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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Maybe at the weekend... is it a bit like the Buffy film?
Don't cast me out mates, but I haven't actually seen the buffy film :eek:

Serenity is good though. Sad because it clearly does what they would have done to close the series and makes you aware of how much else they would have covered over a few seasons more of Firefly.
 
Don't cast me out mates, but I haven't actually seen the buffy film :eek:

Serenity is good though. Sad because it clearly does what they would have done to close the series and makes you aware of how much else they would have covered over a few seasons more of Firefly.

Me neither. Bought it, watched about 15 mins, turned it off.

It's shite.
 
Don't cast me out mates, but I haven't actually seen the buffy film :eek:

Serenity is good though. Sad because it clearly does what they would have done to close the series and makes you aware of how much else they would have covered over a few seasons more of Firefly.
I've watched about 5 mins of it.

Ah, good... I was a bit gutted at the ending tbh, what about... and...?
 
The Buffy film was years before the series and before Whedon had any power to make what he wanted. It was a comedy spoof, no more no less. It was okay for what it was. No real relationship with the telly series though.
 
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Really? In what sense?

From an interview in 2001 - Joss Whedon

O: How closely were you involved with the making of the Buffy movie?

JW: I had major involvement. I was there almost all the way through shooting. I pretty much eventually threw up my hands because I could not be around Donald Sutherland any longer. It didn't turn out to be the movie that I had written. They never do, but that was my first lesson in that. Not that the movie is without merit, but I just watched a lot of stupid wannabe-star behavior and a director with a different vision than mine—which was her right, it was her movie—but it was still frustrating. Eventually, I was like, "I need to be away from here."

O: Was it a personality conflict between you and Sutherland, or was he just not what you'd envisioned in that role?

JW: No, no, he was just a prick. The thing is, people always make fun of Rutger Hauer [for his Buffy role]. Even though he was big and silly and looked kind of goofy in the movie, I have to give him credit, because he was there. He was into it. Whereas Donald was just... He would rewrite all his dialogue, and the director would let him. He can't write—he's not a writer—so the dialogue would not make sense. And he had a very bad attitude. He was incredibly rude to the director, he was rude to everyone around him, he was just a real pain. And to see him destroying my stuff... Some people didn't notice. Some people liked him in the movie. Because he's Donald Sutherland. He's a great actor. He can read the phone book, and I'm interested. But the thing is, he acts well enough that you didn't notice, with his little rewrites, and his little ideas about what his character should do, that he was actually destroying the movie more than Rutger was. So I got out of there. I had to run away.
 
From the same interview, I feel like this summarises the popularity of this thread very well btw

O: Are you ever surprised by your fans' passion for the show?

JW: No. I designed the show to create that strong reaction. I designed Buffy to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult. And it mythologizes it in such a way, such a romantic way—it basically says, "Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero." And I think that's very personal, that people get something from that that's very real. And I don't think I could be more pompous. But I mean every word of it. I wanted her to be a cultural phenomenon. I wanted there to be dolls, Barbie with kung-fu grip. I wanted people to embrace it in a way that exists beyond, "Oh, that was a wonderful show about lawyers, let's have dinner." I wanted people to internalize it, and make up fantasies where they were in the story, to take it home with them, for it to exist beyond the TV show.
 
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I wonder if we notice the dreadful British accents because it's ours? I mean maybe people in the southern states think Fillion's is terrible.

Bostonians are extremely critical of bad Boston accents in films and TV :D of which there are apparently a lot.
 
I fell back asleep after my alarm went off this morning and had an extremely vivid dream that I was one of the Scoobies, helping defeat an end-of-season boss. It was fucking brilliant. Much better than the day's work I've got lined up :(
 
Secondhand DVD boxsets of each season can be had for around £3 on Amazon

I've become deeply lazy. Nearest thing I have to a DVD player is my console. I've an external blu Ray burner gathering dust in a tool box.
 
They haven't removed it, surely?
At midnight.

I was up with the baby watching Hush. When the episode ended at 12:15 they'd pulled the plug.

Netflix is the only way of watching that really works for me - DVD not portable enough to watch while feeding the baby at night, and Amazon Prime (which I don't have) only has subtitles if you download episodes.

I'm gutted.
 
At midnight.

I was up with the baby watching Hush. When the episode ended at 12:15 they'd pulled the plug.

Netflix is the only way of watching that really works for me - DVD not portable enough to watch while feeding the baby at night, and Amazon Prime (which I don't have) only has subtitles if you download episodes.

I'm gutted.

Goddam it! I joined the show late on and loved it, so I started watching it last year. Season 1 is a struggle but I was going to do it...
 
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