Posted Jan 12th 2010 9:00AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free, Joss Whedon
For those not keeping track, the
Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise has continued to a season eight
in the comic books. In her latest escapades, Buffy (with her Slayer army) has been fighting a masked villain named Twilight who apparently is familiar with Buffy.
In an interview, Dark Horse editor Scott Alie revealed the secret identity of Twilight. Spoiler is after the jump ...
Continue reading Buffy season eight Big Bad revealed
Posted Nov 12th 2009 10:33AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free, Joss Whedon
Marti Noxon will be writing the remake of the
cult 1980's flick Fright Night. For those who don't know, Noxon is a writer on the series
Mad Men (for which she got a WGA nomination) among other shows. She is best remembered for her singing appearances on the
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More With Feeling" (she was a writer and producer on that show too) and the Internet phenomenon
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
Getting into movies for a moment,
Fright Night was always a guilty pleasure of mine. Noxon is a good choice to write it too. Along with the diversity of her writing experience, she has used the same sort of combination of horror/humor when she wrote
Buffy.
Of course, she's not the only
Buffy alumnus writing a comedy horror. Joss Whedon himself is involved with project called
Cabin In The Woods.
He has the spare time to complete it now.
Posted Sep 25th 2009 3:09PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free, Joss Whedon
"But wait," you say. "There was a season eight?" Yes, there was. It was in
comic book form. And season eight will be in the same format. This is according to
Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon.
If you haven't been reading the comics, shame on you. Without the restrictions of a television budget, some crazy cool things have been happening. Like Dawn growing to enormous size and Buffy teaming up with Dracula to take out a band of rogue Asian vampires. Also, Buffy travels to the future to meet Slayer-from-the-future Malaka Fray (who was in a previous comic series of her own).
Whedon is obviously a fan of comics. The good news is, in comic books, the series never has to end. We could all be enjoying
Buffy season 337 in a few centuries. Well, our descendants would be anyway. It's something to look forward to.
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clips and free episodes of Buffy at
SlashControl.]
Posted Sep 14th 2009 11:02AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Stargate, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chuck, Reality-Free, Dollhouse, Gone Too Soon, Joss Whedon, V
When I first started exploring this project, there were a few shows that I knew were going to be important to hit. This is the first of those.
Firefly was
Joss Whedon's sci-fi western series. The show mustered disappointing ratings in its short eleven-episode run on FOX.
Since then it's gone on to near mythic cult status. There was such an outcry of support from its loyalists, the Browncoats, over its cancellation that the producers made a feature film sequel. That movie,
Serenity, answered a lot of questions about the future fate of the cast. Unfortunately, like the television series, it couldn't find quite enough people to show up and tune in to warrant a sequel. Nevertheless, the few morsels of
Firefly we did get are enough to prove that this is one of the most innovative and enjoyable series ever to hit the airwaves.
Continue reading Gone Too Soon: Firefly
Posted Aug 31st 2009 11:05AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten, Dollhouse
Before pondering the meaning of identity on
Dollhouse, Joss Whedon gave us some great shows featuring iconic heroes and some really nasty but unforgettable villains.
Unlike
Dollhouse, most of Whedon's earlier shows featured a "big bad," a major villain who caused trouble throughout an entire season, or series, for the heroes and their friends. Luckily, Whedon's heroes always managed to outwit these evildoers, but they couldn't stop them from stealing scenes and making the Whedonverse a very, very dangerous place to live.
Let's take a look back at some of Whedon's best "big bads" that made life a living hell for Buffy, Angel and Captain Mal.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Joss Whedon's big bads
Posted Aug 27th 2009 7:02PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Casting, Dollhouse
Earlier today, we told you about
Summer Glau landing a recurring role on Joss Whedon's
Dollhouse. Glau, of course, has worked with Mr. Whedon before on the much loved but short-lived
Firefly and its film spinoff,
Serenity.
This isn't the first time Whedon has cast actors he's worked with before in a new project; he does it all the time. But like Squad commenter "davem" pointed out, actors who return to the Whedonverese for a second go-round usually end up playing villains.
So does this mean Glau is destined to be the new big bad on
Dollhouse?
Continue reading Will Summer Glau play a villain on Dollhouse?
Posted Aug 20th 2009 12:02PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free
Caprica producer and former
Buffy the Vampire Slayer scribe Jane Espenson is one of the minds behind the latest arc on Joss Whedon's
Buffy comic that sees vampires coming out of the coffin. After the very
True Blood-esque outing, vacuous vamp Harmony goes on
The Colbert Report to, of course, promote her new reality TV show in the latest issue of
Dark Horse Presents.
The
Buffy comic is a direct continuation of Joss Whedon's TV series, and the medium has allowed the
Buffy story to go to places it never could have gone on TV. Fans itching for a
Buffy fix should pick up an issue or head over to MySpace to follow
Harmony's adventures with Clem, the hilarious "loose-skinned demon" who first befriended Buffy and crew on the TV series.
Colbert is becoming a regular in the comic book world, with appearances in S
pider-Man and his own comic book series,
Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen. Maybe Buffy should show up on
The Daily Show to give Jon Stewart some comic book love in next month's issue.
