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locker_monsterI can't believe today is Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 20th anniversary. I will love this show forever and ever. God, I feel old, though. I was just a kid when the show premiered.
Buffy was everything for me back in the day. It was the first fandom that was mine, in that it was something I discovered and liked as opposed to something my family had on and it was just there. With the Internet these days, so much hype can be built up around a new TV show. You see advertisements and articles everywhere, so shows just don't appear out of nowhere anymore. I had no idea that YTV was airing Buffy back in the day. I just stumbled upon it while channel surfing during a commercial break during a rerun of Sliders. The fact that I stopped and watched the rest of the premiere just goes to show just how strong Buffy's appeal was from episode one.
I really think that Buffy came at just right the time in my life. I don't know where I'd be without it. It was the show that sparked my love for writing and made me really think about what constitutes a good story. It showed me that it was okay to be different and not to go with the crowd. It just made me think and that's the true worth of a good show. It challenges the audience emotionally and philosophically and maybe, just maybe, you come away with a new point of view.
So thank you, Joss Whedon. Thank you for creating a TV show with a strong, bold, and independent female lead and surrounding her with friends who saw that a strength and not a weakness. Thank you for giving me my first celebrity crush (David Boreanaz) and making a British librarian sexy. Thank you for taking fun and weird risks like having an episode with almost no dialogue or doing a musical with all original songs. Just thank you for being an awesome part of my formative years.
Buffy was everything for me back in the day. It was the first fandom that was mine, in that it was something I discovered and liked as opposed to something my family had on and it was just there. With the Internet these days, so much hype can be built up around a new TV show. You see advertisements and articles everywhere, so shows just don't appear out of nowhere anymore. I had no idea that YTV was airing Buffy back in the day. I just stumbled upon it while channel surfing during a commercial break during a rerun of Sliders. The fact that I stopped and watched the rest of the premiere just goes to show just how strong Buffy's appeal was from episode one.
I really think that Buffy came at just right the time in my life. I don't know where I'd be without it. It was the show that sparked my love for writing and made me really think about what constitutes a good story. It showed me that it was okay to be different and not to go with the crowd. It just made me think and that's the true worth of a good show. It challenges the audience emotionally and philosophically and maybe, just maybe, you come away with a new point of view.
So thank you, Joss Whedon. Thank you for creating a TV show with a strong, bold, and independent female lead and surrounding her with friends who saw that a strength and not a weakness. Thank you for giving me my first celebrity crush (David Boreanaz) and making a British librarian sexy. Thank you for taking fun and weird risks like having an episode with almost no dialogue or doing a musical with all original songs. Just thank you for being an awesome part of my formative years.
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