OT - But Too Wild To Pass Up Mentioning

[Mysterious Benefactor]

DS and Buffy/Angel fans alike might get a kick out of the fact that James Marsters (vampire Spike on Buffy/Angel) has just been cast in the Battlestar Galactica offshoot series Caprica as a character named Barnabus Greeley. How wild is that?!  

Check out the details: James Marsters Joins Caprica

[Nancy]

That's great.

[Midnite]

I'm very pleased to hear this.  Dangerous, unpredictable, and conflicted?  Oh yeah, he can do all that.  

[PennyDreadful]

That's cool!  A friend of mine recently loaned me her Buffy DVDs.  In all honesty, I have always snorted in disdain about the show without ever having given it a fair shot.  I'd only ever seen snippets and dismissed it all as a silly teeny-bopper show.  Watching it now, I see that it's heavily character driven and more or less true to monstrous folklore. Despite how I thought I'd react to it, I'm actually really enjoying BtVS.  Aw heck, I might even be addicted to it.  Spike is a wonderful character.  I think my favorite one so far is Giles though.   I can picture him being pals with Prof. Stokes.

~Penny~   

[PennyDreadful]

Sorry for the double post, but has Joss Whedon ever commented on the original DS at all? I know in one of the BtVS DVD featurettes the makeup artist talks about being a fan of the show, but I wonder if Whedon had any exposure to it.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I'm glad to see that you were finally able to come to your senses regarding Buffy, PD. 

As for Whedon and DS, about the only time I remember him mentioning it was when it was rumored that the WB had canceled Angel because of the '04 pilot. Of course, that wasn't actually true - but at the time Whedon wasn't exactly a happy man. I don't believe Whedon was ever a fan himself - or at least he hasn't ever admitted it.

[The Doctor and K9]

Penny's reaction to Buffy was very similar to mine.  I refused to watch it for over two seasons.  Friends tried to clue me into it, but my reaction to the original movie prejudiced me against it.  I might have checked it out if our daughter had not been born about the time it premiered.  I had little time for ANYTHING, never mind some loser show based on a lousy movie.  Well, I was wrong.  I've been massively addicted since then.  Here's just how bad it got.  I played BOTH Buffy X Box games and RECORDED it.  I then edited the whole mess down to reasonably coherent 90+ min feature versions.  I had more than 20 hours of footage for each of the two games.  Trying to decide what was essential was a nightmare. 

Our daughter is twelve now, and we watch Buffy and/or Angel once a week.  I"m going very slowly so that she'll grow up with it and mature as the subject matter becomes more adult. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Check out: 'Caprica': James Marsters terrorizes and evangelizes and Caprica: James Marsters Sinks His Teeth into Another Sci-Fi Series

And apparently his character's name is spelled the same as our very own Barnabas - with an "a", not a "u". Apparently we can once again chalk up the initial misspelling to people who have no idea how to actually spell Barnabas. 

[Midnite]

My jaw hit the floor when I heard his name.  I'd forgotten about this topic, lol.  This show is great, btw.