Be Excellent To Each Other

Other people should stop being eight bloody years behind popular culture. I've spoilered my original post though.



He will be. A little bit, and not very annoying.

S5 of Angel is best series of Angel. Then again, Grim... likes the first Twilight film.

But "we have a law firm" and "smart Gunn" (pun!) are rubbish. It's like the last series of Roseanne.

Season four's "everyone wuvs Jasmine" was Angel's low point for me, bar the awful trip to Pylea. I enjoyed the final season—it was more episodic and had some of the best one-offs of the entire run. The show also ended well, which is something of a rarity in itself. Also: ig you managed to get through the dross that was quite a lot of the final season of Buffy, Grim…, surely you can manage a bit more Angel?

I loved all Buffy (series 4 did drag a bit though, because of FUCKING RILEY), and most of the previous Angel serieseses. I have a very high emo tolerance, though.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/05/10/joss- ... -marathon/

Joss Whedon's top ten. Makes me want to watch more Buffy. I might look out Hush and watch that again, it's certainly one of my favourites and the moment when Willow and Tara join hands gave my heart a little flutter that I didn't really understand the first time I saw it. I don't know if I could name a top ten episodes!

His top ten is quite similar to mine.

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And, I suspect, everyone else's.

Well, we've signed up to Lovefilm and the Xbox bit now has all the Buffies! I've started rewatching it from the start. It's actually stood up surprisingly well. Joss Whedon is most excellent. And I'm only on episode 1, and most pilots are a bit poo.

Mrs K may get into this, as she loved Firefly and wants to watch more Wheedonry. That said, I think she mostly has a thing for Nathan Fillion, as she's now avidly watching Castle with a funny look on her face.

Tell her Fillion is in Buffy.

... eventually

Square-o-vision is surprisingly hard work though (we're half way through season 1 on DVD), even on a big telly. I'd not realised how used to wide-o-view I'd become.

I know, isn't it? It's bizarre. All I'm missing is a couple of inches and suddenly it's like I'm trying to squint at a postage stamp.

Mrs B and I followed up on our 'The Wire' fandom by buying and watching all of 'Homicide: Life on the Streets' a while back and, while the show itself is excellent and very much to be recommended, the squareness of it is eternally off-putting.

Only eighteen months after I said I would, I've added my Buffy top ten twelve to my tablet to watch. TIME TO DECIDE.

Re: Lovers Walk and the apostrophe

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_Walk

Lovers walk is my favorite.

Can someone explain this? It's been a long time since series 8 and I don't remember this reference. The Buffy wiki does mention the comics but doesn't confirm what Grim says above.

The comic book is season eight.

And the way I read them .

I know, and it's been a long time since I read it.

Yeah, but why did you get that from them? I genuinely remember very little about that season so wondering if I missed something at the time or have just forgotten it all.

I honestly don't remember.

Also, it could have been season 9.

Bloody Hell, don't watch The Body when you're drunk.

"She's cold."
"The body is cold?"
"No. My mom is cold."

Jesus.

Jesus.

After five series and fifteen episodes, Gellar suddenly looks like she can act. And then she's called upon to be sick, and normalness resumes and she's rubbish. But then Giles arrives and she's good again. And then Giles is awesome. And then fucking Tracenburg who is shit. And then Hannigan is brilliant, and continues to be for the whole episode (like she's been in the whole show, ever). And then thank God for Xander, cave-manning his belming way into the scene. Ug Xander Ug.

And then Anya, not understanding. From nowhere, she goes from being comic relief and then she tears out your heart.

Fruit punch. And no-one will explain to her why.

Don't watch The Body when you're drunk.

Holy crap, Xander just said "the Avengers gotta get with the assembling."

That's some prophetic shit.

Anya just said that she wished that Joyce didn't die. As far as I'm aware, that's the only wish she made outside of "The Wish" (yay Evil Willow) in the while damn thing.

Wasn't The Body the only episode that got nominated for an award or something? That and Hush were both absolutely superb. I bloody love Buffy, got me through my teenage years.

The Body is also the only episode with no background music at all. And that very weird bit where the dialogue of the doctor skips when Buffy asks if her mum would have died painlessly. He's heard to say 'I'm going to lie to you' (or similar) and his mouth moves around different words. Odd.

Also, Hush (from S4) was great for the opposite. No dialogue, all music.

Watching Season 1 on netflix during lunch. Most dramatic dodgeball game ever.

There's going to be a Radio 4 show about Buffy on boxing day:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03m7zmq

HT to Gaywood.

"Heard through to Gaywood"?

Giles was on the Saturday Kitchen Christmas Bites thing on Saturday - the intro was "...been in some of the best shows ever shown on TV - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, <other stuff but no Kenco>".

I finished watched Buffy on the weekend. Such lame ending, really, especially considering how good the rest of the season (anmd previous seasons) were. No one seemed to have an ounce of sense when to came to planning or what to do, and it got a bit dues-exy at the end there. Infact all of the Buffy season finales are shit and a complete let down :/

Got the last season of Angel to go, then I'll start on the comics.

More or less every Buffy season was the last, s far as they knew at the planning stage. Endings had to be written to be final but also to leave the door open. Quality suffered. Blame the networks.

I quite liked the one with the snake headmaster (3?), and the finale of S02 is in my top ten ever episodes.

I was just about to say that, the last episode of series 2 is brilliant.
Just started watching this again from the start, should keep me busy for a while!

The Radio 4 program about Buffy is on iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03m7zmq

Download here
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/rad ... -1950a.mp3

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a specialist subject on Mastermind on BBC1 in a minute!

I got all of them apart from the name of the puppet and the place the mummy came from. It was only series 1 and 2 so Gill should nail it.

Finished - finally!

What's your top ten?

Crikey, ummm.

In no particular order (as otherwise I'll keep reordering it until the end of time):

Once More, With Feeling (S6 E7) - obv
Doppelgangland (S3 E16) - hot vampire Willow
Chosen (S7 E22) - great finale
The Wish (S3 E9) - fun alternate timeline
Tabula Rasa (S6 E8) - Giles and Anya rarely got to play off each other, but this is them at their best
Fool for Love (S5 E7) - punk Spike and some good backstory
Halloween (S2 E6) - fun episode with everyone playing different characters
Restless (S4 E22) - excellent dreams!
Band Candy (S3 E6) - Rebel Giles is worth it alone
I Only Have Eyes for You (S2 E19) - great story

As you can see, I like the comedy/alternate reality episodes the best. Bear in mind I watched some of these a long time ago, so I may have missed some corkers. I could've easily done a top 20 (I won't though).

No Hush or The Body?

I've just realised that I rewatched my top "ten" so I could put them in order and then didn't put them in order.

Fuxake.

I read the synopses and couldn't remember them very well, so couldn't really put them in my top ten.

I'm more concerned by the lack of "conversations with dead people" which still manages to creep me out.

That was on my list - the bits with Dawn were properly scary.

It was good, but not good enough to be in my highly subjective top ten.