This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Susan Davis: "This show could be responsible, along with The X Files, for creating Internet fandom as we know it today." Um, excuse me? Ever hear of a little show called Star Trek?
Idle Dandy: I think the key phrase there is "as we know it today."
Seth Ive belonged to both fandoms and if one has more influence on modern E-Fandom i would say buffy based on the fact there are many more loud teenage Scoobies than Trekkies. Not saying more people like BTVS just saying they shout louder.
Red Shoe: I think a lot of what Trekkiedom is had solidified and turned into a big block of geeky concrete before the internet was actually a thing for practical purposes, so Trek Fandom on the Internet is really an extension of existing stuff to a new medium, whereas with Buffy and its kin, the fandom evolved on-line, along netcentric lines.
Licky Lindsay: while I think this is probably an ultimately futile topic of discussion.. here's mine. The Simpsons Internet cult following had already grown to the point of actually being parodied on the show itself before Buffy even premiered.
Space Ace: This is Fandom, Jim. But not as we know it.
Ahem.
Sorry about that.
Haven - What is Buffy the Trope Maker for, exactly? I assumed Buffy Speak, but then saw there were Blackadder examples. There are a lot of tropes it named, there are a lot of tropes it used, there are even some tropes that it's most associated with (like Extraordinarily Empowered Girl or Buffy Speak), but I can't think of something that definitively originated in the series.
Divine Virus: This needs some major spoiler tags. Just glances over this article, some important points have been spoiled for me. I will patch up what I can, but I don't want to go looking too far least even more be spoiled. EDIT: Just trying to tag the first thing, even more was spoiled for me, as I noticed a list of people who were going to die. A list of people who were going to die without spoiler tags. That has been fixed, but can someone who has seen the entire series (instead of myself, who has only seen a season and a half) please clean up this page?
alliterator: The last episode of Buffy aired over five years ago, making pretty much everything on this page not a spoiler. The only things that could be spoilers now would be in Buffy Season Eight. As the Spoiler Policy states: "If you don't want to read any spoilers at all, and want to go into every work as pure and unsullied as a virgin to her wedding bed, this is probably not the site for you." I think a spoiler warning would suffice, but no spoiler tags are needed.
Micah: Removed
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap (Wesley, as he was made less annoying and more interesting)
because that happens on Angel.
Looney Toons: Sorry, Silent Hunter, but I removed your addition
- The film, by the way, is amusing in its own way.
because it's redundant — the prior sentence already said the film was amusing.
Silent Hunter: Not a problem.
Haven: OK, I asked about a year ago what this was a trope maker for, in three separate places, and got no response, and haven't seen any pages that say "Buffy is the Trope Maker"...so I'm just pulling the Trope Maker label.
Shrikesnest: I don't really understand the point of the analysis article associated with the show. The point it makes is that the basic ideas of the show are summed up in its title. I think anyone familiar with the idea of a title doesn't need that spelled out for them in five paragraphs. (Especially for a television show, where a title is a big part of the marketing and can't really afford to be cryptic.) Does that article serve some purpose of which I'm not aware, or should we axe it? I love this show as much as anyone, but its entry isn't improved by redundant special pages that don't really say anything of significance or import.
Jason: In the main description of the show it says many people miss the metaphors. I'm not sure if this is true. If anything I think people see more metaphors than there really are.
