(Please read this, it's no legal crap, only a friendly warning)
ATTENTION PLEASE: this part of my site will be very unactive for a while!!! I'm not in the U.S. right now and thus can't be following the season 4 (Aaaaaaaaargh!!!!!). Thus I won't be able to post spoilers anymore, news won't come often either. But if some of my visitors send me news (that I'll check...), I will post them here. Hopefully I'll be able to follow Buffy normally some day...
This page as been re-organized. It's now gradual, let me explain: you won't find spoilers in the middle of no-where. First there is "Joss Words of Wisdom", the material the master said and that I reproduce here. If it's spoilerish it will be indicated before. After that it's the news section, it's 100% safe: just info about the show in general (Spin-off episode cancellation,...). Then come the comments on past episodes/feelings in the post: it safe IF you are seing the season at the same time as I do (8 pm, NY time, on Tuesday); if not I suggest you wait until the episode has been broadcasted in your country. Then comes the speculations, it's hazardous material: it deals with future episodes but it's just speculations. And last comes the spoilers section. Here it's 95% toxic: all rumors and info I could get on the episodes to come. Not everything is true but it's more likely to happen than speculations. You've been warned, now what you read is your own choice...
Joss’s Words
Of Wisdom
(No joke, only the words of Joss Whedon)
Here is an article found on the web. I apologize for I don't know the original source (only the author). I made an exception by posting it because it gives more light on the pull-off of "Earshot". The quotes in the article are from Joss Whedon.
In the wake of the high school shootings in Littleton, Colo., on April
20, the episode of ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' scheduled to air April 27, the first
original episode for the series in weeks, has been pulled in favor of a repeat.
Called ``Earshot,'' the episode found Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) acquiring the ability
to hear thoughts, which drives her to the brink of insanity and alienates her from her
friends. Along the way, her clairvoyance allows her to unearth a potential mass-murder
plan at Sunnydale High School.
``We had to shelve next week's episode until June,'' says series creator and executive
producer Joss Whedon. ``We're taking it out of the order. It's about how lonely everybody
is, and how crazed people are, and how somebody just snaps.''
Ironically, CBS' family drama ``Promised Land,'' which is set in Denver, also had to pull
an episode. The show originally scheduled for April 22 dealt with a high-school drive-by
shooting.
``Yeah, I know,'' says Whedon. ``Boy, did I never think I'd be in the same boat with
them!''
But Whedon has no objection to pulling ``Earshot,'' under the circumstances. ``There's a
line in the show,'' he says, ``about `I can't believe somebody's just going to blow
everybody away,' and `Oh, like that never happens in American high schools, it's
practically trendy at this point,' which is not the sort of thing you want to say right
after that happens. But it's not like it's not true.''
-by Kate O'Hare
Heard In The
Buffy Street
News (no spoilers there)
David News (from E-online)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Angel, David Boreanaz, clears up his schedule and looks for First Light. The "mystic golf fable," penned by Irish writer Ingrid Quinn, is the first production for Boreanaz and partner Jarrod Moses (president of marketing company Grey Alliance) with their newly formed production company, MOBO Films.
Season 4 premiere News
The season premiere will be aired October 5th at 8:00 pm (Easter time) and followed at 9:00pm by "Angel" an episode named "City of".
News about the "Angel" show
David Boreanaz (Angel) and Charisma Carpenter (Cordy), will leave the
Buffy cast to join the new "Angel" show next season. The Action of
"Angel" will take place in LA. There should be interventions in both shows from
the different casts. Cordelia will go to L.A to become a movie star and act as
Angel's side kick. Doyle, a Hollywood zombie played by Glenn Quinn will aslo be
there. Spike is back too!!! James masters signed for this season. Drusilla
should be there too, but nothing sure due to "conflicting schedules".
Angel will have to save a certain number (apparently a big number) of endangered souls in
order to re-deem his own. The show will be broadcasted right after "BtVS",
and both are still on Tuesday nights. "Buffy" at 8:00pm and
"Angel" at 9:00pm. The pilot was written by both Joss and David Greenwalt
(not Boreanaz!). David Greenwalt is also suppose to write and direct several
episodes.
(See also the Ew.com article about Charisma in the section
personalities)
And here is the reproduction of a "EON.com" article about the "Angel" pilot ("City of"):
"Angel finally gets his wings in the new BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER spin-off ANGEL. And like all spin-offs, the show’s
tone is caught half-way in between its more
popular brethren and trying to etch out its own unique voice.
However – don’t get me wrong. ANGEL does not disappoint. The same creative
writing, producing and directing team behind BUFFY
has put a lot of effort to bring this new series to life and thankfully it stands out
because it doesn’t feel like one of those “pretty teen faces” in
“pretty extreme circumstances.”
It’s several months after BUFFY’s season three closer –
with Angel (David Boreanaz) and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) having now parted ways and
Angel drinking away his sorrows in Los Angeles where he’s now taking up
residence.
