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Bizarre phone call
Unlike yesterday's persistent gloom (seriously, it never got light out at all, but that's winter in Seattle for you), today was beautiful, bright, and clear. Also, warm enough to get by without a jacket. (Yay!) There was a great view of the Cascades to the East, the Olympic mountain range to the west, and Mt. Rainier was gorgeous on the skyline to the south... I love days like this.
Anyway, I was out braving the malls, in search of a few last minute gifts for relatives, when I got a phone call from my aunt. Hmm... haven't heard from her for a bit, and it's more than a little odd for her to be calling my cellphone in the middle of the day... and what was she calling about? She'd just watched an episode of BtVS and wanted to grill me on the different characters and some of the plot points. Turns out she'd just seen "Lover's Walk," so she was in luck... I've watched that episode so many times I practically have it memorized.
She knew who Buffy was and she also knew Spike (which just goes to show how bad my Spike addiction was... that even my aunt had gotten to hear my various pontifications on the character), but she wasn't terribly clear how Xander fit into things (though she'd figured he'd been dating Cordelia) and she also didn't have a clue who Angel was (forgive me an evil chuckle). She said she'd seen one other episode of the show (which I determined to be "Revelations" after a bit of a description), which explained why she knew that Oz was a werewolf, but it just cracked me up that she hadn't been able to figure out who and what Angel was in relation to the other characters.
It was an incredibly odd conversation, because she's not normally into genre shows, and she'd certainly had plenty of opportunity to see BtVS when it was on... but it took her stumbling onto it by accident to get her interested. We wound up talking for about half an hour, with me filling her in on some basic storyline history... I may have to see about loaning her my DVDs at some point (if I can part with them for that long). Watching the show on FX is great and all, but they have a tendency to cut dialogue. Even worse, they have a tendency to cut some of the best lines of the show.
Anyway, I was out braving the malls, in search of a few last minute gifts for relatives, when I got a phone call from my aunt. Hmm... haven't heard from her for a bit, and it's more than a little odd for her to be calling my cellphone in the middle of the day... and what was she calling about? She'd just watched an episode of BtVS and wanted to grill me on the different characters and some of the plot points. Turns out she'd just seen "Lover's Walk," so she was in luck... I've watched that episode so many times I practically have it memorized.
She knew who Buffy was and she also knew Spike (which just goes to show how bad my Spike addiction was... that even my aunt had gotten to hear my various pontifications on the character), but she wasn't terribly clear how Xander fit into things (though she'd figured he'd been dating Cordelia) and she also didn't have a clue who Angel was (forgive me an evil chuckle). She said she'd seen one other episode of the show (which I determined to be "Revelations" after a bit of a description), which explained why she knew that Oz was a werewolf, but it just cracked me up that she hadn't been able to figure out who and what Angel was in relation to the other characters.
It was an incredibly odd conversation, because she's not normally into genre shows, and she'd certainly had plenty of opportunity to see BtVS when it was on... but it took her stumbling onto it by accident to get her interested. We wound up talking for about half an hour, with me filling her in on some basic storyline history... I may have to see about loaning her my DVDs at some point (if I can part with them for that long). Watching the show on FX is great and all, but they have a tendency to cut dialogue. Even worse, they have a tendency to cut some of the best lines of the show.
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I started watching on my own. Blame the Spike guy.
One of my reasons for not watching was because I liked vampires - and she killed them :)
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squee!
I should have trusted my friends more. If I like my friends, and they're nuts over Buffy, and we share other interests, you'd think Logic would prevail.
Then FX started running 2 episodes of Buffy twice a day. My wife, as you know a stay-at-home mom, found there was nothing else on TV during that time of day, and thus was hooked. And so hooked me.
I'm up to early season 5; I've seen several 6th and 7th season eps, enough to have a gist of the plot.
It must be surreal to find a relative getting interested in the same kind of things you like. None of my family are that progressive.
[insert snappy Buffy quote here]
-K'rrayn, the Zeppo.