From an email from Rounder Records:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Score - Coming 9/9/2008!
Based on your past purchases, we thought you might like to know that the Emmy-winning score to the cult hit show is now available! Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score features 29 tracks, including "Massacre" (the Emmy-winning score from Season 2 episode "Becoming"), "Loneliness of Six" (from Season 3 episode "Lover's Walk"), and "Haunted" (from Season 4 episode "Fear Itself"), all scored, mixed, and produced by longtime Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Angel) composer Christophe Beck. A must-have for any serious Buffy fan!
Did anybody else buy a Dr. Horrible Women's Tee at Jinx? Is yours falling apart? Mine had a little hole that Mom said she could patch for me but when she put a needle through it the threads kept deteriorating, then we found a bunch of other little holes.
Zombies taking after the Gentlemen's smooth moves. Check it today because I don't think woots do permalinks.
ooooh!! i have to remember to snag that when i get home.
Interview with NPH at the Onion AV Club: [link]
Free download of an extended version of "Exposition Song." It's only extended musically.
Grrr. Friend with Amazon account says it's only available for U.S. people.
I just realized that the melody for the chorus of "Slipping" is almost identical to the "Horrible Theme." Well played, Joss and Co.
Rebecca Rand Kirshner is going to be running the writers' room for the new
90210.
As The Boy and I are making our way through BTVS/Angel, we're in S5 of Buffy and S2 of Angel, and we just watched "The Trial" and "Reunion" last night.
Now, we had been watching Buffy a little further ahead of Angel, so we watched up through "Crush," and while I remembered ahead of time that Dru is in it, I forgot that she tells Spike that she re-vamped Darla and then Angel lit them on fire. Ooops.
But even having spoiled The Boy for that bit, I have to say, it's been so long since I watched "Reunion" that -- even knowing exactly what's going to happen -- Angel closing AND LOCKING the wine cellar doors is still as big of an HSQ moment as it was the first time. (And, actually, so is Dru turning up to re-vamp Darla at the end of "The Trial." And Lindsey's "How did you THINK this would end?" remains one of my favorite lines to this day.)
So we had the requisite discussion about whether Angel closing the doors and walking away was tantamount to killing the lawyers, or just damn close. Or *not* morally fucked-up at all.
The Boy fell somewhat on the side of it NOT being morally fucked-up at all (they deserved it, he said, because they were Wolfram & Hart; also, Angel just had the shit beaten out of him in "The Trial," but it was all for nothing, and then he saw Darla -- basically -- taken from him; so therefore his moral ambiguity wasjustified). I said that it might not be for another character, but this is *Angel* we're talking about. He helps the helpless. He doesn't KILL humans. Hell, Holland made that very point in the episode about 10 minutes before Angel closed the doors on him.
Which is not to say that I dislike it as a narrative choice; on the contrary, I think it's one of the show's more brilliant moments EVER.
