I'll have to revisit it for this bit though. My memory occasionally sports very sieve-like qualities.

Only "occasionally"? I envy you then - my ADD has ADD. I'll make a point of pulling that bit over here to my journal this week; because it really probably just got lost over there.

recently I saw a tumblr gifset tribute to the movie. :)

True story - it came out in theaters when my partner and I were first dating in Greensboro NC, and it was either the first or second movie we saw together on a date. (The other was the Ben Stiller film Nothing in Common. Either that was a lousy year for movies or being in love crippled my judgment. Actually, I think it had more to do with my partner's preference for watching comedies.) The only part of the movie I remembered afterward was the dream sequence with Buffy and the lead vampire (Rutger Hauer) in her bedroom, that didn't seem like a dream at first - very dark and subtly erotic. It's the one part of the movie that I still connect strongly to the tone of the series (somewhat like the Angelus arc or Dead Things actually).

boot_the_grime did a meta comparing the movie with the comics version of Buffy's "origin" story that was supposedly closer to the original script. I don't remember much from that, however.

I'm happy for you at any rate. <3

Thanks hon!

I was trying to finish my post rec'ing your story because that was a gift too, in a way, but my partner wanted me to shut it down so we could watch Netflix. I just about had a tantrum, silly me. WHY is it so hard to write this post, and about Tara and Buffy? Because I have TOO damn much to say, not too little. *sighs*