OMG - is anyone watching Nathan on Castle.  It's only a few minutes in and he's dressed in his Firefly outfit, his daughter has commented on how he used to dress like that a few years ago and he said his outfit is "space cowboy".  Then a Buffy mention in the next scene....it's hysterical!!

You know how I have been going on about Glee and how it should have been Joss' show?  He is going to direct an episode!!  Whee!!

So Glee was just great last night.  I honestly cannot believe that this is not Joss Whedon's show.  The whole idea seems entirely suited to him.  Musical numbers broken up by pithy, sarcastic humour?  Check.  Tongue in cheek characters?  Check.  Betrayal of trust in first and second episode?  Check.  Seriously - everybody that enjoyed Buffy and Veronica might want to give this a look see.

And on the vampire front we have yet another show that tries to measure up.  True Blood suffers from lack of character development and a lackluster lead actor and actress, Moonlight just suffered from everything that wasn't Jason, Twilight is just an insult to the vampire genre and women in general and now, we have Vampire Diaries.  I hope it gets better - but tonight, we saw a pretty good lead actress but a lackluster "good vampire".  I hope he finds some more facial expressions.  The "bad vampire" looks much more interesting.  Seems like the two were cast in the wrong roles - should swap them out. 

Now that I have insulted all of my flist one way or another I will sign off!

( Thinky Thoughts on Slayer Hook-Ups )

So - in the general spirit of LJ lately and all the Spike meta - I would like to bring up something that always made me wonder about what the writers were trying to say about the Buffy/Spike relationship. In the interests of honesty, I am a B/A fan but that has never stopped me from being very grateful that Spike was around to help out with patrol and care about our girl. Spike was a fascinating character and always interests me.

So - here is the thing. Spike was trying to get Buffy to be his girl and in his bed. In the end, he accepted the "in his bed" part as that was all he could get from her in S6. Buffy shut him down on the romantic level time and time again. Then, in the very special episode about Willow, we suddenly have Spike finding out he can physically hurt Buffy. Off he goes to get some of his back on her which is just sort of a whole other issue that therapists could have a field day with. How does our Buffy react to this news? Freak out that the vamp she has been beating up for a couple of years can now kill her? You know, the one that honestly tried to kill her more than once? No...she just sticks around to start a fight with him. And have sex with him?? And, you know, in a wooden house that they break apart...which had to be more than a little dangerous for Spike??

I know - some of you are going to say that the sex was just a natural outlet to all the frustration in the fight. But our girl has been fighting a lot of vamps and some of them had to be sexy sometimes and we just don't see her taking out those "sexy, violent feelings" on other vamps before she stakes them. (Something I could totally see Faith doing, by the way. Now there is a prompt for some NC-17 fic!!) So why did Buffy suddenly decide it was okay to have sex with Spike now there was actually quite the chance she could end of dead? Wouldn't it have made more sense for her to make the sex decision when he was still the "chipped for Buffy" version of Spike? Or, I guess, when she thought he was still unable to hurt her?

There are some possibilities. The fact that she came back wrong sort of tips her over the edge and she just doesn't care anymore and hopes that Spike will kill her. Then she will go back to heaven, I suppose, in her mind. It always surprised me that the writers never had her use the suicide card and ask some vamp to do her in. Another possibility is that she is just in a real sick place and the idea of sex with someone that can hurt her is a turn on. And maybe that isn't so sick for a Slayer. We saw how sex with Riley was just not getting it done for her in the season before. And maybe a Slayer just needs that bit of violence. The third possibility is that she just saw Spike as a victim and felt that if she slept with him without loving him it would be "wrong". So she could have felt that now we are back to being equals physically that it didn't seem to be taking advantage of him so much.

All the possibilities are pretty rife with mental depression of one sort or another. There is just no way to make the start of this sexual relationship a healthy one! Although, I do wish sometimes that Buffy had just come to some sort of mental place where it was okay for her to have a purely sexual relationship with another supernatural. Obviously, she has extra strength and some extra kinks that just need that. The fact that Spike had so many feelings for her is what sort of messed this up for her - she was feeling guilty that she was using him. When Tara basically told her, " that would be okay if Spike was okay with it", was probably the healthiest thing someone could have said to her in awhile. But Buffy is just too wrapped up in trying to be "normal" - something her friends don't help with. And all that guilt about vampire sex started with the whole Angel/Angelus thing. Let's face it, our girl has issues when it comes to her sexual stamina. Remember Parker's comments?

