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Title: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Flannel Boy on April 05, 2007, 11:19:42 PM
I just finished watching season three and it was exceedingly better than I remembered*. In fact it is likely the best season of Buffy. However my favorite season is season two. Spike’s a badass, Sarah looked damn hot and wore those great tank tops, there were some great individual episodes and  it just fills me with a nostalgic feeling.

Season one was cheesy, but in a good way. I also loved how each episode's horror theme was an allegory about high school. I'm sure if I went to high school, I would have loved it even more (I should have been in grade nine at the time).

*Interesting how our memories work. Each time we remember we alter the original memory. So in a sense you only remember something once, and then you remember the altered memory. After eight years I only remembered the things I disliked about the season, like the awkward party scene, or the fact that Sarah had too many colors in hair through the first few episodes, or Willo being a 'wicca'.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Flannel Boy on April 05, 2007, 11:24:01 PM
Should I get season four on DVD? I quit the show sometime during the season.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Ichirou on April 05, 2007, 11:24:08 PM
You didn't go to high school?  ???
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on April 05, 2007, 11:25:07 PM
Season 7 it went out with a bang.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Flannel Boy on April 05, 2007, 11:34:08 PM
Quote from: Ichirou on April 05, 2007, 11:24:08 PM
You didn't go to high school?  ???
I went for a couple of weeks.

Spark Notes   
I was bullied badly throughout grade seven, and switched schools. My sister slowly wasted away from anorexia during grade eight. She went into a coma during the first day of high school and died two weeks later. I avoided and lost all my friends through those two years. I was a mess and nobody pressured me to go to school too much and I was not mature enough to force myself to do it.   

Quote from: Junpei Heat! on April 05, 2007, 11:25:07 PM
Season 7 it went out with a bang.
I hope you go out with a bang.  >:(
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Ichirou on April 05, 2007, 11:36:23 PM
One of the girls at the high school I teach at suffers from anorexia...I got really worried about her as I saw her steadily losing weight, I reported it to her homeroom teacher and he was like "Oh, I'd noticed it but I hadn't talked about it with her or her parents yet.  I guess if you notice it too I should talk to her folks about it."

She ended up hospitalized (due to anemia or something) and dropped out of school.  I have no clue what she's doing now, heard she got transferred to another school.  It's really sad, she was academically a very good student...situations like that, I've never been prepared to deal with before and I didn't know what to do. :/
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Flannel Boy on April 05, 2007, 11:41:32 PM
Quote from: Ichirou on April 05, 2007, 11:36:23 PM
One of the girls at the high school I teach at suffers from anorexia...I got really worried about her as I saw her steadily losing weight, I reported it to her homeroom teacher and he was like "Oh, I'd noticed it but I hadn't talked about it with her or her parents yet.  I guess if you notice it too I should talk to her folks about it."

She ended up hospitalized (due to anemia or something) and dropped out of school.  I have no clue what she's doing now, heard she got transferred to another school.  It's really sad, she was academically a very good student...situations like that, I've never been prepared to deal with before and I didn't know what to do. :/

My sister was very bright too. She was a mathematical genius (white girl too lol), a great writer, and a gifted painter. Unfortunately she wasn't all there before she died and destroyed all her paintings. All except one, which I assume she could not find. It was a painting of Jesus she did when she was 12 or something.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Ichirou on April 05, 2007, 11:44:01 PM
That's horrible.  I wish as teachers we got some more training on how to deal with students' personal problems.  That's something I would really find useful, more than the umpteenth conference on how to teach English.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Flannel Boy on April 06, 2007, 12:03:14 AM
Have you learned Japanese yet?  :P
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Ichirou on April 06, 2007, 01:35:55 AM
Quote from: Malek: King of Kings on April 06, 2007, 12:03:14 AM
Have you learned Japanese yet?  :P

I can speak a little bit, but I can't read or write.  I'm dum.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 06, 2007, 01:55:57 AM
I have come to support Malek.  I have never seen a full buffy episode - expect 30 replays soon! 
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Stocky on April 06, 2007, 01:58:10 AM
Buffy sucks.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Flannel Boy on April 06, 2007, 01:59:22 AM
Quote from: Father_Mike on April 06, 2007, 01:55:57 AM
I have come to support Malek.  I have never seen a full buffy episode - expect 30 replays soon! 
Buy seasons one through three.

Quote from: stocky on April 06, 2007, 01:58:10 AM
Buffy sucks.
Thanks for your input.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 06, 2007, 02:01:52 AM
Na, teenage vampirism isn't my thing. 
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Flannel Boy on April 06, 2007, 02:02:49 AM
Quote from: Father_Mike on April 06, 2007, 02:01:52 AM
Na, teenage vampirism isn't my thing. 

Fine don't watch the best show of the late 90's.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 06, 2007, 02:09:38 AM
but I watched Felicity.

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lol, no I didn't but I bet PD did!
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Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Catz on April 06, 2007, 03:40:56 AM
Season 2 by far.

Angel :wub :wub I had a huge crush on him in high school.
Title: Re: Favorite Season of Buffy
Post by: Catz on April 06, 2007, 04:50:57 AM
Quote from: Malek: King of Kings on April 05, 2007, 11:41:32 PM
Quote from: Ichirou on April 05, 2007, 11:36:23 PM
One of the girls at the high school I teach at suffers from anorexia...I got really worried about her as I saw her steadily losing weight, I reported it to her homeroom teacher and he was like "Oh, I'd noticed it but I hadn't talked about it with her or her parents yet.  I guess if you notice it too I should talk to her folks about it."

She ended up hospitalized (due to anemia or something) and dropped out of school.  I have no clue what she's doing now, heard she got transferred to another school.  It's really sad, she was academically a very good student...situations like that, I've never been prepared to deal with before and I didn't know what to do. :/

My sister was very bright too. She was a mathematical genius (white girl too lol), a great writer, and a gifted painter. Unfortunately she wasn't all there before she died and destroyed all her paintings. All except one, which I assume she could not find. It was a painting of Jesus she did when she was 12 or something.


wow, I'm sorry to hear that, Malek.  We have a family friend who suffers from anorexia. She was hospitalized and never finished her senior year at high school. She ended up damaging her intestines and digestive system to a point where she can no longer eat normal food properly. She seems to be doing better nowadays, though still very very skinny and insecure. I think she compensates for her insecurities by finding abusive boyfriends that her family hates. I never understood why she thought she was ugly or fat, she's actually quite pretty. She looked like a young Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.

On a side note, there was an interesting HBO documentary on anorexia and bulimia not too long ago. I think it was called "Thin." Very heartbreaking to see how these 90 lb girls perceive themselves as fat and the lengths they go to to hide it.

And on a lighter note, the only Buffy seasons worth buying imo are 1-3.