Yes, the one who wasn't FIGWIT. Very much in the same deadpan quality of humor as FotC.

The last quarter of last night's horror movie viewing reminded me why I remembered C.H.U.D. fondly. Rather than screaming and cowering like the traditional horror movie love interest, Kim Greist's character:

1) bolted immediately upon being confronted by a C.H.U.D. peering over the starwell bannister at her,

2) locked herself in a room and moved lots of furniture in front of the door,

3) blinded the C.H.U.D. with bleach when it burst through her barricade,

4) grabbed a ceremonial saber and lopped its head off,

5) pragmatically kicked away the decapitated head that tried to bite her,

6) stole a police car and rushed to the area where boyfriend John Heard (the nominal "hero" of the movie) was trapped in sewers being filled with gas,

7) badgered police officers on the scene until they told her who was in charge,

8) chased said shady government official down on foot, and

9) warned John Heard and Daniel Stern about the shady government official's attempts to run them over after they escaped the sewer.

All this two years before Ellen Ripley kicked alien queen ass. If the movie had just followed her rather than John Heard the previous hour and a half probably wouldn't have been such a snoozefest.

There's a famous quote by Joss about how he created Buffy:

The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy, the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim.

I think it's quite likely that Joss got the idea by watching Night of the Comet, where the blonde lead character is attacked by zombies in a dark alleyway, who then proceeds to beat the shit out of them.

Night of the Comet

That movie is good stuff.

Given that quote, I absolutely love that the first little blonde girl we see in the show is *Darla*.

Night of the Comet

That movie is good stuff.

Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.

I think it's quite likely that Joss got the idea by watching Night of the Comet,

I'm pretty sure he's specifically cited Night of the Comet for the tone of Buffy's character.

That new Star Wars teaser makes me think it might not be hopeless bullshit. Old Man Han Solo and Chewie made me SO HAPPY.

I am so conflicted about Ultron and the new Star Wars movie. Star Wars was my first fandom, the one that started me writing. I probably turned out a few hundred thousand words in it. And each new movie took the characters in directions that put cracks in the world in my head. I loved them and resented them,. And now I'm writing and reading extensively in Avengers, and the same thing is happening. The people who are actually in charge of the story are upending everything we've been thinking about.

It's the nature of ongoing stories, of course. We ficcers all saw it happen with Buffy and all the other shows we've gotten involved with, and being anxious about it is more than a little silly. But still. I don't want to try to get in on the first weekend of Ultron, I think I'll wait to see how big a rock is being thrown into pool of the story we think we know.

Brian Daley wrote a few tie-in novels for Star Wars. In them, Han referred jokingly to "the Old Spacemen's Home." Back then, I never really expected that to be relevant.