Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


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.


Polter-Cow - Jul 06, 2012 6:32:58 pm PDT #9409 of 10458
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well, there's the big "This Year's Girl"/"Who Are You"/"Five by Five"/"Sanctuary"/"The Yoko Factor" crossover, which you're just about to hit, so, er, better catch up on Angel. (There is an episode of each in between "Five by Five" and "Sanctuary," though.)

And then there's "Fool for Love"/"Darla," which really work as a duo.

There's, like, a mini-crossover that doesn't actually involve any actual crossover for "Carpe Noctem"/"Flooded"/"Fredless"/"Life Serial" that's basically just Angel and Buffy communicating and meeting offscreen, so that probably isn't a huge deal.

"Lies My Parents Told Me" should be watched before "Orpheus."

"Home" should be watched before "End of Days."

Once the shows were on different networks, the airing got out of sync, so it's not that you have to watch one episode before another in sequence; sometimes you have you have to watch episode 17 of one before episode 15 of the other.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 07, 2012 4:26:31 am PDT #9410 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

The only real x-overs during the last season of Buffy/Fourth season of Angel ares when Willow goes to LA in memfault / comes back with Faith in "Dirty Girls", and Angel's brief visit to Sunnydale (can't remember if it was "Chosen" or the one before that).


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 07, 2012 8:24:07 am PDT #9411 of 10458
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

The one before that. After traveling to Sunnydale to help prevent the Apocalypse, it was decided that he'd better go back to his own network Los Angeles and wait for signs that Evil had already killed Buffy and all her friends before intervening.


DCJensen - Jul 13, 2012 5:43:40 am PDT #9412 of 10458
All is well that ends in pizza.

Mark Oshiro ‏@MarkDoesStuff:

ONCE. MORE. WITH. FEELING. >[link]


le nubian - Jul 13, 2012 6:14:21 am PDT #9413 of 10458
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

love it.

if someone can remember, would you please link me to his reaction to "Doublemeat Palace?"

Please?

I need to read that badly.


erikaj - Jul 13, 2012 10:30:19 am PDT #9414 of 10458
Always Anti-fascist!

I still love OMWF(although not that much. I don't love ANYTHING, or indeed, *anyone* quite that much) but I have to admit I've turned against SMG's singing more than a little. She really isn't that good at it(nor did she think she had to be, I know that) But still.


DavidS - Jul 13, 2012 11:01:29 am PDT #9415 of 10458
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

She really isn't that good at it(nor did she think she had to be, I know that) But still.

She thought she had to be. She's a NYC kid who grew up going to Broadway musicals. So she didn't want to sing the part because she knew she didn't have the voice for it. But then she realized some singer was going to be doing all these important, crucial scenes for Buffy and she decided to sack up and do the best she could because that was her character.


Jon B. - Jul 13, 2012 11:04:30 am PDT #9416 of 10458
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I'm sure the Autotune helped her gain confidence.


DavidS - Jul 13, 2012 11:07:52 am PDT #9417 of 10458
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm sure the Autotune helped her gain confidence.

Well, AH had that option and still wouldn't sing.

So I give SMG props for doing her best by her character, and delivering an excellent performance with what she herself would acknowledge is a limited instrument.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 13, 2012 11:10:56 am PDT #9418 of 10458
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Alyson did say afterward that she wished she'd sung more once she heard how SMG's performances were changed in post-production.