Idk y I'm telling you this now but anyway story time this is not a story about forgiveness this is a story about tv.
Way way back in 2001, it wasn't as easy for my sister and I to watch foreign tv as it is now. It was easier than in our X Files days, when we didn't even have cable and relied on a friend of hers to record the episodes as they aired on Fox Latin America, and that was already a good while after they aired in the US. Anyway, in 2000 we finally got cable and started watching our stories that way, but again, while the rise of downloading has made most cable channels premiere stuff just a couple of weeks (or even days, or, as HBO does with their most popular stuff, simultaneously, bless the old gods and the new) after their original airing in the US, back then tv shows aired with a longer delay.
Anyway, our Tuesdays at 9pm thing to do after getting cable was to watch Buffy. My sister was never super into it but I watched it so she did as well and she really loved season 5 so we were both looking forward to season 6, and then the premiere aired and it was so... depressing. You know. And every episode after that was still so depressing. You also know. BUT THE THING IS, also on Tuesdays, also at 9pm, we had JUST started to watch THIS OTHER SHOW, on this other cable channel, and it was just SO MUCH MORE ENTERTAINING than Buffy season 6. Like, we laughed at it so much and it was so WBy and amazing and there were cute adults pretending to be teenagers on it, and like, Buffy was so depressing that eventually we stopped turning into it at all (I caught up on repeats) and our new Tuesdays at 9m appointment became this new other show.
It was called Smallville. I never talk about it.
[my sister, who is in a lot of ways smarter than I am, was eventually like 'I'm too old for this this is bad' around SV season 3, a decision I'm sure she bitterly regrets every single day of her life or not probably not she never did finish Buffy either but she does watch ONCE UPON A TIME so who's smarter NOW]
