I think there are 144 episodes of Buffy and 110 of Angel, so you might have to seclude yourself somewhere for a month rather than a weekend. They are bringing out boxsets of the whole of both shows now, so a lot cheaper than the £80 per season deal it was in the past.
I only saw the one ep of BL but I would buy the box set for the way Alan Shore said 'I'm just a slut for authority' to Brad Chase. It is a shame that they couldn't have made the women interesting too but William Shatner seemed to be having a wonderful time as well as JS.
I haven't seen Magnificent 7 although I had a notification that it was coming out on DVD, which is nice to know, as I like Michael Biehn. Oh! Without a Trace is the show that Lisa D was talking about? I've never seen it and I had heard there was a Sam'n'Jack romance to rival the badness of the Stargate one on it so was giving it a miss, but the Danny-Martin stuff sounds very sweet. Sounds like a good one to watch on FF rather than live so as to just enjoy the cute friendship scenes. There really should be a law against toxic ship. Romance can be such a wonderful addition to a show if it's done well, so why is it so often done so very badly?
In the film we watched last night, Dirty Pretty Things, there is a really touching and affecting romance built on friendship and kindness and decent behaviour to one another, as opposed to some heaving bosomed drama from a blonde bimbette and her alpha male and more tedious UST than one can fall into a coma to. I really loathe unearned romance where you are just expected to root for them because one of them has a uterus and they're in same proximity and the human race needs to be perpetuated, at least I presume that's what we're meant to feel in the TV shows and movies where the writers and directors don't even try to earn it. But this was a really affecting romance where I was rooting for them to get together even though I was pretty sure they wouldn't.
That's one of the (many) things I thought early Buffy did very well. (Let us not speak of the tedium that was Spuffy.) Not least because they were teenagers and it really captured how fragile and intense those emotions were and how vulnerable the people feeling them were to their emotions. It's something I really like about Six Feet Under, too, and how Claire feels things so deeply and makes some really bad decisions because of her age without ever being unsympathetic (to me anyway) because of it.
I might try and download Without a Trace rather than tape it and will definitely try to take a look at some of the Danny and Martin scenes. I'm all for snuggly male friendship bonding...:)
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I only saw the one ep of BL but I would buy the box set for the way Alan Shore said 'I'm just a slut for authority' to Brad Chase. It is a shame that they couldn't have made the women interesting too but William Shatner seemed to be having a wonderful time as well as JS.
I haven't seen Magnificent 7 although I had a notification that it was coming out on DVD, which is nice to know, as I like Michael Biehn. Oh! Without a Trace is the show that Lisa D was talking about? I've never seen it and I had heard there was a Sam'n'Jack romance to rival the badness of the Stargate one on it so was giving it a miss, but the Danny-Martin stuff sounds very sweet. Sounds like a good one to watch on FF rather than live so as to just enjoy the cute friendship scenes. There really should be a law against toxic ship. Romance can be such a wonderful addition to a show if it's done well, so why is it so often done so very badly?
In the film we watched last night, Dirty Pretty Things, there is a really touching and affecting romance built on friendship and kindness and decent behaviour to one another, as opposed to some heaving bosomed drama from a blonde bimbette and her alpha male and more tedious UST than one can fall into a coma to. I really loathe unearned romance where you are just expected to root for them because one of them has a uterus and they're in same proximity and the human race needs to be perpetuated, at least I presume that's what we're meant to feel in the TV shows and movies where the writers and directors don't even try to earn it. But this was a really affecting romance where I was rooting for them to get together even though I was pretty sure they wouldn't.
That's one of the (many) things I thought early Buffy did very well. (Let us not speak of the tedium that was Spuffy.) Not least because they were teenagers and it really captured how fragile and intense those emotions were and how vulnerable the people feeling them were to their emotions. It's something I really like about Six Feet Under, too, and how Claire feels things so deeply and makes some really bad decisions because of her age without ever being unsympathetic (to me anyway) because of it.
I might try and download Without a Trace rather than tape it and will definitely try to take a look at some of the Danny and Martin scenes. I'm all for snuggly male friendship bonding...:)