buffy the hours-pire slayer (or, welcome to sunnydale, say hello to vampires, say goodbye to yr social life)

first it was twin peaks, then the wire, and now buffy the vampire slayer has totally taken over my house. i'm almost done with season 3, ann (the owner of the whole series and an amazing dog who can speak and jump through hoola hoops on command named sadie) and ezra are on season 5, and xander's always behind at the beginning of season 3. i'm taking a hiatus while xander catches up, because it is more fun to watch with someone else. so, that's why i have so much time to blog: the hiatus.

so, i'm crazy about this show. everything every superfan says about it is true: witty, clever, dorky dialogue, emotionally realistic teenagers (my favorite is the werewolf boy who is really sensitive and reasonable and cool, like when his gf gets caught making out with her childhood best friend after the gf and chbf were kidnapped by vampires, he breaks up with her but eventually decides that if she wants to try again so does he. it's so rad and awesome and right on that he's all supercool and plays in a band and loves his confused gf but then becomes a werewolf so they have to lock him in the book cage in the library during full moons <-- not butts, actual full moons. i keep making "full moon" butt jokes lately. no one laughs. ever.), more subtext about sexuality and growth than I can sometimes handle, fun 90s tights/sneakers combos, great bitchy girls, frustrating moms and demons! it's totally feminist and not homophobic at all (there's a great coming out episode plus i think some lesbian action on the horizon), but it is mostly white people. it's funny, a black vampire comes to town and totally comments on that and then after that all these people of color start popping up around town and in the story, so i guess they were trying to fix it. i was thinking about the white privilege article and the part about seeing your race represented in pop culture.

characters are in and out and all that. lots of people and vampires die. there's a vampire couple, spike and drusilla, that are batty and funny and really in love. spike is british, punkish and drusilla is goth and spooky and has visions and dolls that she blindfolds when they're naughty. how could a doll do something naughty? oh drusilla, yr so strange! they have a great lair with all the dead roses and big pilar candles you'd expect.

what else? oh, the supernerd friend of the slayer is getting into witchcraft and evil lately. i don't know what's gonna happen but i feel like they're laying the groundwork for her to get really evil, so i'm excited. there was an episode with an alternate universe where the slayer was never born so the world was overrun by vampires and instead of being the supernerd friend, the supernerd friend becomes a hot vampire dominatrix and calls people her "puppies." she always wants to play with the puppies. the crew of the slayer (who is so great, too!) also includes one dorky dude, one bitchy snob girl who the dork dates and she is great and redeems herself a lot by coming through in situations where you'd expect her to be dumb and a flake but is less forgiving about the aforemtioned makeout with the werewolf's gf, plus the librarian! the stuffy, british, tweed-wearing librarian! i do totally love all the stabs at the librarian and his stuffyness, but he has a totally dark past which i also love.

have i gushed enough? is this hiatus over already? why can't xander watch tv quicker?