Of nice weather and turning Buffy-skeptics to Buffy-fanatics

At last we have decent weather around here. The whole July it rained, poured. Some rivers in East/Middle Finland flooded, causing property damage. Not here, though. I didn't think there would be floods in Finland. But hey, there were in Sweden, so why not here? Okay, after the rain, when July turned to August, we suddenly got a heat wave: over plus 30 degrees of celsius every day. But today, we have a blissful about +25 degrees, and all is well.

I watched the 7th season of Buffy to the end last week. Now it's over. Sniff. No more Buffy to watch. But I haven't seen the 5th season of Angel, so that's something to look forward to, although there will be no more since those idiots at Fox cancelled the series, while still continuing Charmed (to the seventh season!) and Smallville. I mean, Charmed is crap. And it didn't do as well in the ratings as Angel. There has to be somekind of logic behind this, right?

In a Finnish magazines called 'Pelit' ('Games') there was a fun challenge: a writer in the magazine had reviewed the Buffy game (can't remember if it was the first or the second), but he hadn't actually seen that much Buffy, and didn't think highly of the episodes he had. So a Buffy fanatic of the staff challenged the guy to watch the whole series and keep an online diary of his feelings on the magazine's web site. It was so much fun to read how a skeptic turns into a fanboy. When he began season six, he ordered the whole series to himself on DVD. (By the way: the guy watched all the seven seasons in little over a month, at first four, then two episodes a day - he switched to two when he didn't want the series to end! ^_^)

He said that he understood that people could be skeptic about Buffy, it does, after all, tell of a stupidly-named teen-aged (at first) girl who fights vampires. But he also said that all those people who look Buffy down their noses *haven't actually seen the series*.

The guy said that the only bad thing about Buffy as a series was that it made Babylon 5 suddenly look worse (he was a huge B5 fan, I gathered). He still thought B5 was a good series, but the relationships of the characters, especially that of Sheridan and Delenn, seemed to him like sugarcandy when compared to the real relationships of the Buffy characters.

And thus I think that it is proven: Buffy is quality TV. By season two this guy, who had only seen a couple episodes of the series and didn't think highly of it, was shaking his preconceptions, and by season four he had already turned into a fan, only to be a real fanboy by season six. And now he's going to watch Angel.

All hail Buffy!