Wait a minute. Are you guys saying they made a TV series out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Was it as good as the movie?
I respectfully request that Little Nemo be made to stand in the corner.
Wasn’t she in both Scooby Doo movies?
According toIMDB, she has done 13 things since Buffy ended, including voice work. Not like she needs the money or anything. But she does seem to have dropped off the radar. No biggie. She was way down the list of “Best Things About Buffy” anyway. Right below Clem, I believe.
Well of course she was in the first “Grudge.”
I’m working through the series right now with some friends of mine (who are breaking up, so they better remember that I retain custody of the box sets). We just watched the second half of the Faith/Buffy body switch, so almost exactly at the halfway point for those of us who live in the universe where there was not only a season 6 and a season 7 but ones that contained a fair number of good episodes. I think it holds up well for the overwhelming majority of it, with the occasional unfortunate reference along the lines of “James Spader.” “He needs to call me!” But then, that was an unfortunate reference back in 1997.
That sequence alone should put to rest any questions about whether or not Sarah or Eliza could act. Each having to play the other playing their character, and they pulled it off flawlessly.
Could not agree more, especially the scene with “Faith” and Giles. E.D. was letter-perfect.
Not sure why people diss season 7 (which I am right in the middle of revisiting). James Marsters’ acting is worth the price of admission alone. Season 6 wasn’t all that bad either, tho I can see why people might hate it (and here is was Alyson’s time to shine), between the trio and all the angsty crap many of the regulars were doing (but it was all still consistent with their characters). Some of the best moments in the history of network television occur in this series.
Sorry if this is a very “middle school” kind of question, but does this show aimed at women, or just appeal primarily to women? It was big when I was in college, but I only ever heard women talking about it. They raved about it, but again, it was only women – I never heard a man mention it until very recently (and I don’t know the gender of anyone posting in this thread). So would most men like it as well??
I hear women rave about “Gilmore Girls” as well, but I’m not too interested in that show either… :dubious:
Neither, in my opinion. Most of the cast is female and its strongly feminist but I’ve never noticed any kind of bias towards women in either its writing or its fanbase.
My husband loves the show. About half the posters in this thread are male.
FWIW my 13 year old niece loves Buffy. Not a big Angel fan, though.
It’s funny - now that we’re in Season 4, it seems the writers remember college a lot better than high school. We kept wondering why on earth they bothered writing high school students when it was clear they were from some alien planet where everybody went into suspended animation rather than go to high school.
I mean, yeah, they wanted to focus on the kids - but remember in high school how people’s parents really mattered? And what they did and how much money people had and how welcome they were to their kids’ friends? As far as we can tell, Xander might be an orphan except that now he’s living in the orphanage’s basement! Also, they’re totally willing to pull complete and total character travesties to get the episode they want, and that irritates us. (Either they write Giles better or Anthony Stewart Head doesn’t let them get away with anything. Even in a shitty episode you can count on Giles.)
A lot of the plotlines hinged on Buffy or the Scoobies being incommunicado while walking to a fight. On many occasions I wondered “Why doesn’t the Council of Watchers buy that poor girl a car and/or a cell phone?”
The cell phone question would seem a lot more glaring today than in the late 90s, although the things had certainly been invented back then. It just seemed odd in 1998 that she didn’t have one; today, it would strain an audience’s credulity a lot more.
I was the first true fan in our family, getting hooked partway through season 1. The rest of the family got hooked around season 3. During seasons 6-7 we joined Angel in midswing. God I miss those shows.
For the last couple of summers we’ve kinda had “themes” of videos we rented and watched as a family. Last year was Austen/Bronte. We had already suggested the possibility of doing Star Trek TOS this summer. May have to add in BTVS as well.
Buffy does have a beeper in a season 1 episode. (“If the apocalypse comes, beep me.”) But I don’t think 1998 was too late not to have a cell phone. I know I was a little behind the curve, but I didn’t get my first cell phone until 2001.
By season 7, everyone has cell phones, but I can’t remember exactly when they appeared.
OTOH, Angel has a cell phone (which he usually forgets that he has/has no idea how to use) in the first season of Angel. Which began in, let me think…1999.
No, I don’t, actually. I never met most of my friends’ parents, or interacted with them much beyond, “Hi, Mrs. Smith, how are you today?” - they were working or we were skulking in the basement. My own mother worked, so even though I wasn’t supposed to have people over while she was gone, we did a lot of skulking in my basement anyway. Parents were completely and utterly irrelevant to us in high school once we could drive, and an unfortunate necessity before we could drive. The only impact they made was to be really annoying and decide to get involved and parental at the worst possible time - like when you had to go out [del]and save the world[/del] to hold your friend’s hand at the abortion clinic/ stop a friend from doing drugs at a party/ attend the social event of the season and **that **was when Mom suddenly decided to enforce that curfew she’d looked the other way on for months.
So, yeah, basically the Joyce/Buffy dynamic and the absence of the other kids’ parents rang completely true for me. Mom’s trying too hard to be “involved” when it’s inconvenient, and no where to be found when you really would like her help.
I was raised by a single mother. I’m 32.
I never saw a single episode of Buffy on TV. I dismissed it as a ridiculous show for teen-agers, and wasn’t even aware of how popular it was. It wasn’t until Serenity came out that I discovered Firefly and Buffy and Angel, and I love all of them. So does my husband. I’m waiting for my son to get a little older so he can watch them.
The musical episode was outstanding, as was the last episode of season 4. As for the mythical 7th season, the one episode I really had to give him credit for was:
Four or five episodes in, the piece where Willow was out of phase with the rest of the world: the three seconds after we realized that Spike’s insane ramblings were actually his holding coherent conversations with invisible people were the best of the season.
Also, a fun piece of trivia for those of you who’ve seen season 4:
The scene where Spike tries and fails to kill Willow right after recieving his chip was a really, really mean prank that Whedon and his writers played on the fans. Apparently a rumor got started that Willow was going to die during season 4, and became really well-known. Whedon had no idea where it came from, but just to fuck with the people who believed it he sat the other writers down and said “Alright, if we were going to kill her at this point in the story, how would we do it?”
So the entire scene was filmed as if it were serious. I enjoyed that.
Also, nominations for best episodes?
Hush
Once More With Feeling
Restless
I have to say, I enjoyed those three the best.
Especially since Hush was nominated for the Best Dialogue emmy. 
So you mean you hung out at people’s houses instead of spending all your time in the only place in town to go, which happens to be a club? With that mysterious money you always have? Go figure.
We went to a lot of movies and coffeeshops and stuff, but before cars especially our lives revolved around different houses. We weren’t welcome at A’s house, we were definately very welcome at mine, sometimes at S’s, D was a little embarassed to have us over to his place because it wasn’t very nice and his mom was kinda crazy, etc.