Yeah. But nearly everyone gets Wolfram & Hart wrong, so I wouldn't think much of it.
Also, things I never realized until I started following Mark Watches: Dealing With Your Ex is a major theme of Buffy Season 4; Angel Season 1. Huh.
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
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.
victor infante - Apr 11, 2012 7:02:48 am PDT #9123 of 10458
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Steph L. - Apr 13, 2012 5:20:08 pm PDT #9124 of 10458
I look more rad than Lutheranism
So Mark got up to "Blind Date" on Angel, and exclaimed that Holland Manners is Bernard from Lost! Which made me laugh, because my reaction when I watched Lost was the opposite -- "Aaaaaaah! It's Holland! Eeeeeevil!"
Also, Mark's reviews of Buffy S4 got me re-watching the back half of S4 this week (my back is acting up horribly, so I've been lying down a LOT; thank you, laptop with a DVD player). And, honestly, I like Riley. I always did. S4 was my introduction to Buffy, though, and that may have influenced me. But really, I just like him. I don't like what happened with him in S5, but I really liked him in S4.
Also? "New Moon Rising"? On re-watch, it just ripped my poor heart in two. I love Willow and Oz SO MUCH. (Over-identify much, Teppy?) But then I love Willow and Tara. The episode just kills me. I hate to see Oz come back but then leave again. But I love Willow with Tara. TORN IN TWO, I am.
chrismg - Apr 13, 2012 6:40:42 pm PDT #9125 of 10458
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Is he going to do both "Restless" and "Shanshu" on Monday? That should be entertaining.
Amy - Apr 13, 2012 6:47:37 pm PDT #9126 of 10458
Because books.
I always liked Riley a lot. I think they screwed up his plotline there at the end, though, too.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 13, 2012 7:44:49 pm PDT #9127 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I always liked Riley a lot. I think they screwed up his plotline there at the end, though, too.
Again, I submit that it should have been Riley who was the Glory host and that his chip was blocking it, so the removal at the end of season 4 would have been the reason she came back. Ben should have been a red herring.
Giles smothering Riley would have been the HSQ of all time.
Zenkitty - Apr 14, 2012 12:13:23 am PDT #9128 of 10458
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, Frank. That's brilliant.
billytea - Apr 14, 2012 1:10:59 am PDT #9129 of 10458
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Mark has an entertaining typo in his review of the Yoko Factor: "Adam refusing to leave the room to give Buffy and Angel to talk, and Angel and Buffy deciding to just leave the room themselves. It’s both a sick burn and super hard to watch. I kind of love the show for this moment."
That would've been hilarious, Adam turns up just to observe all the awkwardness. "Tell me of this thing you call... jealous boyfriend crap." Plus, I would've enjoyed Adam calling Angel "Mr billowy coat king of pain". Better than his usual dialogue. Someone should put together a sequence of the many thousands of times he says "Yes."
Kate P. - Apr 14, 2012 3:55:44 am PDT #9130 of 10458
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
And, honestly, I like Riley. I always did. S4 was my introduction to Buffy, though, and that may have influenced me. But really, I just like him. I don't like what happened with him in S5, but I really liked him in S4.
Totally with you there.
Giles smothering Riley would have been the HSQ of all time.
Oooooooooooh.
le nubian - Apr 14, 2012 9:13:10 am PDT #9131 of 10458
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Frank,
what an awesome idea.
DavidS - Apr 14, 2012 9:33:40 am PDT #9132 of 10458
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy birthday, SMG!
Top of my Head Favorite SMG Acting Moments:
1. "It's not enough time!" - I Will Remember You
2. "Giles, I'm sixteen years old! I don't want to die." - Prophecy Girl
3. "I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones." - Restless
4. "But what else could I expect from a bunch of low-rent, no account hoodlums like you? Hoodlums yes! I mean you and your friends, your whole sex. Throw 'em in the sea for all I care! Throw 'em in and wait for the bubbles. Men with your groping and spitting, all groin, no brain, three billion of you passing around the same worn-out urge. Men! With your... Sales!" - Restless
5. Her staking motion during Giles slide presentation in Hush.