Oh, how lovely! *\0/* Enjoy your new-found ownership of S&S! Just watch out for clocks doing weird things and stuff vanishing inexplicably. (This happened to me. Although actually, I blame my parents. They watched some of it with me and then found temporal problems all over my house.)
Introducing people to new shows is always fun yet nervewracking - there's no guarantees for what people might like, only educated guesses. (About the preferences - both Rose and Buffy have real world/contemporary settings adn I've often found that of the people I know who dislike sf/fantasy, it's things that are a completely imagined worlds that are often the biggest problems for them - it's not real, therefore it doesn't matter, they can't suspend their disbelief or it's just 'silly'. But if you have relatable characters on a recognisable backdrop, sometimes they're won over.) It's always interesting, though: we each bring a unique reading to a text and that can be frustrating, baffling and saddening, but it's also really exciting, too. :-)
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Introducing people to new shows is always fun yet nervewracking - there's no guarantees for what people might like, only educated guesses. (About the preferences - both Rose and Buffy have real world/contemporary settings adn I've often found that of the people I know who dislike sf/fantasy, it's things that are a completely imagined worlds that are often the biggest problems for them - it's not real, therefore it doesn't matter, they can't suspend their disbelief or it's just 'silly'. But if you have relatable characters on a recognisable backdrop, sometimes they're won over.) It's always interesting, though: we each bring a unique reading to a text and that can be frustrating, baffling and saddening, but it's also really exciting, too. :-)