Jitters

[chelseagirl]

Buffycon is this weekend; I'm on three panels tomorrow.

I've done quite a few academic conferences at this point, where I give a paper and then maybe field a question or two. I've done a couple of cons; one where I reconstructed my paper in my head bc I'd gotten put on the panel after running into my editor at the con and one that was completely free-form but where I was in *great* company. My co-panelist was a pro-tv writer and one of the Onion founders (Dan Vebber, formerly of Buffy and then of Futurama) and the hecklers from the audience were M. (whom I'd just met the evening before and had no idea would become my One True Love) and John K., our Onion writer friend (who I'd also just met). That one went really well, of course.
:-) Here I'm going to be completely freeform on panels of four. I teach, after all, and I don't *think* Buffy fans will be more difficult than 18 year olds taking a required freshman comp course at 8:30am. Just jittering away, stretching my experience a bit further.

Blessings and great gratitude to Sarah and Karen, who are keeping me company for the con!

Comments

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd love to be there. Sky aired the final episode Thursday night. Withdrawal pains have already commenced.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

What did you think? Lots of people found it unsatisfactory -- I found much of the second half of season 7 fairly uninspiring, but I liked the empowerment of all the girls at the very end (not only the potentials in Sunnydale but the others -- esp. bc I always used to wonder if there was only one slayer what everyone in the rest of the world was supposed to do about their vamp problems) and I felt that Spike's ending was really what the character needed to complete a redemption story arc (though considering what we know about the Angel cast for the fall, wondering a whole lot). And that great big Sunnydale-shaped hole in the ground was kinda cool.

Hey -- are you guys buying the British DVDs? Somebody just send me a link to someone's LJ where she shows the problem with making something widescreen that wasn't originally filmed that way (it looks like it's Xander, not sure, but someone from crew is holding onto the back of his jeans as he leans over a hole and you can see his underwear is white; you can see a lot of it, in fact, as well as the hand). The American DVDs are going to stay traditional tv sized.

[silme.livejournal.com]

The British press talked about how they felt it went downhill after high school, but that this season, particularly the latter part, made up for it. It's an interesting view. I rather liked this season, though at times, I felt as if Joss was dragging his heels and a little unsure as to where he was going to go. For example, I heard Caleb was on Firefly. Had it not been cancelled, would he still have shown up on Buffy? Just wondering. More later.

No, we don't have the DVDs. I think the overall price of buying all six seasons (we have that many available) is daunting. :) We've discussed maybe buying two a year; they're not cheap. And I want to get 24's first season. I just bought the first season of The Book Group. I want the second of that show since we missed most of this season. Friday night is not a good night for us to watch TV and/or remember to tape things. :)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

I felt like the second half of this season dragged on longer than it needed to, though I'll be interested to rewatch it consecutively when the eps come out. I revised my opinion on s. 4 quite a bit (for the better) when I rewatched the tapes all together.

We were lucky enough to be given copies of the first two seasons; we've been buying them since but they *are* coming out at a rate of two per year, so . . . :-)

Just saw the end of the 24 tapes I'd been loaned. Oh my word. Amazing. If, like me, you're enjoying season two -- season one is exponentially better.

[silme.livejournal.com]

I bought the first season of 24 today... I don't know when I'll get to it... Ian's leaving for Belgium (work trip) too early in the morning and won't be back till late Friday. Maybe I'll watch it Friday. He hasn't seen much of this season. I watch it regularly -- it's on BBC 2 at 10 PM, so I can watch it upstairs on my TV (the one I bought for TASIS) in bed. :) He's usually reading email. He'll come in and ask questions, but he's so far behind. He saw the episode at Sue's house in April (we're not there yet), but he kind of gave up. Sue filled me in on little details. (The one I saw was the one that ends with Michelle Forbes falling down the stairs.)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah -- Caleb on Buffy and Jasmine on Angel were the ship's captain and second in command on Firefly. (Which is coming out on DVD this fall, including three episodes that weren't aired . . . ) Are you getting Firefly over there? If not, when the DVDs come out, I'll send you our tapes if you want.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Apparently, it was aired recently on Sci-Fi, and we missed it. I found out about it after the fact. I don't know if they're running it again...