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It's all about Dru.
This is Faith.
And this is more general about the Scooby Gang, but there's an emphasis on Buffy/Angel, Willow/Xander and Giles/Jenny.
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha
Wait... that wasn't a joke? Oh, dear.
The Wolf Man
Starring: Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Evelyn Ankers, and of course Lon Chaney.
(1941)
( The Wolf Man stalks within.... )
Happy Thanksgiving to America
And, uh, Happy Thursday to everyone else.
And, uh, Happy Thursday to everyone else.
Turkey Credit: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topi
Teacher's Pet
Blurb: Xander falls for a beautiful substitute teacher who (removed for immediate spoilage)... [Actually this blurb basically lays out the entire story for you before you even watch it! I hate that. But, in this case, you might just want to skim lightly through a script, anyway and not actually put the time in... this one is rife with plot-logic problems.]
Watchers Review
Story by CN Winters, Humaira, David Zahir
Written by CN Winters (additional writing by Susan Carr)
Directed by CN Winters
Produced by CN Winters and Susan Carr
Edited by Sharon Kierein and Angie Wilson
Sound by CN Winters, CSR
Art Direction by Chris Cook
Artists – Chris Cook, David Zahir, Humaira, Robert, CN Winters
Starring: Thora Birch, Felicia Day, Lindsay Felton, Norika Fujiwara, Stephanie March, Carly Schroeder and Elijah Wood
Guest starring Brad Dourif as Brell and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
Season 2, Episode 4
I loathed her hate-mongering jingoism. I hated her apparent embrace of her own ignorance about international affairs and her, somehow, embracing the meme that this is a good thing. I dislike her socially conservative views and how that might have impacted policy if she were in the White House. But, I also thought that she was being pretty hideously treated by cowardly staff who lost an election and needed a fallguy to cover for their own incompetence.
I'm glad that the GOP lost the election of 2008. And, more, I'm glad that the brainless conservatives of the party weren't able to twist the electorate's views into believing that Sarah was ready for such a responsibility as being the #2 in the country with direct access to the Big Chair if God-forbid, something had happened to John.
It does break my heart that the current-Right still has such a strong voice all over the media. It also confuses and confounds me - that so many people are willing to cut off their own noses to spite the 'other side' continues to baffle me. And, Sarah remains a part of the crowd who utterly refuses to see that 'their side' has not exactly done wonders for the life of Americans in their years of power.
And yet, I'm not ready to see Sarah completely vanish from public life. It's possible that I just plain don't like how she's been mocked and used and gossiped about and belittled savagely on national television. It's possible, dear God help me, that I might actually sort-of, kind-of ... like her....
Maybe it's the fact that even if I emphatically disagree with her (and hate that she says hateful things about the President), at least she isn't phony. I don't feel like she's saying things because "the base" wants to hear it but because she actually believes them when she talks about reforming government and limiting its reach into our lives and budget self-discipline ... and maybe I'm just crazy.
I'm not going to buy her book. I don't want to see her in a position of policy-making within the government where her views could have a real impact on my life. But, I want her to keep speaking out about what she believes the government should or shouldn't be doing. Even if I think that some of it doesn't make much sense. Even if I will stand up and say that "this is crazy!", I want her voice to be heard.
Why?
Why do I give her a pass in a way that I wouldn't give one to Bachmann or Bounds or Hannity or whichever other Wingnut is saying something outrageous that week.
What is it about this woman that I find fascinating? I truly find my own reactions toward Sarah puzzling and bizarre....
I wish I had a gift for languages. I've tried to learn Spanish like three different times and I just can't get it. I'd love to be a master of languages and work as a translator meeting different people from all over the world and being able to fluently communicate with them. That would be my talent... collecting languages like DVDs....
Except for when Dr. Morgan is sitting too close over the prostrate Mrs. Barton after her deep diving misadventure, Dr. Barton seems to have much more concern about Jed Grant through the whole picture - even before the obvious interest evinced by him.
Although, his wife would seem to be far more openly friendly with Tom Morgan, Bill Barton seems mostly oblivious to this (until the balcony scene, but even then his suspicions go right back to Grant soon after). It's almost as if despite all of his professional esteem and the wealth, he fears that Marcia will go for the blue-collar worker - even the one she goes out of her way to stay away from, while his fellow scientist (young, attractive, shirtless a lot, tight shorts) gets a pass for the most part.
I don't know if this was deliberate, but you can see an intellectual elite vs. common buff working man undercurrent going on in the Bill Barton characterization. In fact, I almost wonder if he'd give more than token anger toward his wife if she had in fact been caught sleeping with Dr. Morgan, while it's easy to see him being driven to double-homicide if he'd found her in Jed Grant's bed...
Interesting dynamic. I wish it had made for a more thrilling movie.
The Creature Walks Among Us
starring: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden with Gregg Palmer and Maurice Manson.
Blurb: Once again, scientists underestimate the Creature, this time in a failed surgical attempt to transform him from a mutant into a human. Being able to live on land is not enough to make the Creature comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs. Highlighted by the original's eerie underwater photography and distinctive makeup, the film is an enduring tribute to the series' inventive creators.
