Weekly feature: Exerpt from original script

From Triangle (Buffy's all sad Riley left, and there's a big troll. And Anya & Willow work things out).

"'Um... Giles? Could you maybe make an angry face? 'Cause the smile is kind of scaring me.'

In an early draft of the script, Willow cowers as Giles returns from England early and surveys the damage to The Magic Box."

Weekly feature: What to buy?

Just released last week is the first omnibus of several collecting the "old" Buffy fiction books, that are currently out of print (but easy to find on amazon and ebay).

The first one collects Coyote Moon, Night of the Living Rerun and Portal Through Time.

LINK

Top 3 AKAs: part 1

I'm going to start a top 3 list installment that will be going on for a few weeks/months. Four characters per post, with my favorite AKAs(nick names/descriptions) for those characters (the AKAs used on the shows or in the comics that is).

3. Cookie dough, by Buffy in Chosen.

2. Class Protector, by Jonathan in The Prom.
1. A hell of a woman, by Riley in As You Were and Spike in Touched.

3. A hair-puller, by Buffy in Family.
2. Unbeliveably scary, by Spike in Beneath You.

1. L'il Punkin' Belly, by Joyce in No Place Like Home.

3. Salty Goodness, by Cordelia in Never Kill A Boy On The First Date and Spin The Bottle.

2. Craddle robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend, by Buffy in What's My Line part 1.

1. Handsome man, by Fred in Through The Looking Glass and A Hole In The World.

3. The Destroyer, by slug-in-Fred in The Price.

2. A sweetie pie, by Cordelia/Jasmine/possessed Cordelia in Habeas Corpses.

1. Angel's handsome, yet androgynous, son, by Willow in Orpheus.

Weekly feature: What to buy?

Here's something cool-but-way-too-expensive-and-possibly-fake that I can't get.

Invitation to warp party

Weekly feature: Excerpt from original script

From Buffy vs Dracula.

"In an early version of the script, Buffy's 'defeat' of Dracula is less comic and more nonexistent. In the script his exit comes after she arms herself with a lit torch taken off Drac's wall whjen Giles and Riley burst into the room:
The arrival of her entourage is the final draw for Dracula. He fixes Buffy with a final look, full of both pain and fury.
DRACULA: 'What a shame. You could have been great, you know.'
With that, he flings himself out the massive window, shattering it.
EXT. DRACULA'S CASTLE-NIGHT.
Dracula, having changed into a wolf, comes flying out the window. He hits the ground and lopes into the dark woods."

The aired version: Click

Source (as usual for Buffy-excerpts): The watcher's guide.

Xander and Gender Reversal

This essay ponders Xander's not-always-so-macho role in the Buffyverse. (Spoilers for season 8)
Musings: Xander and Gender Reversal

Trailers

If you have not seen this guy/girl's Buffy & Angel trailers, you need to. He/She has made vids for several season, and they're epic, in the true sense of the word.

Here's the one he/she made for the first season of Buffy.