Saturday, July 31, 2010

Hint of gayness in Season 2?

I'm watching Reptile Boy right now, and I noticed what might be the first hint of Willow's gay/biness:

WILLOW: You're going to the fraternity party? What made you change your mind?
BUFFY: Angel.
WILLOW[a little jealous]: He's going with you? [To Xander] She's got a date with Angel, isn't that exciting?
XANDER: I'm elated.
BUFFY: I-I'm not going with Angel. I'm going with ... yea gods... Cordelia!
BUFFY:
WILLOW: Cordelia? Did I sound a little jealous just then, because I'm not really-... Cordelia?

The direction "a little jealous" was from the original script, so Willow was definitly suppose to sound jealous, it's not just what the character suspected.

I wonder if there's more hints to Willow liking girls before she meet Tara, other than vampire Willow's behaviour.

A little comic book rant

I just read the 4 first issues in the original Buffy series(the one with over 60 issues). I've found lots of time inconsistencies. It seems to be season 3 post Band candy, yet pre-Suprise, still post Surprise, for several reasons, to just mentioned a few times markers that make no sense when combined (for example, Oz is there, knowing about monsters, which sets the comic post-Innocence, yet both souled Angel and Spike & Dru are around, which makes it pre-What's my line?)

How could this comic be published? The writer(s) and the editor(s) couldn't have watched the show that closely. Here I thought Joss read and approved every comic. Was that wrong, or did he just read summarizations?

It will be interesting to see how Darkhorse have placed them in the Buffy omnibuses, which are suppose to be chronological. I was thinking about making a list of continuity errors for the series, time wise and plot wise, but it's 60-ish issues, and I can't be bothered. I do love to whine, but that's taking it too far.

EDIT- 5th August 2010

Seems like I put my foot in my mouth. But just a little. I've read up until issue 11 now, and I overreacted about the Dru/Spike thing, since Buffy could have been worried about them returning in Season 3 as well. Also, another character mentioned that they left town. So this series seems to follow the Season 3 story, definitly set after Beauty and the Beasts, since Angel is back. But I found a big inconsistency.

Buffy & Angel are dating, comfortably it seems. So is Cordelia & Xander. How does that work? Angel & Buffy didn't get couply until way after Lover's Walk(they were "just friends" as they told Spike), but that's when Xander & Cordelia broke up, due to the cheating.

I could probably go back, read the issues again to try to make sense of it, and re-evaluate the other inconsistencies I found with this non-Spike&Dru error in mind, but I'm too lazy.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Fiddly bits theater

sockmonkeyhere posted this amusing sideshow doll story over at livejournal:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

DVDs missing scenes!

Not sure if I should get the Chosen DVD collection now, since it's region 1...

LINK

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Comic art contest winner revealed

Earlier this summer slayalive.com had a Season 8 comic contest announced, with Georges Jeanty (main artists for season 8) as soul judge. Winners have now been revealed, in the first entry here (scroll down). Too see which number each entry has(so you know who Georges is refering to), and to see which entries were slayalive'e own favorites, go here (I'm number 14).

This is the winning entry: CLICK

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Faith maquette

Click

Those are supposedly the first pictures of the next statue in the new sideshow line (first one was Throne of the Slayer, ex and regular).

Word online is that this was suppose to have been revealed at San Diego Comic Con, but was delayed for some reason (likness issues maybe?), so this might not be the final version of the statue.

It is however clear that they "borrowed" the pose from this Jo Chen cover (Season 8, issue 6):


Weekly feature: What to buy?

The sodas I mentioned here are now available for sale. Unfortunally just for the US and parts of Canada. But some will probably turn up on ebay (probably overprized).

LINK

Weekly feature: Excerpt from original script

From Dirty Girls, the season 7 episode when Caleb and Faith arrive in Sunnydale (pressumingly, since that's the first time I remember seeing Caleb).

"Faith offers a possible reason why the blind Bringers are so good in battle:
'They say your other senses get better. Maybe all blind people are smokin' in a knife fight... Not sayin' it's likely.'"

