So, I read in Zap2it about Kevin Spacey starring in movie about the recount - what I didn't realize is that this is Danny Strong's movie! You know, that he wrote.

Man, I'm such a skip and skimmer: Danny Strong is totally mentioned in the zap2it piece and connected to GG on that.

OMG! It took Whedonesque to get me to notice that the music in the bg of this Smallville teaser is from the finale of BVTS.

(Of course, the teaser contains a spoiler for Smallville. . . if anyone cares.)

TWOP interview with JM - I've only just started reading it so I have NO IDEA if it contains any spoilers for anything he may be doing.

Awe, James is such a big drama geek. Just like, oh, me and everyone I went to school with, basically.

Awe, James is such a big drama geek. Just like, oh, me and everyone I went to school with, basically.

It is really kinda sweet, isn't it.

I kind of like his take on Spike became a bigger/more compelling character than was really intended:

But the first is that the show wasn't supposed to be about sexy vampires. It was supposed to be about ugly vampires who die. The mythology was that the vampires stood for what sucks about high school, and so Joss got talked into Angel, which was not in his ground plan, and the character just took off, and he's like, that's it, it's one sexy vampire, I will allow you no more. And then I come along, and I think that he was trying to keep a cap on…he recognized that I was thematically dangerous to his show. He didn't want it to become a soap opera of sexy vampires. And so he, uh, marginalized the character, and it's ironic, because the show is about outsiders, it's about people who are not the popular people, and he didn't really realize it, but he created within…so the show is about these outsider outcasts, and in this group of outcasts, there's this other outcast. So he made me the super-outcast, and the show speaks to everyone who feels sometimes like an outcast, which is pretty much everybody. So thematically, I don't know that he meant to set it up that way, but it kind of went down that way.

If Joss wanted ugly, unsexy vampires, why did he keep casting pretty, sexy people? Plus he made Spike unique among the other vampires because of his ability to love Drusilla.

Yeah, James Marsters was saying this same thing in an earlier interview (or maybe at DragonCon), and it...doesn't make a lot of sense to me, since he appears to be complaining about how "marginalized" the character of Spike was, when he kind of took over the show. And then another show.

he appears to be complaining about how "marginalized" the character of Spike was

I don't think he's complaining, I think he's making an observation about Joss trying to marginalize Spike in order to keep the show from being taken over by another sexy vampire and that marginalization backfiring.