Fannish things. And my first poll!

[frayadjacent]

I'm vidding a show I don't know as well as the other shows I've vidded.  And I keep learning new things about the show and discovering new feelings and I'm letting myself try stuff out without planning so much in advance and it's fun!  Also I laid down a couple clips at just the spot I was planning (on the bridge, of course) and then I watched six billion times and I like it.  :D  We'll see if that's still the case next time I open up FCP.

Tonight I'm going to try and get a friend hooked on Buffy.  So, time for a poll!

Poll #13754 Best Practices for BtVS Evangelism

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

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If you were trying to introduce someone to BtVS and only had 2-3 episodes to show them, what would you choose?

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Welcome to the Hellmouth, The Harvest, and The Witch, of course!
4 (18.2%)

A couple of the better S1 episodes, like Angel and Prophecy Girl
3 (13.6%)

The beginning of the Angel arc: Angel, Lie to Me
0 (0.0%)

A few good standalones from any point in the series (e.g., Hush)
11 (50.0%)

Other. I will tell you!
4 (18.2%)

If you picked "other", what do you recommend?

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Also I'm in the middle of season 2 of Breaking Bad.  More words to come!

Comments

[rebcake]

While I adore the episodes wherein the characters are not exactly themselves — Halloween, Band Candy, Something Blue, OMWF etc. — those don't necessarily grab people new to the show.

For Dad-type people, I always start with "A New Man". For littler kids (10 and up, I'd say) "Halloween" can still work well. For people I know will like Spike, there's no harm in starting with "School Hard", amirite? If I'm confident of my audience, I'll try the 1-2-3 of "Pangs", "Something Blue", and "Hush". If they aren't hooked by then, I'm not sure what would do it.

I watched out-of-order, but I do think S1 has a good proportion of good episodes. If only it were prettier! The first 5 minutes (Darla!) would have grabbed me, had I seen it before S2.

[frayadjacent]

One of my many fond memories of watching BtVS for the first time is laughing with surprise and satisfaction at the first scene in WttH. (Heh, I guess that would also be my first fond memory of watching BtVS for the first time!)

I feel like I had a near-ideal first-watching experience: I watched the series almost completely unspoiled with a friend over the course of about a year. Of course, the first four or five months of that year were spent on S1 and the first half of S2, after which point I picked up the pace considerably.

Watching 3 eps in order isn't a bad idea. It would settle her in with the characters and story a little more, maybe be a bit more of a hook?

(She's a late 20-something, likes action heriones, liked Dollhouse. So an easy sell. I'm not sure if she'd like Spike? I mean, statistically speaking it's likely, but I can't say for sure.)

[next_to_normal]

Oh, if she liked Dollhouse, then maybe one of the early Faith eps might be good to show her?

[frayadjacent]

Ha ha ha ha what an awesome icon for talking about Dollhouse!! I will never stop laughing. :D

I bet she would have gotten a kick out of that!