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Rare promos

Go to this site to read about and download rare Buffy & Angel promos.

Click

Looks neat. I think I'll be googling for those that aren't on the site.

- EDIT

Here's a Barq promo.

Firefly bill

If you're looking to buy the Firefly book Still Flying, do so at SDCC and get this:

Click

Top 3 AKAs: part 3

This is the third installment in my top 3 AKAs series.

First part
Second part












3. Enormous hall monitor, by Spike in Out Of My Mind.
2. Captain Cardboard, by Spike in No Place Like Home.
1. A big jungle cat, by Xander in Fool For Love.











3. Legal eagle, by Lorne in Life of the Party.
2. Charlie boy, by Spike in Destiny.
1. Mr. I Don't Take Orders - now where do I stick my axe?, by Cordelia in Redefintion.












3. Cleavagy slut-bomb, by Willow in This Year's Girl.
2. The do that girl, by Willow in Enemies.
1. Slut-O-Rama, by Cordelia in Faith, Hope & Trick.











3. Demon clown, by Illyria in Timebomb.
2. Lorney-tunes, Harmony in Life of the Party.
1. *Uncle* filthy demon, by Lorne in Benediction.

Jones soda

Tomorrow at San Diego Comic Con you can drink Season 8 sodas!

Click

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Banners, banners, banners.

Just to brag, I want you all to check out buffycollector.com's new banners, which I made.

Click-y

Or simply check out all the merchandise they have listed. They don't sell, they're just showing the range of Buffy merchandise that's out there.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Weekly feature: What to buy?

Two new t-shirts are availabe on hottopic.

Spike

Angel

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Weekly feature: Excerpt from original script

From Chosen.

"Dawn tells the Potentials a bedtime story:
DAWN: 'And the Master grabbed Buffy from behind and bit her. She tried to move, but he was too strong. He fed on her blood and tossed her in the water, cackling insanely as the bubbles rose around her and she slowly drowned to death.'
VI: 'Do you have any other stories?'
DAWN: She gets up again. It's very romantic. Guys, you gotta stop worrying. It's Buffy. She always saves the day.'"

Friday, July 16, 2010

The motion comic

On July 19th, the Season 8 motion comic will be available on iTunes.

Read more here and here.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Weekly feature: What to buy?

If I had money to spend, I'd probably spend it on the same kind of knife Faith used in season 3.
Which is currently available for a reasonable price on ebay.


Checkie.

PS. I'm pretty sure that's the right knife, but google to be sure in case you plan on bidding.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Weekly feature: Excerpt from original script

From Potential (Spike & Buffy train the potentials, while Dawn and the others think's she's a potential herself).

"When, Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Molly, Rona, Vi, Kennedy, and Andrew are in the kitchen, the following line, delivered by Kennedy, was cut (probably because there wasn't enough room):
'Hey guys, we fit three more people in here and we can call the Guinness Book people.'"

Friday, July 9, 2010

Weekly feature: What to buy?

The Throne of the Slayer, both regular and exclusive, are up for order again (and it seems like some are available for flex-pay). Seems like some people cancelled their order when it was about to be shipped out.

Regular
Exclusive

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Sculptastic!

Two gorgeous face sculptures of Spike & Angel I've found.

Spike

Angel

The artist takes commissions. I want that money-tree God, hurry up!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Weekly feature: Exerpt from original script

From Same time, Same Place, when Willow returns home from England.

"When Dawn tries to point out that Willow could be the one to blame for her own problems, her tirade goes a little longer than she had intended in the script:
'Instead everyone just keeps secrets, and suffers alone, and then we're suppose to be all sympathetic when they start ripping the skins off people or dragging their sisters to the basement! I may have some stuff to work through."'

This line was originally intended to be right after Dawn's line "Oh, don't give me shock-face. I mean, what I want to know is, will anyone around here ever ask for help when they need it?" Check here.

Weekly feature: What to buy?

Sideshow just put up the two Spike Electric Tikis (named Ultimate Spike) for pre-order. They both have two exchangable heads(human & vampire face) and three exchangable hands (fist, railroad spike & axe).