I know everybody and his mother have already weighed in on these issues but for reasons unknown to me, my comic store did not get issue 11 delivered. Even though I have a standing pull order. So first I had to wait until the got it in, and then I had to wait until I wouldn't freeze my kishkas. And then I was so overloaded at work, that I didn't ( Read more... )

( time for a little meta, don't you think? )

Recently, gabrielleabelle had an interesting post and poll regarding the episode Chosen. I was planning to post over there, but I wound up working a bunch of late nights and then Thanksgiving showed up and I was busy on the weekend and it seemed too much time had passed. But I still had all these thoughts. And then the obvious solution hit me - post my thoughts ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of unhappiness with the way Spike is currently being portrayed in the IDW comics. From the comments I've read, (I am way, way behind in the comics), Spike seems very out of character. One complaint is that Spike is currently acting like a feral cat in heat, knocking boots with every female that moves ( Read more... )

taaroko (hello!) and I got into a brief conversation about Angel's curse (and more importantly, the loophole) yesterday and I mentioned that I had a theory about it. And so, here it is. I like it because it makes sense out of something that on the face of it, makes no sense at all ( Read more... )

So, what exactly was going through Angel's mind when he went back to the Oracles that second time. Was he being patronizing? Was he being noble? Something else ( Read more... )

I never thought I'd have any thoughts at all on this show but ( here goes )

So, over the course of the last few days I ran across the following:

1. Someone making the statement that Spike was portrayed so inconsistently on both BtVS and AtS that almost any interpretation is fine.

2. A bunch of people (including myself) moaning over a story that had piss poor characterization, at least to us.

3. ely-jansaid this about AUs: You ( Read more... )

I've been in a bit of a funk the last few days. Winter lethargy appears to have set in. It's starting to lift, which is good I guess.

So, I was reading a story yesterday, cute and funny, a bit hot and then I came to the following (which is paraphrased in my own words, since this isn't about this particular author):

Angel always thought of himself ( Read more... )

Once again, I'm continuing that parings meme - write a brief analysis of a Buffyverse pairing that you supply. So far, I've commented on Buffy/Xander, Dawn/Xander, vamp!Dawn/souled!Spike, Cordelia/Angel, Angelus/Buffy, Giles/Anya, Spike/Xander and Buffy/Faith ( Read more... )