In writing up "Doppelgangland," I mentioned "Something Blue" as another instance of Buffy characters saying things about themselves which they clearly want to believe are true which are not, in fact, actually true.Continue Reading
I followed "The Wish," as I often do, with "Doppelgangland". This episode is from later in season three, and it’s a direct follow-up to "The Wish." We meet Anya the (ex) vengeance demon again, and, oh yeah, Evil Vampire Willow makes another appearance. In fact, she gets a lot moreContinue Reading
Last night’s make-dishes-tolerable randomly-selected entertainment was season three Buffy episode "The Wish." It remains one of my favorites. It has a solid story, fascinating alt-world building, fabulous new characters, a devastating emotional punch, and is one of very few Buffy episodes to actually be, mostly, a horror story. Maybe IContinue Reading
(Slightly updated for World Dracula Day 2020-May-26) Many years ago — (Before Anne Rice had written so much post-Interview stuff I didn’t enjoy, and I like to imagine, in some alternate reality where she wrote only one book and that book was Interview with the Vampire, that she would haveContinue Reading
Saw Twilight over the weekend. It was better than syphilis. I’m also pretty sure it was better than a couple of the movies in the previews, Bride Wars and Confessions of a Shopaholic, both of which made me sort of want to shoot someone in the face. Twilight is frequentlyContinue Reading