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So I got to reading

pamgutz's very intriguing essay on exactly why (complete with in-book citations) Edward Cullen is an abusive boyfriend, and so not worth all the fangirl-gasm he gets. And being that "Twilight" is, at best, amusing/entertaining/a strangely addicting read but I still STRONGLY dislike the characters, the writing style, and the disappointing plot, I've got a fic bunny.

Remember a while back how I said I'd never write "Twilight" fics because the fandom scares me? It's still true. But now I've got a bit more of a bunny that I had before, so I'm setting it free here on the 'Net, because if I ever become masochistic, I might revisit this post. If anyone else were to ever undertake this and make it Very Good, I'd want to read it (which is saying a lot for something involving the "Twilight" fandom).

( Vampire-verses cross )

Yeah, this post got longer than I planned.

Random aside: why are there no good Rainbow Text generators online? Why do generators always have to spit out bad/deprecated HTML code? Use CSS! Use hex codes with quotes and pound-signs, or use the damn color names! Yeesh.

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: San Francisco, CA
Current Music: Shinkichi Mitsumune　★　Action! (遊☆戯☆王デュエルモンスターズ・Sound　Duel3)

Partners in boredom:

Choose five series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.
1. Yu-Gi-Oh
2. Sailor Moon
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Cinderella
5. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

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Current Mood: amused

Just as Grandpa and I were coming home, a champagne-colored sedan squealed around the corner of Superior and Wystone. Two guys immediately emerged from said sedan, which came to a rough, immediate stop at the house on the right corner of Superior and Wystone, one block and on the same side of the street as my house. Said guys came out with guns drawn, and said "Freeze! Put your hands up!" to the three or four guys outside of a red pickup truck, driver's side door open. My first thought was "Oh, some college guys are pulling a prank." Seriously. I thought they were just messing around.

But Grandpa didn't think so, and he purposely drove down a further street, taking the long, roundabout way home. When I got home, I wanted to check out what was going on, but when I got out of the car, all I saw was the sedan still pulled next to the pickup, both the doors still open, and I couldn't see any people-- presumably they'd gone into the house.

I think it was a drug bust! :O! Wow.

I've been on a theme song binge lately-- I got two versions of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song (the original, by the Nerf Herders, and the cover, by The Breeders), and the Seasons 1-3 and Season 4 themes of Alias. I want the Season 5 remix of the Alias opening song, but I can't find it! GRR! Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'd like the long version, if possible.

Speaking of Alias, this 2nd to last episode wasn't too bad. I was screaming at the TV the whole time, of course. :D I'm just glad Vaughn's alive. Sark made me laugh (he sounds so sexy when speaking Italian. Or maybe it was the Italian that sounded sexy, and he just looked good doing it), and it looks like the finale will really be the end-all-be-all (without killing everyone off or without making it too ambiguous) with LOTS of old characters returning for a guest appearance. It's a shame they had to kill off Nadia and Renée the way they did, but alas! Such is life in the spy biz.

Better news! I got an A- on my English paper which I stayed up till 2am working on. I'm thrilled! :D I'm not so sure about my latest editorial for journalism, but it's the profile due next Wednesday that I really have to get cracking on.

guardian_kysra, are you free to be annoyed this weekend?

I've also managed to finally get Thunderbird links to open in FF, but who knows how long that'll last? I only wish I could use the HTML form for replying to comments... but for whatever lame reason, TB misinterprets them, and LJ thinks there's no POSTID. Feh.

twilighteyes8120 updating her SxA piece "Mixing Business With Pleasure" has got me itching to finish up WDKY-- that and my sudden obsession with trailers. Yes, trailers. So I'm thinking of trying my hand at "AMVs" that aren't really, literally AMVs. I'd do Flash instead, which means people could view them embedded in webpages. I'd like to do one each for WDKY, CO7, and ED, but the question is... what do people want to see trailers of? WDKY's already been out for 2 years now, so people doubtless don't want to see trailers of things that have already happened. Also, the trailers would be entirely musical/textual. I don't have the time/energy to do/find voice clips, let alone appropriate ones, so that's why these trailers would be closer to AMVs. So here comes the fun part:
If you could pick ANY chapter of WDKY (up to 3) to influence a WDKY trailer AMV, which one(s) would you pick? You can pick chapters that have already come out, chapters I've hinted at/mentioned, or random numbers. Assuming the art isn't too hard to pull off, I could (and will) do it.
CO7 and ED are different matters altogether, and those are things I'll be storyboarding on my own time.

Music suggestions are also welcome, but I already have some ideas.

