Buffy the Vampire Slayer
S9, I3

"Freefall, Part Three"


Script: Andrew Chambliss, Pencils: Georges Jeanty, Inks: Dexter Vines, Colors: Michelle Madsen, Letters: Richard Starkings & Jimmy Betancourt
Cover: Steve Morris

Blurb: With the destruction of the seed, the fight against Twilight was brought to an end, and magic's connection to our earth was severed. No more Slayers will be chosen. No more Slayer army. No more gang: Buffy's a waitress in San Francisco; Dawn and Xander are attempting normal domesticity; Willow is struggling with the loss of her powers. It's a new(ish) world, but there are still demons and vampires to slay -- even as their popularity with the masses continues to grow -- and Buffy is on point to do what she ahs always done...

( Pretty good, but Willow is continuing to annoy me.Collapse )

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Next review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S9 I4

Supernatural
Season 1, Episode 6

"Skin"

Written by: John Shiban
DIR: Robert Duncan McNeill

Blurb: [I've decided not to post the blurb. The episode is set up as a mystery to begin with, and the blurb tells you everything.] I will be spoiling though.


( Logic Bombs & Screwy Timelines abound. But Jared and Jensen are still aces.Collapse )

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Next Up: BTVS, Season 9 Issues 3 and 4 to wrap up the "Freefall" arc.

Best of / Worst of Character Moments

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's "Killed by Death"


But first, let me apologize for not posting in an absurd number of days. I don't really have any reasons for my lack of general energy - the changing of the weather? Whatevs... I still should have had something of interest to post.

I'm working on the SPN review. Strangely, I'm only doing like 5 minutes at a time and it isn't because I'm not interested in the episode or anything either. It is just feeling like a real load to describe/comment on each scene. Yeah, I'm going with the changing weather and all of the cold rain we've had over the past week. It's makin' me wanna bundle myself in blankets and nap the everlasting nap all day.

Anyway, onto the point of this post:

( The 'best of moment' is all Xander's this time out.Collapse )


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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season 9, Issue 2

"Freefall, Part II"

Script: Andrew Chambliss, Pencils: Georges Jeanty, Inks: Dexter Vines, Colors: Michelle Madsen,
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Jimmy Betancourt, Cover: Steve Morris

Blurb: With the destruction of the seed, the fight against Twilight was brought to an end, and magic's connection to our earth was severed. No more Slayers will be chosen. No more Slayer army. No more gang: Buffy's a waitress in San Francisco; Dawn and Xander are attempting normal domesticity; Willow is struggling with the loss of her powers. It's a new(ish) world, but there are still demons and vampires to slay -- even as their popularity with the masses continues to grow -- and Buffy is on point to do what she has always done...

She is the Slayer.


( Vampires have a new foe who isn't a Slayer (despite trying to claim otherwise).Collapse )
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Next Review: Supernatural's "Skin" -- where Dean's devil-may-care-horndog starts his progression of getting a really complex character makeover. YAY!

Teenage Zombies
(1959)

Starring: Don Sullivan, Steve Conte, Katherine Victor [actually it stars no one -- everyone is giving a "with" credit]
DIR: Jerry Warren

Blurb: A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning zombies.

My Blurb: This is from the "A Big Box of Zombies" collection. Please check out this cover:



And now, please promptly forget you saw this cover. There will be nothing at all remotely this cool in our collection. We'll have spoilers, of course.



( The script really wastes all of the story's elements.Collapse )

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Next up: BTVS, Season 9, Issue 2.

Oh, my Lord. The crushing I did on this guy. I still love hearing him sing, though the only song I tend to occasionally hear on the radio is "Sunglasses at Night", which of course is exactly the MTV video that started my hard crush in the first place. COREY HART

But I also love:

Eurasian Eyes

A Little Love

Angry Young Man

92 Days of Rain


It's actually that last one that inspired/hounded me to post this Random Love: The damned thing has been on repeat-play in my brain for days. You can read more about him on the WIKI ... of course.

As to the movie review I'm working on. I've got 20 minutes to go, but ... yeah... maybe tomorrow night? The car is having problems, so I'll be working on that and no doubt paying a fortune. I think it's a cooling fluid pump... maybe. Anyway, we'll see how long it takes to get taken care of and how angry/depressed/tired I am when I return. If it doesn't tomorrow, though, it will certainly be by Tuesday.

Following "Teenage Zombies", will be the comic review for BTVS: S9, Issue 2.

Okay, that's all I got... go back to what you were doing, which you immediately dropped when you saw I had posted because my life is so utterly fascinating and I'm magnetic, and stuff.

Best of / Worst of Our Characters:
Our subject of interest today is BTVS: "Passion"       *sob*


( Oh, dear "Passion" ... my trauma.Collapse )

Angel & Faith #2

"Live Through This, Part 2"

Script: Christos Gage, Art: Rebekah Isaacs, Colors: Dan Jackson, Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Jimmy Betancourt
Alternate Cover: Rebekah Isaacs, Andy Owens, Dan Jackson

Blurb: Twilight is over. Magic is gone. Giles is dead, and Angel killed him -- that is, the possessed-by-mystical-forces Angel. Now his need for redemption is greater than ever, after Buffy and everyone else have turned their backs on him -- all except one rebel Slayer with a cause, Faith Lehane. Together, in the flat she inherited from Giles, Faith and Angel are living through the aftermath of Twilight, and keeping the London streets safe from the ever-present forces of evil...
( Angel is gung-ho to bring back Giles. Faith is a bit more circumspect (yes, FAITH IS!).Collapse )

-- Next Review: Movie Review - "Teenage Zombies" from 1959.

Cold and Windy.

Taxes Done -- refund; yay.

Nose gone crazy. Stomach gone crazy. Body aches starting in earnest. I knew I was sick -- been that way for the past 3 days, but now I'm thinkin' flu rather than just an end-of-winter/beginning-of-spring cold. Bummer.

The next review will be Angel & Faith #2. I was gonna get that done today, but right now all I wanna do is nap and nap. Wish I had some NYQUIL to knock me out for a few hours. I'll see how I feel later tonight.

Tomorrow is a mega-laundry day, assuming I'm not feeling half-dead. But if I don't get to the next review tonight, I'll push for tomorrow evening hard and we'll see what happens.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season 2, Ep 18

"Killed by Death"

Written: Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali
Directed: Deran Sarafian

Blurb: While hospitalized with a severe case of the flu, Buffy battles a demon that sucks the life out of sick children.

( One of the few times children are directly impacted in the Buffyverse. You'd think it'd be more horrifying for the viewer.Collapse )

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Next Review: I'm not positive; I'm leaning toward Buffy, S9 #2 and Angel & Faith #2