I'm still convinced the podness was everyone (but Joss) suddenly losing a grip on this character that's been there SINCE DAY ONE.

Yeah, still bitter.

Again, I say: Aeryn Sun.

Bad writing just happens.

See, I didn't like any of the final season of Farscape, so pod!Aeryn was just icing on a tepid cake for me. Also, I suspect she was supposed to have been different from the previous Aeryn (the whole crappy hair, et al.), and they just failed to make her still be interesting.

I have no narrative indication that this was supposed to be a different Giles.

Last week, our local alt-weekly had a send off article on Buffy, written by their movie critic, Mark Palermo. This week they have a letter to the editor about the accompanying cover art and the show in general. I debated on posting this because the woman is clearly a crank, but I thought it amazingly insane:

To the editor:

First of all, let me say how disgusted I am by your latest cover ("One last stab for Buffy" May 15). It blatantly depicts a woman about to commit a violent murder. [Sue's note: she was about to stake a vampire.] Have you morons been reading the real papers lately? Violent crimes by young women are on the rise and the backlash from men is too. Shows like Buffy and Xena are thinly veiled attempts at male-bashing. Just look at the violence they commit on a weekly basis towards men. We women would not put up with a show that portrayed a male version of Buffy, so why should we expect men to? I think Mark Palermo is one of those submissive types who fantasize about female domination. Well, Mark, I'd just like to say I'm a real woman who enjoys a strong dominant man, so keep your toe-licking fantasies to yourself.

[The rest of the letter is a diatribe about lazy, good for nothing, stuck in the 50's Maritimers, and how she can't wait to leave this goddam province.]

Wow, that's just amazing.

t boggled wow

so keep your toe-licking fantasies to yourself.

Snerk. Well, you just can't please all the people all the time.

Remonds me of the woman who wrote to Reader's Digest screaming at them for supporting JK Rowling when, "according to internet newspaper The Onion, she is recuiting millions of children to her satanic cult."

My mind just can't wrap around folks like this, Sue.

The world outside of Buffista Island is full of whack-jobs, yo.

I was tempted to do a point-by-point response, but it would take too much time.

So I'll just limit myself to saying that if Letter Writer expects Mark Palermo to keep his sexual fantasies to himself, she should do the same.

If you think that's bad, you should have seen the energy creature that descended on Salon during the Buffy finale. They were doing a good job ignoring her, probably thanks to ENUF, but that didn't stop her.