Okay, I have been out a long long time, blame it on the attempting to balance not one but two retail jobs. But I've missed the Buffista life and I am now down to just one job so I should be hopefully getting back to what's really important. Which is of course the Buffistas.

So. On the point of the auction, I'm upset by it because it truly does detract from seeing the stuff in the actual show. And at first I bought the "worn on screen in ep fill in the blank" but they didn't say it was worn on screen by SMG/JM/AH you get the picture. So yeah, worn on screen by stunt double, stand in, it could happen and we'd be none the wiser. And I have a perfectly replicated claddagh that i paid $24 at an irish store and that has always done me fine because to me, that was Buffy's ring, I should never be able to have her ring. Completely forfeits the value of the prop for me. Or else I'm just a complete dork, but that's fine by me.

On the gay thing, I thought it was hilarious in "Him" when Anya pointed out that his physical presence had a penis. Possibly my most laughable moment in the first quarter of the season, potentially (no pun intended there) the entire season. I've always thought of Willow as just loving both Oz and Tara because she genuinely seemed to be torn in NMR when Oz returned and she had to decide. She had just moved on and Oz was part of something she could no longer connect herself to, just as Buffy with Riley when he returned in AYW. It was part of her life that she had moved beyond.

Also I kind of identified it with her repressing her past totally and Oz got included in there. I loved Willow with Oz, I was okay with Willow with Tara, but what stunned me was the beauty and normalcy of Tara and Willow's relationship, odd that the only "abnormal" relationship on the show was the most stable and honest of the bunch, no wonder it was doomed. So on the whole Oz and Willow will still go down as one of my favorites for chemistry, but I did and still do appreciate Willow and Tara.

How I've missed this!

EDITED to add, "on Inara."

Well, aside from the fact that the only people she really seems to have chemistry with are women (Kaylee, Saffron, the councilor woman), the bit with her and that councilor woman is a pretty good indication that she can go both ways. She doesn't have to take a client if she doesn't want to, so I'd imagine that, if she were totally straight, she'd simply pass on women all together. As it is, I think her attraction to Capt. Tightpants is sincere, but she'd be just as capable of falling for a woman.

That's a good point Victor. Even though Inara told the councilor that most of her clients were men, and that for her to take a woman as a client, the woman had to be something special, she also said that sometimes she preferred women.

I guess the key point for me though is that I divorce who she is with because of her job from who she would be with in other parts of her life. I didn't see any real chemistry with Saffron outside of them trying to play one another, and with Kaylee I think it was a big sister/little sister relationship, rather than anything sexual.

(should we move this to the Firefly thread?)

(should we move this to the Firefly thread?)

Nah, the sexuality discussion's centered here.

(should we move this to the Firefly thread?)

Nah, the sexuality discussion's centered here.

Then again, for the Buffistas? Sexuality discussion happens. Wait a bit, one will spring up anywhere.

Ted, about my friend watching Buffy. He despises the show. But then again his favorite show is Friends, so he doesn't really know much at all in my book about television. He would just watch me watching Buffy and shake his head at me, at it, and then laugh at me and say the show was stupid.

He also said that BtVS was a stupid show about "fashion and bad vampires". I have never held back from smacking a person so hard as I did that day.

He also said that BtVS was a stupid show about "fashion and bad vampires". I have never held back from smacking a person so hard as I did that day.

Well duh - everyone who knows the show knows it's about "bad fashion and vampires". Is your friend culturally dyslexic, perhaps?

WROD...like I said, he worships "Friends".

While Sarah's been the lead more often, pretty much every such movie has vanished at the box office—she's only had really notable success when playing second fiddle to a CGI great dane.

What about Cruel Intentions. She was great in that.

I actually liked Simply Irresistable, but unfortunately I was one of about 5 people who did.

Me too. Though that was partly because of Sean Patrick Flannery, who I have an deep and abiding love for despite the terrible roles he's taken because he is my Young Indiana Jones.

What about Cruel Intentions. She was great in that.

I was gonna say. SMG was smoking in that one. Hell, I first watched that movie to watch her mack on another girl. I watched it a few more times 'cause she's just so great and unBuffy in it.

I'm not sure if Eliza Dushku was a presenter or not....I didn't watch all of the show.

She wasn't. I doubt she was there, actually.