And I was wondering if other people's favorite episodes were as non-Joss writer specific as that? I mean, sure I loved OMWF, Hush, The Body and Restless( I didn't really watch in real time until Restless so, Surprise, Innocence, etc have less impact for me than others watching in real time), but Intervention and Pangs, -- they felt like they couldn't be any better if they were written by an invisible person in my brain.
Some of dh's favorites are Fury episodes. Actually, any time he went on about a BtVS episode at length, it was a Fury.
I tend to be a Joss/Jane girl.
I didn't know you were into RPF.
Just for really famous writers of obscure TV series.
Buffy
is far from obscure, come on.
On a good night (excluding when Willow barfed up a snake and brought her back from the dead), Buffy took in about 3 million viewers -- maybe a few more.
I think for me Jane stands out as Joss's second with episodes like "Earshot," "A New Man," "After Life," and "Conversations with Dead People" (my favorite of hers). But Marti Noxon gives her a run for her money with episodes like "Surprise," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and "The Wish." I just think she had more clunkers than Jane, and took the show in directions I didn't want to follow once she was the showrunner.
To be fair, I could say that last about Tim's stint as showrunner on Angel as well, though aside from "Rm w/aVu" he wrote most of my favorite episodes.
Nick's Sci-Fi Channel movie finally has an airdate! And a new name!
Per Sci-Fi.com, Fire Serpent will debut Feb. 24. It doesn't yet have one of those delightfully overdramatic splash pages like Amber Benson's Gryphon got. But it did have an official synopsis:
A veteran firefighter tries to convince a young fireman and a government agent that the blaze they are fighting is really a fire creature spawned by the sun. Nicholas Brendon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Sandrine Holt (24) and Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager) star.
the blaze they are fighting is really a fire creature spawned by the sun.
Oh my God. SciFi never ceases to amuse me. What
will
they come up with next?
I love it! I hope to work spawned by the sun into conversation this weekend.
I think the entire final phrase is hilarious. They can milk it so many times:
"A veteran water meter reader tries to convince detectives that the murdered they are tracking is really a water creature spawned by the lake."
"A veteran flight attendant tries to convince the pilot that the turbulence he is experiencing is really an air creature spawned by the clouds."
"A veteran professional wrestler tries to convince the ring girls that the rock they keep tripping over is really a stone creature spawned by the earth."
