league of extradordinary whatsits?

[bluelovesorange]

Just a quick post before bed and crumpets:

the shallow:

1. tonight's Buffy was probably the most comic-booky referential ep that I can remember, in terms of action 'panels' and certain shout outs: Preacher is the one that sticks out most vividly, but I'm sure there's others. I wish I had a copy of this episode so I could look for the cb clues again.
2. Dammmmn. They're all hot again. Seriously. The makeup people were on the ball for this ep - amazing what a couple pounds of tanner and glowy lotion can do, and hey, better lighting for James - gives him that nifty keen airbrush look. Very very nice.

ETA: excellent ep review by superplin, and she articulates what my theory much better...also, with contextual reference to the Buffy ep! Woo!

And speaking of woo, saava has made pretty Buffy/Spike icons set to Tom Mcrae's "A Day Like Today".



3. I really enjoyed this episode. Lots of classic Buffy things, the humor, the unexpected pairings/interaction - Andrew and Anya...and Guess who's back? Back again? (DAMN YOU EVE.) happywellatleastnotmanicdepressed!BUFFFFFFYYYYYYYY! I love my girl when she's making with the quips and smiling. Love love her interaction with Faith (no wood in sight. See? because femmeslash rules SUPREME)and Xander, and the little lovetheme orchestral music behind both encounters? Okay, sniffled.

4. Which brings me to....CALEB/FE 4EVA! "Are you trying to make me jealous?" Oh. So. Love. watching Nathan Fillion and Sarah spark off each other.

5. My 'shallow' looks remarkably like my 'serious'. Damn. Um, well, I jumped when caleb snapped the Guardian's neck. And I have this idea that Buffy is going to be the next guardian, since the scythe is a tie in to Joss' Fray comic book (which takes place many many years in the future, with the title character being the first slayer in centuries), I can see Buffy waiting for the next girl.

6. Buffy as Guardian gen in a bucket idea aside - I have no idea what's up with the Prozac!Angel kissage. Angel is remarkably peppy for someone who just gave up his son. Then again, time does move differently in between LA and Sunnydale ... maybe there were drugs in that limo.

7. there are other thoughts, but mostly I'm happy, and this makes me dread the series finale a lot less. Well, I'm bitter about Kennedy NOT dying, and the wig for next week looks bad, but other than that and Hey, Where did All Our Issues Magically Evaporate?, I was very pleased with "End of Days."

Comments

[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what's up with the Prozac!Angel kissage. Angel is remarkably peppy for someone who just gave up his son. Then again, time does move differently in between LA and Sunnydale ... maybe there were drugs in that limo.

LMAO!

Oh gawd, I so needed that!

It was an excellent episode. Setting up lovely things for Spike, I hope. :)

[evemac.livejournal.com]

Oh lord. Your icon is PRECIOUS!

Pretty people. Happy people.

[evemac.livejournal.com]

Guess who's back, guess who's back...

Er. Ahem. Regarding the limo -- well, it was an EVIL limo, wasn't it?

And I love your Buffy idea. She's going to have some higher purpose, that way when she guest stars on AtS next year... ::crosses fingers::

forget all the 'shipping wars, Caleb/FE is my one true pairing

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Love those scenes. Absolutely love them. "Less calm now."

Chipper Angel: is, after selling his soul to save his son, going back to simpler times and throwing himself into the part. The part being, incidentally, Angel from all the way back to season 1 - that guy from "Welcome to the Hellmouth" who commented from the sides, made jokes and gave warnings. Also, is clearly not going to stay. I'd be surprised if his screentime in 21 and 22 put together extends the one from "Forever". If he did stay, him and Buffy would have to get reaquainted from scratch, but for a brief visit he can put on the show.

Though I do like the idea of Lilah offering him prozac in the limo.

instead of a white steed, Angel arrived....

[crushw-eyeliner.livejournal.com]

via the Evil Limo of Mood altering drugs. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

I'm terribly amused by all the Arthurian/Tolkien tie ins and shout outs that have appeared in the second half of the season - while i haven't read Joseph Campbells' Hero with a thousand faces, I'm sure there's some sort of context for the tie-ins....Buffy as King Arthur, not Guinevere...the Guardian as Lady of the Lake....

hmm. My brain looks odd at this angle in the morning.

