Wow, that's an interesting coincidence. I've been doing the same.
Never watched it at all when it was on TV, but an ex got me into it. A few years back, some friends and I had a bunch of little marathons and worked through the whole series. Except that we skipped season 6 for some reason, don't even remember why some people wanted to skip it. I knew the basics of the season 6 storyline (Willow going evil and nearly destroying the world) from my ex, though.
So now that I have the whole series on Netflix, I decided to go through and watch season 6 and just finished it a few days ago. Even though I knew the general storyline, turns out there was a LOT I missed, some pretty powerful episodes. The "evil Willow" episodes were far more intense/powerful/disturbing than I expected. Even though knowing what happened in Season 6 let me follow Season 7 just fine a few years ago, I realized that Season 7 would be far more enriching after having actually seen Season 6. So now I'm about halfway through Season 7, and have also gone back and watched a few of the early Season 1 episodes. It's interesting to see again how the characters got their start after knowing where they end up. Plus, noticing more how things really tie together instead of the straight-forward "wow what happens next" aspect of watching it for the first time.
I've only ever seen Season 1 of Angel and then bits and pieces thereafter, so I watched the first episode of that last night and am going to be working my way through the whole thing.
So yes, definitely on a Buffy/Angel kick of my own at the moment.
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Wow, that's an interesting coincidence. I've been doing the same.
Never watched it at all when it was on TV, but an ex got me into it. A few years back, some friends and I had a bunch of little marathons and worked through the whole series. Except that we skipped season 6 for some reason, don't even remember why some people wanted to skip it. I knew the basics of the season 6 storyline (Willow going evil and nearly destroying the world) from my ex, though.
So now that I have the whole series on Netflix, I decided to go through and watch season 6 and just finished it a few days ago. Even though I knew the general storyline, turns out there was a LOT I missed, some pretty powerful episodes. The "evil Willow" episodes were far more intense/powerful/disturbing than I expected. Even though knowing what happened in Season 6 let me follow Season 7 just fine a few years ago, I realized that Season 7 would be far more enriching after having actually seen Season 6. So now I'm about halfway through Season 7, and have also gone back and watched a few of the early Season 1 episodes. It's interesting to see again how the characters got their start after knowing where they end up. Plus, noticing more how things really tie together instead of the straight-forward "wow what happens next" aspect of watching it for the first time.
I've only ever seen Season 1 of Angel and then bits and pieces thereafter, so I watched the first episode of that last night and am going to be working my way through the whole thing.
So yes, definitely on a Buffy/Angel kick of my own at the moment.