I think of Giles as being closer to 40 than to 50 in the first season, but I can't point to a specific reason why, other than that the age difference with Miss Calendar didn't seem to be so broad as to skeeve anyone out, and I didn't see her as being much past 30.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
Lyra Jane - May 02, 2005 6:49:27 am PDT #507 of 10457
Up with the sun
brenda m - May 02, 2005 6:58:12 am PDT #508 of 10457
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I think of Giles as being closer to 40 than to 50 in the first season,
Agree. When you go back, he's actually pretty young looking. How hold was he really back then? (ASH, obviously.)
Jon B. - May 02, 2005 7:00:57 am PDT #509 of 10457
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
ASH was born in 1954, so 43.
Laura - May 02, 2005 7:17:06 am PDT #510 of 10457
Our wings are not tired.
ASH was born in 1954
Woo! It was a good year IMO.
Jon B. - May 02, 2005 7:34:28 am PDT #511 of 10457
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I always remember his birthdate because he is exactly 10 years older than me!
Topic!Cindy - May 02, 2005 12:19:24 pm PDT #512 of 10457
What is even happening?
ASH was born in 1954, so 43.
Yeah, this is what I was going to say. I know he's 13 years older than I am. Somehow. *cough*
Yesterday, we were leaving my b-i-l's house, and we drove by a Podiatrists office. The doctor's name was "A. H. Giles" and it threw me for a loop.
erikaj - May 02, 2005 12:27:29 pm PDT #513 of 10457
Always Anti-fascist!
Anyone else have a fetish thought about that? Just me?
Jim - May 02, 2005 11:14:43 pm PDT #514 of 10457
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
The New Who is incredibly Buffyish throughout - consciously so, the showrunner has said he's shooting for that vibe. Even the lame episodes are lame in the way lame Buffys were; badly done victoriana and humanising villains in a fan-ficcy way.
Am-Chau Yarkona - May 03, 2005 4:02:58 am PDT #515 of 10457
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I didn't think humanising the Dalek was lame; in fact, I thought it was a really good episode, especially given that they didn't humanise him too far, and that they used it to point up the Doctor's alienness. Though the whole DNA-from-Rose thing was a huge plot weakness.
But then, I like fanfic, so you could still be right about it being ficcy. (Am I wrong in reading your comment as using 'fan-ficcy' in a negative sense?) I wouldn't be surprised if RTD doesn't think about writing the show in quite a ficcy way, actually, given that he's a long-time fan and writing based on an extensive canon.
Ahem. Yes, very Buffyish-- in the plot and in, for example the one-liners. And the doomed love affair between an older 'alien' man and a young strong woman, if you can bring yourself to read it as a love affair, which I'm trying desperately not to, and failing...
Tom Scola - May 03, 2005 4:07:58 am PDT #516 of 10457
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I've yet to read a review of Dr. Who that hasn't compared it to Buffy.