I�m really kinda depressed today, you guys. There�s this dark cloud hanging over me, and I�m not talking about the slowly dissipating fog that�s filled the harbor for the last two straight days, either. I�m talking about certain death, people. I�m talking about the terrible and most inevitable end that�s waiting just beyond the evening�s bend.
People, Buffy ends tonight. And, as if that wasn�t bad enough, tonight brings the season finales of 24, Smallville, and this other show that my roommate really likes which I�m not quite comfortable admitting that I like, yet. But let�s get back to the issue at hand.
I didn�t start watching Buffy until about halfway through its second season, because it debuted my freshman year in college, and my roommates at the time wouldn�t watch anything that didn�t have a football in it. So the next year, when I was living alone, I got to watch whatever the hell I wanted. And, boy, did I! Let me tell you, I saw my first episode of Buffy, and I was hooked like a Lenten whitefish.
People would give me all kinds of crap about it, too. �You watch that show? Ha ha!� People would say, as if they�d ever even seen it themselves, or as if the shit they were watching was any good. So I�d give them all the finger and kick them in their respective junks, and go back to The Best Show Ever. And it really was, too. I�m sorry, but I haven�t seen any show better than Buffy was when it was at its peak. Equal, perhaps, but not better. I realize it has somewhat subsided in quality since those first three legendary years, but I don�t give a shit. It�s still my show, and it�s still a damn sight better than most of the chaff out there filling up the airwaves.
Seriously. I take a lot of grief from former fans, too, who insist that the show sucks now, simply because it�s not the gleaming jewel of primetime like it was in its second and third seasons. To those people I say, �Compare, if you will, any recent episode of Buffy to any recent episode of The Practice or Dawon�s Creek (and we�ll get to this asinine comparison later) or practically any other show currently playing! You�ll see that it�s still a damn good program.� Do not mistake less quality for low quality, people. There are enough shitty shows out there that we don�t need to forfeit Buffy on a technicality.
Anyway, people would seriously try to claim Dawson�s Creek was a better show. I�m sorry, but even writing that makes me feel dirty and unclean. Even with vampires, demons, and voodoo hexes, Buffy was always more realistic than that weepy crapfest (which I only watched because it debuted after Buffy that year). When people would make that claim and scoff at my show without ever having seen it, it would send me into a towering rage. The very injustice of it all put my indignation-o-meter fully in the Danger Zone. I mean, first of all, Dawson�s Creek was a reeking piece of ape shit, and�no, I can�t talk about it or I�ll freak!
Anyway, my point is that I love that show, and it was part of my life for nearly seven years. I went through a lot of shit and a lot of changes, but that show was a constant. This may be TMI, but I was watching an episode of Buffy the night I�er, lost my innocence, if you know what I mean. I mean, not like during the�well, it was just before�you know, let�s not talk about it. The point was that I have some pretty formidable memories attached to this show, and maybe it makes me a big dork, but I�m going to miss it a lot. It�s kind of like having a good friend move away forever.
I guess I�ll always have the memories. Thanks, Buffy and the brains behind it. The last seven years wouldn�t have been the same without you.
Sigh. All the quizzes for Buffy were painfully obvious, misspelled, or both. So I chose to be Buffy. What the hell, right? Why not?
