30 Days of Buffy, Day #30

[itsnotmymind]

Day #01: Favourite season
Day #02: Favourite episode
Day #03: Favourite song used in an episode
Day #04: Favourite female character
Day #05: Least favourite female character
Day #06: Favourite male character
Day #07: Least favourite male character
Day #08: Favourite friendship
Day #09: Favourite romance
Day #10: Least favourite season
Day #11: Least favourite romance
Day #12: Least favourite episode
Day #13: Favourite potential slayer
Day #14: Favourite female villain
Day #15: Favourite male villain
Day #16: Episode you like that everyone else hates - Favourite piece of monologue
Day #17: Character you relate to the most
Day #18: Character who didn’t get enough screen time
Day #19: Character you like that everyone else hates
Day #20: Best Spike-centric episode
Day #21: Best Willow-centric episode
Day #22: Best Xander-centric episode
Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
Day #24: Favourite example of 90s special effects
Day #25: Favourite Buffyverse saying
Day #26: Favourite Scooby moment
Day #27: Cutest moment
Day #28: Character you love to hate
Day #29: Episode you hate that everyone else loves
Day #30: What you think made Buffy so great


Day #30: What you think made Buffy so great
Good characters, good writing, a good sense of humor. I so often find myself laughing while watching Buffy episodes. I also really like how they never did the same thing twice. They could even take two similar stories (like Buffy falling in love with a vampire with a soul) and make them very different.

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[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure that I could explain or describe why I love Buffy - the character and the series - but then love is never rational, is it? But it is "love" in as much as one can love a tv show and fictional characters I guess. Or perhaps "intense interest" mimics "love"?

Good characters, good writing,

Very much so. There's a lot of "there there" that no other show I've watched has ever quite matched (most tv shows have no "there there" or rather, the only thing "there" is what I see on surface. It is what it is, no layers.)

I'm thinking of Cordy suddenly - what was it she said? "I can have layers." or somesuch. I think that's it - the show has LAYERS, upon layers. Some of which can be frustrating, confusing, infuriating (*cough*racefail*cough*) which only increases the intensity of interest, for me at least. Most tv shows I can watch, enjoy them or not in the moment, and then move on without a second thought. They don't make me feel anything, they don't make me think.

They could even take two similar stories (like Buffy falling in love with a vampire with a soul) and make them very different.

The parallels in this show are amazing, and part of the layers: unintentional foreshadowing & intentional (or unintentional but cool anyway) call-backs. The church scene in WAY, the alley scene in DT. Buffy fighting her way out of her coffin in Nightmares and Bargaining. etc.

I've enjoyed this meme series btw!

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I'm thinking of Cordy suddenly - what was it she said? "I can have layers." or somesuch.

The exact quote is: "What? I can't have layers?" Yes, I just looked that I am. I am a geek. A geek with google.

I think that's it - the show has LAYERS, upon layers. Some of which can be frustrating, confusing, infuriating (*cough*racefail*cough*) which only increases the intensity of interest, for me at least. Most tv shows I can watch, enjoy them or not in the moment, and then move on without a second thought. They don't make me feel anything, they don't make me think.


Well-put. It's a show that rewards you for thinking about it.

I've enjoyed this meme series btw!

I'm glad you have!

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

And today I am a rather lazy geek. (Some times I'll go straight to Buffyworld and look up the transcript and other times - not. Depends on my mood.)

Which reminds me that I need to add buffyworld to the bookmarks on this laptop. (Oh my sweetie will be thrilled - I have GOT to get my own puter again!)

It's a show that rewards you for thinking about it.

YES. that's exactly it, in a nutshell, thank you!