Not a long ago my husband sighed: "Shouldn't you come back to real world for a while?"
His sad remark came from the fact that I had watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer one week in a row - with our daughters. He might have felt little neglected since he does not especially like that genre. On the other hand me and my girls were deep in the story and watched trough all seasons. It took us two weeks and I have to admit I had a kind of hangover after that effort.
I hadn't been Buffy fan before that. For some reason I skipped the series when it was on Finnish television. I vaguely remember seeing few episodes but that was it. I think I was so busy with my family life and work that I simply didn't have time to watch tv.
Then something happened. That something was American tv-series True Blood. I saw it on pay channel in Finland and got hooked immediately. After first season I bought all Charlaine Harrison's Southern Vampire Mysteries books and liked them too. Even if they are more simple and lighter than tv show. Then I got interested in vampire stories in books and tv.
Vampire literature wasn't total stranger to me. I had read Bram Stoker's Dracula and all books by Ann Rice. As a kid I loved horror movies with mummies, werewolfs, vampires and other monsters. I found it very interesting that vampires suddenly came out so strong in popular culture - in movies, books and on tv.
Stephenie Meyer wrote Twilight books for teen audience and I believe we all know what was the result. Vampires were suddenly everywhere and older books like Vampire Diaries were dusted and updated to modern teen audience.
Back to Buffy. Inspired by True Blood I had searched other vampire theme series and realised I have missed a very popular and famous series. So I bought all seasons on dvd. Two first seasons didn't get under my skin. I didn't like Angel much, but I liked all the other characters. The one thing that really got me interested was Spike. And when his realtionship whit Buffy started to build and change, everything got more and more interested.
I wasn't only one in our family to fancy Spike. My daughters shared my opinion of Angel and we didn't miss him at all when he left for his spin off. We wanted to see more Spike and Spike we got.
After finishing watching all seasons I bought an autographed group potret of whole Scooby Gang, then season 8 in comic book volumes and now I have read season 9 as well. I prefer season 9 story, season 8 was little weird, too sci fi to be Buffy. I admit I have also all seasons of Angel but mainly because Spike wakes from death and returns to make my day.
Recently I have been present in reality, but still missing Buffyverse and anxiously waiting new issues of season 9. In summer 2013 I can jump in other reality with new season of True Blood and maybe before that I can enjoy the newest season of excellent Being Human (UK). The US remake is not bad but lacks the athmosphere of original series and definitely Aidan Turner. Aidan's Mitchell was such a wonderful character. My second favorite vampire after Spike. Meanwhile I comfort myself watching Vampire Diaries with my elder daughter.
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