( My room smells like corn chips, so I'll light an incense. But if I get another freaky dream, I'm switching incense brands. )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Dido - See The Sun [Plus Hidden Track]

Well, it won't be long until the wide, grand populous of America (that is to say, those with TVs) finds themselves glued to the tube once more. After all, last season produced some rather... interesting finales, to say the least.

Of the ones I covered in one of my former entries, "Glued to the Tube," "Xander Saves The Day (At Last)!" and others, I covered shows like Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Charmed.

Now, I wasn't expecting to write this entry at all-- not until mid to late September, when the press/media goes on a frenzy advertising snippets of what's to come. To tell you the truth, nothing short of what I read on E! Online today could get me any more excited-- producers and writers alike are all taking that "I totally did NOT expect THAT" route with the premieres. Now, most of this may be gossip, but plenty of it is bona fide interview, along with a lot of angry responses that people on message boards have seen. So let's get started, shall we?

In the finale of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," a lot of things came together-- Willow, who had been trying to get off her "magic high" and do away with any kind of spell that would a) make her life easier b) impose her will on otherwise stubborn forces or c) break her relationship of trust even further with Tara. And it was working-- up until a vengeful and back-stabbing leader of "The Trio," Warren decided to go and shoot Buffy. The first bullet missed -Xander leaped upon him- but the second one hit. Where'd the missed bullet go? Straight into Tara's heart. She and Willow, recently reconciled, had been making love most of the episode, and upon getting up, Tara freezes... and falls to the floor. The episode "Seeing Red," made several viewers just that-- as far as they were concerned, Joss had suddenly, and unnecessarily removed one of the only realistically portrayed lesbian couples on TV!

To a certain extent, I agree with the viewers-- I mean, I didn't expect Tara to die, and once I heard it would happen, I knew Willow would go ballistic, and quickly go back into uber-demon-girl mode again. After all, what more of an unexpected season finale enemy could you get when the Slayer's own best friend is turned against her? The fun part, of course, was watching Xander save her. His character grew a lot in that episode, though a lot of people seem to forget he was there at all.

It seems Joss Whedon's decision wasn't well accepted though, even by members of his own cast. Several interviews from Robert A. Black's article and its follow up reveal that Whedon looked at Tara's death as a "necessity" -- she was never a full-time cast member anyway, and in order to bring out the underlying subplot of Willow going "back to the dark side," you had to give her a good reason to. However, the new season has a lot of old themes that viewers aren't going to expect-- probably because Buffy's fought The Master, Angel, another Slayer, a corrupt politician, a half-human Goddess of Hell, a technological Terror, and of course, a Trio of idiots. Supposedly, the new season will bring back the Goddess, the Master, and even Tara- though not necessarily in that order, in the roles we know them in. ^^ So surprises are sure to be in wait.

As for the spin off show, Angel, it's getting more irritating by the second. I should say now that I am 99.9% always a fan of canon couples. That is to say, if the show implies that a certain pair will get together, and they do, I root for that couple... even if the show is a spin off. Do you get where I'm going with this? I wasn't a big fan of Groo, but I honestly thought it was ridiculous that Cordy and Angel "suddenly realize" that they love each other. I know for a fact that this will be another premiere where months have gone by-- it's summer's end now, and "where is everybody?" Well, Wesley's exploring a potential relationship (*coughcough* LILAH *coughcough*) with Wolfram and Hart, while Gunn and Fred, who have spent the whole summer together, go with Connor/Steve (E! Online also called him C. Diddy, which I thought was kinda funny) to look for his dad. Of course, they'll eventually find him-- or perhaps Angel will break free on his own. But Angel goes on the hunt for Cordy, who has been missing all this time too. She's still a regular, but won't appear in the first (few?) episode(s) since she's up in her Other Realm gathering forces (for what? E didn't say). When people ask Angel why he's collecting certain artifacts, he says it's "for someone that is very important to me." (the line was originally "for someone I love very much." BLECH!) Talk about too many things going on at once! The worst part is, now Angel's got his own counterpart wandering around Sunnydale-- Spike, recently resouled (and again, I ask, WHY DIDN'T THEY THINK OF THIS EARLIER?!) is all broody-- how will he NOT end up like Angel?