I was actually okay with the Season Five idea of Buffy being involved with the Immortal as it seemed maybe Buffy could just work out her sexual hangups with someone that could help her with that. Just set aside the whole "being in love" idea for awhile. But then the comics retconned all that so...we have more Buffy sexual mess in the comics, too. Our Buffy is one confused gal!

After being encouraged by everyone on LJ going on about Glee - I watched the first episode.  Wow - that show looks really great.  If you haven't watched it yet - give it a peek. 

Okay - not too many of us seem to be watching True Blood but a friend told me that Buffy was mentioned on the show this season.  I looked it up and the line was something like "muslim buffy with a stake"???  I'm sorry but this bring up a lot of stuff in my imagination that I would have been happy to have never thought about!  A muslim buffy?  In a burka??  How would that work with the kicking and stuff.....you get my general drift!

All in all - television fandom is very good for me these days!  That amazing, freaking ending to Torchwood this season.  Lost coming up soon and Gossip Girl being more crack than usual so that I can have a break from all my heavy duty television.  Plus Skins will be back soon and then there are the new shows to check out.  Glee seems to be getting a lot of attention so I am going to check out the first episode to see what it's all about.  Bones and Chuck promise to be delightfully light fare for those boring evening. 

Now if only Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls would do their movies all would be right with the world.  I have completely given up on a BTVS/ATS movie.  Sigh.....
And, yes - I plan to watch all the Dollhouse dvds and watch that every week, too.  Whew - busy tv year coming up.  In case you're wondering...yes, I actually do have a job!

Becoming

( Angelus' Thoughts )

Went onto Whedonesque and saw the headline "new buffy movie" and squueed out loud...then I started to read the article and ended up wanting to throw up. That's not a good reaction, is it? But...I forbear, and will now try to act and think like a rational human being.

Ok - so the Kuzai's have always owned some of the rights to Buffy and without them the original movie would never have been made. And that would have been a good thing, as Martha says. Although the movie has been useful as a lesson in what good writers and producers can do with an idea and what BAD writers and producers can do to an idea.

However, it is kind of sickening that these talentless hacks got credited on every episode of Buffy and Angel and a little bit of our money every time we bought something to do with the Whedonverse. But - as a fandom we all kind of put up with it and ignored it simultaneously.

But now, there is no reason for us to do that. If the Kuzai's had some respect for Whedon and had asked him to come on board then I would be jumping for joy at this news. But just getting on the vampire bandwagon to make some money off the hard work Whedon did in bring the respect back for Buffy - no, I will not support this. It's the principle of the thing. Do these two know how much of a firestorm they are bringing down on themselves with this? So - I guess that's my two cents. It's not so much that all the characters won't be there. That would likely have to happen anyway - but you have to have some respect for the Creator and in this case, that's Joss Whedon. The End.

So it was nowhere near as good as the book but it made a good stab at it. So much better than the DiVinci Code movie I can't even tell you. Hard to believe the same people were involved in both.

But I always thought that both the book and movie would have been improved by a slight change at the end. Wouldn't it have been disturbing if the guy hadn't been caught and had been successful? Those who have read or seen know what I mean.

Okay - this show is the oddest thing I have ever seen for blowing through amazing story lines in less than one episode. So is Georgiana going to be a regular because this show really needs her to liven things up. And Carter will be around. Poor Chuck. He will have to face all the Blair's men in his life. Sort of serves him right, doesn't it? He could have kept her all to himself if he had played his cards right. But the ending of Season Two was really amazing and now the question is ... how to keep the relationship going for the rest of this show? Over on the OC they managed to keep things up with a happy couple for several seasons. Actually, the similarities are starting to pile up with the OC.

Bones was a really strange ending, wasn't it? I was amused with all the role switching. Made for lots of laughs. But that last line of Booth's was enough to give me a heart attack. How will they deal with this next year? I guess this will keep them apart for awhile longer.

And my true love - Lost. This show is one for the ages - no lie. In the future, people will talk about this show as being the first one on television that could actually send a viewer intellectually around the bend. I have learned way more about time travel and the metaphysics of it all then I ever dreamed I would bother learning. But how else do you keep up with all of this? The only disappointment was that such major decisions seemed to be getting made on account of petty relationship problems. Come on - who detonates a bomb simply because they are having an off day with their honey? Still - I am leaning towards the theory that the island is the original Garden of Eden and we have the original two fighting it out over good and evil and choosing their humans who will come to the island and be faced with the same temptations every time. And then their reactions are watched. What?? Isn't that exactly what the book of Job is about in the Bible? Seriously - read it. It's only the first chapter and the last that tell the story - the rest of it is a huge conversation between Job and his friends.

