The Other Obligatory Thread: Buffy and Spin-offs

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* still recovering from shock of hearing High School Willow and Oz described as "annoying"*

They're showing Season 4 again over here...if Oz is hip to The Velvet Underground (at one point in today's episode he was inspecting Giles' record collection and geeked out- in his own catatonic way, of course- over Loaded), how come his band sounds like Nickelback? And how the hell do Eater (whose t-shirt he has worn in earlier seasons) fit in with this?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 18 January 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...

A brief thought that came into my head today:
Buffy and everyone around her are damaged people who can no longer function in a normal way. This is what I like about seasons 6 & 7.
There's this sense that they're all *this close* to becoming total gibbering wrecks. They're tired. All they can do is save the world. And if that was no longer a priority, then they'd simply cease to function. They no longer relate to the rest of the world. They've lost all ambition, all traces of outside lives.
There can never be a happy ending for them.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 11 May 2003 05:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think you're talking about the writers of the show.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 11 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

All they can do is save the world. And if that was no longer a priority, then they'd simply cease to function.

Substitute 'write about music' for 'save the world' and that's been me at some of my darker moments over the past couple of years. It's been an interesting adjustment...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 May 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

What season are you in, Ned, and what's the story arc?

I love Buffy so much that I am deeply saddened by most of Season 7 (I actually loved season 6). I don't think the writers intentionally made them out to be shadows of their former selves but rather the writers and maybe actors can't get it up anymore. Buffy is this cold cold bitch now and SMG can only act with her patented "argry arms" (tm TWOP).

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 11 May 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned, hush. You should know better than that.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 11 May 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't forget the pursed lips, Carey! That's her only other patented acting tic this season.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 11 May 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah someone said that it's hard to tell the difference between 1st Buffy and good Buffy now.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 11 May 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

It is. The only difference is that the 1st Buffy is sometimes nice to Caleb, and I see no evidence of the real Buffy being nice to anyone.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 11 May 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

am I the only one who totally regrets that the long-awaited Buffy cartoon never got on the air?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 May 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

No. I loved the concept drawings that were done for it, it probably would have been a lot of fun.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

nine months pass...

Buffy's little sis in her own teen movie

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

I preferred Angel post S3 Buffy.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

After "Eurotrip," she'll be seen on HBO's "Six Feet Under" as a spoiled, Christina Aguilera-like pop diva.

Sweet!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

They forgot the 'who has died and needs to be interred' part -- but she's still spoiled from BEYOND THE GRAVE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Hey! How come no one told me that Alyson married Wesley?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago) link

how crazy is that?! for real!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

for the harold bishop mentions alone this thread is classic

― pete s, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

Not really a spin off, but HBO have given Alan Ball the green light to do True Blood - based on Charlaine Harris' 'Southern Vampire' series. I'm hoping it might be the 'Claire Fisher - Vampire Slayer' mashup I always dreamt of.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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