OT - But Too Wild To Pass Up Mentioning

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

That's great.

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

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~   

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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