Buffy

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.

lol

i vastly prefer "fun" buffy to "serious" buffy so seasons 3+4 were the high point for me, seemed to have more wacky one-off episodes and the evil mayor (who oddly reminds me of david lynch) is easily the best long-term villain of any of the season.

i just found out recently that the professor in s4 (lindsay crouse?) was the same actress who was in "slapshot"

oh yeah most of my favourite episodes are ones written by the great jane espenson that are just mad lols: band candy where all the old ppl turn into teenagers, earshot where buffy can hear ppls thoughts, superstar where jonathon becomes the most awesome person on the planet, intervention where spike has his own buffy sexbot etc.

I didn't read this thread because I don't want spoilers but I am contemplating watching this start to finish as I've never seen a single episode. Plaxico seemed to think I'd love it and now I'm sort of bored and curious. So, it's good, huh?

So good

But if you find it lacking at first, wait until the middle of season 2. Then you will not physically be able to stop yourself from watching the rest of the series.

e - watch it!

E, dude...DO IT!!!

E- omg yes watch it now.

First series is v. good but SOOOO DATED. But yeah, as the good goat said, once you hit the middle of season 2 - holy fucking mother of God it is the best television has EVER been for about 4 years.

Do it
clap clap clap
do it
clap clap clap

one of us etc etc

think you guys might be overselling this a bit

no-one is overselling it.

as the guy who instantly answered 'i'd like to see a full list' of questions revolving around this show, i think i am just about where you'd expect me to be on a scale of selling it

lol @ buffy not being ILX cool 9 years ago.

think you guys might be overselling this a bit

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i'll kill you

only on ILX would we be expected to not recommend the tv show the thread is dedicated to discussing. "How gauche" :)

I've watched a good number of wonderful and/or critically acclaimed television series that I love with all my heart and, on the whole, hold in slightly higher esteem than BTVS (which I do love, mind). But I think I still feel comfortable promoting the meme of Buffy season 5 as the best season of any TV show ever.

1) HS ILU <3

2) OK, I'm gonna give it a go.

I'm kind of sick of it because my wife and daughter have watched the whole thing through at least five times, but it really is all that if you haven't seen it before.

xxpost

And also the meme of Buffy season 6 as the most simultaneously brilliant and bold and emotionally draining and difficult to watch season of any TV show ever.

(And while I'm on the topic of season 6 and its emotional drain...what the hell were people thinking, trying to turn 'Once More With Feeling' into some sort of Rocky Horror-esque singalong fun frolic? Musical or not, that shit is straight depressing at the core.)