Submitted by BitCharacter1951 t3_yf3uhu in television
tezoatlipoca t1_iu1mpae wrote
Im sure some of it is through the rose colored tint of nostalgia, but if you're at all a Joss Whedon fan - so if you like The Avengers and whatever else he script doctored for the MCU - then you'll like Buffy. Like any show, it takes a while into the 1st season to really hit its stride, but by about the 2nd season you grow attached to the characters. I mean the whole premise is fairly rediculous: a teenaged "chosen one" fighting the supernatural, Angel is a vampire with a soul, the council of watchers.. cmon. Its goofy. ITs camp. It doesn't take itself too seriously.
The characters are real and say real things that you or would - again, a Whedon trait. They're just regular people like you or me.. except they have to save the world over and over again every week. There's a bit in the second last episode in S7 where they're waiting for the literal apocalyptic end of the world and no one can sleep so they're playing D&D and drinking Zima and Im like - yeah, I'd be doing that.
I wasn't a Buffy fan until I caught the all-silent episode Hush, and the musical episode Once More With Feeling. You don't need to know the leadups to either, they're one-offs and they're great (I think both won Emmys). Go watch those and see if your mind changes.
And yeah, Whedon apparently is a cancelled bad dude and you shouldn't give him any more money but some of the others get residuals they're good, so I dunno -up to you if you spend money on it or not.
Angel, a spin-off, is a bit more adult, bit darker, takes itself a bit more serious. And sometimes you get turned into puppets which is hilarious. I actually liked Angel a bit more than Buffy, but that's just me.
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