From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #381 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, October 29 2007 Volume 16 : Number 381 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Buffy Thread Still Lives (You Can't Kill It 'Cause It's Already Dead) [Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: The Buffy Thread Still Lives (You Can't Kill It 'Cause It's Already Dead) - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 27. Oktober 2007 19:21:21 -0400 regarding The Buffy Thread Still Lives (You Can't Kill It 'Cause It's Already Dead): > At any rate, I just watched "Smile Time" and decided to make the post > I meant to last week. "Smile Time" sort of sums up the point I'm > trying to make very well. I mean, that the people who do the show > could actually pull that episode off is incredible. Damn, I hardly remember anything from Angel. I have to re-watch it soon ... OK, now that I looked it up I *do* remember that episode, but only in general terms. > Oh, any discussion past "Smile Time" (that is mid-season of Season 5), > please warn me as I'm getting down to the wire and I imagine there are > still one or two tricks up Season 5's sleeve. Oh yes! Oh very, very yes! I guess those are my favorite episodes (but see above - I don't remember details). - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:53:02 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: The Buffy Thread Still Lives (You Can't Kill It 'Cause It's Already Dead) Yeah, "Smile Time" is genius TV. I was just watching Buffy this morning - still best show ever. But that last season of Angel after Spike comes back is awesome ea On Oct 27, 2007, at 4:21 PM, lep wrote: > Hi FegList, > > yes, it's that time again. It's time to revive of the Buffy Thread. > > (oh, I have no judgment about what's a spoiler, so here's some space:) > > > v > > > v > > > v > > > v > > > > v > > > v > > (Rex, Sweeney: why are you still reading?) > > > v > > v > > okay, I wanted to post about a week or two ago, but I was busy, then > sick, blah blah blah. The week of midterms I finished watching Angel > Season 3. There was one night where I went on a bit of a bender, > stayed up until 5:30am finishing the season, and then when I slept, I > had weird dreams because there was just something so intense about the > ending of the season. Part of it was just my mood I'm sure, with > midterms and lack of sleep, but the next day, it was sort of hanging > over me - I even had some weird, creepy dreams related to Angel and > the bottom of the ocean. Okay, do I know how stretch out the details > of an already mundane story, because all I'm wanting to say is there > is something I kind of love about how the next day, when I talked to a > friend and told her I was up late, watching Angel, and oh, you > wouldn't believe what happened, I realized that it's pretty much > impossible to explain what the show's about without getting to "oh, > frack it, it's impossible to explain" within 1/2 a sentence. I mean, > just try to even start to explain who Connor is without giving up as > soon as you hear ridiculous it sounds; it's not long before you > realize that pretty much the only way to explain e.g. Connor to > someone who hasn't watched the show is to say "oh, you'll just have to > watch the show." (kind of like Robyn's point about "Martha" in his > chatter before "Let's Go Thundering" in "Storefront Hitchcock" - the > explanation, on some level, is insulting.) > > At any rate, I just watched "Smile Time" and decided to make the post > I meant to last week. "Smile Time" sort of sums up the point I'm > trying to make very well. I mean, that the people who do the show > could actually pull that episode off is incredible. I do really love > the show, but, on some level, I don't think my love is as is the love > of some of the other folks on the list, but I will say that there are > moments during those two series (i.e. Buffy and Angel), although few, > when I am stunned by what I can only put down to Joss Whedon being a > real genius. > > Oh, any discussion past "Smile Time" (that is mid-season of Season 5), > please warn me as I'm getting down to the wire and I imagine there are > still one or two tricks up Season 5's sleeve. > > as ever, > Lauren > > P.S. I went to Michael Clayton with my Mom yesterday (she thinks > George Clooney is quite the dreamboat.) George Clooney was, as he > often is, very good, and, as he always is, quite the looker, but I was > pretty disappointed in the movie. I know it has gotten very good > reviews (I tend to be aware of reviews but almost never read them in > full before seeing a movie.) In certain ways, it was actually pretty > bad. But it was the first movie proper (i.e. in a theatre) that I've > seen in what I guess is months, so that part was fun. > > I really want to see "Into the Wild" in the theatre, but don't know if > I'll get to. > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:48:14 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: The Buffy Thread Still Lives (You Can't Kill It 'Cause It's Already Dead) Eleanore Adams says: > But that last season of Angel after > Spike comes back is awesome Yay to Spike coming back. Unfortunately, once you save the world, it appears that your reward is shirts. And pants. And some more shirts. That's just sad. Oh, and no one told me about the Fiona Apple character (which I'm grateful for as I've loved all the surprises along the way.) I adore her, and love her sort-of neurotic/silly/stoned geekiness. Go figure. as ever, Lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:12:54 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: The Buffy Thread Still Lives (You Can't Kill It 'Cause It's Already Dead) On 10/27/07, lep wrote: > > Eleanore Adams says: > > But that last season of Angel after > > Spike comes back is awesome s p o i l e r Warning: watching the features with the S5 DVD set reveals some truly disturbing information about David Boreanaz... Namely, he outs himself as a Deadhead (by way of a wardrobe item). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:32:44 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Cheese and Onion Spell it for me one more time! - - Mike Godwin in Mumbai ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:18:48 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: The Buffy Thread Still Lives (You Can't Kill It 'Cause It's Already Dead) On 10/27/07, lep wrote: > > (Rex, Sweeney: why are you still reading?) It's what we do. I'm about 82% confident he's not overstepping any boundaries in speaking for Sweeney on this one, but I will bear correction if necessary. > I really want to see "Into the Wild" in the theatre, but don't know if > I'll get to. Just took the kids to the 3-D version of "Nightmare Before Christmas". It's cool. Probably the 6-year old's favorite movie evar at this point. Attempted to see a "grownup movie" a few weeks back but ended up seeing that "Elizabeth I II: The WTF Age" instead. Ouch. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:34:46 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: reap porter wagoner _http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Wagoner.html_ (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Wagoner.html) Porter Wagoner Dies at 80 ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #381 ********************************