I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.

Giles ,'Selfless'


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.


Morgana - Nov 30, 2010 5:00:28 pm PST #7709 of 10464
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

From the essay P-C linked:

The show lost focus over its last two seasons, and while all the hardcore fans I’d come to know and love kept watching, the spark was gone, and the fire was in the process of going out. The mythology warped and twisted back along itself until Buffy Summers, the girl who once railed against the unfairness of being Chosen, looked at a squadron of girls who were just like she’d been and took away their right to Choose. It was an interesting statement about becoming the evil we fight against, and it hurt to see it made.

As much as I grew tired of the entire Potentials storyline (knowing that the series was ending I wanted to spend time with the characters I loved, not with this teeming mass of anonymous girls that I really didn't care about) that wasn't my take on the situation.... I thought the very fact that they were Potential Slayers meant they had no choice as to their destinies (they had targets on their backs and were being forced to fight because of it), but that Buffy offered them the choice as to whether or not they wanted to become full-fledged Slayers right then and there.


Strega - Nov 30, 2010 5:07:00 pm PST #7710 of 10464

I have no real opinion on this book but since I've gotten other books from them several times, I can say that Mad Norwegian Press is good people.

(So there!)


Allyson - Nov 30, 2010 6:54:36 pm PST #7711 of 10464
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I always wonder if these were people I was mean to in the Bronze back when i was all BNF.


Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2010 7:16:18 pm PST #7712 of 10464
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Buffy offered them the choice as to whether or not they wanted to become full-fledged Slayers right then and there.

But what about everyone else? I never saw it as a bad thing until she framed it that way, but it's true that little baseball girl didn't get to choose to have superpowers, she had them thrust upon her.

I have no real opinion on this book but since I've gotten other books from them several times, I can say that Mad Norwegian Press is good people.

I did like Chicks Dig Time Lords.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 30, 2010 7:27:21 pm PST #7713 of 10464
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Even after reading this thread, I still don't remember who the "eve" was?


DavidS - Nov 30, 2010 7:35:04 pm PST #7714 of 10464
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Even after reading this thread, I still don't remember who the "eve" was?

Proof positive: least memorable recurring character ever.


beekaytee - Nov 30, 2010 8:18:20 pm PST #7715 of 10464
Compassionately intolerant

I had NO idea who Eve was until someone made the connection to Lindsay.

That is pretty startling, given how well I know the entire series...much more so than Buffy, truth to tell.

So, yeah. Worst cast, least memorable recurring character ever. Even at the time, I wondered if that actress was someone's niece, or had pictures of the producers with small, furry animals.


billytea - Nov 30, 2010 8:21:19 pm PST #7716 of 10464
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Proof positive: least memorable recurring character ever.

Except for that other one, you know, with the face and the thing, you know.


DavidS - Nov 30, 2010 8:31:22 pm PST #7717 of 10464
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Except for that other one, you know, with the face and the thing, you know.

I don't know.

See, this is the problem with the category: Least Memorable.

Tough to verify.


beekaytee - Nov 30, 2010 8:38:05 pm PST #7718 of 10464
Compassionately intolerant

I started to wrack my brain...then I remembered bt's sense of humor, chuckled and gave up.