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Post by wenxina on Jan 1, 2009 21:08:50 GMT -5
Two polos, both collars popped. Usually in soothing pastels, but I've gone rogue into the realm of primary colors before.
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Post by paige101 on Jan 4, 2009 2:30:13 GMT -5
Me too! They almost remind me of Gizmo from Gremlins with fangs and a little cape  Or Nibbler from Futurama |
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Post by henzINNIT on Jan 4, 2009 7:39:31 GMT -5
I want one of those if they ever make plushies. See, I'm already being sucked into that whole "Vampires are cool!" thing. So does this mean you used to still pop your collar?  Who doesn't? Wait are you saying it isn't cool anymore?!?!?!?!?  .... you're lying! pfft *pops collar* |
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Post by Rebecca on Jan 4, 2009 20:45:58 GMT -5
Me too! They almost remind me of Gizmo from Gremlins with fangs and a little cape Or Nibbler from Futurama ohemgee, you are so right!!! |
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Post by El Diablo Robotico on Jan 11, 2009 14:23:15 GMT -5
Okay, so I'm only, like, 2 months late replying to this, but I didn't notice it 'til now  (was going back thru this thread to see if there was any discussion of the release date being pushed back a week--Jan. 28 to Feb. 4--'cause I thought maybe it'd been announced and I'd just missed it)... Not a huge fan of DeKnight (he's okay--nothing special), but I guess Drew Goddard can't write every issue...  Aw come on! DeKnight is DeAwesome. Although I think his best episodes were on ANGEL. He wrote Damage and Shells for AtS and Spiral for BtVS - doesn't that count for something? And you could throw "Destiny" in there as a co-writing credit, too ("Damage" was also a co-write, with Goddard). But he also has to take the blame for stinkers like "All the Way", "Inside Out", and *cringes* "Hell Bound" (esp. the last two, since he also directed them). So he's very much hit-or-miss. When he's good, he's very good, but when he's bad, he's real bad...  |
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Post by Emmie on Jan 11, 2009 14:29:58 GMT -5
And you could throw "Destiny" in there as a co-writing credit, too ("Damage" was also a co-write, with Goddard). But he also has to take the blame for stinkers like "All the Way", "Inside Out", and *cringes* "Hell Bound" (esp. the last two, since he also directed them). So he's very much hit-or-miss. When he's good, he's very good, but when he's bad, he's real bad...  Inside out? Bad? Nah, disagree. I'll give you some points for saying Hell Bound and All The Way were on the weak side. Though I still enjoyed them both immensely. But Inside Out was well-done. The only thing I can think to complain about the episode is the Connor/Cordelia scenes. But even then, it was a fantastic range of emotion portrayed. And considering that's a main storyline for the entire season, I don't think it's fair to cringe at it. The way Connor gets mind-effed between Jasmine!Cordy and Ghost!Darla is masterful. Plus the end fight scene with Skip where Wes shoots a bullet through his cracked body armor into his brain. Yikes. DeKnight hands-down does the best action scenes, too. |
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Post by El Diablo Robotico on Jan 11, 2009 14:56:33 GMT -5
Inside out? Bad? Nah, disagree. I'll give you some points for saying Hell Bound and All The Way were on the weak side. Though I still enjoyed them both immensely. But Inside Out was well-done. The only thing I can think to complain about the episode is the Connor/Cordelia scenes. But even then, it was a fantastic range of emotion portrayed. And considering that's a main storyline for the entire season, I don't think it's fair to cringe at it. The way Connor gets mind-effed between Jasmine!Cordy and Ghost!Darla is masterful. Plus the end fight scene with Skip where Wes shoots a bullet through his cracked body armor into his brain. Yikes. The Cordy/Connor scenes were pretty bad all season, but they reached their peak of unwatchableness in "Inside Out". It showed Connor at his absolute worst--utterly gullible and completely whipped, where he finally all but admitted that he had to do all these things, no matter how heinous, because "Cordy said". And the girl that plays the virgin sacrifice is possibly the most annoying 'minor' character ever, on either show (even more so than the magic shop owner in "Lovers Walk"). And that's not even getting into the character assassination of Skip which, much like Amy in S6/7, I think was done more for the sake of convenience and not having to bring in and introduce a brand-new character, than it was out of any sense of being true to the already-existing character. (FWIW, the cringing was strictly for "Hell Bound", which might be one of the 2 or 3 worst episodes in the series entire run.) That's true... but "Apocalypse, Nowish" is very overrated in that regard. The fight in "Destiny"--now there's one to get excited about...  |
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Post by Whedon Fan on Jan 12, 2009 19:28:08 GMT -5
is the release date still 28 january?
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Post by wenxina on Jan 12, 2009 19:28:47 GMT -5
Apparently it's been moved to Feb 4 now.
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Post by Emmie on Jan 12, 2009 19:43:48 GMT -5
El D, do you ever watch the episode commentaries? I really enjoyed listening to DeKnight for both Apocalypse Nowish and Inside Out. For the former, it went into greater detail on one I already liked and for the latter, it gave me new insight into the episode. It especially helped me appreciate the Connor/Cordy development as my knee jerk reaction is 'Ew ew ew ew no no no!'
