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Jean Eugene Roberts wrote:OMG SPOILER!!!111!!

I was going to put SPOILER before that sentence, but was worried I'd sound like River Song. Have corrected now!!

Actually I was joking, I once mentioned that dumbldoor had died (spoiler alert), and this girl practically screamed at me for it. My only response was 'Are you serious? The books been out for five f**king years.

I then went on to spoil 'The Passion' for her by telling her Christ died.

Crikey - Paul is really Alex Kingston.....

Mandrake wrote:Crikey - Paul is really Alex Kingston.....

My secret is out. Or at least, one of them...

Lawrence wrote:Anyone watched True Blood?
The girl is human and can read minds, the guy is a vampire and she can't read his....

I gave up quickly. Is it worth watching any further? Does anything actually happen?

Yeah mate, it's excellent. It's far more serious than any of the others and pulls no punches with sex and violence...although, the sex seems to have dried up a bit recently. I might have to complain.

Anyway, it's a great series if you're into vamps.

That sounds a lot like when Buffy got that mind reading ability and could not read Angel's mind - blatant plagiarism of ideas!

do people really like Buffy? sure its not just some kind of in-joke?

IAIN wrote:do people really like Buffy? sure its not just some kind of in-joke?

I'm proud to admit, I have the box sets of every Buffy and Angel season.

Wishmaster wrote:I'm proud to admit, I have the box sets of every Buffy and Angel season.

I have the box sets too! Love Buffy. Best TV ever. The thing with Buffy is, most people only see the surface - pretty girl and her school friends kill vampires. Buffy was so much more than that. There was an article from a member of the MR James society asserting that Buffy was the most intelligent TV for a long time. It was this article that really turned me on to Buffy. I've tried to rediscover the article, but the MR James society website, Ghosts & Scholars, is a mess and I can't find it now.

Favourite episodes - Once More With Feeling (a musical. An effing musical!), Tabula Mentis (very funny episode but deeply touching also), Hush (genuinely spooky) and The Body (very, very sad and a truer representation about the death of a relative than any TV I've seen before or after).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW20AlC0IbA

I'd like to do a shoutout for being human. I think that has been one of my favorite vampire series recently. Although George is probably the most likeable character not any of the vampires.

themagicwand wrote:Favourite episodes - Once More With Feeling

#They Got... The Mustard... OOOOOOOOOOOOUUUTT#

I feel so sorry for Alison Hannigan in that episode though, poor little Willow.
and she IS mostly filler.


I feel an urge to go and buy the rest of the Buffy box sets now.

How many seasons did Angel run for? Last one I think I can recall, was he actually running a law firm? Or am I going mad?

Lawrence wrote:How many seasons did Angel run for? Last one I think I can recall, was he actually running a law firm? Or am I going mad?

Never really got into Angel (as it were). Yes, in the final series or two he was actually running the evil law firm that he'd been battling against before.

Thought it was a shame that they felt the need to bring Spike back into Angel after he'd died saving the world in the last episode of Buffy. That was a bit of a sell out, and from what I recall it did feel like he'd just been stuck onto the Angel story-line - a bit like a piece of jigsaw that doesn't really fit but if you hammer it hard enough it might just squeeze in there.

On a side note, it was interesting that in the end it was a archetypical bad boy that saved the world. After 7 series of demonstrating how females were every bit as strong as males and could actually defeat the bad guys themselves rather than needing to be rescued by heroic males, when push came to shove, in the final encounter of the final series, it was a man who saved the world. Not a slayer, not a witch, not a female demon, but good ol' Spike.

One of my favourite TV moments ever - when Willow casts the spell to make every girl who could be a slayer actually become a slayer, the little girl playing soft ball looks up and a glint enters her eye and she knocks the ball out of the ground! Very cool.

I've never had any time for the Buffy series, but the original movie was excellent.

Favourite line: "I know he's a vampire, and I can prove it. I'll hammer this stake through his heart, and if he's a vampire he'll die."

Proof that vampires CAN still be scary:

Robbie wrote:I've never had any time for the Buffy series, but the original movie was excellent.

Favourite line: "I know he's a vampire, and I can prove it. I'll hammer this stake through his heart, and if he's a vampire he'll die."

Funny enough, Josh Whedon was actually kind of annoyed with the way they took his script for the movie. He mentioned in an interview that it was originally supposed to be a horror movie. But they turned it into a teen comedy.