Buffy

also Lover's Walk.

Zeppo was amazing you're crazy.

ok yeah yr nuts homie sorry

why is everyone hating on the Zeppo?

Xander, always the lame duck, gets to do his own little quiet, stupid thing to save the day and nobody knows but that's cool. But most importantly, it pokes fun at everything about the series, and okay I haven't seen it in a while but when I first watched it, I had never really seen that kind of extended self-parody on a TV show before.

yeah the scene where xander intrudes on a VERY DRAMATIC buffy/angel argument and then slinks off is one of my favorite moments in the whole series

i never knew all this stuff about nicky brendon's drinking problem :(

zeppo is such a great episode

and the faith stuff is some of the best this series ever did - fuckin 'bad girls' yall

word

3>2>1>5>4>>>>>>>>>>>6>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>7

Actually I probably should have given 4 a few more >'s, since the middle of that season was the first time I quit watching the show.

Hey this is apparently on Logo now! I am watching Graduation Day, it is still tremendous.

Logo sure is a channel that will show commercials for vibrators and RuPaul's Drag Race, though.

it's on every week day on logo but they had a mini-marathon of shows this weekend. then they show wet hot american summer and bound a dozen times. i don't think sarah michelle gellar gets enough credit, rewatching all of the seasons, she's just brilliant. the early material with her being so conflicted with her love of angel, the loneliness of saving the world always, being alienated from everyone is so much more affecting when it seems more personal than in later seasons when things became so mega-apocalyptic. seeing wesley as uber nerd again after watching him go all 007 later on in Angel is jarring. i only recently learned that he did try out for casino royale.

DNW

Also, why does the screenwriter have a glamour shot?

It's LA. We all have glamour shots.

gif!

love the blurry, pixellated Scooby Gang gif that must have been from the LA Times web archive circa 1999

Not clear to me whether Whedon owns the rights and is OKing this, or if he doesn't and isn't.

haha I don't remember The Cryptkeeper from BTVS OH THAT'S GILES

I don't think he has the rights, iirc. xp

Ew at all the Nolan references. Obviously means she doesn't get it at all. There really is no more room for any Buffy story unless they do post-Sunnydale with setting up the new Watchers council or whatever but that would be slow as hell and not work at all for a film. If they do Buffy during Buffy era then how the fuck could it live up to the tv show? And I don't think you can do a comic book history rewrite here, especially considering Angel revolves around it and all the shit people have bought into. So basically... Movie rewrite? Pre Sunnydale? With no romance, with no resolution (getting kicked out of school and having your family break up?)... Doesn't seem very Hollywood.

Basically they should have got Jane Espenson to write Buffy and co go to Ibiza (Angel already did Vegas) or not touch it at all.

May send this woman anthrax if it turns out the way it obviously will.

Kuzui has the rights to the name apparently. >:(
There's a bit more on AIC
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/47540

Whedon responds

"Kristin, I'm glad you asked for my thoughts on the announcement of Buffy the cinema film. This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths-just because they can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself.

Obviously I have strong, mixed emotions about something like this. My first reaction upon hearing who was writing it was, 'Whit Stillman AND Wes Anderson? This is gonna be the most sardonically adorable movie EVER.' Apparently I was misinformed. Then I thought, 'I'll make a mint! This is worth more than all my Toy Story residuals combined!' Apparently I am seldom informed of anything. And possibly a little slow. But seriously, are vampires even popular any more?

I always hoped that Buffy would live on even after my death. But, you know, AFTER. I don't love the idea of my creation in other hands, but I'm also well aware that many more hands than mine went into making that show what it was. And there is no legal grounds for doing anything other than sighing audibly. I can't wish people who are passionate about my little myth ill. I can, however, take this time to announce that I'm making a Batman movie. Because there's a franchise that truly needs updating. So look for The Dark Knight Rises Way Earlier Than That Other One And Also More Cheaply And In Toronto, rebooting into a theater near you.

Leave me to my pain! Sincerely, Joss Whedon."

http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEghaVSeqSXtki

there's more talent in that short letter than there will be in the entire new series

Otm

I'm progressing thru the 4th season when I noticed this:
http://i.imgur.com/TaWfi.png

looks an awful lot like this:
http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/Alexis-Krauss415.jpg

^That's the 3rd episode... as for the actual band in the Buffy episode, is that an actual band?

an actual band is it actual?

