Pages Tagged “Buffy”
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- Sunnydale News How newspapers might have covered the events of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series finale.
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- Talk Less. Smile More.
Such Gentlemen!
- It’s a Big Rock
They don’t have a rock this big.
- Frostbite Looks Familiar
Looking at the “all ages” shelf in Borders, which seems to be almost entirely made up of novels about vampires and dragons, I noticed that the cover to the Vampire Academy novel Frostbite looked awfully familiar. I walked over to the DVD section of the store and picked up a copy of Buffy the Vampire […]
- Dawn from BTVS: Irrational Character Hate
Some fans hate Dawn even when she does things that they like, or that are necessary to set up elements they like. It’s hate for its own sake.
- Dawn and the Key
The synopsis for JLA #124 (due in January) includes the phrase, “he loses focus on stopping The Key and saving Dawn, and turns his energies on an even deadlier foe.” Now, I know these are separate DC characters, but my first thought was “But Dawn is the Key!” Once you start down the Buffy path…
- Looking for Spike (in all the wrong places)
My regular comic store, Comic Quest, didn’t get any copies of Peter David’s Spike: Old Times. Yesterday I checked at Comics Toons and Toys. They were also sold out. Today I started looking around more of the Orange County area. First step: Mile High Comics. I figured it was a long shot, since they’re the […]
- Wee Little Puppet Man
OK, I have officially changed my mind about the four covers for Angel: The Curse #1. If they weren’t publishing alternate covers, there’s no way they would have used a fully-painted picture of the puppet Angel. Update: Scan added. The guy at the comic store said, “of all the people who had it on their […]
- Excess Coverage
A new Angel comic book mini-series (from IDW, rather than Dark Horse), Angel: The Curse, picks up after the end of the TV series. In this first issue of a new Angel tale, Angel has survived the conclusion of his TV show and finds himself in a mysterious Romanian forest. There, his search for the […]
- OK, that was weird
I’m listening to Evanescence’s Fallen and skimming this week’s link-checker report. Apparently the Taco Belle Amy Acker fan site was unreachable at the time it was checked, but it’s up now. So I started reading some of the interviews on the site, noticing they were all pre-Illyria…. at which point the album gets to “My […]
- Cancellations
When it comes to serial entertainment, everything will end at some point. I’m sure even Superman and Spider-Man comics will cease someday. A show can end before or after it’s run out of things to say, but it’s worst when it hasn’t finished speaking. We’ve all seen shows that kept going long after, by any […]
- Learning the hard way
Advice to the world at large: do not watch “A Hole in the World” one night, “Shells” the next, and then go listen to the Evanescence album. You will not like what it does to you. Trust me on this. More when I’m coherent again. *snivel*whimper*
- Well, that sucks.
Miss two weeks and they pull the rug out from under you: …the cast, crew, writers and producers of Angel deserve to be able to wrap up the series in a way befitting a classic television series and that is why we went to Joss to let him know that this would be the last […]
- Even interdimensional law firms need comp coverage
It’s the law: all employers in California have to provide work comp coverage for all their employees. Even Wolfram and Hart.
- Buffy Finale: I can just see the Sunnydale news reports
EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS CALIFORNIA TOWN – A look at how newspapers might have covered the events of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series finale.
- Big finale….
How did we get to here? How did this plot appear? The show’s all done It was really fun But I just can’t raise that cheer Tell me How did we get to here? (You better know the tune.)
- “Touched”: Getting into the Fray
The first thought I had when I saw the Weapon of Doom was, “A sundial?” Then I looked again and thought, “A gigantic jar opener?” Then Kelson said, “Hey, that’s Fray’s weapon!” and I noticed the blade. (Finally.) So, if it’s there, and findable pretty fast (since I assume Caleb could shove, if not toss, […]
- What Has To Be Done
After watching last night’s Angel, I have a new theory based on the question of just what role each person has in the Devourer’s arrival or defeat. After all, Skip told us all of them were manipulated into being where they were. (Spoilers follow)
- Interconnectedness
It still seems odd that Buffy and Angel appear to be leading up to two completely separate but both major apocalypses. We’re just a few episodes from the end of each season, and it looks like there’s no connection between the First Evil in Sunnydale and the full-up Biblical apocalypse in LA. Or perhaps the […]
- Just saw “Orpheus.” On tape.
Okay, no Slayer army yet, but I have yet to see what happens on the Buffy that showed while we were elsewhere. And Willow under a different writer is sort of like Willow on speed. And where the hell is Cordy getting her clothes? Evil Pregnant Sluts ‘R’ Us?
- Lines that didn’t make the cut
PRINCIPAL WOOD: Nice coat. Where’d you get it? SPIKE: Your mama.
- Crazy Ideas
Have you ever realized that an elegant solution to an age-old question was sitting right in front of you? Or rather, had just left town for an undisclosed reason? My point: I think I know how the proverbial “Slayer army” can come into being. Here’s the problem: Buffy is, for all intents and purposes, the […]
- Life imitating art?
The Los Angeles Times printed this on the front page on Wednesday, showing downtown LA against a very red sunset, a result of two days of heavy Santa Ana winds. Does this remind anyone else of the most recent Angel episode?
- “The House Always Wins,” except when Angel does.
Yay me. Looks like the writing-stuff-down-so-I-can-prove-I-said-it purpose of this board is coming into play sooner and more effectively than I’d thought. Not that I like the way the writers brought it about, but I’m beginning to think that to write on one of Joss’s shows, you have to take an Emotional (Manipulation) Intelligence Test. Saying […]
- It’s just like homework, only cooler.
I seem to be having a great deal of trouble with my Buffy. Perhaps it’s due to the fact that my life from 8:15 to 5ish every day is nothing but a collection of deadlines, making them the last thing I want to face when I’ve just vegged out for an hour having my emotions…..manipulated. […]
- “Same Time, Same Place,” just a little twisted.
It occurred to me partway through the final segment of this week’s Buffy that perhaps, for a watchers’ council planning to have dinner during the first segment of the episode, linguini hadn’t been the best menu choice. Eeeyugh.
- “Deep Down” we’re all a little freaked.
Don’t you just love having your head messed with? And isn’t Joss great at it? Of course, if you’re a return viewer, you know this by now and it’s probably part of the reason you tune in. The season premiere, though, didn’t have a lot of time or latitude to do much but mess with […]
- What Lies “Beneath You”
In case you’re wondering, yes, I am planning to make this a weekly column of sorts. And it’s been brought to my attention that maybe I should mark it as containing spoilers, seeing as how some people in some other places might not have seen the episode in question yet, or might have missed it. […]
- “Lessons” and speculations
Yay! New Buffy! And quite promising new Buffy, too. Despite the unpursued beginning sequence and the shopworn “something big is coming” talk, it looks to be more than just an intro for the Dawn/Kit/Carlos (wow, normal names!) trio or an attempt to return to the series’ Sunnydale High roots. I like Spike with the William […]