Alex Spencer

By the time it wrapped, I was 14. I didn't see the finale because I was on a German exchange, didn't tape it. It was years before I saw it.

(Which led to a lot of school arguments ending in "I'll tell you who dies!" and me running away with my fingers in my ears.)

I've skipped past the ways the show was sexually formative for me there because, blush emoji.

But I'll cop to basically lifting entire chunks of my sense of humour from the show. And, as a serial noun-verber, the way I speak.

I'm currently four seasons deep into the whole thing again with @ImogenDale. When we first met, I was at about the same point with the DVDs.

(We're currently arguing over whether to sync it up with an Angel rewatch. Opinions very welcome.)

Anyway, this will be my third time through. During the show's first run, as a child growing into a slightly taller child.

Then a decade later, spanning my time at uni, stabilising the unsteadier parts of myself with the show's characters and character.