Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!

Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.


Dana - Jan 18, 2022 7:24:14 am PST #10424 of 10457
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

But he's been to therapy, but it's all okay!


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 18, 2022 7:46:15 am PST #10425 of 10457
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis

I'm told therapy isn't effective for narcissistic personality disorder, which I'm more and more thinking Joss has. Ugh.

Oh well, we'll always have Buffy regardless of how much an ass he shows himself to be. (And it's not as if there weren't hints back when it was airing.)


-t - Jan 18, 2022 4:02:33 pm PST #10426 of 10457
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I can’t help but think that crack he made about “I don’t have anything else to do, might as well work on myself” is extremely accurate


Topic!Cindy - Jan 19, 2022 7:41:12 pm PST #10427 of 10457
What is even happening?

Well, he's got plenty of work to do, but I think that interview shows he's not up for the job. A friend and I were talking, and we kind of think Joss is a narcissist and a sociopath.

The "bad actor" b.s. he spewed about Ray Fisher was downright Trumpian. Then there was the appalling story about sending the 22-year-old freelancer he was bedding off for drinks with a "friend" who ended up being his girlfriend, not to mention breaking up with Arden Leigh, the night before her birthday, even though she'd previously told him a birthday breakup was among her most painful memories.

I mean, did he collect stories in advance, so he wouldn't have to come up with humiliations all on his own?


-t - Jan 20, 2022 7:23:10 am PST #10428 of 10457
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

What I was trying to express but not using enough words to really do so, I think, is that he’s not actually doing the work. If he is an addict he isn’t in recovery.


-t - Jan 20, 2022 7:52:03 am PST #10429 of 10457
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

This was really clear to me last night as I was falling asleep but harder to pin down this morning, but the thing I keep coming back to is how very banal his evil is, how much like every other guy like that he has turned out to be, practically a cliche. Not even an interesting villain.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 20, 2022 12:23:39 pm PST #10430 of 10457
What is even happening?

What I was trying to express but not using enough words to really do so, I think, is that he’s not actually doing the work. If he is an addict he isn’t in recovery.

That was how I read you, -t. I'm sorry my response reads like it wasn't. I should have used a "Yup" and an "and," rather than a "Well," and a "but."

the thing I keep coming back to is how very banal his evil is, how much like every other guy like that he has turned out to be, practically a cliche. Not even an interesting villain.

It is so banal. His villainy is of the season 6 variety.


Steph L. - Jan 20, 2022 1:13:29 pm PST #10431 of 10457
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

His villainy is of the season 6 variety.

He's no Mayor Wilkins, that's for sure.


Vortex - Feb 05, 2022 7:36:26 pm PST #10432 of 10457
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Does anyone else miss Mayor Wilkins - I just want to be a big snake.


Beverly - Feb 07, 2022 6:02:32 pm PST #10433 of 10457
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Yes, frequently in recent years.