I still have all my tapes: the complete runs of Buffy and Angel, plus pretty much everything else I taped while VCRs were a thing. The Whedonverse tapes live in a couple of media shelves in my office rather than being incorporated into my living room decor now, and all the other stuff is in milk crates in my storage building (probably unplayable at this point if I had a working VCR).
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 19, 2025 7:52:04 am PDT #10473 of 10483
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Vortex - Jul 22, 2025 10:59:56 pm PDT #10474 of 10483
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I actually gave my tapes away on a buy nothing group waaaaay back in 2006 or thereabouts. I had made special labels for the tapes. First just Buffy, and then Buffy and Angel. The full run as I recall, minus an ep or five from forgotten programming or the dreaded brown/blackout.
Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2025 5:23:02 am PDT #10475 of 10483
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The Buffy reboot pilot has wrapped shooting, with Chloé Zhao producing and directing, and Nora and Lilla Zuckerman set to be showrunners.
Laura - Sep 05, 2025 5:38:56 am PDT #10476 of 10483
Our wings are not tired.
Gellar says in a new interview with IGN. “For me, the heart of Buffy was always about found family—that sense of belonging and being loved for who you are—and that’s more important now than ever.
Of course, I will have to watch, but I am determined to manage expectations. I don't want to hate it.
JenP - Sep 05, 2025 5:44:12 am PDT #10477 of 10483
I have high hopes. I'm not expecting the same show, of course, or even the same attachment to it, but I think there's a possibility for some good entertainment.
Laura - Sep 05, 2025 6:42:52 am PDT #10478 of 10483
Our wings are not tired.
It is quite the challenge to satisfy those who loved the original, and at the same time attract a new generation of fans. I am cheering for them to get it right.
DavidS - Sep 05, 2025 8:35:39 am PDT #10479 of 10483
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just can't imagine how they're going to manage that tricky tone with the quippy one liners and deep emotional beats and the HSQ.
I'll certainly check it out, but they need a lot of really good comic actors who can play richer material too, not just cute faces.
-t - Sep 05, 2025 9:25:33 am PDT #10480 of 10483
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I will certainly watch. I have no idea what to expect and will try to keep it that way as I feel like that will be the only way to manage my expectations (that is, to strive not to have any at all).
I was thinking I haven't seen any Chloe Zhao movies, but I have seen Eternals. I don't think that tells me anything, though. I just looked up the Zuckerman sisters and they are associated with Poker Face and Fringe and some other things that sound positive, so that's promising
Trudy Booth - Sep 05, 2025 9:47:58 am PDT #10481 of 10483
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I want to love it and likely will.
Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2025 9:49:36 am PDT #10482 of 10483
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Chloé Zhao’s movie, Hamnet, currently in the film festival circuit, is at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Although it is Most Emphatically Not a Light Comedy.