Somebody sell me on Buffy The Vampire Slayer,

[Mole 0]

Speaking of Buffy. I had the epitome of nerd arguments with a guy a while back.

Who would win in a fight? Buffy or Blade? I pretty much said Blade hands down.

It depends on what season Buffy you were talking about.

 

Season 2 Buffy would loose, but season 7 Buffy would win.

How so? Blade could just blow her away or use martial arts to smack her around and cut her down with his sword.

Blade is just a vampire and Buffy is the slayer. Slayers are stronger than vampires and Buffy is the greatest slayer there ever was.

 

Blade would loose, but I am just biased.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

I've seen seasons 1 and 2 if you paid any attention to the other threads, and as for leaving, let me think about it...... no.

 

And yet you have still not once commented on Buffy itself. Hmm.

 

So. you have to give away what happened at the end of the seasons to go into detail about the characters. Just to get that straight.

 

Considering that the final episodes usually have life-altering impacts on the characters, yes. At least, in any meaningful way.

 

Well if you're not intelligent enough to figure out how to familiarize him with the characters without giving away everything they did, then there's these little things called spoiler tags.

 

If Mr. J was intelligent enough to realize that I was going into spoilers after the paragraph on Xander (which featured rather mild spoilers, considering the grand scheme of things), he would have stopped if he wanted to (and who's to say he didn't?) Thus far I have yet to hear him complain, and if he had a problem he could have said so - either in this thread or PM. Infact, if anyone had a problem, they could have said so. So far it's only you who has a problem with it, and you haven't even participated in the discussion nor shown any willingness to. I'd say your only purpose in this thread is to...

 

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But let's not go further off-topic than we already are. It wasn't "everything they did" and it wasn't in-detail either, they were key points in a characters development.

 

Er... Because that's sorta what he wanted to know. The best way to sell him on the show is to explain why to him you like it.

 

But why _I_ like it is different from why Mole likes it, it's different from why Ripper likes it, it's different from why YnA likes it. "It's good cause I like it" doesn't really mean anything to anyone but me. So why should it matter to Mr. J?

 

The point is you didn't say why the characters appealed to you.

 

Their appeal to me is different from their appeal to anyone else. Some people like Willow and thinks her character is cute - I don't. I like Spike and the fact that he loves onion blossoms and passions all-the-while trying to be the big bad vamp. But that doesn't do his character justice from just writing it - you can't convey that sort of appeal through words.

 

Of course nevermind that all it would take is to explain what their personalities and goals and motivations are.

 

Those things change throughout the course of the show. Xander's motivation in Season 1 changed greatly from Xander's motivation in Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, and Season 7. I took one common thread and applied it throughout. Xander grew, Buffy carried and endured, Giles protected. I then showed how they did it.

 

If he knows everything that's going to happen, then there's really no point to watching since there's no surprise left.

 

The point in watching is to see the characters interact with each other, their environment, and the situations that come up in every day life, and watch them grow. That's what Buffy is about - not surprises, but how the characters deal with those surprises. The real enjoyment of Buffy comes through watching the episodes again and again - because there is so many little things Joss has done that you never pick up on when you first watch it. Season 5, for example, I have watched at least 3 times through (give or take a few missed episodes). The last time I watched it was probably the best time yet - since I knew what happened and could see how everything built toward it. Ditto with Buffy itself. The relationships made and broken, the big bads who have come and gone, the continuing struggle - be it against an evil villain, parents, teachers, the world - and the family still remaining.

 

Dude, I'm REALLY sorry that I made you feel like you needed to type all that. But honestly, no. You still shouldn't have spoiled it.

 

Yes, I now long for those 2 minutes I spent typing that up. *weeps*. Spoiled What?

 

If that's as far as you can go, then that's where you should've stopped.

 

Stopped where, exactly? Me, I like to help further understanding by providing examples. Though ultimate understanding comes through actually watching it, providing a guideline, if you will, can still help. "Buffy saved the world a lot" is hollow because it happens a lot in fantasy/sci-fi. "Buffy died to save the world twice, and killed her lover to save the world" expands on it a lil bit more.

 

Instead you opted for the "spoil shit" approach.

 

When talking about the show and it's characters I talked about what happened in the show and to the characters. I know, I know, it's an odd approach.

 

Look how much you're writing on it in just one post. You know a lot about Buffy, we're all impressed. Give it a rest.

 

Give what a rest? The goal wasn't to impress, the goal was to provide information and a lil bit of character analysis. If I wanted to impress I would have done _a lot_ more than that. It might be hard for you to understand since you consider what I write to be "a lot" when, in reality, it takes me only a few minutes to type up. If you want to see me writing to impress, then read my Season 5 write-ups - but that's more for impressing people with season 5, than my own buffy-knowledge... since there are people here who are far more knowledgable than me.

 

No, it's common sense. And it didn't have a high probability of getting them. You're the only idiot that posted huge spoilers.

 

That's because most people here took the "watch this, and this, and this" approach. I took a different one. He didn't ask for which specific episodes to watch, he wanted to know why it was so revered. I provided some information on the characters to help further comprehension - if he were to choose to watch it. Actually, "common sense" is 'when ever a buffy thread starts, there's going to be spoilers in it' as it happens _every_single_time_ on this board. If he wanted no spoilers, he would have said so. If he was angry spoilers were used, he could have said so. The topic lends itself to unlimited discussion about Buffy. His goal was to find out why it is so revered - so it's not like he was there asking "which season/episodes should I watch". I get people frequently asking me for which PRIDE shows to purchase and I give them a list and a paragraph for each as to why it's a good buy. I don't use any spoilers unless it's (a)obvious or (b)relevant to selling it. So don't go on talking about "common sense".

 

From what? That's some shitty reading comprehension there.

 

"Open Mind" maybe? "Feel Free to Reply"? "I just have to know..."? Sorta got the feeling that Anyone can reply with anything related to the show...

[Damaramu 0]

Speaking of Buffy. I had the epitome of nerd arguments with a guy a while back.

Who would win in a fight? Buffy or Blade? I pretty much said Blade hands down.

It depends on what season Buffy you were talking about.

 

Season 2 Buffy would loose, but season 7 Buffy would win.

How so? Blade could just blow her away or use martial arts to smack her around and cut her down with his sword.

Blade is just a vampire and Buffy is the slayer. Slayers are stronger than vampires and Buffy is the greatest slayer there ever was.

 

Blade would loose, but I am just biased.

Yeah probably. Seems how Blade is a Vampire Hunter.

[Mole 0]

Speaking of Buffy. I had the epitome of nerd arguments with a guy a while back.

Who would win in a fight? Buffy or Blade? I pretty much said Blade hands down.

It depends on what season Buffy you were talking about.

 

Season 2 Buffy would loose, but season 7 Buffy would win.

How so? Blade could just blow her away or use martial arts to smack her around and cut her down with his sword.

Blade is just a vampire and Buffy is the slayer. Slayers are stronger than vampires and Buffy is the greatest slayer there ever was.

 

Blade would loose, but I am just biased.

Yeah probably. Seems how Blade is a Vampire Hunter.

Blade is a vampire hunter, and Buffy is the slayer. Blade is a vampire and like I said before, slayers are more powerful than vampires.