Buffy is still my tv show of love.
Jan. 1st, 2007 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI have a new Buffy buddy!
My mom.
Yes, it is a historic moment. Tonight I suggested we watch "Hush" because I have to watch my friend's season 4 DVDs before I move away. My mom watched "Hush" with me, and then it seemed to work out well because she stayed up to watch the prior episode, "Something Blue", as well. As we were turning the tv off I, very shyly for my usual assertive self, asked "If I watch another episode tomorrow... will you watch it with me?"
She said "Sure," and I said "Great!"
Then she asked, "Is it better with someone else?"
"Yes!"
Other snippets of the evening's dialogue, as my mother had watched the end of season 7 with me when it aired, but none of the other seasons...
"Willow just got dumped by her boyfriend. He skipped town on her."
"I thought she was a lesbian?"
"Well, that girl you just saw in the other episode, which takes place after this one, is her first girlfriend."
"Recognize that guy? He was on Heroes."
"Blah blah Spike chip in his head blah blah Giles' bathroom blah blah commandos."
"I thought he was always in love with her and helping her fight?"
"Oh, no! That was in later seasons. In season two he was a villain, then he only showed up once in season 3, then in season 4, which we're watching, he comes back to Sunnydale to get a magic ring which will make him invincible in daylight, then Buffy steals the ring when she fights him, and he gets captured by the military guys and they put the chip in his head. For the rest of the season he's half-villain, half-ally, and mostly annoys them. Or helps them for money. Then in season 5 he starts to realize that the reason he's still in Sunnydale and the reason he keeps coming back is because he has a crush on Buffy."
**ShakaMom has a glazed stare**
"He helps her out in season 5, and he also builds a sex-bot."
"A what?"
"A sex bot. It doesn't go over well with Buffy."
"Is that what jumps off the crane?"
"No, Buffy jumps off the crane, but they do reprogram the bot to help them in the fight. And then Buffy dies and is ressurrected in season 6, and thats when their relationship starts, in season 6 and 7."
**ShakaMom getting that look in her eye like she wants to run away**
Still, she did promise to watch more with me. Now I'm thinking I might have to buy season 5 (which I thought about anyway) because jumping from season 4 to season 6 is starting with the worst season, skipping the best season, and then going right into the sexcapades angst season. It'd be a shame.
Anyway.... YAY NEW BUFFY BUDDY. Plus I have all these DVDs I've never really watched consecutively. It's much more motivating to watch with a newbie.
Afterthought: It's pretty ironic watching Something Blue knowing that in the future Buffy and Spike have a major romantic story arc. Every scrap of dialogue seems portent-y, particularly with regard to Buffy's comments about her bad boy fixation.
Further thought: I'm not telling her there's a fifth season of Angel and James Marsters is in it. SHE NEVER NEEDS TO KNOW.
My mom.
Yes, it is a historic moment. Tonight I suggested we watch "Hush" because I have to watch my friend's season 4 DVDs before I move away. My mom watched "Hush" with me, and then it seemed to work out well because she stayed up to watch the prior episode, "Something Blue", as well. As we were turning the tv off I, very shyly for my usual assertive self, asked "If I watch another episode tomorrow... will you watch it with me?"
She said "Sure," and I said "Great!"
Then she asked, "Is it better with someone else?"
"Yes!"
Other snippets of the evening's dialogue, as my mother had watched the end of season 7 with me when it aired, but none of the other seasons...
"Willow just got dumped by her boyfriend. He skipped town on her."
"I thought she was a lesbian?"
"Well, that girl you just saw in the other episode, which takes place after this one, is her first girlfriend."
"Recognize that guy? He was on Heroes."
"Blah blah Spike chip in his head blah blah Giles' bathroom blah blah commandos."
"I thought he was always in love with her and helping her fight?"
"Oh, no! That was in later seasons. In season two he was a villain, then he only showed up once in season 3, then in season 4, which we're watching, he comes back to Sunnydale to get a magic ring which will make him invincible in daylight, then Buffy steals the ring when she fights him, and he gets captured by the military guys and they put the chip in his head. For the rest of the season he's half-villain, half-ally, and mostly annoys them. Or helps them for money. Then in season 5 he starts to realize that the reason he's still in Sunnydale and the reason he keeps coming back is because he has a crush on Buffy."
**ShakaMom has a glazed stare**
"He helps her out in season 5, and he also builds a sex-bot."
"A what?"
"A sex bot. It doesn't go over well with Buffy."
"Is that what jumps off the crane?"
"No, Buffy jumps off the crane, but they do reprogram the bot to help them in the fight. And then Buffy dies and is ressurrected in season 6, and thats when their relationship starts, in season 6 and 7."
**ShakaMom getting that look in her eye like she wants to run away**
Still, she did promise to watch more with me. Now I'm thinking I might have to buy season 5 (which I thought about anyway) because jumping from season 4 to season 6 is starting with the worst season, skipping the best season, and then going right into the sexcapades angst season. It'd be a shame.
Anyway.... YAY NEW BUFFY BUDDY. Plus I have all these DVDs I've never really watched consecutively. It's much more motivating to watch with a newbie.
Afterthought: It's pretty ironic watching Something Blue knowing that in the future Buffy and Spike have a major romantic story arc. Every scrap of dialogue seems portent-y, particularly with regard to Buffy's comments about her bad boy fixation.
Further thought: I'm not telling her there's a fifth season of Angel and James Marsters is in it. SHE NEVER NEEDS TO KNOW.
