Return to Sunnydale
1st March, 2025
In the years either side of the start of the 21st Century, I was a huge fan of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.
A huge fan. I'd arrange my week around ensuring that I caught the programme as soon as it was transmitted (Wednesday evenings on BBC2, here in the UK) and then once each series was over I'd be popping into the local HMV on a weekly basis to see if the box set was available. As soon as it was, I bought it. On VHS, as this was before I owned a DVD player and long, long before the concept of streaming box sets was available.
By the mid 2000s I did have a DVD player and at some point while moving house, I managed to lose the VHS player and never replaced it. And so eventually to make space I got rid of all my VHS cassettes – over a hundred of them – including all seven seasons of Buffy.
I've not really watched Buffy since it was broadcast. Perhaps that's in part because after the show ended, Sarah Michelle Gellar did a couple of further movies and then more or less retired, so that those mental prompts to ride the nostalgia wave never appeared. Of course some of the other main cast members have continued to have high profile media careers but that's not quite the same.
And then with the recent news of Michelle Trachtenberg's death (aged not even 40, how sad is that) I started thinking more and more about rewatching BTvS, the whole lot. Even series 1. So I've got myself the full box set – on DVD this time! – and I'm going to see about blogging each episode as I go along.
This won't be a fast-moving blog. I don't have the time or inclination to binge-watch all 144 episodes. I'm expecting this to be a long-term project, probably taking a couple of years to get through as I'm unlikely to watch more than 2-3 episodes a week at best. But let's see how it goes.
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