OK. I’m prolly stupid, but I’ve just spent $220 on seasons 1+2 on DVD. It’s not my fault really. It’s you guys.
I brushed off the series when it started, because I found the movie to be so-so. After seeing the hype on this board, I went on a shopping spree and got the first series.
Hooked.
Today I got season 2. Six discs, 22 episodes. ARrrrghhh. I can afford this, but should I really be spending that much moneys on this?
Also, I’m 16 years senior to Ms. Gellar. Am I weird to think she’s an absolute babe? Soes it make me a dirty old man?
Or are the fans actually composed of Dirty Old Men and tenage girls?
ARRRGH! again.
::writing on the black board a 100 times::
“I must remember to preview and spellcheck. I must remember to preview and spellcheck. I must…”
That’s funny. Season 1 and 2 I can get from Circuit City for a total of $70.
Oh, import markup. Give thanks to George Bush for that.
Anyway, relax about being a dirty old man. The women in the show are in their mid to late 20’s (and Charisma Carpenter, who plays Cordelia, will be 32 in two weeks after this upcoming Tuesday).
Besides, you can’t go wrong with Kristine Sutherland.
Well, seasons two was $140. If I ordered it from Amazon, it’s $45, plus shipping, handling, import fees, sales-tax. I’ll end up paying a bit over $100 and get it in a month. It was worth $40 not having to wait and just pop down to the very good sf and fantasy store with the subway and get it in a little over an hour.
I love that you’re concerned with being 16 years older than SMG, yet two of her boyfriends in the series are a good 200+ years her senior. Maybe I’m the only one that find that funny, but as far as pedophiles go, you’ve got nothing on Angel.
I’m glad you didn’t have the problem I had when I bought them this weekend. Season one’s set had three disks- disk one, disk two and disk one. Apparently it happened to one other person who bought it at the same story, and they cheerfully exchanged it. I was un-thrilled to drive back to the store which is 25 miles away, but now I’m all set.
Not really, there are many dirty young men and women in their 20’s to 40’s who watch it too. I think the target demo is 12-30 though.
[BuffyBot]Angel’s lame. His hair sticks straight up. [/BuffyBot].
Now Spike…
He’s a dish.
In all seriousness, even when I first started watching the reruns on FX a few months ago, I wasn’t all that impressed with Angel. He always struck me as a plot device- give the Slayer a vampire lover to create tension, then yank his soul after she shags him…
FX is about midway through Season Two, maybe a bit farther now, and the wheelchair-bound Spike is starting to show some depth to his personality than Angel never had. Angel with a soul was pretty much, brood, suck face with Buffy, brood some more. Soulless Angelus is pretty much just snide, sneering and cruel. The soulless Spike had more range of emotion. He ranges from broody to ecstatic, and James Marsters carries this character off far better than David Boreanaz did Angel (never watched Angel, btw, not really interested. The dude just doesn’t do anything for me.)
Plus, I’m getting a real kick out of watching Spike hatch plots to kill Buffy, knowing that he’s going to end up in the sack with her four seasons later.
I know! That’s great! My all time favorite line is from Innocence “I have to tell you, I got tired of seeing you be the slayer’s lap dog.” Kills me every time.
Mmmmmmm. Spike.
Well I’ll be dipped in shit! According to the IMDB, you are correct. I cannot believe that woman is actually ~5 months older than I am. Suddenly I feel all young and stuff :D.
That’s so weird! I just checked out the IMDB too, and it looks like most of the cast – at least the cast playing teenagers – is actually around my age. The most surprising thing on there, IMO, is that the actress who played Ms. Calendar is around the same age, too. I always just assumed that all the main cast were around Sarah-Michelle Gellar’s age.
It was usually that I’d be getting into the show, thinking myself squarely in the target audience for a supernatural soap opera/sci-fi/comedy series, when they’d do something to throw me for a loop and make me feel like a dirty old man – they’d show a gravestone with a date of birth that was 10 years after I was born, or they’d have an episode reminding us that the kids aren’t yet old enough to drink, or something like that.
Wow I’m 6 years younger than Charisma!! She is aging gracefully.
::stands up behind doofy group therapy chair::
My names leechbabe, i’m 26 year old female and I love BtVS
I’ve been watching since the first episode. Even got accused of being a lesbian by one guy I dumped because he thought I watched BtVS to often. Mind you if I was to change my sexual orientation that Willow would be the one to do it for me.
My SO just went out and bought seasons 1 & 2 for my on DVD cost was Australia $60 per box of 3 DVD’s (or half a season). Fortunatly for us he works at an A.V. store so we get staff discounts on things like the DVD player :).
Nope, 38 year old hetero female here and I find Buffy to be adorable. I have to say though that she was a lot cuter in the first couple of seasons when he face was not quite so angular.
I started watching Buffy around April of this year on FX from 7am to 8am and 6pm to 8pm (reruns).
Damn that Buffy, she is the reason why my daughter stopped taking the bus to school (I/she would miss the end of the episode).
Oh, and Giles is my love God (it must be the glasses). That is all.
As much as I adore Spike, my biggest sex crush is on Giles…probably because I see him as attainable. Spike is so out of my league that my thing for him transcends sex, kinda the way I feel about Bowie. But Giles? Growl… baby c’mere and let me do you right…
Wow, you’re right, they are a lot older (3-7 yrs) than her on the whole, besides Amber. I knew that SMG was right around my age- I’m 4 days older- but I never looked up anyone else’s age before.
So are people around 30 playing 20 more or less warped than people in their early to mid 20s playing 18/19? Who’d of thought that Buffy would have a bigger age gap between the show and reality than Dawson’s Creek?
