Oh how I miss my show, too. I miss it so much.

I started re-watching season 2 the other night. I didn't come to the series until season 3, in real time (although I've seen all 144, over and over again, now). I was thinking during WSWB, what a neat, dark, interesting 'verse they created, and how much it showed me, and how much I could have used a Buffy-ish TV character, during my teens. They did well by me in my 30s, as it is.

Believe me that having Buffy as a teen was one great deal. Watching the show from the beginning and having characters that were portrayed as people my age was some kind of bonus as well. I saw how the characters had some of the same problems and life events happening to them at the same time as me. Tuning in to the show every week was such a wonderful escape from the real world, while still being able to relate with the problems they had in between fighting evil.

Also after finishing Chosen today I just realized that in a show fueled by great dialogue, puns, humor, play on words, and altogether new invented words was able to end with the final line of dialogue of complete silence and facial expression. I know silence isn't a line of dialogue, but it was so powerful that no spoken word could have came.

Mmm, Homicide. I knew we'd draw Vonnie out of the woodwork with our murder police chitchat. The especially fun part is that many of the crimes that get committed are vaguely related (not ripped from the headlines) to real crimes of Baltimore history. Like the bowling ball murder.

the one with Russert and Bayliss on the balcony, with Tim loopy on painkillers and waving the gun toward the darkness of the harbor, talking about how killing is easy, a piece of cake.

That was when I finally wrapped my brain around his character. Up till then he'd sort of been a mystery, and I liked how they took one irrelevant detail -- he'd been a sniper on the Mayor's security detail before joining Homicide -- and made it say a lot about who he was as a person.

Can't wait till the DVDs get up to Kellerman. You want arc, the seasons of Kellerman's rise and fall are a portrait of self-involved self-destruction. It's like watching Macbeth in miniature, and you can see the seeds of it within a week of his being introduced.

You do know erika's been doing wonderful Buffy/H:LotS, right?

Oh, nothing against erikaj, far from it (and you really, really shouldn't tell a grad student in midterm season how easily I can find that fic...really really...). I was referring to my lack of talent with crossover fic--but seriously, how much worse could I do with Munch than the L&O:SUV writers?

Off to read. I am a weak, weak (wo)man...

First, you made my day. Which today I thought would take expensive chocolate and nudity cause today sucks and it's not 11am yet. And second, that is truly a travesty, although there is on occasion a moment or two with him that is good enough that I watch, against my will, which is sort of ironic for a sex-crime show, don't you think. And Munch in Sex Crimes is like me collecting for the swear jar, sort of. And it has made my tendency to rant much more severe and potent.

Did anyone else catch Charlie Weber on Everwood as a petulant guitarist?

No, but I can't wait to bust out my tape now....now do we suspect that Ben and Glory are connected somehow?

I saw a magazine called New Witch and Barnes & Noble last night.

It had an article about invokng Buffy as a kind of goddess. The writer started by building an alter covered with pictures of Buffy. I didn't read the whole thing, but I was most entertained by the idea.

ETA: And here is the article. Google is a magical thing.

This is a little weird:

Remember: you aren't dealing with a real person, you're working with the perception of that person. It's vital to keep positive: if you allow any negatives into your perception you weaken the potency of your magick.

Understanding that we are talking characters, I can't think of a single interesting character without a downside. Except Zoe, so far, I guess, if I overlook that I don't think Wash is attractive.

Oh yes, that article. Completely took over my pagan mailing list a few months ago. The main problem with it is that New Witch is a cheap rag written at a second grade level.