I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?

Xander ,'Lessons'


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.


Fred Pete - Aug 18, 2006 9:01:25 am PDT #3295 of 10464
Ann, that's a ferret.

Just being snarky, d. I liked S6 and hated S7.


-t - Aug 18, 2006 9:02:46 am PDT #3296 of 10464
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Home on the Strange has bagged on season 6 before.


d - Aug 18, 2006 9:04:21 am PDT #3297 of 10464
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.

Ah, yes. I also liked most of 6, and only about 3 episodes of 7. I started with such high hopes...

Speaking of which, Lessons is on FX tomorrow morning.


SailAweigh - Aug 19, 2006 4:25:02 am PDT #3298 of 10464
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I willingly confess that I loved season 6, but wanted to pet season 7 like the wounded puppy that is was, so I stuck around to see if it survived. Was very happy when the finally put the puppy down.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 26, 2006 4:32:12 am PDT #3299 of 10464
What is even happening?

Awww. I just found Monique's Dawn FAQ, on web archive. I clearly remember that FAQ as being instrumental in my delurk at the linear side of the the Bronze.

[link]

The Dawn FAQ was so useful. As the official Buffy board, the Bronze attracted so many casual fans--many of them clueless. The onslaught of posters who thought they'd caught Joss in an accidental continuity error was nearly unbearable. Then Monique posted her FAQ.

I'd lurked on the linear side of the Bronze for--I dunno--a year or two, maybe; my memories aren't clear. Eventually, I realized it was a much better fit for me than the threaded (the Bronze was the first website I ever visited, and I was so wet behind the ears, where the internet was concerned), I think in part, thanks to Monique's Dawn FAQ.


Tom Scola - Aug 29, 2006 9:33:20 am PDT #3300 of 10464
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Marti quit Brothers & Sisters: [link]


Monique - Aug 31, 2006 4:59:11 am PDT #3301 of 10464

Hi Cindy! You know, I had a feeling I was mentioned somewhere, and I came here and found my name.

I would have responded to this last night, while visiting some favorite sites after my vacation, but first I had to transcribe Nicholas Brendon's latest audioblog entry. In which he says the word shower three times; mentions something about him, Noah Wyle and handcuffs; and assures his listeners he thinks of them while getting massages.

It's not Xander. In a Speedo. Wet. But putting such a spin on his latest blog entry is the best I can do, now that we've moved on from the Bronze. This is my offering to you after such a nice post about the Dawn FAQ, which I had almost forgotten I did. Mainly because newbies were irritating me that season. A lot.


P.M. Marc - Sep 01, 2006 7:55:00 am PDT #3302 of 10464
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Hey, anyone up for a discussion of visual tropes in the Buffyverse?

Because the catwalk at the Bronze in WttH got me started (note: LA version S3 AtS w/Lilah, Wes), and now I want to keep yammering and throwing out ideas, and and and...

Well, I can't really do it alone. And it's Friday, and I'm bored.


Vortex - Sep 01, 2006 8:19:36 am PDT #3303 of 10464
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

can you define visual trope? Cause I'm thinking of Spike watching Angel save the girl "to the Angelmobile, away!" but, I'm not sure what a visual trope is.


P.M. Marc - Sep 01, 2006 8:42:24 am PDT #3304 of 10464
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Basically, what I'm looking at are places where you've got similar blocking and themes repeating throughout the shows.

Like, in WttH, you've got Buffy up on the catwalk, looking down at the "normal" world, while she and Giles are talking and he's basically telling her just what's setting her apart from that world, and that she has to accept that because it's who she is (obviously, that's not the direct text), and then in S6 with Dead Things, you see the same basic blocking repeated and the same theme twisted when she's with Spike on the balcony.