I’m sorry but religion is freaky, and the more I think about it the freakier it seems. I try to deal with it because there’re so many religious people out there and I feel I ought to respect their views… there are even people I like… a lot… who believe in all this mumbo-jumbo – [...]
Books, films, and television
Feb 222011
Just to show what a dark past Ripper had he seems to have the head of a young Anthony Head but the body of our most notorious hellraiser, the (forever) young Sid Vicious… I haven’t managed to track down the exact picture uesd (although admittedly I didn’t try too hard) but this is close enough [...]
In Welcome to the Hellmouth Buffy effortlessly leaps the school gates… sadly the non-fighting superhero bit of Buffy often gets forgotten… but just occasionally it gets an outing and it does in Lie To Me when Buffy leaps from the floor of the basement to get hold of Drusilla. Sadly no decent screencap so this’ll [...]
Halloween might be the second great Buffy episode and Willow is most certainly the boss of this one. Whether it’s her beautiful command of the situation, or just how wonderfully she embraces being a ghost… she doesn’t even think twice about walking through walls. There is a lot to love about Halloween: Cordy’s like a [...]
Reptile boy is all about the utter mystery that is the “fraternity” and the “frat boy” – over the years my complete understanding and knowledge of the “frat boy” is as follows They are spoilt rich kids… … who nobody likes… … who tended to get blamed for being annoyingly drunk and loud at Luna [...]
Feb 132011
And Oz arrives on the scene – I love Oz – he is undoubtedly the coolest demon-fighter in the Buffyverse, for lots of great reasons – but right now he’s coolest because he alone can see how unimaginably cute this is… A sneaky peek at future coolness can be found here and then there’s this [...]
I guess most people see School Hard’s significance as being the arrival of someone else but for me it’s Drusilla’s first appearance that is key… Drusilla is such a ridiculously silly character – she has a silly accent which she uses to say such wonderfully silly things. School Hard offers only tantalising glimpses of what [...]
This was a bit rubbish – Giles and Jenny were sweet but mostly it was forgettable nonsense – so have this instead…
So… I wanted to pick up on the pop in Buffy when it came to pop I liked or noticed, or by bands I knew – but Cibo Matto’s contributions to When She Was Bad were a little unimpressive. I bought Hazel the Miho Hatori solo album Ecdysis on the strength of the Buffy connection [...]
Jan 312011
Prophecy Girl is the first genuinely exceptional Buffy episode. There were some gems in season one (I was surprised to hear that apparently it doesn’t get the love it deserves) but Prophecy Girl is when it grows up… when it lays the foundation for the next 6 years. Here are 5 reasons why… Cordy drives [...]
