End of the Work Week Wisdom!

Wherein I prove that I am like a twelve year old sometimes. :)

See?! Buffy didn't feel it. I think you're drawing a lot of crazy conclusions about the Unholy Prince! (They look at him) Bator.
--Xander, from the Buffy vs. Dracula episode

Which might make more sense if you realize that Xander also called Dracula "Master." But I think it's HILARIOUS to just add "Bator" to the end of everything now. Because I am twelve sometimes. :)

In related news, Nate said last night "After five years, there aren't spoilers any more. It's called 'history.'" Which I suppose is fair. But I keep tripping over Buffy spoilers, and as you can see from the quote, we're only at the beginning of season 5. If there are any more spoilers that I haven't accidentally hit so far, I'll be impressed.

Vampire Fang Necklace from Weirdly Cute

Media consumption!

I've managed to watch a bit more stuff lately than I normally do, so here's a couple of notes on those things.

1) Tangled: Yes, the Disney movie. It was pretty good, but it's just NOT a Disney movie like the ones that came out when I was a teenager. Songs from The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast still stick with me. I think that maybe if I was willing to watch Tangled a few more times, I might get some of those songs stuck in my head more, but I doubt I'd watch the movie again. It wasn't at all bad, it was just not quite what I hoped for. Though it was PRETTY. :)

2) Doctor Who: In anticipation of the newest episode, I went back and watched "A Good Man Goes to War" (which I keep wanting to call "Demons Run") and "The Doctor's Wife." The weird thing about watching these two in that order was that I caught something in "The Doctor's Wife" that I had dismissed the first time I heard it, but that made a whole lot more sense right on the heels of the later episode. This got me thinking that maybe I should watch the first half of season 6 in reverse order to see if there's more of that... because River's timeline is backwards in comparison to the Doctor's... hmmm. :)

Anyway, like I said, this was in anticipation of "Let's Kill Hitler," which turned out to be maddening and lovely all at the same time. Only five more episodes left this season, which seems far too short for my liking! (And yeah, 13 episodes is normal, but it just REALLY seems short this season.)

3) Buffy: We're up to season 3 of Buffy currently, about halfway through. And I've discovered that I can't pick up anything that Joss Whedon has a hand in presently as I will stumble across more spoilers. This time, it was an issue of the Dollhouse comic, which talked about what was going on in terms of Buffy "season 9," which is a forthcoming comic (they already did season 8 as comics). As it turns out, it wasn't a TV show spoiler, but a season 8 spoiler. Nonetheless, ugh.

4) Captain America: We finally made it out to see Captain America last weekend, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It still breaks my brain a little that Johnny Storm is playing Cap now. I might like Cap as much as I disliked Johnny. :) And the trailer for the Avengers movie, though quite vague, still makes me excited to see it! :)

Watching TV years later

Since we don't have any TV stations at home, we watch nearly all of our TV at least a few months after it originally airs. (We make an exception for Doctor Who, which we buy as individual episodes, because even that is cheaper than cable.) So we watch stuff on Netflix whenever it's available.

Lately, we've been on a tear through Buffy. Jeremy has watched the last two seasons, but he never watched the early stuff. And I watched one episode total when it aired, because my sister was a fan and she tried to get me to like it. (It didn't work.)

The problem, though, is that when you watch something years after the fact, there's an inevitability of spoilers. Case in point, we just finished season 2 the other day. For those who don't remember, that's the one where Buffy sends Angel to hell. But no, it's not really a spoiler, because for anyone who is marginally aware of TV, obviously Angel comes back, because he gets his spin-off show in a couple more seasons. :)

But I wonder, from my detached viewpoint, how fans of the show must have reacted to that. OMG, they killed Angel!!!! And then they had to wait until the next season to find out what happened next.

I have a bad enough time with suspense between weeks on Doctor Who. I'm SO glad I'm not having to deal with that for multiple shows. :)

(For the record, it doesn't take long for Angel to come back. I think he's in several episodes (in dream sequences) before he comes back. I wonder how much of that was angry fangirls hating on Joss for taking Angel away. :) )