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Happy (belated) Anniversary
Mar. 11th, 2007 03:17 pmWent to my dad's yesterday and stayed over, so I missed Buffy's Tenth Anniversary (also, got all the way to skip=400 on my flist before I saw familiar posts, so I'll be reading those for a while).
I didn't watch Buffy on its premiere day anyway, though. I actually started watching the summer after first season had aired -- I caught a rerun of The Pack and fell in love, mostly with Xander (some with Buffy -- she became co-favorite during season six and now I couldn't pick between the two of them).
I mark Buffy as my fannish beginning, even though I'd done things that might be called 'fannish' before that (I grew up on Star Trek and around fans -- my parents went to cons, my mom was one of the people who wrote in to help the original ST get a third season). BtVS was my first passion and one that has continued to last -- my love for the show hasn't dimmed, though it isn't at the forefront of my mind any longer. Buffy is the show that ignited my love for serial viewing -- for watching shows in the correct and complete order. It was the show that nutured my love of meta. It was what catapulted me into internet fandom. It was a safe place to live after my aunt died, my parents divorced, and I felt friendless, alone, and a failure at school.
I don't need Buffy the way I used to but, if anything, that leaves me more room to simply love it.
I didn't watch Buffy on its premiere day anyway, though. I actually started watching the summer after first season had aired -- I caught a rerun of The Pack and fell in love, mostly with Xander (some with Buffy -- she became co-favorite during season six and now I couldn't pick between the two of them).
I mark Buffy as my fannish beginning, even though I'd done things that might be called 'fannish' before that (I grew up on Star Trek and around fans -- my parents went to cons, my mom was one of the people who wrote in to help the original ST get a third season). BtVS was my first passion and one that has continued to last -- my love for the show hasn't dimmed, though it isn't at the forefront of my mind any longer. Buffy is the show that ignited my love for serial viewing -- for watching shows in the correct and complete order. It was the show that nutured my love of meta. It was what catapulted me into internet fandom. It was a safe place to live after my aunt died, my parents divorced, and I felt friendless, alone, and a failure at school.
I don't need Buffy the way I used to but, if anything, that leaves me more room to simply love it.