What was it about Buffy the Vampire Slayer.......

Was discussing this with a friend today, who'd told me she'd just blasted through the first five seasons of Supernatural on Hulu.

Me: For all the television shows that I record and watch, I don't care about 98% of them.
Friend (laughs)
Me: And the last television series I really cared about or was obsessed over was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[I don't count Farscape, because it was cancelled before I watched it. And my obsession lasted 6 months. It's hard to stay obsessed over something that doesn't have any new content.]

I don't know why I haven't been able to emotionally invest in a lot of these series. Oh there are a few I do enjoy and would miss a little bit if they waived by-by tomorrow. A handful. The Good Wife, Justified, Once Upon a Time, and possibly Game of Thrones?

The following shows...I find interesting, but weirdly don't care what happens to anyone in them.

1. How to Get Away with Murder
2. Marvel Agents of Shield
3. Scandal

Not sure why this is exactly.

Revenge? I just want everyone but Nolan and Emily, to die. Which is caring, in a way.

I do care a bit about Grey's Anatomy, Defiance, Gotham, Nashville, Vamp Diaries, the 100, Elementary, Doctor Who, Dowton Abbey, Blacklist, and Sherlock but not really enough to be upset if they got cancelled.

Arrow, Constantine, Sleepy Hollow and the Flash - am thisclose to giving up on.

Nor do I know what it was about Buffy that obsessed me and nothing else really does. Not sure anyone on my correspondence list understands this? I don't understand it. Maybe Buffy just had a combination of factors that the others don't quite have?
The Good Wife? I feel sort of the same way I did about Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Twin Peaks and The West Wing, great writing, great characters...but I'm not in love. I enjoy and love it. But not.. And same deal with Once Upon a Time - I enjoy aspects...but not love.

Buffy - I seemed to love just about everything about it in the latter seasons. The music, the characters, the story arc, the metaphors - I think it just resonated on a deep level? Don't know. Not obsessed with it now.

( What was it about Buffy the Vampire Slayer? )

[This post, rather rough in form and filled to the brim with typos (ETA:corrected most of them)...is more me trying to figure out something...than anything else. It may seem obvious to others. But often what is obvious to outsiders, is not, or so I've found to ourselves. ]