I have a confession to make: I watch "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

And I like it.

I started watching in December of 2001, relatively late in the show's seven-year run. I had of course heard of it before, most often from my friend Nigel, who was famous for running through the halls of Kimball chanting, "BuffyBuffyBuffyBuffy!" every time there was a new episode. Maybe it was the name "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or recollections of the really bad movie version, but I never really gave the show a chance. I had a vague knowledge of bits and pieces of the show ("Willow's a lesbian? Who the hell is Willow?"), but nothing more.

This all changed during the first winter break I spent in D.C. Although it was new and exciting to be in D.C., the novelty started to wear off, and I found myself with a lot of free time and not much to do. This is when I realized that Buffy was on TV literally 10 times a week. Despite my initial misgivings, I found myself really enjoying the show. My grandfather's helper, an elderly Chinese man, even watched with me with the captions turned on to help him learn English. Probably not the best source to do that, but I guess American teenager English is better than no English.

After that winter break, I found myself really wanting to know what was happening on the show, so I started to take in the new episodes. And slowly, I actually started to care about what happened to these imaginary characters with impossibly strange names (says the girl named "Sha Sha") fighting imaginary monsters. This was in the middle of season 6, and I only missed one episode since then.

Tonight was the series finale of Buffy, and I find myself strangely saddened. I'm sure I'm not as destroyed as those who had been watching the entire seven years, but there's definitely something gone.

So now that I've exposed myself as an even bigger geek than previously thought, I just want to wrap up by tipping my hat to a great TV show that probably affected me more than I'd like to admit.

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