Of course like many Los Angeleanos – Angel is a lost soul and wandering aimlessly trying to repent for the eternity of sin he’s caused on people as a vampire. Once the meanest and most vicious of his species, due to a gypsy’s curse he was a given a soul and has been struggling with his guilty conscience ever since.
The back story set up over the past three seasons of BUFFY is told in a somewhat awkward fashion, but
it’s exposition that is much needed and writers Whedon and Greenwalt do a nice job of
poking fun at its necessity while also getting through it quickly so they can get on with
the real story.
To make a long explanation short: Angel is given a sidekick named
Doyle (Glenn Quinn), a demon who has these visions that tell him Angel must do good in
order to repent. Very isolated and anti-social, Angel is not good with people and has no
idea how to “help people” when he can’t help himself. This naturally looks
like great fodder for the show as Angel has a nice vulnerable side.
Despite all the people in the show being drawn to his good looks
– Angel isn’t hopping into bed with every woman he sees or coming off as the
suave, debonair unstoppable bad-ass other shows of this nature might go for. This is a
complex vampire with complex issues – rounded out by a restrained, and balanced
performance by the always good Boreanaz (he makes even the most pathetic brooding look
super cool). Fans of BUFFY will rejoice. Fans
of FOREVER KNIGHT will have a new vamp/quasi
detective hunk to fawn over.
As for the plot, it’s not long before he’s sent to help
a pretty waitress named Tina who has some problems with a corporate big wig (who has a
pretty obvious secret) with Angel is there to save the day (or try to).
Buffy’s Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) also pops up in Los
Angeles at a schmooze party where she and Angel talk a bit only to be reunited by the
episode’s conclusion when she’s in peril again and needs help.
The look of ANGEL is
pretty slick and has a feature film feel. The pre-title sequence in particular has some
pretty exciting action and well-choreographed fights boding well for the future of the
series (and hinting it will be, like BUFFY before
it, much more than the run-of-the-mill genre show).
The rough edges are also very apparent. While Cordelia’s
character was great on Buffy and had some interesting character developments during the
past year, making her the centerpiece of the new show is going to take some work since we
now have to “really” get to know her. The trademark quips are still intact and
Carpenter is an absolute charmer and totally up for the task, but the show does give her a few out-of-character
moments where she’s spouting lingo that feels more akin to Buffy or Willow than
archetypal Cordelia.
The first case for Angel is also a bit anti-climactic as well,
but it sets up some very important supporting characters which are likely going to play a
more important part in the season to come. Most important is the law firm of Wolfram &
Hart which gets its pricey clients out of every jam (and looks to be one of the more
interesting subplot angles to be developed in future episodes).
Mind you, like BUFFY,
the season openers have always been great but a bit clunky by nature as everything needs
to be set up so the season can run like clockwork and I think ANGEL will be no different. There’s enough mythology there to keep it
lively and then some, but I’m more interested in how they pay that off in later
episodes. Plus, if the show can find some creative ways to avoid the episodic TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL/QUANTAM LEAP device of “saving a new person
every week scenario,” it could turn it a great companion piece to the consistently
excellent BUFFY.
It’s going to be interesting to watch the two shows grow in their own new directions this year since they’re splitting the wealth of talent– but by the looks of it, Whedon’s already got another winner on his hands."
-- JONATHAN ABERNATHY
General News
SMG (and apparently other main actors) are under a 5 years contract.
Eliza Dushku (Faith), was under a 15 episodes contract.
Comments on past episodes/feelings in the post
Comments
(okay, they are kinda of old but I've been busy, and then it was the end of the season. Hopefully I'll be more regular next season).
Simon Templar:
"Spoilers (discussion of Helpless and a hypothesis on the Kodak moment)
1. The Test: I'm just not buying the reason behind this rite being the council wants to
make sure the Slayer uses her wits? Why?? She already faced the Master and beat him and if
their plan fails she DIES, um if she doesn't learn to use her wits she DIES, they are at
the same place. Why force her death at 18.. I'm just hoping their is some better
explination for why the test was done and we just haven't been the real reason... Most TV
shows I'd say there was none but with BTVS I've learned not to underestimate the creative
staff.
2. The Photos.. I can't take credit for this explination (and it has a few holes in it
that you could drive a truck threw) since I read it before on one of the mailing lists but
someone hypothesised (sp?) that the reasons vampires didn't originally show up in photos
and in mirrors was that both were Silver based. (Some people say its because they have no
soul, but this was this person's opinion) Nowadays lots of cameras ( also video cassette
recorders as seen in the Slayerfest episode) are based on other methods of retaining
images and no longer always use silver... Unfortunately I am not sure about those instant
cameras and they may use silver in the developing process which is the hole I was talking
about earlier..
