running joke about calling it Fluffy the Rabbit Slayer. Really. I. I don't actually know why.
I realised why I get confused about what episodes come where re: S2 and 3. When it was aired in the UK on BBC 2 (as opposed to Syfy), S2 was split for some reason that escapes me. So, I had it in my head that the episode where Jenny is killed by Angel was the end of S2. (Though why I thought the Judge was in S3 is a mystery unto itself). ANYWAY. That was the middle of S2 - which will have been where the BBC stopped showing it for whatever reason. I remember seeing the rest of the series when I was living on my own in Wales (the final episode I saw today - Go Fish - gives me strong flashbacks to then, for whatever reason. Brains are weird).
Also I don't know if I noticed it more this week because I'd already mentioned it last week but holy heck Xander treats people in a really shitty way. I honestly don't know why I used to like him back then (he used to get compared to Chandler (Friends) a lot back then, and I don't even find Xander funny any more. I don't know that I would with Chandler, though, since I have little to no desire to ever watch an episode of Friends EVER again).
Talking of shitty characters, if I ever tell you that I like Riley, what I mean is that I like S4 Riley. S5 and beyond Riley doesn't exist to me (I was SO MAD about that, let me tell you. I can't remember a lot about S5, save that I thought it was kind of boring, and they wrecked Riley for me).
P.S. Tagging spoilers because
helvetica has started watching Buffy for the first time today, and I don't know what she knows re: anything. Hence the warning for the rather large spoiler above, and the following one.In one of the eps, I forget which now, Xander totally hipster'd the rest of the Scoobies when he said (paraphrasing somewhat), "Yeah, well, I hated Angel well before you all jumped on the bandwagon!"
Yes, Xander, you did. Because you were JEALOUS OF HIM.
I think I might have to buy all the seasons on DVD so I can watch it when my mum doesn't have to endure it with me (she watched it with me when it aired*, but I know she's not into it). The boxset is a fairly reasonable price, so I'll just have to hope it stays that way till I have some cash.
(Today I learnt that I am among that rare breed (apparently!) that saw the movie first and then went on to watch the TV show. I can still remember my mum telling me about that - I was all heavy sighs and, "OH I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE AS GOOD AS THE FILM!" because I was a teenager. And here we are exty years later and the TV show is my favourite magical girl thing ever, and I haven't seen the film in forever...)
These paragraphs are only related to each other in that they're all about Buffy, so apologies if this entry feels somewhat disjointed. I'm going to go off and finish reading
ruuger's old entries about the show, because I'm having enormous fun doing so.~
*So much so we had a running joke about calling it Fluffy the Rabbit Slayer. Really. I. I don't actually know why.
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