So I was watching "Nightmares" yesterday evening when I suddenly seized on a pet peeve of mine I wanted to geek about today. Then, during the podcast, I made the very error I was going to bitch about. It was a slip of the tongue and I knew better, but still...recorded for posterity ( Read more... )

Non-vampire demons in seasons one and two of BtVS are very classical representations, lone creatures of no apparent origin meant to be the walking, talking embodiment of the most powerful of human emotions: the corrupting or downright dangerous lure of desire (Moloch, Machida, Eyghon), the scapegoats of our very Earthly fears (the "Brotherhood of ( Read more... )

Way back when this show first started, I was disappointed with BtVS vampire mythology, because BtVS canon, at least as it was presented in season one, was that a vampire wasn't ( Read more... )

The birth of a vampire is a painful and disorienting experience for the vampire. But it does not take long for the confusion to give way to a clarity about their nature, an assuredness that seems to come from a connection to something greater than themselves. Some vampires rise from the grave with this clarity, others require the taste of human ( Read more... )