It's safe to say that Seth Green's busy schedule won't him to come back on the show, but former Slayer-now-in-LA-prison just may. What about former Officer Jenny (bad joke) and Wolfram and Hart exec Lindsay? In both shows, "unexpected reappearances" lead the parade, since Buffy's new enemy isn't all that new at all, she won't be working at the Doublemeat Palace (and again, viewers complain that Whedon won't listen to his fans and keep the relationship between W/T intact, but is glad to oblige a major corporate sponsor) and she (but what about ANGEL?) is bound to find out about Spike sooner than later. What's more, the season is supposed to be Dawn-centric (FINALLY) as she starts "coming of age" and coming into power (well she still IS the KEY. It took them long enough). Lastly, rumors (and they ARE only rumors) have been circulating about Sarah Michelle Gellar's lack of a return for an eighth (that's the season after next-- the season starting this September will be the SEVENTH) season. I doubt the show can continue without a slayer-- even though they KILLED Buffy last season, she still had to show up in the premiere. Go figure. And by 'a slayer,' I do not mean a resurrected Kendra, a freed Faith, or Dawn with muscle. The show is BUFFY the Vampire Slayer.

--MORE? Alias, Charmed, Star Trek and others... I have yet to find out what's ahead for them. Drop me a note if you have any juicy rumors!

Current Mood: curious

Ah, Buffy's finale-- well, what can I say? The last half hour of Buffy's two-hour finale lacked in a kick-- and, like Angel, I think the finale should have been the *previous* episode (the one where Warren, sick of losing to the power-imbued Buffster, shot Buffy and Tara and then got ripped to shreds by Evil Willow for killing Tara). Most shows this season seem to think finale means "closing up all the loose ends and then adding ONE last one." Some writers seem to be doing this in the most ridiculous ways-- and case in point is the sudden maniac transformation of Willow, out to destroy the world by summoning some ancient god named Prosperpexa. The show seemed good for random laughs rather than the dramatic seriousness/violence and romance that made Buffy so appealing originally- last season's ending was far better.

With Buffy still getting used to LIFE on Earth again, and with her "secret" out in the open, it seems the coming seasons will be more about her and Dawn growing as people. There's no doubt that this season's ender, with the death of Tara, the short-lived return of Giles, and the departure of Spike will have repercussions in the future; the things that Evil Willow said and did to Buffy and Co. will probably put a huge gap in the friendship of all the Scoobies, especially Buffy and Willow.

Xander, for once, earns his place outside of the doghouse. Throughout most of the episode, he was his usual runaway self-- but at the very end, he came through, and rather than Buffy saving the world, it was him. I think it's about time. His proclamations of love (friendship love, for all you die hard fans of the age-old Xander/Willow 'ships) touched that tiny spark in Willow that the Dover coven of witches gave to Giles to transfer to her.

As for Anya, I think it was impossible for her to avoid going back to the life of a vengeance demon, but now, she might start falling for Xander again, right when he grows up and learns to move on from his mistakes. With Dawn, it's a possibility that she will learn to "channel" her inner powers-- for, as Evil Willow mentioned, Dawn is STILL the Key, regardless of the time passed and the blood already spilled. She no doubt, being from the blood of the Slayer, has some inner powers that have yet to manifest. Finally, with Spike-- well, what can I say. For most of the season, we could see he was falling down a sort of pit-- and at the bottom, Buffy "leaves" him. It was for the better of both of them, considering the emotion he thought he was feeling was "chip-based," not to mention based off Buffy's distorted view of her life and her return to it; Buffy was just using him. However, after all the trials he went through-- it was quite definitely a surprise that his SOUL of all things was returned to him. I wonder why no one tried that on Spike to begin with-- that is, using the old Romanian spell to restore his soul to him. Why is Angel the special circumstance? I don't think that, even with a soul, Spike will be able to go back to Sunnydale like that-- after all, Xander wants to kill him, Anya doesn't NEED him, Buffy hates him, and Dawn is probably disappointed in him. Should he return, it will not be into open arms.

Next Season Questions to Answer:

What about Willow? She won't just "get over" Tara's death. It's feasible that the "time effect" will take place, where months pass between the finale and the next season premiere. How will she avoid the lure of the magicks? She sure channeled a lot of power into Prosperpexa, despite the fact that Xander blocked a lot of it. The very intake of such power could have repercussive effects on Xander, but will Prosperpexa be a new enemy? The Satanic church won't just *disappear,* and since Willow is the only witch of power... *shrugs*

Xander and Anya...? A remote possibility, but a possibility nonetheless. In the finale, Xander did a lot of growing up, so will he be able to get over his mistakes... or will he keep on regretting them? Anya's got her work cut out for her too, restoring the Magic Box.

Spike with a SOUL!? Are they trying to insert a blonde Angel into Buffy? After all Buff's been through the past two seasons, I think the last thing she needs is romance-- or sex.

Comments, questions, addendum? I want to know what other fans think! I'm going to follow this up with the finales for Felicity, Enterprise, Alias, and Charmed. Stay tuned!