There are werewolves and zombies though

Need. More. Caffeine.

With braaaains?

Did we miss this?

"Conversations with Dead People" won a Hugo Award!

"Conversations with Dead People" won a Hugo Award!

Yeah, that was immensely cool. I mean, just geeks giving awards to other geeks, but still, Our People said "those Emmy people can get stuffed."

Or words to that effect.

Somebody did a crossover filk of the entire "Once More, With Feeling" musical into the Harry Potter 'verse. Parts you might skim, but there are definitely some funny bits.

Once More With Cursing

Amusing at points, but someone has too much time on their hands, and yet not enough to be consistent.

Draco as Xander AND Spike AND Buffy? None of them works.

Heh, from the Joss interview (linked in Press) at Filmforce...

After Joss, there was an ME writing panel that took audience questions.

But the panel's descent into the absurd was far from over. "I have a question for Drew Goddard," came a familiar voice to Buffy fans. Meloney swerved around in her seat, a delighted smile on her face. The audience broke into loud applause. It was Danny Strong, the actor who played Jonathan on Buffy, a character killed off in one of Goddard's scripts.

"Go ahead," said Goddard, undisturbed at facing this ghost from his past. "Stand up, young man."

"Very funny, Drew," replied the short Mr. Strong, sounding unamused. "I just wanted to know how it feels to be a murderer?" The audience, on the side of murdered underdogs, applauded again.

Goddard was utterly without remorse. "You know, it's not that bad."

"Is it anti-Semitism?" Strong asked. "I think it's like anything: at first it kind of tries your conscience, and then it starts to feel good."

Whee!

Damn, I double posted. Here's more, then...

Strong also had comfort, of sorts, for the beleaguered Fury, advising him, "It IS hard to do climaxes at the same time."

"Who would know better than you and I?" Fury asked agreeably. And perhaps we should not go there.

And yet still more was to come. An unfamiliar, nerdy voice came from the second line of questioners. "Liz and Sarah, are you single?" And it was Joss, undercover, with his partner in crime Nathan Fillion right behind him.

Craft and Fain, looking young, attractive, and pleased, each said, "Yes." "But they only work as a team," Fury pointed out, redeeming his past errors. "Where do we line up?" inquired Fillion as he and Whedon disappeared once more into the crowd.

For those who wanted Vamp!Dawn, TV Guide has a photo for you from last Halloween.

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And yet still more was to come. An unfamiliar, nerdy voice came from the second line of questioners. "Liz and Sarah, are you single?" And it was Joss, undercover, with his partner in crime Nathan Fillion right behind him.

I heard this with the voice effects at a wedding (the one where the bach. party had been a trip to comicon), and MAN, funny ass shit right there.

Also from the IGN comicon recap, Joss:

"When we go to websites we're looking for a general feeling of what's not playing, what are people really passionate about and what are they debating and where are we getting it right and where are we getting it wrong? If you see something four weeks after it comes out on your website, that means we've been working on it about eight weeks before that, at least."

So where do you think the obvious examples were of the writers responding to the boards? I think that they probably became conscious that all of Buffy's speechifying in S7 was falling flat and wound up mocking that. I think they ultimately moved away from the addiction metaphor for Willow in S6, and wound up re-emphasizing her own responsibility. I wonder if board complaints had an effect on moving Dawn away from her whininess.