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... )

About three years ago I began a project of transcribing Joss's commentaries from the 'Buffy' DVDs, starting with 'Chosen' and working backwards. I never did do all of them, but with this post, I'm drawing a little bit nearer my goal. :) This is the commentary from 'Innocence', notable for Joss's thoughts on rocket launchers, Tony Head's lack of ( Read more... )

This post is in the nature of an experiment, and I'd be interested to hear people's views of it. One of the (many) complaints I've often heard about Season 8 is that people don't like the comics format: they can't get into it, they don't understand it or they just don't like it. It can be a handicap to discussing the stories, their plots and ( Read more... )

Here's another in one of my very, very occasional series of transcripts of the official commentaries from the 'Buffy' DVDs - or in this case, from the 'Angel ' DVDs. It's an exception because I was given a specific request to make this the next commentary I transcribed - so here it is ( Read more... )

I've just been re-watching last week's episode, and because the scene between Paul and Echo in the alley seems so important to the ongoing season plot arc, I thought it would be useful to transcribe it. Makes it easier to quote and refer to.

Also, was I the only one who wanted to give this particular anonymous imprint of Echo the name "Faith"? :-)

( Transcript of the scene )

TVGuide.com recently published a Q&A session hosted by Matt Mitovich reading out fan questions about 'Buffy', 'Angel' and 'Firefly' to Joss Whedon. Since the video doesn't even run on certain browsers, and other people can't view videos on their computer, here's a transcript of what Joss had to say.

Contains "who's going to appear in future issues ( Read more... )

Third in an ongoing series; here's a transcript of Joss's commentary for 'Once More, With Feeling'. Because he refers so often to directors and lyricists from the age of classical musicals during this, I needed to keep a tab open to Wikipedia while writing the transcript to check the spellings of all the names... I've summarised what I found out in ( Read more... )

So, I've decided the best way forward is to transcribe the DVD commentaries that Joss himself did first. And since I'm working backwards, that means ''Lessons' is next up. Joss wrote this episode and David Solomon directed it, and they share the commentary. It was interesting since I've not listened to this one again since I first got the DVDs, and ( Read more... )

Well, I kind of implied I'd do this, and so here's my first attempt at transcribing one of Joss's audio commentaries from the 'Buffy' DVDs. It took even longer than I thought it would - several hours - so I can't see me doing all of them in any sort of reasonable timescale, but I think it's interesting to read this. When it's all set out in writing ( Read more... )