As the title 'intermission' implies, we interrupt this chibified version of the Silmarillion for an editorial comment. Those not interested can skip straight to next Thursday's installment. (Though you'll have to, you know, wait until next Thursday to actually see it ( Read more... )

And here's the final Joss Whedon 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' DVD commentary transcript, for 'The Harvest'.

Spoiler Warning; Joss recorded this commentary in 2000, and it contain major spoilers for Seasons 1-4 of 'Buffy' and Season 1 of 'Angel'.

( Commentary on 'The Harvest' )

Many years ago - about five, actually, I started a project of transcribing all the commentaries on the 'Buffy' DVDs made by Joss Whedon. Today, confounding the rumours that I never finish any projects, I'm posting the last two remaining; 'Welcome to the Hellmouth' and 'The Harvest'. \o ( Read more... )

So, Joss Whedon just posted an 'Ask Me Anything' on Reddit, where he answered a couple of dozen fan questions about, well, anything. Though I did notice he also carefully avoided a few of the questions, like "What did you think of the recent Buffy movie revival project"? Unfortunately, the format of the Q&A was kind of hard to understand... I ended ( Read more... )

In the light of the latest revelations about Buffy in Season 9, I've been re-visiting my thoughts about the end of Season 8, and specifically the Retreat arc and when Buffy was Chosen by the Twilight prophecy to be the creatrix of a new universe. This led me to thoughts about power, parenthood, and Buffy's moral certainty - specifically that ( Read more... )

My initial reaction to reading today's Season 9 'Buffy' comic... in the form of a short play. :)

SCENE: The house of Joss Whedon, in the year 2011.

An expensive Beverley Hills mansion overlooking Hollywood. Sitting on chairs and sofas pulled into a circle in the front room are JOSS WHEDON, ZACK WHEDON, ANDREW CHAMBLISS, JANE ESPENSON, SCOTT ALLIE, ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the recent preview showing that Buffy is going to suffer a crippling injury in the April issue of the comics. My initial reaction was on the lines of "Do not want", but I've been considering what sort of story they might be wanting to tell, and I have some thoughts.

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After looking back through my LJ archive for 2011, I was actually surprised by how much I wrote. It feels like it would have been much less; perhaps because it seems much quieter around here generally. But it turns out I wrote 51,392 words of fic last year, compared to only 34,533 words the year before. That's two multi-chapter stories, six stand- ( Read more... )

Inspired by shapinglight's recent post:


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So... this new revelation in vampire mythology that says that since the Seed broke, demons have to possess the animated undead corpses of vampires remotely, from their hell dimensions, instead of entering directly into their bodies as before.

Does anyone else imagine it looking something like this?  :)


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