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Post by El Diablo Robotico on Jan 13, 2009 1:51:23 GMT -5
El D, do you ever watch the episode commentaries? I really enjoyed listening to DeKnight for both Apocalypse Nowish and Inside Out. For the former, it went into greater detail on one I already liked and for the latter, it gave me new insight into the episode. It especially helped me appreciate the Connor/Cordy development as my knee jerk reaction is 'Ew ew ew ew no no no!' First thing I do after buying/renting DVDs of stuff I've already seen is to listen to the commentary track(s)--assuming it has any, which too few episodes/movies do. Pretty sure that the only S4 one I've listened to more than once is "Spin the Bottle"; the rest, not since they came out (late-'04?). But there was really nothing in any of the special features that changed my mind on the Connor/Cordy stuff. It's too bad, too, because the rest of the season is really pretty damn good (aside from the 'tacked-on' feeling of the Jasmine arc), but Connor/Cordy was such a huge part of the season that it just really drags everything else down with it...  I'm optimistic, tho, that DeKnight will do a good job on this issue. He did more good episodes than bad ones, so the odds are in his favor... |
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Post by henzINNIT on Jan 13, 2009 11:48:20 GMT -5
He's not responsible for story decisions in the weaker episodes of his oeuvre anyway. The team comes up with the plots of each episode, the individual just puts the events into scenes and dialogue etc.
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Post by paige101 on Jan 14, 2009 6:22:31 GMT -5
Okay, so I'm only, like, 2 months late replying to this, but I didn't notice it 'til now (was going back thru this thread to see if there was any discussion of the release date being pushed back a week--Jan. 28 to Feb. 4--'cause I thought maybe it'd been announced and I'd just missed it)... Aw come on! DeKnight is DeAwesome. Although I think his best episodes were on ANGEL. He wrote Damage and Shells for AtS and Spiral for BtVS - doesn't that count for something? And you could throw "Destiny" in there as a co-writing credit, too ("Damage" was also a co-write, with Goddard). But he also has to take the blame for stinkers like "All the Way", "Inside Out", and *cringes* "Hell Bound" (esp. the last two, since he also directed them). So he's very much hit-or-miss. When he's good, he's very good, but when he's bad, he's real bad... Probably going to be a little unpopular, but I don't think All The Way was that bad of an episode. Granted the teenage vamps were badly written (case in point, the vamp Giles dusts saying "Dude, that sucks!" before he disintergrates) but the scene with Buffy finding Dawn with Justin was a nice break from Buffy seeming indifferent towards anything Dawn does and showed them just being sisters instead of Dawn brooding and Buffy being furious about it. |
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Post by sarahi on Jan 15, 2009 20:10:09 GMT -5
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one hoping that Satsu and Kennedy get together. It would be a good solution to a relationship that's problematic because it was only meant to verify that Willow's gay. After what Willow's been doing, Kennedy can probably do better, and I don't even like Kennedy that much. Don't get me wrong, I like Willow, I just don't think that she and Kennedy are right for each other.
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Post by El Diablo Robotico on Jan 16, 2009 2:08:10 GMT -5
God, I sure hope Kennedy and Satsu don't hook up in this issue. I fail to see any reason why they would, other than the fact that they're both gay. I'm not sure I understand--any time you have two gay characters in a story together, do they have to get together? Even if one of them is already in a serious, committed relationship with someone else?  Of course, that would clear the way for a Buffy/Willow pairing in future issues. It would fall right in line with that "get the story's two gay characters together" idea (since Will's gay and Buffy's occasionally-gay), and follow thru on all the in-your-face B/W subtext in #'s 15-19... |
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Post by Rebecca on Jan 16, 2009 10:38:03 GMT -5
There was a B/W subtext in TOYL? News to me |
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Post by El Diablo Robotico on Jan 16, 2009 13:55:57 GMT -5
There was a B/W subtext in TOYL? News to me Not just ToYL, but WatG, too. - Willow asking Satsu what Buffy was like in bed. - Willow telling Buffy that she never wanted to sleep with her, anyway. As far as I know, no one has ever just come out and volunteered that statement where they meant anything but the exact opposite. - Buffy following up her effusive praise of Willow with a wistful "My Will", which (rightfully) set off Kennedy with her infamous "Grubby paws off, lez-faux!" speech. - "I'm watching those hands, you two," as they hug at the end of #19. And if you look hard enough, you could probably come up with other examples from earlier in the season... |
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Post by patxshand on Jan 16, 2009 14:16:23 GMT -5
That's not really subtext. Those are obvious "Buffy is experimenting" Willow-reaction jokes.
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Post by El Diablo Robotico on Jan 16, 2009 15:02:24 GMT -5
That's not really subtext. Those are obvious "Buffy is experimenting" Willow-reaction jokes. Since I'm not sure if I'll be around for the next coupla days, I'll cut right to my main point: "Jokes". Exactly. No one (including me) ever seriously believed that Buffy and Willow were gonna get together, so those comments are all just chalked up as jokes. Yet you get an exhausted Buffy mistakenly collapsing in Xander's bed and getting it all full of mud, and at least for several people, it's not only a joke, but also somehow a clue that they're eventually gonna get couply. Huh? Or how about Dawn's "Ride Me" line to Xander, or the "Ridden hard and put away wet" bit? Just like the "jokes about Buffy experimenting", I'd say those are pretty obviously jokes about the fact that Dawn is now suddenly half-horse, and nothing more than that. Yet plenty of people have taken those, and a couple of other things, and become convinced that something's gonna happen between those two (someone here--I forget who, sorry--even said they'd stopped reading the comics when they saw that Dawn and Xander were gonna get together). How is it bawdy humor and nothing more in B/W's case, yet the likely-preface of a future relationship in D/X's? Am I the only one seeing a double-standard here? :unsure: |
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Post by Rebecca on Jan 16, 2009 15:39:44 GMT -5
good point. +1
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