I just wrote a longish comment and LJ ate it. :( Let's try that again.
I don't think I could compose as detailed a history as you've done. Clearly your memory is far better than mine. *g* I do recall, however, that I was also introduced to LJ through _wisteria's fic site (or it might have been herself_nyc...). And lurking at the morethanspike forum and following fic recs from there is what introduced me to fic.
As for Buffy itself, I resisted watching for the first two seasons for reasons that had only to do with my perception of the show. I thought the movie looked lame and figured that the show's treatment of vampires would be much too superficial for my tastes. I was very much into Anne Rice at the time and measured all vampires against hers. Not anymore. ;)
The other reason is that in Canada the show was aired on the kids TV station YTV. No way was I going to watch a TV show for kids. *g* But, as it happened, I accidentally caught a repeat (probably Passion, Innocence, or Surprise) during the summer after season 2, and realized how completely wrong I had been. I was hooked.
I watched every single episode that YTV repeated that summer, and tried not to miss any more if I could help it. It took a long time before I finally saw School Hard (YTV never repeated it), and it wasn't until I bought the DVD set that I saw all of season 1.
And even though I was very very skeptical that the Angel character could carry his own series, I saw every single Angel ep as they aired, too.
I'm sort of saving them up - my little pieces of unseen Buffy-verse. Oh, how I envy you. I wish I had bits of unseen Buffyverse. :D
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I don't think I could compose as detailed a history as you've done. Clearly your memory is far better than mine. *g* I do recall, however, that I was also introduced to LJ through
As for Buffy itself, I resisted watching for the first two seasons for reasons that had only to do with my perception of the show. I thought the movie looked lame and figured that the show's treatment of vampires would be much too superficial for my tastes. I was very much into Anne Rice at the time and measured all vampires against hers. Not anymore. ;)
The other reason is that in Canada the show was aired on the kids TV station YTV. No way was I going to watch a TV show for kids. *g* But, as it happened, I accidentally caught a repeat (probably Passion, Innocence, or Surprise) during the summer after season 2, and realized how completely wrong I had been. I was hooked.
I watched every single episode that YTV repeated that summer, and tried not to miss any more if I could help it. It took a long time before I finally saw School Hard (YTV never repeated it), and it wasn't until I bought the DVD set that I saw all of season 1.
And even though I was very very skeptical that the Angel character could carry his own series, I saw every single Angel ep as they aired, too.
I'm sort of saving them up - my little pieces of unseen Buffy-verse.
Oh, how I envy you. I wish I had bits of unseen Buffyverse. :D