Meh, I just skipped seasons and watched what I wanted for the most part, you can generally fill in the blanks pretty easily. It's only if you want to get all the little off handed jokes that you need to watch the series. I mean, I took a class that went over Buffy and I've read materials about the series and I've been in Buffy RP games and I can totally follow just about everything. There's very few internalized series references that don't make sense to me and like I said. I basically didn't watch the first season or most of the second season.

As far as the name thing goes you are correct I don't really use names when I can help it. I don't like using names, they... bother me. I just don't see the point in them most of the time. Yeah sure they're useful when you're trying to find someone in a big crowd, but that can also cause just as many problems. (How many people in the fucking world are named Sarah again?) I normally say things like "my friend" more then using names, but sometimes when explaining things to other people names unfortunately, and much to my dismay, do have to be used and on those rare and annoying occasions when I am forced into using someone's name I've normally used Jackie, but I will gladly replace that With Jecca. ^_^