Buffy the Vampire Slayer, complete set $50 (FS), Amazon "Deal of the Day"

Mike64

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I've never been a wild-eyed Buffy fanatic (or at least so I like to think, though I have to admit to a few more conversational references than I would normally ever dream of making to a TV show.:whiste:) But I must say I think it was one of those rare TV series where they and we got lucky* and everything just clicked (even the awful acting in a couple of cases.) Much as I liked it, though (and even what seemed at the time to be the interminable re-reruns), I've never been willing to pay normal street price for the full set (let alone MSRP!) For the most part, I really just don't "do" TV series on DVD, especially not a series I saw in its entirety several times over when all was said and done... But hey, it's Buffy, and it's only $50.:D

And a head's up: there are a fair number of reviews complaining about banged up sets and unplayable discs. But since so few Amazon reviewers ever mention exactly which sellers they actually buy their products from, it's impossible to tell whether it's a fundamental issue with the sets "as manufactured," or whether individual sellers have shipped what should have been "obviously-flawed" sets, or maybe even counterfeits.... But for $50, I figured it's worth the chance of getting a bum set. I'll just be sure to at least run through them all quickly while I can still return the set, and would suggest that anyone else going for this do the same....

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* Though obviously, considering the serious royalties they all raked in for years after it ended, especially they.:cool:
 
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Mike64

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I hate to break it to you, but you are a wild-eyed Buffy fanatic :)
:eek:/:p

Hmm... fan, sure, but I think not "wild-eyed fanatic". At least comparing myself to the (positively terrifying number of) Amazon reviewers whose entire lives the series apparently changed for the better, or who consider it the "most amazing TV show that ever existed." (Many of whom felt a very unfortunate need to recap the show's entire plot at great length, years after everyone who might be looking at the reviews in the first place knows it like the back of their hand, or indeed in more than just a couple of cases, summarizing each and every season in far-too-much detail in "reviews" wordier than some court papers I've filed.) :eek:/:confused:/:rolleyes:

What's more (I say in my own defense<g>) and again in stark contrast to the aforementioned "fanatics", several of whom note in dismissive reviews that there's not point in buying it at all since there are no extras or anything, and of course "everybody already owns all the seasons anyway." (Um, no...) I was in fact given the first series by my brother, who must've seen it in a store around Christmas time, knew I liked the show, but then forgot to/didn't process the idea far enough to remember that that I also had mentioned often enough in random conversation with him that I rarely watch(ed) anything on VHS/DVD, let alone what amount to TV re-reruns...) I can't imagine I'll ever watch the whole series through, but for $50, I do like the idea of being able to watch an episode here and there, when it happens to come to mind for some reason...

I will happily admit I'm rather a wild-eyed fanatic of "dry humor/witty repartée" in general, and I do think Buffy happened to be a good example of the type... And also that when I do find a TV show (or casual reading material) that I actually enjoy watching - rather than simply tolerate for lack of something better to do at the moment - I do have a preference for prolific producers of it, as long as they can keep things reasonably up to snuff in the process...) But the show's superficial plot premises - vampires, witchcraft and of course teen angst, etc - held no attraction for me, and indeed would have been intolerable* but for Joss Wheedon's hilarious treatment of them with the casual and hilarious irreverence-bordering-on-disdain they deserve...:D

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* See, e.g, the show Roswell. (It was alien-, rather than vampire-oriented, and treated both the alien bits and the teen angst stuff so seriously that it practically induced intellectual vertigo. Or so it appeared from the few episodes I sat through before it permanently went on the mental "ignore list"...
 
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