Dumb Theories about Buffy...
So how do I do this without spoiling things for people in the UK who don't know what's going to happen? And how do I do it without sounding like a total dork? How - in fact - do I talk about Buffy Season Seven (as being shown in the States at the moment) without giving too much away? It's a tough one, certainly. Perhaps an impossible one... Nonetheless, I must take my strength from the example provided for me by my televisual heroine! Battle on against all the odds! Fight for what is right! Kill all the vampires! Um.
Ways in which Tom increasingly resembles Xander Harris:
- Frankly not as thin or as devastatingly hot as used to be.
- Knows too much about Star Wars, Star Trek, Comic Books.
- Hair unruly.
- Considers Anya to be Goddess but wouldn't have married her.
Ways in which Tom increasingly resembles Andrew:
- I think I'm kinda gay.
- Knows too much about Star Wars, Star Trek, Comic Books.
- Looks good in black.
- Occasionally kills people to look cool to hot guys. Did I say kills people? I meant gave people lovely presents and help with their homework and stuff. Phew.
- Has never successfully slaughtered a pig.
Dumb Theories about the End of the Series:
- Buffy can't be a slayer any more.
- Something important - significant - has to be sacrificed.
- There have to be a couple of happy endings. Anya / Xander?
- Buffy and Spike are not meant to be together forever.
- "Cos you gotta have Faith..."
Other ways I could humiliate myself in front of my weblogging peers:
- Tom Coates baby pictures.
- "Why I was wrong" - a series of articles examining every thing I've said on my site over the last three and a half years that subsequently turned out to be completely wrong.
- The plasticbag.org 'Comic Relief' special?
- Everyone likes stories about digestive problems...
I think maybe it would be for the best if we just forgot I ever wrote this post. Let's all just move along. Nothing to see here. Just too much caffeine and not enough good TV.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
I'd just like to say at this moment that I will definitely return to writing proper posts about like tech stuff and social software and the like in a minute. I'm really a very serious and grown-up individual. Good at parties.
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at February 12, 2003 10:25 PM
Buffy's pretty grown-up and serious. Well, maybe not, but there are plenty of elements in the show for the grown-up and serious. (Or perhaps, as a Buffy fan, I'm just trying to rationalize/rationalise it.)
→ Posted by: john at February 12, 2003 11:40 PM
I agree with everything you said but I think Buffy dies and Dawn goes on to be the slayer.
→ Posted by: avril at February 13, 2003 12:11 AM
Ummm, Tom, Buffy rocks! (As does Angel, but purely because of David Boreanaz.)
Have you seen the Angel episode entitled "Spin the Bottle"? And more to the point, does the phrase "Hello Salty Goodness" mean anything?
PS. Wasn't Glory just a gay icon?
→ Posted by: Rob at February 13, 2003 1:35 AM
I think you should post anything you like, spoilers and all.
Of course I don't watch Buffy (or Angel) so I don't really care one way or the other.
Oh and don't try and blame these things on caffeine, that's my excuse!
→ Posted by: Gordon at February 13, 2003 9:11 AM
I have a shameful secret. I think I am the only person of my peer group who doesn't "get" Buffy. I've watched it on numerous occasions, but I just can't get into it. Maybe I was put off forever by watching the Luke Perry film Buffy The Vampire Slayer in the early 1990s. Still, at least it's saved me hundreds of pounds in not buying all those boxed sets.
→ Posted by: Lubin Odana at February 13, 2003 9:44 AM
I say break out the baby pictures and go for broke.
→ Posted by: hilary at February 13, 2003 9:58 AM
Bah! Money sereves no purpose unless spent in a rightious way. And what can be better than buying boxes of Buffy? The show, not the actual character. While it is Tom's site and all, I'm thankful that he thinks of us poor bastards who haven't seen more than season 6. And I agree with John. Reading posts about Buffy is much more fun than reading "Oh no, I think there will be a war in five minues. [five minutes later] Twelve minutes I mean. [and so on " for a few months.
→ Posted by: Nicklas at February 13, 2003 11:05 AM
Lubin! You can call yourself a trash addict and you don't like the original Buffy movie?! That film is an inspired classic that my friends and I watched with absolute delight when we were teenagers. Here's a trivia question for you - can you name two Oscar winners that were in that film? Here's a clue - don't put much faith in Donald Sutherland...
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at February 13, 2003 11:47 AM
Inspired by the original buffy movie, I have now indoctrinated every wannabe thespian in Oxford to do the "how funky is your chicken, how loose is your goose... So shake your caboose" dance as part of their warmup. it's fucking genius. Oh, and never mind the baby photos, I've got a couple of pictures of Tom that are super-embarassing! Bribes sent to the address below....
just kidding, love you really
→ Posted by: katy at February 13, 2003 1:56 PM
Personally, I'd love to see the 'plasticbag.org Comic Relief Special'...
→ Posted by: joh at February 13, 2003 4:06 PM
I don't know what it says about me that I truly believe "That's sooo five minutes ago" is just about one of the best movie lines ever written. And the hairstyles. Let's not forget the bangs. Just those high, spiky things were enough to inspire fear into many a vampire I'm sure. Or at the very least, anyone who cares about the ozone layer.
→ Posted by: patricia at February 19, 2003 4:55 AM