[Via:
Comics Alliance]
Posted Aug 19th 2009 9:04AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Casting, Reality-Free
The folks at
Caprica central are making a lot of geeks happy this week. First, we heard that comedian and professional nerd
Patton Oswalt was joining the
Battlestar Galactica prequel series as a Caprican talk show host. Now comes news that
Buffy the Vampire Slayer vet
James Marsters is joining the show for a sizeable arc.
Marsters will do what he does best on
Caprica: play a dangerous and unpredictable baddie driven by his carnal and moralistic desires.
EW tells us that Marsters will play a terrorist leader named Barnabus Greele in at least three episodes of the upcoming Syfy series.
Continue reading Buffy's James Marsters joins Caprica
Posted Aug 5th 2009 6:00PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free, Dollhouse
Hundreds of Joss Whedon fans are expected to take over the small town of LaVergne, TN this weekend for
WhedonFest 2009, a celebration of all things Joss Whedon. A fan group called Whedonites United is holding the three-day event in the Tennessee Valley woods. Yes, it's a camping trip (and no,
the irony is not lost on us).
The first-ever Whedonfest will offer a number of nerdy activities for Whedon devotees, including role-playing hours, an improv show, and a number of panel discussions, like "The Nature of Identity in
Dollhouse," inspired by Whedon's work.
Continue reading Browncoats, Slayers and Dolls unite: WhedonFest '09 kicks off Friday
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 6:03PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free
Anthony Stewart Head, who played the character of Rupert Giles on
Buffy the Vampire Slayer a long, long time ago, has hinted that the British spin-off
Ripper (which would star the character of Giles) is
not outside the realm of possibility.
Granted, there are a few pitfalls in the way. Creator Joss Whedon is busy with his series
Dollhouse and his upcoming movie
Cabin in the Woods. Plus there may be some confusion regarding the character if they get that
Whedon-less Buffy movie made.
There is definitely still life left in the
Buffy franchise (look at all the successful series and movies out there involving vampires with a female protagonist). I'm sorry Joss didn't use that Eliza Dushku contract to make a series about the character of Faith rather than
Dollhouse, although I understand his creative need to spread his wings. In my mind, there is only a matter of time before they make a feature film that is a direct spin-off from the television series that involves Joss Whedon and doesn't suck. Fingers crossed.
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 5:01PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Animation, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
OK, so she turned evil and veiny and almost destroyed the world after someone murdered her hot lesbian lover. But at heart, Willow Rosenberg was always a computer-hacking, research-loving nerd.
The
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character landed at number one on Topless Robot's list of
"Pop Culture's 10 Greatest Nerds." I was surprised by the pick at first, but I can't think of a better choice to top the list. Willow was a great character, and will probably always be actor Alyson Hannigan's best role (sorry,
HIMYM fans, but it's true).
Continue reading Buffy's Willow tops list of pop culture's greatest nerds
Posted May 26th 2009 10:04AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free
It looks like Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment are working with original movie director Fran Rubel Kuzui, the director of the original movie,
to create a remake of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The trick is, they're not involving the creator or any of the original cast of the television series. In fact, they're not even basing it on the television series.
If ever there was a recipe for disaster, this is it. McG's proposed version of
Spaced sucked eggs for similar reasons (a failure to grasp what made it successful). This could potentially work if you took out the word "Buffy" from the title and didn't try to sully the name of the franchise, but otherwise, I don't see it.
Of course, it is early in the process. There are a million ways that this horrific idea can die an early death, which would sure beat the embarrassment of the certain death of nobody going to see this movie.
Posted May 17th 2009 2:27PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, Jane After Dark
Well,
you guys were absolutely right. Season five of
Angel is awesome, and I'm so glad I slugged through some of the earlier seasons that didn't exactly float my vampire boat.
The writing in season five is excellent, the characters are both fun and multidimensional (especially Wesley, whose story only gets more and more tragic), and it's just a great all-around season. Here are five reasons why I loved this season as much as any TV show (including
Buffy).
Continue reading Jane After Dark: Five reasons why Angel season five is awesome
Posted May 14th 2009 5:02PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd, The Shield, TV Squad Polls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dexter, Reality-Free, Jane After Dark
If you've been following my
Jane After Dark adventures, you know it's all about the DVDs I watch into the wee hours while I'm covering the
TV Squad queue and everyone else (at least in my house) is sleeping.
I've finished
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I'm nearly done with
Angel. I'll post this weekend about season five of
Angel. You guys are
absolutely right. It's awesome TV.
After that, I need you to help me choose my next Jane After Dark series. There are so many great TV shows on DVD, and frankly, I'm stumped at what to watch next. So please vote in my poll below, and tell me what to do! And if you don't see your series listed, tell me in the comments, and I'll add it to the list next time.
Posted May 10th 2009 11:45AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free, Jane After Dark
Well, I've covered
Buffy the Vampire Slayer here on
Jane After Dark, and my nephew, who loaned me his
Buffy DVDs, also got me into
Angel. Nearly everyone I talked to about
Angel said they just couldn't get into it. After
Buffy, maybe everything else pales in comparison.
I have to say, I really only started watching
Angel out of respect for
Buffy and Joss Whedon, and because I really loved the character of Angel (and David Boreanaz is not hard to look at). I was alternately watching
Buffy and
Angel at the same time (one disc of
Buffy, one of
Angel, and so on); it was a good way to do it, because there were a few crossover episodes that made a lot more sense watching them that way.
Continue reading Jane After Dark: Is Angel as good as Buffy?
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