Juliet Landau on tonight's Criminal Minds. (Also Robert Englund. This could go a lot of directions.)

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Random trivia! I met Drew Goddard tonight, and I mentioned loving all his work and started listing episodes that came to mind, like "Lies My Parents Told Me." Since I brought that one up, he told me that the scene with Spike and his newly turned mother had originally been much tamer, as he'd written it, with, I guess, only the conflict about having to kill her. But Joss gave him the note that the scene had to be about Spike being a pussy, and his mom basically asking him to fuck her.

Which is why he loves Joss, because who else would give such a fucked-up note?

I met Drew Goddard tonight

NAUTILUS!

I may at one point have understood that reference.

Now is not that point.

Mark watches Jonathan Superstar

"what the fuck is going on. why is there no device or narration to tell me what is happening. this is scaring me. now i’m scared. i am feeling forty things at the exact same time. "

Not Prepared.

I was confused by that one, too, but as I recall, I hadn't watched nearly as much "Buffy" as he has by the time it came up, as I was trying to catch up with the current episodes and grab the backstory, too. Which works better with any other show, ever, than with "Buffy"(See also, "Normal Again",after which Mark will require a cold compress or something.) I honestly like his passion, but I wish Lloyd Dobler would come to his house all "You must chill," When I saw it twice, I could appreciate the humor and the comment on celebrity, and the funny credits. The police thing brings up an interesting point, however. When I wrote that Homicide Sunnydale fanfic, I quickly found out Joss was right to only have, you know, sketchy law enforcement...it would be hard for her to be "One girl in all the world..." within a framework of bureaucracy, people treating her like a kid, and her having to fill out more paperwork than Raylan Givens in his worst day.(Also, there is probably something about the patriarchy, too, but it's too early for that here.)

He watched "Primeval" last night, and he is just SO CONFUSED about how that wasn't the finale. He has no idea what the finale could possibly be. It took everything I had not to just randomly blurt out, "I wear the cheese. The cheese does not wear me."

He's at the point with Buffy where he just can't believe how good it is and he just wants to tell everyone to watch it because how could you not have seen this amazingness.

Yeah, "Primeval" did feel very "end of season" to me.

And then.

and Then you get to the actual finale and just wowowowowwoow!!!

I told him they all went to have an adventure in Candy Land and ride unicorns.