"Joss Whedon is my master now"

[awahlbom]

Today, thette visited me for a brief introduction into the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We watched the following episodes:

1:12 Prophecy Girl
2:14 Innocence
2:22 Becoming part II
3:9 The Wish
3:16 Doppelgängland
4:10 Hush [genuinely scary in parts!]
4:22 Restless

Most of it was very good, and parts of it even brilliant. After several of my friends whose judgement I trust have talked at some length about how brilliant this series is, I have finally been converted. I have a long viewing ahead of me, it seems...

(Also, I found a videotape today, with the film titles Mitt liv som hund and Mannen som slutade röka in a hand I don't recognise. I'm buggered if I know where it came from and how it ended up with me; I even find it a bit creepy, and suspect there is some kind of gnome coming into people's homes at night to drop off strange VHS tapes on their bedroom floors. While less likely, this theory is more emotionally satisfying than "I borrowed this tape from someone last year but forgot from whom, what with my memory being slightly worse than that of your everyday goldfish".)

Comments

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

There's 144 episodes of Buffy and another 110 of Angel calling your name. While you did get some of the highlights of Buffy, including 3 season enders, over there, there's a lot more good stuff where that came from. Seasons 3 and 5 had pretty damn good season enders, for that matter, but there's more. A lot more.

[thette.livejournal.com]

He knows. And he'll get to borrow Buffy from me.

[johan-g.livejournal.com]

Another one succumbs to the addiction...

[alvekatt.livejournal.com]

I ordered the complete Buffy series a week ago. It wasn't until afterwards I did a rough estimate and realized that it had to be somewhere around forty hours of show. It might take me half a year to watch through it. Let's hope it doesn't have a faulty disc far back in the show...