We sat loyally every Tuesday, watching a new episode faithfully, even if we had to put up with the whinings of a certain main character that made quite a few fan quit watching, including me after awhile. They had us watch the love triangle, and watch the reruns (and we enjoyed it, darnit!), and creating every unconventional relationship we could think of.
They had us hoping for better episodes when they were not quite so good. They had us hoping this season, things would change, Buffy would act strong again.
And it did. For a bit. But this season is a good one.
But now they have us hoping for a new episode.
Is Joss playing with our heads?
Maybe they're filming more. Maybe Joss has grown weary and tired of his duties on Buffy and Angel. Maybe while we weren't looking the hellmouth swallowed Sunnydale and now there is to be no more tales about our favourite Slayer and her day to day not so normal events.
No matter how much Buffy annoys us sometimes, reruns make us sad.
Because of a certain The Net catastrophe, we are slightly worried and we do not even realize it.
So we will sit, and wait, for new episodes. We will not watch the reruns (Just Shoot me and Will And Grace and Dharma And Greg prevents this) but we will be waiting.
(C) 2000 A. Sinclaire (Look! I did an essay! Wow! It sucks!)