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Nostalgia moment
Jun. 28th, 2006 11:51 amI'd forgotten just how good Buffy really was.
It was my first fandom, so I'm feelinga little guilty for forgetting how brilliant it was. Last night I caught 'Lovers Walk' when I was eating and was faintly suprised by how much I enjoyed it and how much I still cared about the characters. For me, seasons 2 and 3 were the heyday of the show and although I still loved it after that, the later seasons are possibly the reason why I haven't done much re-watching or read much fanfic lately. When the show left the school setting, it seemed to lose something that I'd really enjoyed. Or maybe it wasn't the leaving of the school setting, but something in the new stories that they were telling just didn't capture me the way those early seasons had. I'm not sure. I didn't feel as invested in the bad guys and I wasn't as fond of the new guys as I had been - although Tara was my favourite new character from the later seasons.
Evil Angel, Spike and Drusilla, Mr Trick and the Mayor...they were all characters that I really enjoyed, even though they were evil and trying to end the world. Although Gloria was a pretty fun villian, the other ones didn't have the ... personality of those early bad guys. Even the Master in season 1 was more fun to dislike.
It may explain why most of my favourite Stargate stuff comes from season 3 and why I've not really paid much attention to the last season - by the time you get to season 5, most of the interesting bad guys have been killed off and the show writers seem to be killing off regular guest characters to maintain interest. It feels like the show lost some of it's storytelling ability in later seasons.
Not that I can compare Stargate and Buffy fairly - from the start, Buffy had better writing and the fact that I'm still very happy to re-watch one of those later season episodes where I don't tend to with Stargate is proof, to me, that even a lack-lustre episode of Buffy is still superior to many other show's great episodes.
I'm discounting Bad Eggs in that assesssment. That episode was just baaaaad.
I've got the sudden urge to add 2 and 3 to my Amazon rentals list and do a trip down memory lane because that was a darned good episode.
I finally bought myself the Doctor Who (new series) season 1 box-set and sat down with Rose after I'd finished with Buffy last night. Very happy Sel. I hadn't really forgotten how much I enjoyed the season, but it brought back all the happy memories of waiting for it to start and being so relieved to find out that it was actually good. Guess I know what I'll be watching while I wait for Amazon to send me my next Starsky and Hutch and Robin of Sherwood fixes.
It was my first fandom, so I'm feelinga little guilty for forgetting how brilliant it was. Last night I caught 'Lovers Walk' when I was eating and was faintly suprised by how much I enjoyed it and how much I still cared about the characters. For me, seasons 2 and 3 were the heyday of the show and although I still loved it after that, the later seasons are possibly the reason why I haven't done much re-watching or read much fanfic lately. When the show left the school setting, it seemed to lose something that I'd really enjoyed. Or maybe it wasn't the leaving of the school setting, but something in the new stories that they were telling just didn't capture me the way those early seasons had. I'm not sure. I didn't feel as invested in the bad guys and I wasn't as fond of the new guys as I had been - although Tara was my favourite new character from the later seasons.
Evil Angel, Spike and Drusilla, Mr Trick and the Mayor...they were all characters that I really enjoyed, even though they were evil and trying to end the world. Although Gloria was a pretty fun villian, the other ones didn't have the ... personality of those early bad guys. Even the Master in season 1 was more fun to dislike.
It may explain why most of my favourite Stargate stuff comes from season 3 and why I've not really paid much attention to the last season - by the time you get to season 5, most of the interesting bad guys have been killed off and the show writers seem to be killing off regular guest characters to maintain interest. It feels like the show lost some of it's storytelling ability in later seasons.
Not that I can compare Stargate and Buffy fairly - from the start, Buffy had better writing and the fact that I'm still very happy to re-watch one of those later season episodes where I don't tend to with Stargate is proof, to me, that even a lack-lustre episode of Buffy is still superior to many other show's great episodes.
I'm discounting Bad Eggs in that assesssment. That episode was just baaaaad.
I've got the sudden urge to add 2 and 3 to my Amazon rentals list and do a trip down memory lane because that was a darned good episode.
I finally bought myself the Doctor Who (new series) season 1 box-set and sat down with Rose after I'd finished with Buffy last night. Very happy Sel. I hadn't really forgotten how much I enjoyed the season, but it brought back all the happy memories of waiting for it to start and being so relieved to find out that it was actually good. Guess I know what I'll be watching while I wait for Amazon to send me my next Starsky and Hutch and Robin of Sherwood fixes.
