Conventions count as other media, right?
Recent entry in Peter David's blog, upon his return from DragonCon
For reasons surpassing any claim to sanity, I agreed to co-host "Iron Artist" again. I was teamed with James Leary ("Clem" from "Buffy") who proved to be a talented improv guy, which is what you need when you're trying to keep an audience entertained for close to an hour while you're literally watching paint dry.
I only got to see one panel the entire weekend: A Buffy cast panel. Danny Strong ("Jonathan") is an extremely funny guy. At one point James Marsters was asked if he was anything like "Spike," and Marsters replied, "Yeah. Spike is the part of me that you get if you f*ck with me." And then Strong piped up, "Same with me! When you f*ck with me, you get Jonathan!" This of course got a huge laugh, and Strong continued, "That's right! You get a short, cranky Jew...oh. Wait. That's actually me. Never mind."
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So this is sort of my best guess on the appropriate thread, but I seem to remember some Cowboy Bebop conversation going on in here.
Do I need to have seen or understand the series in order to watch the movie?
Do I need to have seen or understand the series in order to watch the movie?
Nope. It's kind of a standalone.
No. But when you watch the series, realize the movie fits in around episode 22...
No, but I finally got to play the Buffy RPG.
How was it? I've heard lots of good things about it, but haven't been able to convince myself to spend $40 on a game I'll probably never play. (Most of my gamer friends aren't Buffy fans.)
So this is sort of my best guess on the appropriate thread, but I seem to remember some Cowboy Bebop conversation going on in here.
Do I need to have seen or understand the series in order to watch the movie?
Seeing the series allows you to catch a couple in-jokes/recurring characters, but much like most of the episodes themselves, it's pretty standalone. Caught a showing of it at a theatre in Chicago with a fellow Browncoat who'd never seen any of the series and she thought it was great.
I received it as a gift...I probably wouldn't have plunked down the money myself.
The Buffy RPG requires a pretty firm hand from the GM, to keep it moving like the show. It's a bit hard on my friends to make with the quippage, but only a couple of them are Buffy fans. I had fun, but I don't think it's going to be a steady diet.
Yeah, the quippage would be hard, 99.9% of people aren't capable of doing that sort of thing consistantly and on the fly. I was playing in a PBEM Buffyverse game (no actual rules, just a group consensus sort of thing) where we tried to keep up the quippage, though it was a lot easier there since you had time to think before you typed.
Unfortunately that game has ground to a halt halfway through the first "episode", which is pretty disappointing.
I could see the RPG working as a "break from the usual" sort of game, though I'd imagine running it on a regular basis would be difficult.
The other thing, one that's tough for my friends, is that most of the characters aren't really able to lend a hand in a fight. People can participate in all other ways, but really only the Slayer (and any friendly vamps) can bring the pain.
And no one wanted to be part of a game that was all Slayers, because then you'd have Slayer Moon, Slayer Mars...
