Okay, if the next sentence makes you want to mock me mercilessly, you should walk away: I adore Buffy. Adore it more than every other show I’ve ever watched combined. I’m not a fangirl, dressing up like characters and writing fanfic, but I love it exactly to that line. There are weeks when I look at what’s on television and I want to ask Joss Whedon why he’s forsaken me, why he took Buffy away. If you like the show, you’ll understand and I don’t need to explain about all the amazing ass-kicking coolness and fighting and wit and laughter and brilliantly clever plotlines and GENERAL BADASSITYNESS and if you don’t like the show (or worse, have never seen it and just assume you don’t like it because you’re a snob), then this will make no sense to you. But:
I just watched Serenity.
And tonight, I can go to sleep in a world of which Joss Whedon is once again a part. And on Monday, I’ll get three of the four discs of Firefly in the mail from holy Netflix. And my banishment into the darkness is over.
So if you know what I mean, you know what I MEAN. If you don’t, well, then I guess you’re exactly where I am when people start foaming at the mouth for Star Trek. I don’t need Star Trek, much as I love the geeks around me who do. But I do need Whedon. And DAMNIT MAN, I’ve got him back.
Open bracket, back slash, GEEK, close bracket, and goodnight.
I got both the movie and the series for Christmas, and I tell you what – cant get enough.
Yay for beloved Netflix – that’s how I got hooked on the show too.
Have you tried watching Veronica Mars? The co-creator used to work for Joss Whedon and it has a similar style. It’s also got rabid “Buffy-like” fans, so I apologize in advance if that last sentence was incorrect in any way!
took you long enough!
yes, it’s an amazing show. we own it, and we’ve watched all the episodes many times. although i adore buffy, i think firefly’s even better.
you do realize that joss whedon will be a part of your world for a very short period of time, since there’s only a half a season? just prepare yourself for that all-too-soon loss.
Megan – I haven’t watched VM, and not because I don’t think I’ll like it, but just because there’s some other show I like that conflicts with it. I will check it out, though, one of these days.
For all the Buffy fans out there: I have a question. Does it get a lot better after the pilot? I have heard so many great things about the series that I rented the first DVD, but the pilot seemed a little cheesy.
can i watch firefly with you? my mom says i’ll like it.
Jaime – get past the first episode. I swear. You can sit there and mock the plot all you want but you’ll get into the characters. Especially in seasons 3-6. So stick with it.
Shana – that is THE EXACT OPPOSITE COMMENT I WAS EXPECTING FROM YOU. I was all, “watch, Stuart, Shana’s going to make some comment about what a snob she is and how she never watches televsion.” Always keeping me on my toes, you.
you are in for such a treat… firefly is the best.
I finished Firefly on Friday and watched Serenity afterwards, also for the first time. Shiny!
You will love the series and be happy you watched it and then very very irritated that one season is all you get. F*ck the networks anyway.
Glad you enjoyed it.
M.
i don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that it’s unintentional!
but you forget – i’m a born and bred trekkie. i had a standing date with a high school boyfriend, who’d come over every week and watch another sf show with me and my mom. and i apparently have never told you about my minor obsession with dark angel, either.
No you did NOT, miss “oh I NEVER watch TV, hee hee”. Welcome down to ground level and come on over for firefly.
i naever watched on TEEVEE.. just the dvd.
yay!
should have watched the TV show before the movie!!
But yes, I love love love Buffy, and Firefly/Serenity.
My boyfriend is also a Joss Whedon nut – he has said on occasion that if he had unlimited money, one of the first things he’d do would be to give JW his own tv channel which he (Joss, not Jake) would have total control over.
Personally my big geek thing is the Myst games, novels etc.. but that’s another story.
If and when I work out in the mornings (which is hardly every day, but is several times a week) I watch an episode of Buffy on DVD while I do. Jeff and I got into this habit since it’s on FX at 7am anyway, but I prefer to watch them at my own pace. And I tell ya, it is the ONLY thing that keeps me going on the elliptical.
I was never into Buffy or Angel before I met Jeff, but he got me hooked, so we watched them all on DVD and when we finished with Buffy, I felt a void. And oh man, when we finished watching the Firefly DVDs, I REALLY felt a void, probably because the end was not really an end. But I actually missed those characters afterward. Like friends who had moved to a faraway place where there are no telephones or post offices or computers. So, if you’re a freak, I’m one, too.
Oh! Firefly! Oh! Totally fantastic! I’m still geeking out and watching my DVDs every night. I mean, I love Buffy but Firefly is just….shiny!
I love, love, love Firefly! I get so sad when I watch a kickass episode and realise that they cancelled it
I need more cap’ain in my life!!
Ehem… I think I might be a geek too
Season 6? That was the worst season. And I like the pilot. I watched it when it first aired and the line “Willow, it looks like you’ve discovered the softer side of Sears” hooked me for life.
