Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'

Buffy ,'Help'


Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?  

[NAFDA] This is where we talk about the show! Anything that's aired in the US (including promos) is fair game. No spoilers though -- if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it.


Nutty - May 28, 2004 6:38:56 am PDT #1664 of 3531
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Sure, but The Donald wouldn't be much of a secret identity.

Beg to differ -- Bruce Wayne is usually presented as a pretty-boy airhead, over the course of history. A pretty-boy airhead who inherited his money, and I should think Batman would be smart enough not to get himself a network television show.

How you can maintain the vapid-playboy image in these days of Paris Hilton, and still avoid publicity, I don't know.

Oh my god, Athina Onassis is Batman!!


Topic!Cindy - May 28, 2004 6:42:22 am PDT #1665 of 3531
What is even happening?

Was anyone here into Gargoyles? I wasn't. But it looks like the creator, Greg Weisman, is one of us. I have never seen Gargoyles, but a friend linked this, elsewhere. Weisman is large with the Josslove, and makes a decent (and non-ass-kissy) comparison between the A:ts and BtVS series finales.

It's the second entry down from the top (time stamp: Thursday, May 20, 2004 04:59:01 PM).

WARNING, the top entry (Monday, May 24, 2004 05:18:21 PM) looks like it contains current season (near the end or end) spoilers for JoA and GG.

Now, from the one of us entry:

Just a couple years ago, I was in Whedon heaven. Buffy. Angel. Firefly. And any minute the Buffy Animated Series (which I was SO dying to work on, but couldn't even get my foot in the door) and Ripper. How did five series (four set in the Buffyverse) drop down to zero in just 18 months?


§ ita § - May 28, 2004 6:44:59 am PDT #1666 of 3531
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The Punisher is mostly just annoying.


Steph L. - May 28, 2004 6:46:51 am PDT #1667 of 3531
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Yeah, but Batman had a gay sidekick, whereas Angel just had Spike.

After "Origin," I envisioned this whole S6 where Connor sneaks away from college/his family to patrol with Angel, a la Bats and Tim Drake.

Dude. Still want that.


UTTAD - May 28, 2004 6:50:17 am PDT #1668 of 3531
Strawberry disappointment.

See, the only thing I know about comics is that DR and Quinch totally rocked.


Polter-Cow - May 28, 2004 7:05:14 am PDT #1669 of 3531
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Was anyone here into Gargoyles?

Yes! Great show. That's a nice little post there.


Gris - May 28, 2004 7:09:39 am PDT #1670 of 3531
Hey. New board.

Gargoyles was pretty awesome.

He forgot (in his top post) about That '70s Show, the best sitcom I've seen since The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

That is all.

ETA:

I couldn't even get my foot in the door

Awww... that's sad. Maybe he will, if it revives itself, eventually. Gargoyles was definitely up there in my list of cartoons, back in the day - it was smarter than most of the stuff I watched, most definitely.


MechaKrelboyne - May 28, 2004 7:15:41 am PDT #1671 of 3531
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious

The Punisher is mostly just annoying

How so? Once you get past the overexposed 'Look at me, I've got four monthly books of my own and guest spots all over the place and I still don't kill anybody worthwhile' choices the company made with him, there's some good stuff there. I mean, he's not the best candidate for discussion in this thread, true. Every once in a while Frank stops and squints really hard, trying to see where redemtion lies, making sure he's still moving directly away from it at speed. Punisher v. Daredevil is always gold. Vigilante with a shotgun versus vigilante with a law degree.

And yes. Gargoyles was bloody amazing. Only disney product I could stomach until PoTC. Up here, it used to be on right after Freakazoid, who did the Lawn Gnomes parody of Gargoyles. Now that was an hour of television to behold.


DCJensen - May 28, 2004 7:19:52 am PDT #1672 of 3531
All is well that ends in pizza.

Was anyone here into Gargoyles?

I didn't see the show until a couple of years ago. It rocks. Pity the last season was taken over by Disney animators who decided Elise should look like an Ariel clone.

Disney can only blame itself for the crash of Gargoyles. Two great seasons with detailed, well done characters. Then animated by artists who decided it should be more cartoony.


§ ita § - May 28, 2004 7:32:50 am PDT #1673 of 3531
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I read Punisher way back in the day when Jim Lee was doing it -- maybe it's better now, but he lacked emotional complexity. Very pretty though. Jim Lee does the best wet hair ever.

He was all the gritty but with none of the appealing psychosis of Bats or animal magnetism of Wolvie.