So today I'm going to be combining appropriately two questions that I get asked quite a lot
and I thought that this would be the perfect time to answer them now. I did kind of go
back and forth a bit with doing this video because I though, "Will I watch the Chilling
Adventures? Do I really want to watch it?" And in the end I've decided that for now I
will not be watching the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I'm recording this on a Sunday.
It is released this coming Friday, but if I hear a lot of hype about it I may change
my mind and watch it so I will admit that this is not a concrete decision but for now
I am going to talk a little bit about why I don't want to watch it, and that is connected
to the first part of this video: my Sabrina the Teenage Witch tattoo! I have talked about
this before I think, probably shortly after I got it done, so in 2011, so it's been seven
years but I have probably mentioned it from time to time when I do my Sabrina reviews
but today I wanted to sit down and talk properly about why I got it done, what it means to
me and then why that means I'm not going to watch the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
So it'll be a picture with my tattoo on screen just now. It is here. You can't see it just
now of course. I got it done in I think early 2011. I can't remember the exact day but I
was 19 and I remember I must have looked quite young because we had to try and persuade and
convince the tattooist that I was old enough. I was 19. I was well over a year older than
what I should have been to get it done but I think because of the quite juvenile nature
of the tattoo he was a bit concerned. But nevertheless I got it done. I chose to get
the logo done because that's the most iconic thing from my childhood, that Sabrina logo.
And the reason I got it done is because it marked a pivotal point in my life when I was
going from childhood to adulthood. From the age of 7 - so 1999 so when it had been out
for a little while but I think it did only just come to the UK at this point - until
the age of 19, Sabrina the Teenage Witch was my ultimate comfort blanket. There would be
two episodes on Nickelodeon. I think it's 7 o'clock, and then at 8 o'clock I'd switched
over to Nick Replay and watch them again. That's 2 hours of
Sabrina! This was roughly around season 4 that was being broadcast and over the years
of course I fell in love with it. My first crush was Josh, David Lasher. I had a poster
of him on my wall and then as I went through secondary school I continued watching it and
the DVDs were released at about this point so I could actually binge watch it again and
I would also read the books. At this point I started reading the novels and I would just
wrap myself up in my duvet. I've gone through a lot of mental issues at the time and just
lose myself in one of the books and that became a kind of a comfort blanket, a new way of
discovering and enjoying the stories. And then when I was about 17 or 18 I became wholly
dependent on the show after school then I went to college then after college and then
that gap when I was in between University and college - the other way around - I would
watch this show every day. I started reading the Archie comics because I was in a desperate
need to discover the story in a new life and just bring new content to me. There was a
while when Melissa Joan Hart had her first website I was in charge of the Sabrina group
on the on the forum and it was just wonderful and I started to kind of communicate online
with some of the cast members then and over the years I've developed little acquaintanceships
with them. But it was getting to the stage where this show - because I depended on it
so much as a comfort blanket and as my escape from reality - I was struggling to look forward
and look into the future. I was just so absorbed in this show and I have been for, you know,
we're talking roughly 12 years at the time and I thought, you know, I need to do something
that will concrete this in my life and allow me to move forward, and what better way to
make sure it's permanently a part of me without requiring me to focus on it 100% than get
a permanent tattoo?! And that's why I got this tattoo. It was my way of saying I'll
always have this comfort blanket with me but now I can progress into adulthood and look
at the bigger world without feeling the need to constantly think about this TV show.So
that's my slightly emotional tale of why I loved this show so much that I permanently
marked my body with its logo. So because this show means so much to me, because I still
absolutely adored it and still review it sporadically, I am unable to watch the Chilling Adventures.
Now that's not because I don't think it'll be good but it's because I have no interest
in it. It is such a different programme; from what I can see from the previews it's actually
more like theArchie Comics stories than it is going to be like the Hartbreak series.
Cousin Ambrose is in it actually, which is something Hartbreak never explored, but of
course it's from orignal Archie stories and to me it's just not the same programme. It's
not the same characters. It's not the same show. It's completely different. This feels
more like a teenage programme whereas Sabrina, my Sabrina, is a family show, a children's
show. I feel like it'll have a completely different atmosphere. We know the Chilling
Adventures is going to be chilling. I prefer something comforting so it's not just the
case that I don't feel like anything could be as good as the original. I can't really
call it the original because there was an animated series long before it based entirely
on the Archie comics and it's not just that it won't be the same as the Hartbreak series
but that is just completely different and I actually have no interest in the Chilling
Adventures. It doesn't sound like something I will enjoy. Now I said that about Stranger
Things and then everybody was badgering me to watch it, and I did become a bit obsessed
with it, and I love Winona Ryder, so I'm not saying I will never ever watch the Chilling
chilling Adventures of Sabrina but I'm saying just now that Sabrina to me is a comfort blanket
and that is why I love it and that is why I needed and depended on it and will always
carry it with me. I do not have that same fascination with the Chilling Adventures.
I'm not showing that level of interest, so that is why I will not be watching it. I may
eventually but I will not be doing any content about it over the weeks and months, but if
you think, if you've seenit now and you think I should watch it then please feel free to
try and convince me, but for now I am perfectly content with the Hartbreak Sabrina the Teenage
Witch.