JM played Thoreau in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, a play I was in back in high school. (I was Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife, Lydian.) Loved that play to death. It makes me very weirdly happy to know that JM was in the same play.

Me too. I played Deacon Ball in a college production of the play.

He's 40, right? So he woulda started HS in either '79 or '80 I'm guessing. If memory serves me right, that 'fro look was worn but no longer cool. Surfer was cool. Punk was even cooler. Airsupply was not.

Modesto is always a bit behind the times.

JM sans accent reminded me of David Duchovny. Weird.

And it would have been especially nice if Caleb hadn't been doing anything with it - if he'd been smart he'd have either immediately destroyed or kept as far from Buffy as possible. He was the very confident type, but he seemed brighter than that.

It seemed to me that for some reason Caleb and the FE thought they could use the axe when the first started after it - wasn't it when he saw the inscription that said it was only for her use that he started rampaging on the monks? So by that point, it was probably already unearthed. But it was never made explicit or mentioned again, so who knows?

Caleb wants the axe, doesn't he? And it doesn't come out of the rock without her, so there were a limited number of ways to get what he wanted.

So by that point, it was probably already unearthed. But it was never made explicit or mentioned again, so who knows?

The bringers were removing the stone from around the axe. Sort of like the modeling clay one used to remove in those kits with a statue inside of the clay.

Only, you know, harder.

500!!

CNN.com has a brief non-spoilery interview with Joss. My favorite quote:

THR: How does it feel to say goodbye to something in which you've invested so much of yourself?

Whedon: I had dinner with the writers the other night, and we listed the title of every single show, which was hard. Just the weight of the thing, the bulk of the thing -- every single one of those episodes had a message and a meaning and a very specific purpose. It wasn't always completely realized; it wasn't always as tight as it could have been. But the fact that 144 times we sat down and broke our backs to make a story worth telling is something that makes me feel enormously proud.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall during that discussion.

I know Joss asked each writer to name the favorite ep they had written and why. I don't know who mentioned what, but isn't that a lovely thing to do?

I know Joss asked each writer to name the favorite ep they had written and why. I don't know who mentioned what, but isn't that a lovely thing to do?

Yes, it is. And something pretty much impossible to imagine on any other show.

Aww, that is cool.

The ficcish peeps are having a bunch of "My Character X" things going around. It's making me sad, but they're fun to read.