Okay - my official falling in love with Dollhouse was the episode with Wash. I will now buy the dvds and figure out what the heck is going on. I also promise to watch Fringe on Dvd this summer. And buy the last season of BSG so that I have them all. And it appears that CW is once again trying to start a show with vampires. Cause, you know, they have never had a successful show about a vampire. Oh, wait...yes, they did! And they cancelled it!!

And my official wish for summer is that the Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars movies get put in motion. It seems that none of the main actors are so busy that they couldn't do it. Everybody cross your fingers!

Sheesh - I know I am likely way behind the times here but I just spent the day watching Series 3 of Skins and it is unbelievable. Sure - it's a show about teenagers but it should be required viewing. It's incredible tv the way Veronica Mars was in the first season. That's the only thing I can think to compare it to. And you can start on Series Three since apparently they change up the case every two series. So - go forth everyone - it's on You Tube.

Anyone who knows me is aware that I prefer to have to think hard when watching tv. That's why Lost made me swear several times this week out of sheer brain leakage from the black hole theories going on over there. But, tonight, I have to say...I haven't laughed this much in one evening for years. Years...I'm not kidding.

Ok - Some of the writers on Bones clearly watched "Weekend at Bernie" or maybe even Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry" or maybe it was the knockoff that Remington Steele did of the Hitchcock film. Whatever - they were clearly inspired into doing a fantastic job with the classic "everyone is in one place with the body and we have to figure out who done it". The twist on Bones? Nobody but our bunch of squints even knows the body was murdered! I thought I was going to pee my pants with the toasts that were getting made at the wake.

Right after that I decided to watch Gossip Girl online. The episode is about a Passover dinner which turns into the worst social disaster of all time. It was so cracktastic that I was wheezing with laughter since I wasn't catching a breath in between and I am going to watch it again immediately to catch all the stuff I missed while laughing. And hey - this show actually had a male character try to apologize for attempting a date rape two years ago. Thank you for actually dealing with this.

So, while it goes against the grain to recommend less than serious television, I simply must tell you all to give these shows a try for sheer laughter and enjoyment. I am now off to round off my evening of guilty pleasure and watch "Castle". Ta ta.

PS - Does anyone else notice that David Boreanaz is really starting to play Booth very much like Pierce Brosnan playing Remington Steele? Seriously. Think about it and get back to me. Pierce Brosnan always said he based his character on Cary Grant.

Sigh....

Project Paranormal has come to an end with such a wonderful story. This whole series was so much fun to read - it was well researched, had great storylines and a lovely B/A vibe through the whole thing. A big thank you to anyone who was ever involved. I admit to having read through it a total of four times now - beginning to end. It's a tradition for me to read it when I am sick with a cold and stuck in bed! Anyway - it's sad to see it end but kudos to the organizers and writers.

Tv Intelligentsia???

( whining commences here )

Everybody Had Great Lines!

( Follow to Rambling )

Isn't it just the greatest thing how much amazing meta is going on in the BTVS/ATS fandom right now?  All for shows that have been over for awhile now?  The last discussion I checked in on had over 200 replies and it's still going.  So...a big hurrah for all of us!
(yes, I know that quoting Renn and Stimpy is geeky and gross but it was the first thing that popped in my head...sorry.)

And now for something completely different:  Wasn't David Boreanaz just the cutest tonight in Bones?  He got to live out his dreams on a hockey rink and in a Philly captain's shirt even.  Poor Jaimie.  He was probably unbearable for a whole week afterwards. 

In response to 2maggie2 post regarding Spike and how people view all his good deeds I really felt she had hit the troll hammer on the head so to speak. And so did shapinglight who started all this! But all the comments brought up an interesting idea for me.

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This lovely present was sent to me by moscowwatcher! Thank you so much. (And this is my first time getting an image into my post - so sorry for any mistakes.)

In the episode I Will Remember You, Angel turns back the day when he is told Buffy will die by the Oracles at the end of days. Did he buy back Buffy's life at the End of Days in Season Seven. During that last battle Buffy is stabbed and seems to be revived mysteriously. I always wondered about the Oracles prophecy about Buffy because they told Angel that rewinding the day would extend her life and yet she died shortly afterward during the Glory thing. You could see how Angel might be a tad miffed about the shortness of the extension of Buffy's life! Always wondered about this. Any comments or thoughts?