Buffy Backstory
Edited by Nov 2, 2002 8:57 am
Buffy syndication starts September 24th, 2001.
On your marks, get set, discuss!
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Ohhhh. End of "Phases." Oz 'N Willow 4Evah!!!!1!!
Script doctoring - it depends on who you are, who you work for, and where the script ends up. The average schlub makes around $50 per - which can really suck hour-wise. A big-name like Joss or Carrie Fisher can get in the five or six figures easily.
I got the impression that the Knights who said "Key!" were supposed to be more sympathetic - and I would have liked it if we could have gotten to know a few of them, so they'd have their own Forrests and Grahams (and now I'm thinking the OCM should have had a ForrestGram cereal) and one would actually care if they succeeded. Just one scene of them dissing some crappy RenFaire would have made "Spiral" a ep worth re-watching.
I loved that interview The Onion did with Joss -- he said that they'd call him in for a movie and their position would be "we need a few jokes" or "we need the third act punched up a little" and he'd say to them, "what you need is to NOT MAKE THIS DAMN MOVIE!!"
Just watched the copy I recorded last Sunday of "Dopplegangland" (don't ask, long week).
Wow. Oh geez. Oh Joss. Wow again.
I'm off to check the shooting script at <mumble> site to see what Fox cut out. No, I don't get FX, although I did at my old place in Somerville. AND cable internet. I move to New! York! City! and those things are rarer that scary Glory moments. Oh well.
The whole ep just--clicked--they all reacted and stuff, they were snarky and the world made sense and there were no mystical sisters and confusing lifestyles and Anya knew what she was doing all the time and SHE WAS EVOL and there was Lesbian!Willow foreshadowing--such an amazing thing to watch when you started in s4. With Beer Bad. Stop laughing.
And the day before, Inca Mummy Girl. Why didn't anybody tell me that *that* was Xander? Wow.
The deal was Xander locked the cavemen in some random car belonging to someone he didn't know (thus ruining its interior, no doubt).
I still don't find it funny because you could ask that question any time. "Whose bottles of Holy Water did you just throw at those vampires?" "Whose house did you just demolish having sex?" "Was that your chair you just broke the leg off of to make a stake?"
People don't get cable in New York City?
- Jan 19, 2002 9:53 pm (#4585 of 4594)
Hmmm. Thought it was that he'd locked them in a car belonging to the Initiative, since it was hinted (or did I imagine it) that those guys were never seen again.
I'm in New York and have Roadrunner cable and cable modem, but there are neighborhoods, or streets, or little pockets where for some reason they haven't strung the right cable yet. A friend who lives about 10 minutes' walk from me in the same neighborhood can't get Roadrunner. It's weird.
the Knights who say Key
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Concise summary of failings of S5, guys. Although I liked S5 well enough...but TKWSK were a complete waste of time and the Glory-Ben thing could have been done much better. Should have been done much better.
the Knights who say Key.
<giggles some more>
Thought it was that he'd locked them in a car belonging to the Initiative, since it was hinted (or did I imagine it) that those guys were never seen again.
One of them shows up in WtWTA. He's wallgasm guy.
Edited by Jan 19, 2002 3:47 pm
As much as I concur that S5 was weak when compared to S2 or S3 it was the first season I ever watched and I thought it was better than any other offerings. I devote very little time to television and BtVS and Six Feet Under were the only shows I watched often enough to know when they were scheduled. I didn't watch Angel last year, I only started Angel this season. Thanks to FX I have now seen S1-4 {w/cuts}. I still have not seen the previous Angel seasons.
Season 5 when compared to everthing offered by the competition rocked.
As much as I concur that S5 was weak when compared to S2 or S3 it was the first season I ever watched and I thought it was better than any other offerings.
I feel the same way about S4 (I started watching around Fear Itself). Adam was only lame compared to the Mayor and Angelus -- compared to everything else on television he and the Initiative were the most creative things I'd ever seen.
I have the Season 5 feelings, too. I first started watching then (actually started with Restless), and started tapng right after the big re-run part before The Body, I think. I went a little farther, and got bootlegs of 3 and 4, and watched boxed sets of one and two. It was the first TV show that I watched without fail since Twin Peaks stopped airing.
I think the starting with Season 4 or 5 does contribute to feeling tat Spike is perhaps redeemable. Without seeing the whole Angel thing first AND seeing Spike being very evil, the chipped vampire seems like he could be saved. Once I had seen the rest, I still sometimes have to keep pinching myself and telling myself that he is really eeeviiil (and quite good at it)... because my first impressions are similar to Angel season one, I think.
- Jan 20, 2002 1:40 am (#4592 of 4594)
Edited by Jan 19, 2002 5:40 pm
I think the locking of the cavemen in a random car is funny because of the sheer, err, randomness of it. Xander is just so blase about it. Tickles my funny bone, anyway. I also love (paraphrase) "That'll teach you about the geopolitical ramifications of being mean to me".
Watching the Season One DVDs (wonderful quality, NOT ENOUGH EXTRAS) I was struck that they describe Xander as being 'funny guy' and also 'angry guy'. I think that they could have used his angry more than they did.
Xander is just so blase about it.
Xander funny. Fire angry!
Xander was kicking trashcans after Jesse bit it (well, almost bit it), and he's stayed angry at vampires ever since, mostly Angel and Spike. He also gets angry when Buffy and Cordelia dump him. I like funny Xander best.
Watching the Season One DVDs (wonderful quality, NOT ENOUGH EXTRAS)
My context stayed in TV Land and I was like, "Couldn't they afford enough extras walking in the background in season one? Man, their budget was low."
And the day before, Inca Mummy Girl. Why didn't anybody tell me that *that* was Xander? Wow.
Yeah. That was Xander. I kinda miss him. I mean, he still shows up every now and then...
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