i have a skelton hand says my icon, and here are my balls!
Just saw the first ever episode of Buffy. Or BtVS as it's affectionately called.
Yessss.....i'm very pleased with myself as I think I am stricken with some kind of allergy towards Sarah Michelle Geller. Or SMG as she's affectionately known as.
It's just that she's so blonde.
What I like about is the 'before they were well known' bits. Considering this is back in 1996 the first person you see is the guy who's now a major character in CSI: New York. And one of the head vampires was actually starring in another vampire show at the time. It was called Kindred, after the popular role playing game and while not as being as witty or violent as BtVS - though characters did tend to immolate on a fairly frequent basis - it was uber stylish and se round the city of San Francisco and dealt a lot with vampire politics. His character was the popular Eddie Fury and a thorn in Julian Luna's side. The series only ran for 8 episodes and was going to be extended but the actor playing Luna died in a motorbike crash in the UK (all true, look it up on imdb) and so the show turned to ash as a result. Pity.
But I doubt it would've survived against BtVS anyway.
I think i was in the wrong frame of mind at the time BtVS came out.
Blondie aside I'd just left highschool myself when the show aired on UK telly and I had no real desire to return to it via a television show. Plus I liked bits of the 1992 movie (i was young, sue my bad taste!) and couldn't get the grip with the foreheads.
Vampire foreheads.
Joss Whedon's vampire foreheads annoy me intensely. And still do to this day somewhat. It's just, to be a vampire you have to "vamp out" with a sloping pronounced, wrinkled, overhanging foreheads the likes of which a neolithic caveman would be proud of. I see. It just looked insanely silly. Even Spike i'm sorry to say. Plus this was the mid nineties and SFX made leaps and bounds over the next 7-9 years when it came to showing people 'exposing' their vampire side.
Then I was in college (1998-99) and EVERYONE was going on about Buffy. And I kick against anything EVERYBODY raves about. It's habit and I'm still not sure why it is. Keeping this popular theory intact I reckon I will therefore like Twilight in around 10 years time. Now, with everyone gushing over Edward and Bella I'd rather gargle with draino and watch a movie.
Vampires? in seattle, in sunlight, that aren't funny?
The first 3 things I can bear, but the humour is crucial, and I think that's because of my age and circumstance right now. I NEED humour in my life. Gallows humour, black humour, caustic humour, sarcastic humour, whatever. Humour. Otherwise it's too serious.
And I'm serious enough in other factors of my life.
oh and by the way, on Monday night I helped a vascular consultant who possesses his very own vampire forehead sans makeup stop a lady's leg from gushing claret everywhere. After we'd stabilised the artery he didn't feed on it though. The way it was infected and pus ridden I think even the undead bloodsuckers have to draw the line somewhere.
Yessss.....i'm very pleased with myself as I think I am stricken with some kind of allergy towards Sarah Michelle Geller. Or SMG as she's affectionately known as.
It's just that she's so blonde.
What I like about is the 'before they were well known' bits. Considering this is back in 1996 the first person you see is the guy who's now a major character in CSI: New York. And one of the head vampires was actually starring in another vampire show at the time. It was called Kindred, after the popular role playing game and while not as being as witty or violent as BtVS - though characters did tend to immolate on a fairly frequent basis - it was uber stylish and se round the city of San Francisco and dealt a lot with vampire politics. His character was the popular Eddie Fury and a thorn in Julian Luna's side. The series only ran for 8 episodes and was going to be extended but the actor playing Luna died in a motorbike crash in the UK (all true, look it up on imdb) and so the show turned to ash as a result. Pity.
But I doubt it would've survived against BtVS anyway.
I think i was in the wrong frame of mind at the time BtVS came out.
Blondie aside I'd just left highschool myself when the show aired on UK telly and I had no real desire to return to it via a television show. Plus I liked bits of the 1992 movie (i was young, sue my bad taste!) and couldn't get the grip with the foreheads.
Vampire foreheads.
Joss Whedon's vampire foreheads annoy me intensely. And still do to this day somewhat. It's just, to be a vampire you have to "vamp out" with a sloping pronounced, wrinkled, overhanging foreheads the likes of which a neolithic caveman would be proud of. I see. It just looked insanely silly. Even Spike i'm sorry to say. Plus this was the mid nineties and SFX made leaps and bounds over the next 7-9 years when it came to showing people 'exposing' their vampire side.
Then I was in college (1998-99) and EVERYONE was going on about Buffy. And I kick against anything EVERYBODY raves about. It's habit and I'm still not sure why it is. Keeping this popular theory intact I reckon I will therefore like Twilight in around 10 years time. Now, with everyone gushing over Edward and Bella I'd rather gargle with draino and watch a movie.
Vampires? in seattle, in sunlight, that aren't funny?
The first 3 things I can bear, but the humour is crucial, and I think that's because of my age and circumstance right now. I NEED humour in my life. Gallows humour, black humour, caustic humour, sarcastic humour, whatever. Humour. Otherwise it's too serious.
And I'm serious enough in other factors of my life.
oh and by the way, on Monday night I helped a vascular consultant who possesses his very own vampire forehead sans makeup stop a lady's leg from gushing claret everywhere. After we'd stabilised the artery he didn't feed on it though. The way it was infected and pus ridden I think even the undead bloodsuckers have to draw the line somewhere.