Comments on: Another Whedon connection

By: Glass Darkly

Glass Darkly — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:56:08 +0000

The trailer for Dollhouse, the new Joss Whedon/Eliza Dushku vehicle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV6egKoZEHM

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:46:46 +0000

I never actually say do the wacky, it just struck me as beautiful language. I say pointy. I don’t say committee.

By: maurinsky

maurinsky — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:34:11 +0000

I started watching Buffy when I was flipping through channels and I heard her say “the girl makes Godot look punctual.”

By: Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:52:37 +0000

(Umm… I used pointy up in a different thread. Pointy and committee are like… it for me. Do the wacky never got me.)

By: Eme Kah

Eme Kah — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:28:25 +0000

You know, Deb, that was the only episode of Buffy I watched. I remembered it because of that line!

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:25:47 +0000

There was the episode where Giles tells Buffy that what she said was pointless, and she said “It’s totally pointy.”

After we saw that, Arthur lay in wait for weeks until I finally said something he said was pointless so that he could counter “It’s totally pointy.”

By: Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:20:33 +0000

I blogged about my relationship with watching Buffy and how it affected me here:

http://starsandmoon145.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/whats-all-this-fuss/

Mel, I too get up early many a weekend morn to watch.

mell, that is too cool!

And my personal favorite:

I commit! I’m committed. I’m a committee

By: Glass Darkly

Glass Darkly — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:22:14 +0000

Season one was definitely good, but it seems most people really got hooked from season 2 and that’s when it became epic.

You’re right that Joss is a master of language and turn of phrase. Jane Espenson is no slouch either: It’s a doodle. I do doodle. You too. You do doodle, too.

Okay, maybe not a good example.

I assume Joss wrote this:
Buffy: Because… okay, I’m cookie dough, okay?

Angel: Yet another curveball…

Buffy: I’m not done baking yet. I’m not finished becoming… whoever the hell it is I’m gonna turn out to be. I’ve been looking for someone to make me feel whole, and maybe I just need to be whole. I make it through this, and the next thing, and the next… maybe one day I turn around and realize I’m ready. I’m cookies. And then if I want someone to eat m — or, to enjoy warm delicious cookie-me, then that’s fine. That’ll be then. When I’m done.

Angel: Any thoughts on who might enjoy… do I have to go with the cookie analogy?

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Eme, look forward to some day hearing your impressions on the shows.

By: mellifera

mellifera — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:17:20 +0000

just thought i’d point out:

whedon and weiner were college classmates (wesleyan ‘86 and ‘87, respectively, i think)
(not that i’m all stalkery, just a fellow alum)

By: Melville

Melville — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:14:14 +0000

I watched Buffy from the first episode, though I don’t remember why, since I thought the movie was lame. Either the WB promos made it look interesting, or the advance reviews praised it enough to intrigue me (the TV critics were always very kind to the show). I was immediately hooked, but became a true fanatic with Season 1’s “The Puppet Show.” I couldn’t get over what a brilliant twist it was on the worn-out cliche (or so I thought beforehand) of the living ventriloquist’s dummy. I never missed an episode, and still get up early on the weekends to watch the FX reruns.