Not that I would know anything about this, but Whedon is going to write a Buffy comic series that he calls “Season 8,” which continues the story.
Well, when you’re done with Firefly, at least there’s still Joss Whedon’s masterful “Alien: Resurrection” script for you to, uh, enjoy, or something.
Conrad, wipe that mock right off your face!
Greg, where’s this comic book, then? And I liked season six. Wasn’t that the one where Willow goes bananas? That’s my favourite.
Krissa, I do not watch Buffy or even Star Trek, and J has me totally hooked on Firefly. Totally. One episode won’t play and I’m all upset about it. We’re about 2 away from finishing the last disc, then Serentity, here we come!
Comic is still in the planning stages. I thought Season 6 was dark and whiny without the humor and pacing of the earlier seasons. Season 7 dragged too. I haven’t bothered to pick up either season yet on DVD.
HAHAHAHAHA
the geek hierarchy is awesome
I’m with Greg. I stopped caring when Willow became a crazy wiccan crackho. And also, I watched the first episode of the seventh season out of order, and that sort of inhibited me from ever wanting to get much farther.
yeah, i love buffy, but season 7 sucked. you didn’t miss much. just a lot of needless speechifying and a computer-generated undead army.
I think, objectively, seasons 3-5 were better than 6 and 7 but emotionally, I was already so attached to the show that I didn’t care if it was starting to get too dramatic. I’ve always thought Buffy herself was a whining holier-than-thou brat, so that didn’t change.
And I hated all her romantic entanglements until Spike (god, ANGEL, SHUT UP), which is another reason I liked 6-7. Also, hello, Once More With Feeling is in 6.
As an aside, since we’re talking about DVDs, I’ve dropped massive hints to Stuart about how I want slash need to own the entire series on DVD. Think he’s noticed yet?
Krissa, I’m de-lurking for this post. It’s always weird when I randomly come across another person who loves Firefly. I find them in the oddest places. I did everything backwards–saw ‘Serenity’, then decided to netflix ‘Firefly’ (and then bought the series so I could watch it whenever I wanted), and now I’m starting to watch ‘Buffy’. I’m not sure about it, but I’ve only seen the first season. Its going to get better, right?
Pardon, sorry, what?
Joss Whedon says Veronica Mars is his favorite show. It’s pretty darn good too, but of course, it is no buffy.
Yes, Buffy does get better after the pilot. Don’t expect season 1 to be all flashy, remember it filmed way back when and without any budget, just listen to the dialogue. It’s all good.
My husband and I are complete Joss Whedon geeks. We own all of the DVD’s – Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Serenity….and the comic books for all the shows. Yep. Complete dorks…and we watched 2 episodes of season 4 Buffy tonight.
I cry every Tuesday night at 9pm for Buffy.
Hey Krissa – remember when we watched new eps together on the phone but for some reason your’s was, like, 3 seconds ahead of mine? It drove me crazy because you’d start cracking up before I even heard the line! Ahh… those were the days. The only show that gets me juiced for new eps even remotely like Buffy is Lost, and while I love Lost for what it is, it’s not even in the same league as Buffy, the best show ever on television.
And my two cents: Season 2 is the greatest of all Buffy seasons. I never much liked Angel as a character (too broody), but the relationship between him and Buffy was heart-wrenching. Even putting the obvious but poignant allegory aside (girl finally has sex and it turns out he’s not the man she thought he was), the whole melodrama captured me in a way I never thought I could be captured by tv. *Spoiler alert* When Angelus kills Ms. Calendar and leaves her in Giles’ bed? With the rose petals? When Buffy and Angel are possessed by the ghosts of the tragic lovers and must act out forgiveness? And for chrissakes, the two part season finale was the best two hours of television ever aired. When Xander decides not to tell Buffy that Willow is trying the spell? When Buffy realizes that it worked but it’s too late? I dare you not to cry.
Season 3 is also phenomenal, the highlight being the Prom episode, which, I recall watching one night while visiting you in NYC, and I warned you I was going to cry when they gave her the umbrella, and you laughed at me, and then they gave her the umbrella and you sobbed like a baby. So there.
I could write a thesis on Buffy, I swear to god.
HAHHAHAH Erin, I have been WAITING for you to comment. I agree about the ending to season 2 and the prom/umbrella thing, but I just like the grown up characters better than the earlier characters. The evil was better at the beginning though, MAN, I hated Glory. SHUT UP, GLORY. Also, I never ever warmed to Dawn until the very moment in the tomb when Willow is going all end-of-worldy and Dawn picks up a sword and starts killing the undead and Buffy’s all startled and Dawn’s all, “what, you think I haven’t been WATCHING you?” and that’s the only moment of redemption for Dawn’s otherwise incredibly annoying character.
Let’s write that thesis together.