The girl in the first screengrab is Canadian singer Bif Naked. Don't know if that's her actual band at the time, but probably.

http://www.partyaftermath.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2/BifNaked2.jpg

Whedon always used actual bands in Buffy eps

like A Dingo Ate My Baby

rats

by "always" I meant "sometimes"

whatever that band was in season 2 or so that had the lead singer who looked like the dude from 3eb...v 90s sounding...kinda jangly guitars. always wondered who that was

the bronze had the crappiest music iirc

BAN

otm ban ico

lol "Splendid"

The Bronze had Cibo Matto, Aimee Mann and THE BREEDERS play there, don't diss the Bronze.

bout to (drunkenly) finish the last 2 eps of season 4, now that i finally have some free time

missed this thread <3

yay! but this is your thread: kevin k watches "buffy the vampire slayer" and no one talks about episodes he hasn't seen yet

oh tru lol

season 4 finale was the biggest eye-roll in near all television. i was laughing in disbelief that whedon actually allowed such a thing.

Allowed it? He wrote and directed it!

season 4 finale was the best. anya does stand up.

i never watched this show before. my wife and i watched the whole thing over the past year or so and watched the finale today. i didn't really get into it until about halfway through season 2, then started losing interest when it got more serious in season 5.

i need stats on:
* how many times sarah michelle geller played someone else inhabiting buffy's body or pretending to be buffy
* how many episodes started with a dream sequence

Season 4 always irritated me, the whole Initiative storyline was crappy. I mean, there's still stuff within Season 4 that I like, but overall it's just kind of UGH to me. And season 7 with the squijillions of Slayers.

Yknow, loving the series as much as I do, I sure did put up with a lot of bullshit, lol

Ok well, off the top of the dome:
1.
Season 1-

Nightmares - SMG plays Buffy as a vampire.

Season 2-

Halloween - SMG plays a 17th century lass.
B, B & B - SMG plays Buffy as possessed by Xander love spell.
Bad Eggs - Buffy as possessed by whatever.
I Only Have Eyes For You - Buffy and Angel possessed by old students w/ drama.

Season 3-

Numerous dream sequences w/ Angel that could count.
Anne - SMG plays Buffy playing Anne.
The Wish - SMG plays alterna-world Buffy.
Amends - SMG plays Buffy as inhabited by the first.

Season 4-

Beer Bad - SMG plays Buffy turning into a cavewoman.
Something Blue - SMG plays Buffy in love with Spike due to a spell.
This Year's Girl/Five By Five - Faith and Buffy body switch.
Primeval - Uber Buffy goes Matrix w/ spirits of Scooby Gang.
Restless - Most probably.

Season 5- Kevin turn away now.

Numerous Spike dream sequences with him in love w/ his idea of Buffy.
Buffy v. Dracula - SMG as Buffy under Dracula's spell.
No Place Like Home - SMG plays Buffy going under the veil, so to speak.
Intervention - SMG plays Buffybot. Also plays Buffy playing the Buffybot.
The Weight of the World - Lots of meta-dream stuff.
The Gift - Return of Buffybot.

Season 6-
Bargaining Pt. 1&2 - Buffybot, as well as post-reincarnation Buffy.
Once More With Feeling - SMG as Buffy inhabited by a singing curse or whatever.
Tabula Rasa - SMG plays Buffy as having lost her memory and naming herself Joan.
Normal Again - SMG plays Buffy unsure of whether she is a real slayer or mental.

Season 7-

Lessons - SMG as Buffy as the first. Reoccurs throughout most of the series.
Him - SMG as Buffy under another spell making her fall for a boy.

Will try #2 in a minute.

Oh Season 7 also has SMG as Andrew's idea of SMG when narrating his story in Storytellers.

#2 is harder but here I try it

Season 1 - Nightmares obv
Season 2 - Surprise w/ Dru coming back. Becoming starts w/ a flashback - could count as Angel's dream?
Season 3 - I don't think any of them start w/ a dream sequence but there are a few after the cold open/credits? That said I think Amends starts w/ Buffy & Angel sharing a dream.
Season 4 - Beer Bad start cuts between class and a dream sequence with Parker. This Year's Girl* has Faith/Buffy. Superstar and Restless could both arguably be called dream sequences all the way through.
Season 5 - None?
Season 6 - Could make a case for Once More W/ Feeling. Or depending on your feelings for Normal Again - every episode?
Season 7 - None?

*Relating to my previous post, Five By Five is an Angel episode, the name I meant and TBC ending for the Faith-Buffy switch is called Who Are You

^^^wow that guy is a nerd.