Oh man, Buffy (and Angel). ♥ Not only are the shows amazing, but the *fandoms* shaped so much of my fannish existence. Fandom of my heart, to this day. In some ways AtS was my show more than BtVS was - grace in darkness is my *trope* and that was AtS, but I remember this great quote from somebody in fandom from back in the day, wish I could remember who, that the themes of AtS were that you could find grace even in the darkness and the themes of BtVS were that sometimes you could turn on the fucking light (umm, loosely paraphrased) and oh, just yes. I love that show so fucking much.