But an AMEN to the OTP that is Caleb/FE. Theirloveissopurgatory!

only in the second half?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

In L.A., we had Arthur=Angel, Mordred=Connor, and Guenevre=Cordy (oh, and Darla & Holtz both as Morgause, on in various aspects. In Sunnydale, Buffy is of course Arthur, and Spike Lancelot (fits with Buffy/Spike as the first heterosexual slash relationship). Let's not forget, though, that Camelot fell due internal flaws. Xander is so Sir Cai and Giles Merlin, who is not above some shady manipulation. Which makes Willow...Morgan?

And Warren calling Jonathan "Frodo" last season came before the Uruk-Hai, err, Turok-Han shot in "Get it Done". Considering the various Buffyscribes, not just Jane E., confessed more than once that the Troika was basically "Portrait of the Writers as the Trio of Nerds", that's not surprising. Incidentally, Buffy as Frodo, losing her innocence and connections and eaten away by the Ring of Slayerdom fits as well.

Hey, should we offer a Caleb/FE banner to TWOP?

you're right!

[crushw-eyeliner.livejournal.com]

The nerd arc, how could I have forgotten that? Brain fuzzy. As I'm not a frequent watcher of Angel, the Arthurian overtones would have passed right over me.

As for the Caleb/FE banner to TWOP - eh, it's not only where angels fear to tread. I stick to Alias recaps at TwOP, the Buffy, Angel boards, recaps are rather wincing....

Re: you're right!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Oh, I never go there at all. But I heard that the B/A'shippers, the Kittens and the B/S'shippers all managed to make themselves somewhat ridiculous with banners proclaiming their OTP and demanding its return, and seeing that Caleb when last we saw him was looking somewhat endangered, I figured we might start as well our own personal IF THEY ARE SEPARATED WE'LL NEVER WATCH THIS SHOW AGAIN whine. Come on, the clock is ticking.

Re: you're right!

[pyrifera.livejournal.com]

Not sure what all the acronym's are about, but I get the context of this

and seeing that Caleb when last we saw him was looking somewhat endangered, I figured we might start as well our own personal IF THEY ARE SEPARATED WE'LL NEVER WATCH THIS SHOW AGAIN whine. Come on, the clock is ticking.

and just had to interject a whole heck of a lot of laughs, guffaws, chortles, sniggers, titters and chuckles. Hell, I think I even giggled. *G*

I'm very down with the Caleb/FE 'ship -- even if the FE in it's non-Buffy form looks a wee bit too much like the CGI beastie that took out Gandalf in FotR. Hmm.

Is that Kennedy thing dead yet?

Did you never read tthe Very Secret Diaries?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

They reveal Gandalf had a thing with the Balrog (i.e. said beastie). Anyway, good to know the Caleb/FE'ship is gaining steam, so to speak. Hey, we can even write rants about how the end of the show means we'll never find out whether Caleb truly loves the FE, because we'll never get that angsty episode during which it turns into Warren AND the Mayor in the middle of empowering him. To say nothing of the crossover we missed during which Jasmine could have tried to fill the FE itself with her love. The acronyms stand for: Buffy/Angel, Willow/Tara and Buffy/Spike'shippers, respectively.

Re: Did you never read tthe Very Secret Diaries?

[pyrifera.livejournal.com]

They reveal Gandalf had a thing with the Balrog

Well, clearly. Look how quick he was to run off with him! Leaving Frodo all heartbroken like that.

we'll never get that angsty episode during which it turns into Warren AND the Mayor

The ep that would have finally won them the much coveted Emmy®?!

The acronyms stand for: Buffy/Angel, Willow/Tara and Buffy/Spike'shippers, respectively.

Those I know. It was the TWOP and ". . .banners proclaiming their OTP and demanding its return. . ." that made me realize that I was well and truly outta the loop.

Mea Culpa

[selenak.livejournal.com]

TWOP = Television Without Pity, a website; in recent years haven for unrelenting ranting and complaints, or so I hear, since I stayed away once the trend became obvious. OTP = One True Pairing.

Hah! Justified by the writers themselves!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Elz has posted a summary of the Succubus interview David Fury and Tim Minear gave at the Succubus Club, with quotes, in her livejournal and guess what? I called it with Connor/Mordred!