"Seize the moment. Tomorrow you might be dead."

[desperance]

Okay. I have finished, for now, the rewriting of this endless SF novella. I still want to go through it one more time before I let it out of the house, just to check that all these rewritings have married together into some kind of a unified whole, but for now I can set it aside and do something else.

Also, in the process of sorting through ancient paperworks, I have discovered documentary evidence of what I've known for a while now, that British Gas has been overcharging me for years on my electricity bill. A rough back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that they must owe me something on the order of £200. Whether I'll ever get it is of course a whole nother question, but I have logged a complaint via the interwebs, and I have moral superiority positively oozing out of me.

Also, I have nothing more that I have to do today, and apparently nothing at all that I am inclined to do.

Also, I have fresh ciabatta and nice olive oil, and bottles and bottles of wine.

Accordingly, I have charged up the DVD player, and we will see what we will see. Starting with episode one of Buffy, I think...

Comments

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an excellent plan!

I took your "advice" yesterday and finished my game (and immediately started another). Now most of my review is written and just needs marinating before I send it off.

You wouldn't happen to be in London on Weds for the Clarke Awards would you? I'm just about to post a "fancy meeting up?" post.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Betcha can't watch just one. :)

Which one are you/did you starting/start with?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Act one, scene one: "Welcome to the Hellmouth", I'm a great believer in starting at the beginning - and you're entirely right, 'cos of course it ends on a cliffhanger, and I've only paused the disc for a moment, I'm going straight on.

The trouble is, I've seen almost all of every series except the last one. I have no idea how Buffy ends - but I can't just watch the end, obviously, I have to start at the beginning. And will I actually make it through seven series? I dunno. It seems like a hell of an investment. But hey, we do seem to have started...

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

See, I have a non-linear approach to Buffy. We started watching half way through season five, but we had reruns on lots of other channels, so we didn't really know what happened when - and if something seemed to be missing, we just assumed we had missed an episode. We had it straight by season seven, but still. Now that I have all the series and have watched them from one end to the other (300 channels here and sometimes they all suck simultaneously), I realize that I have memories of episodes that never happened - which is too bad, because they were pretty good.

From Season One, I like to watch the first two and the last one as a set. And the last two of Season Four. And ... well you see.

Watch the ones you like. :)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

We just watched first season Buffy, and were impressed with, particularly, how bad we thought the first couple episodes were. It ramped up pretty fast, but hoo boy. :)

[msagara.livejournal.com]

Whereas I thought the first two seasons were fabulous, and everything after that was post-arc, and afterthought =/.

I was impressed enough by the overall cohesion of the ensemble in the first four episodes, and by the emotional causality of the overall writing (you knew who those people had become between each show) until mid-season 2, when some that started to crumble.

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

Of course, you can't get the whole story without watching all of Angel as well. The two series ran simultaneously (with some cameo appearances back and forth) for a couple of years before Buffy ended and Angel kept on. With my darling Spike added to the cast... :x *utters not one spoiler*

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

lol, Spike is a spoiler for certain late events in Buffy.

Desperance, you get even MORE moral superiority points for watching the Buffy!

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

I failed to become enamoured of the Angel series - but I did tune in for the episodes with Spike. :)

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

Even if people don't want to commit to Angel (...wankers), it's worth watching this one episode:

[snippet -- Angel as muppet!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbLbpqz5I14&feature=related

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

By the way, you natives, does Spike get the accent right or does his California twang creep through? (For instance, when Hugh Laurie plays Dr. House, he gets the standard American accent spot on. I'd never guess he was British.)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. My own impression is that he tries too hard? He never does quite sound British to me, never mind the specific kind of English that he's trying for: it's too roundedly Californian an idea of localised Brit, if that makes sense. But I did come to the game knowing in advance that he was acting. I may not be a fair judge.

[possumqueen.livejournal.com]

Similarly, our local eastern Massachusetts accents (the "Boston" accent being only one flavor) are notoriously hard for actors to mimic. Many times a character who is supposed to be from the Boston area will come off sounding like someone from Maine. ~grins~ We jeer at them.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I can nearly always tell when someone's faking a Southern accent on tv. Or perhaps I should say I am thrilled when I realize an actor is actually speaking with a real Southern accent. Drawling does not equal Southern accent. Y'all.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I find his cockney is a little Australian in places, but it's much better than Dru's which goes very Dick van Dyke at times.

And I was wondering about Hugh Laurie, so that's good to know.

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Finished? Excellent!!!!!!