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1. Kate, on November 8th, 2009 at 9:17 am Said:

   Hello,

   I wanted to let you know how much I enjoy “HappyLand” especially the episode on “Fool for Love” which is one of my personal favorite episodes. But more about that later.

   My “How I got into Buffy” story goes like this:

   It was March 1997 (I get to count myself one of the lucky ones who has been with ‘Buffy’ from all the way back to the beginning) and I was in High School and one icky Saturday afternoon, I was terribly bored (March, in Michigan has the tendency of being cold, wet, snowy and windy all at the same time) and on TV they were showing “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.

   Now I had been a fan of the movie (yeah I know) since I was about 13 or so, cheesy or not, it’s a fun premise.

   So I flipped it on. “This isn’t right” I was watching it for a second when my Mom came in and mentioned that she had heard that they were making a Buffy show, so we sat down and watched “Welcome to the Hell Mouth” and “The Harvest” together”

   Apparently the affiliate of the WB that we had was new (it just being aired in our area that previous fall) they were showing new content again on Saturdays to build viewers for new shows, like Buffy.

   So immediately I loved it. “This is the best thing to come along in a long, long time! They really seem to have fairly normal teenage personas, and hey wow, that Angel guy is hot!! I have got to keep watching this!!!”

   So when “Witch” came on the next week, I watched with eager anticipation.

   And I don’t remember seeing another episode until “Graduation Day”

   What happened? Life happened. I forgot that the reason that I didn’t know about a Buffy show was that I was too busy for reading anything that wasn’t academically relevant, or have the time to spend 1 hour a week watching TV. (Seriously between classes, swimming, music, honor’s society etc I was booked solid)

   So I got re-introduced to Buffy by one of my best friends in college, where I don’t think I ever missed another broadcast until it went off the air. I think I even re-arranged some college classes around it.

   I keep getting to chance to introduce others to Buffy, like my old college roommate, and I’m just overjoyed when they end up loving it, because come on, really, who wouldn’t?

   The hardest part, I would have to say is getting people past the title “Buffy? you mean that wierd show about vampires?” I swear satire is lost on so many people.

   Anyway, that’s pretty much how I got into Buffy.

   Also, I was wondering if you ever did a show on the Buffy/Angel Crossover episodes, and how most of them were pretty much useless, with the exception for Fool for Love/Darla, because I think that would be interesting.

   Thanks,

   -kate

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