Interesting post. Like you I started watching in season 5, and like you I was/am a Spuffy. The show was largely responsible for getting me on line thru web tv when I got a library book out about the show and discovered there was lots of on line buffy stuff. My real life friends certainly never watched it. Imagine my surprise when I discovered so many people that did. I lurked on the Cross and Stake and later joined the yahoo group where I met you. Web tv is gone here and now I even have a computer so the show is largely responsibe for the fact I have become a little bit computer literate.
And finally like you, no show has captured my interest the way Buffy did, even several years later.