Day 4: Your favourite show ever
Jul. 15th, 2010 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1Was there even any doubt what I'd be doing for this?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
There is still a part of me from 6 years ago that can't quite believe I watch a show called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". I mean, seriously?
It's a blonde cheerleader called "Buffy". Who stakes vampires in between cheerleading. Who watches something like that?
But...
No matter how many times I watch it, it keeps surprising me. And keeps making me laugh, and making me get teary.
This is a show with sexbots, 5 inch high fear demons, a high school swim team turning into fish, love spells, and immaturity-causing chocolate bars.
It's also a show with some of the most poignant exploration of human emotions, tragedy, and sacrifice that I've ever seen.
The show actually went and killed off its main character. And then kept going - and didn't just gloss over the whole thing in two episodes, but devoted an entire season to the fact that her resurrection had
a) made her horribly depressed
and
b) pushed her best friend further into some very dark, evil stuff.
It spent a season on that.
The show actually deals with the consequences of what happens. It has people die, people kill... and then it makes them figure out what happens next.
Before I saw Buffy, I thought Frasier was the best that American tv had to offer: half an hour of being witty, with a certain amount of continuity between episodes.
Buffy had all that - plus real characters, brilliant emotional journeys, clever metaphors, risk-taking plotlines... and a musical episode.
It's brilliant. Really. And you must watch it if you haven't already. Even if it does have an embarrassing name.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
There is still a part of me from 6 years ago that can't quite believe I watch a show called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". I mean, seriously?
It's a blonde cheerleader called "Buffy". Who stakes vampires in between cheerleading. Who watches something like that?
But...
No matter how many times I watch it, it keeps surprising me. And keeps making me laugh, and making me get teary.
This is a show with sexbots, 5 inch high fear demons, a high school swim team turning into fish, love spells, and immaturity-causing chocolate bars.
It's also a show with some of the most poignant exploration of human emotions, tragedy, and sacrifice that I've ever seen.
The show actually went and killed off its main character. And then kept going - and didn't just gloss over the whole thing in two episodes, but devoted an entire season to the fact that her resurrection had
a) made her horribly depressed
and
b) pushed her best friend further into some very dark, evil stuff.
It spent a season on that.
The show actually deals with the consequences of what happens. It has people die, people kill... and then it makes them figure out what happens next.
Before I saw Buffy, I thought Frasier was the best that American tv had to offer: half an hour of being witty, with a certain amount of continuity between episodes.
Buffy had all that - plus real characters, brilliant emotional journeys, clever metaphors, risk-taking plotlines... and a musical episode.
It's brilliant. Really. And you must watch it if you haven't already. Even if it does have an embarrassing name.
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Master List
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