@JimTheFish, @ScaryB @purofilion

A note on Emma Caulfield and Anya.

Every moment of Anya’s character development could have been designed to build up to this:

ANYA
But I don’t understand!

Something in her tone stops Will, and as she continues, she breaks down more and more…

ANYA (cont’d)
I don’t understand how this all
happens, how we go…

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@JimTheFish

Maybe it was an Angel re-watch that triggered my thinking: I suspect that in Angel it was deliberate (or at least not entirely unconscious) to contrast LA with small-town Sunnydale. His very first ‘client’ died (and that set up avenging Angel), but I wonder if part of the point is that in the big city there are always going to be…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Oh yes!

I confess I’d never really thought of the danger of Red Shirts before, just the lazy and/ or fearful light it shines on producers (can’t really blame the writers here – they have to work within confines).

But it does rather induce the viewer/ reader to minimise the impact of a killing. No-one important is lost so (in this…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Yes, but you’re Scottish, so you don’t understand English accents!

@JimTheFish As a corollary to that, I think it was Stephen Frears who said the reason we didn’t have any great cop movies was because our policemen all wore stupid looking helmets.

@JimTheFish

Yep – although there is much of interest that is imminent and it is very much a continuing story. Whedon was carefully non-specific in a couple of his key concepts, which gave him plenty of wriggle room.

But the fundamental S5 theme (or rather one of its strands) is about to become more evident (but @purofilion needs to finish…[Read more]

@purofilion @JimtheFish

Oh, and totally salute the Foyle’s War love. I :heart: Honeysuckle Weeks.

@purofilion @JimtheFish

Marsters certainly delivers the goods (he has some very interesting things to say about it that it would be very premature to go into now), but back in “oooh! This is all new Buffy” days there wasa degree of resentment that the writers had developed a bit of a crush on him. Mistaken, IMO, except for a few moments quite a…[Read more]

@purofilion

Yeah – Riley is definitely having an “I’m a hunky chap and can’t cope with a badass girlfriend” time, isn’t he? The attentive viewer will recognise the vampire girl as Sandy, who Vamp!Willow ….er … vamped in Doppelgangland.

I think Family is an a rather under-rated episode in fandom at large. As well as what @jimthefish says it…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I know (by which I mean “was discussed in the Usenet days”) Whedon thought he had coined “wiggins” in whichever Buffy episode it was first used (possible WTTH) – but Alicia Silverstone used it in Clueless two years earlier.

I think there were probably a lot of people tossing around such Valley Speak (sometimes called Dawson Speak,…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

 ‘Bite me’

I think it was in general use (it was certainly used in an early West Wing). I think it was just Valley Speak.

@JimTheFish — okay, got it.

Loved “Kavalier and Clay”, Chabon’s first big hit.  I was one of the kids who bought the comics in those heady days of wild expansion in the industry . . .

@JimTheFish    I watched an episode labeled SO3, episode O4 last night, and there are two more episodes in SO3, and then a couple more SO’s, so it looks like more than one series — but short ones, some 2-parters, some individual stories, usually about 6 in a bunch.  There are a couple more SO’s to go, probably 15-18 episodes all told, so it’s a…[Read more]

@juniperfish, maybe, maybe. Could do with a few extra teaspoons.. Loch Tay lovely, is that the one with the Crannog centre?

Drone filming, can’t paste the link cos upstairs on tablet, not downstairs on MrLefty’s laptop (never found an emulator which worked) and also not in the music thread, but the OK Go video I won’t let you down with the 2000…[Read more]

So much to catch up with! Thanks to everyone who generously shared their outside world writing. There are some immensely talented people on this forum! (I especially enjoyed @pedant’s Snow Goose piece. Excellent prose is hard to find these days.) I am realizing that I need to make time to check out the fan creativity page, which I have n…[Read more]