I would be there right now.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.  

This is where we talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No spoilers though?if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it. This thread is NO LONGER NAFDA. Please don't discuss current Angel events here.


SailAweigh - May 25, 2003 12:12:52 am PDT #2268 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

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


Connie Neil - May 25, 2003 1:13:27 am PDT #2269 of 10001
brillig

Wanna see the Xander searching pic. What link works?

edit: Except everyone's gone bye-bye. feh.


Cindy - May 25, 2003 4:15:56 am PDT #2270 of 10001
Nobody

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*)


Cindy - May 25, 2003 4:44:11 am PDT #2271 of 10001
Nobody

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).


Deena - May 25, 2003 7:54:41 am PDT #2272 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

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".


ted r - May 25, 2003 9:01:12 am PDT #2273 of 10001
"You got twelve, and they got twelve. The old ladies are just as good as you are." -Dr. Einstein

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.)


Dori - May 25, 2003 9:57:36 am PDT #2274 of 10001
Pretty angsty boys make everything better.

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!


P.M. Marc - May 25, 2003 10:03:19 am PDT #2275 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

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.


Cindy - May 25, 2003 10:07:11 am PDT #2276 of 10001
Nobody

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.


Frankenbuddha - May 25, 2003 12:45:31 pm PDT #2277 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Other than the Luddite impulses, what Cindy said.

Hell, fake the snake (courtesy of TWOP when the were still MBTV and headn't yet kicked Jengod out for having an opinion) wouldn't have bothered me if the rest of the episode had been compelling in some other way. Other than Buffy's comparison of Glory to Cordelia, NSM.