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Over at Pop Goes the Library, Sophie posts about the best tv show ever, aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Sophie invites people to share their BtVS memories. I posted the following:
BTVS was meaningful to me because:
-- as pointed out in the article, kick ass storytelling that spanned a season. I fell in love with the stories, the characters, the writing, the plotting.
-- I first began posting online at Buffy message boards so in many ways it was my intro to life online, and thanks to that experience (good & bad) it taught me a lot about trolls, flaming, the lack of sarcasm font, and never post your first reaction to something that pisses you off.
-- It taught me that the Internet can create community. I was alone in my fandom until the Internet; and it wasn't until season 5 that I first met other BtVS fans.
-- It made me proud to watch tv. Before this, watching TV was something to downplay; after this, it was something to say, proudly, I watch TV. So what?
I'd like to add:
In my BtVS posting days, every now and then I posted at the Bronze and more frequently at the Cross & Stake and (both boards) and An Angel's Soul under the name "coma girl". It's kind of funny; I totally knew of Little Willow from the general online BtVS community, but it wasn't until I began posting about kidlit & YA lit that I "met" her.
I cannot underestimate the change in both me & society in general that watching TV is no longer something to be ashamed about or apologized for; that the complexity of TV shows & the writing is recognized & cheered.
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Carlie already knows this, but I may as well share my secret shame with the world: I went to see Twilight in the theater! Paying actual money to do so. There were quite a few so-bad-it's-good moments, but there were more likable, engrossing ones than horrendous ones. Can't say I'm on Team Edward, but I totally bought the chemistry between the two leads, which is really all I needed.
Liz, thank you for this! That's my favorite scene in the movie as well. And I've been wondering why. You nailed it. My So-Called Life parallel. Totally makes sense to me now. ;)
Very strange: I was thinking about that MSCL scene and replaying it in my head as I walked home from work last night, and thinking about how it's one of my all-time-greatest-scenes-in TV, and wondering if I could find it on youtube or would have to wait until my moving boxes arrive next week to see it again. Thanks!
Definitely my favorite scene in the whole movie too. It was the first time I actually liked Robert Pattinson as Edward.