Illyria and Spike, if Spike were written a little more bitter back in him.

Hell, maybe Faith will join the team, bitterly.

It'd be like a much better Mod Squad.

Dude, that would be aces. That would be aces like few things have ever been aces.

If Illyria's around, then it's set after "Not Fade Away," and again, I will have to rant and scream and foam at the mouth.

And I realize how much difference that'll make, but... I dunno, there was something about fighting against hopeless odds that I saw on a show once.

Strega, I would much rather have an Illyria movie sans Spike, which I think could be believable after Not Fade Away. Something about her ancient godhood lets me think she might have made it out of there - but anyone else, and I agree - hopeless odds.

I was shocked at how much I liked Illyria but I wonder how much shiny it would lose without playing off at least some of the rest of the gang.

Setting anything after NFA seems problematic at best. I won't say can't be done, just that it can't in my mind. I can see Illyria maybe making it out alive, but the rest of them were basically the fight against hopeless odds.

then it's set after "Not Fade Away," and again, I will have to rant and scream and foam at the mouth.

Me too. Also? If it's set after NFA, I want to see what happened to Angel and the aftermath of that. I don't want to hear about it. I don't want a reference to it. I want to see it.

Show was called Angel. That was what I invested years in. So to get a one off line in a movie, or whatever, about how they got away from certain death, would feel incredibly cheap to me.

Well, we finished the sound mix on the last episode of "The Inside" today. It sounded great. Some visual fx left to drop in. These mixing stages are fun. Basically like a huge private screening room. You sit back behind the mixers and their 3 million dollars of equipment and makes notes while they play it back, then you go back and make adjustments. I'm usually just stripping back music cues, pointing out lines that got dropped, asking for a bigger key jingle, whatever. But ever since we learned we wouldn't air, we've played back every episode on "the bigs." The big, giant state-o-the-art sound system. Usually we'd play it on the "smalls," so as not to be fooled by how it might really sound on broadcast. But since it's all for (hopefully) a DVD, I figure let's blow the roof off and hear it like some home theatre geek would. On episode 10 when The Germs "Lexicon Devil" kicked in (Rebecca tunes her car radio to it and cranks it) I'm sitting at the back on my perch all: "Gimme gimme this, gimme gimme TTTTHHHHAAAATTTTT!." Everyone looks at me and I'm all: "Shut up. I rule. Play that part again."

Illyria may have bugged me even more than Fred, which hardly seems possible, but I don't think even the prospect of a Shirtless-Gunn movie would make me wish for a postscript. I'm trying to think if there's anyone who --

Well, Connor's still around.

Hm.

Connor could kill Spike. And then go hang out with Faith. And her new special friend Justine. At Lorne's new "fucked-up people" club. In Vegas.

...Yeah, I'd be okay with that.

"Shut up. I rule. Play that part again."

It's like when Teletubbies grow up. And get bad ass.

I've got to learn to post faster.

"Shut up. I rule. Play that part again."

I love when I get to update the ol' random quote generator.