I'm not sure what people are thinking about what the WC is like, but to me, it is one of
the these spooky, Very English (patronizingly paternal), Oxbridge, "for your own
good", HP Lovecraft, kind of secret societies. They have all kinds of secret
knowledge that most people doesn't have, which makes them very powerful. They have control
(mostly) over the Slayer when she appears, they have huge collections of arcane tomes
(when they aren't letting dopey townsfolk burn witches with them), they are an
organization going back many generations, they have knowledge about Hellmouths and the way
the world is that almost all people don't (Helpless Buffy: "I know too much").
They take their responsibility very seriously, because lives are lost when they screw up.
Not just one Slayer, but entire towns. They see their custodianship as being one that
spans all human time, so the life of one Slayer (and even one Watcher, which must be a
much bigger setback) is something they have to be able to see beyond. I'm not saying I
like them or their tradition of the rite of passage (certainly it is a terrible risk, but
the Slayer who survives it is a demonstrably powerful force). They are the only organized
force out there (as far as we know) on the side of Order and Good. While their methods are
paternalistic and drastic, they've had generations of holding the world together to prove
to them that they are right.
I say Giles owes Buffy a trip to the Ice Capades when he gets his job back."
General opinion (I totally agree):
Trick was underused, he should have stay longer and have one episode with a more
centric role. His character was too developed and brought forward to disappear this
way. He had the the strength to be a REAL bad guy.
Haven: "How did Giles know what the
Mayor would do in order to have the "good" spirit in place? And why did the
Mayor's magic fail, he appears to be quite good at it. Giles doing "better"
magic? so, the mayor created the hellmouth? And he called Angelus "young". Would
the mayor be aligned to the First Evil somehow? Notice how Angel(us) went out of his way
to be nice to Joyce, to not scare her? I thought that was kinda cute. :) Apparently the
mayor does not know how to rid Angel of his soul himself, but just knew he had to call
"someone else"? So, is there really a spell that will do that?
that's it for now. ;)"
Here are two old speculations that I'm gonna display since the episodes are passed. Just to show how Joss got me on that second one. The comments in Blue and in italics are those I made at that time:
I leave those for a while...I've figured out partly Joss mind (and that's not often), so now I have to brag around about it. Plus I don't know (yet) when this episode will be broadcasted in Canada and other countries... that would help me to classify spoilers but nobody answer...
Blackheart: "Taking into account what was said in TV guide and in other sources, the Mayor and Faith think that sex will do in Angel's soul. So Faith is going after it...deliberately. Angel on the other hand will catch wise to the plan, either beforehand or the morning after, and decide to play the role to see where it leads. The trauma of Angelus apparently return and Angel sleeping with another woman (even in the line of duty) will drive B/A apart for a long time. But not forever, nope...not forever. Who here thinks that Buffy isn't going to find out, raise your hands? Thought so."
The Crying Freeman: "I agree on the Faith-Mayor plan. But I think Angel will fake to become Angelus again. I don't believe Joss could manage Angelus again...a lot of people think that would be a cheap move. The question would be: will Buffy and the Gang know about it? To be realistic Angel may have to play it alone. Another possibility is that (and I'm more on this side) that the sex wouldn't turn him back. It seems that the the evil-duo will cast a spell on him. Spell? Sex? Both? We'll see...
Second speculation:
Saint Germain: "I haven't rewatched yet, but have been thinking - Does anyone think Faith was trying for what Buffy has when going for Angel? In the mayor, she has a father figure to match Giles. What if she wanted Angel just because Buffy had him. Not really trying to make him lose his soul, but trying to make him hers, not Buffy's. Also - wouldn't it be ironic if the one thing the Mayor isn't impervious to is germs? If he was killed by the flu or the chicken pox?" It may be wrong but I love that idea... nice job St Germain. I'm going to leave it there until we figure out what happen to the mayor.
And, boom! On a speculation I loved (the germs idea), I was 10,000 miles away from the truth. Joss you got me... once again.
Feelings in the post
The WB SUCKS!
We HATE the WB!
@##$@%^$&^**(%^%$@^^%&#* the WB and %#^@&& because they really &*$^*($#$&*())&%^
Get Spike back in the show! (Not everyone agrees about Drusilla...)
Faith is dead! Lalalalala! It's so cool! And a nice way too! Hehehehe...
Why???!!! Joss???! Oh, Faith why couldn't you live? It's not fair!!!...
Snyder is dead, hehehe! (the worse is that I've to recognize he had guts... sudden but honorable death)
Speculations
(Nothing new so far)
Spoilers
Season 4: Sarah is going to forget Angel. Not like if nothing happened. Actually she will fall in love with someone else. The identity of the new "Romeo" is unknown. A guess could be that it's Xander (because Cordy is going to be out of the way too). Or it might be a newcomer in the show. Personnally I don't see who it could be otherwise... Giles? Willy? Oz? I also heard that Angel would still be here for the the first 4 episodes of season 4. No confirmation yet.
