I keep wondering if the timestamp at the beginning of CWDP was supposed to be a reference to a movie. You know, titled Conversations With (Some Adjective Other Than "Dead") People or something. I searched around a bit back when the episode aired, but never found anything. It just seems like it ought to be the format of about a thousand independent films.
Regarding the screwy Hostultra links, that's got to be an HTTP-referrer setting on their end. However, most sites settle for a 404 or "don't direct link to our images" image.
Okay, it's late, I'm skipping 500 posts, but this just won't get out of my head until I put it down for the whole world to groan at:
Turok Hanii? Hana? Hanoi?
Turok Hans. Hans! Hans in new . . . oh, never mind.
Does that make the original UberVamp the Turok Han Solo?
t running like Hell 'cuz I know people are going to be throwing things
Wanna see the Xander searching pic. What link works?
edit: Except everyone's gone bye-bye. feh.
connie - when you come back, copy and paste this part of the address into your browser. I did so, and remained porn-pop-up free.
www.hostultra.com/%7Edcjensen/buffy7/chosen/chosen-226.jpg
(Also *sobs*)
coffee refill...
Hec, with a couple of exceptions that are too few to go into, your post on this season speaks for me. It's a shame the season arc wasn't tighter, but when I look at the series as whole, I am so satisfied. I think that's because I love the characters, and I'm happy with where they ended up, even Spike and Anya. They've been alive forever. They died fighting on the side of good. I feel like I just finished a good, epic novel - one that I'll pick up again, every year. I'm not nearly as sad as I expected to be - considering it's all over. I'm sure in part, knowing that Angel has at least another season, is helping a lot. (Lalalala - not thinking about the lack of Tim, lalalala.)
About the giant snake... I go into these shows, expecting the monsters to be lame, and then I'm pleasantly surprised when I get The Gentlemen, Gnarl, and the like. I remember reading Stephen King's It, and arachnophobe that I am, I was still left thinking, "A giant spider? WTF???" I loved what happened in Graduation Day enough, that the CGI snake didn't detract from it (although it certainly didn't add to it).
I think that was the first big use of CGI I saw, so it was cool to me in a way beyond "big fake snake".
When you consider Buffy's budget (especially on the WB) the special effects and make-up effects were actually pretty good. (But then I love Attack of the Crab Monsters-seriously, not in a campy it's so bad it's good way-despite the literally cardboard monsters, because the script is interesting and the acting generally convincing. So I obviously have a high tolerance for cheap special effects.)
coming in WAY late...
Eee! Joey and Dawson are demons!!!
That's the plot device RIGHT THERE!
I'm telling you... it's perfect.
Plei. I will beg and grovel and kiss your feet if you will write this.
Because, SO yeah!
Plei. I will beg and grovel and kiss your feet if you will write this.
I would have to totally immerse myself in the Creek again for at least a week to do it justice, I fear. It all depends how bored I get this summer.
When you consider Buffy's budget (especially on the WB) the special effects and make-up effects were actually pretty good. (But then I love Attack of the Crab Monsters-seriously, not in a campy it's so bad it's good way-despite the literally cardboard monsters, because the script is interesting and the acting generally convincing. So I obviously have a high tolerance for cheap special effects.)
Yes - the budget was a big thing. Seriously though, with me, it wasn't just the technical aspects of the giant snake - it was the fact of the giant snake. I just felt like, "That's it."
I'm a luddite. I'm still amazed by the special effects in The Ten Commandments. It's just for me, where monsters are concerned, less is more - or something. I know the Mayor-demon had to be huge, so that they could blow up the high school, and blowing up the high school was the most important part of it (to me), so I don't care that the Mayor was a giant snake. It's just that's not going to strike fear in my heart. A small, real snake? Yep.
