From: owner-buffy-digest@lists.xmission.com (buffy-digest) To: buffy-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: buffy-digest V3 #15 Reply-To: buffy@lists.xmission.com Sender: owner-buffy-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-buffy-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk buffy-digest Monday, January 11 1999 Volume 03 : Number 015 In this issue: BUFFY: Precedent for Becoming? BUFFY: Re:precedence for Becoming BUFFY: Gingerbread Spoilers...There is some Spoiler Space Part 1 BUFFY: Ginerbread Spoilers Part 2--Spoiler Space BUFFY: Website Update - New Links, Mailing Lists, ASHFC, GASP! Re: BUFFY: Out of the Madhouse Re: BUFFY: Precedent for Becoming? BUFFY: NY TIMES ARTICLE BUFFY: NB at Fangoria in NYC Re: BUFFY: Books BUFFY: Spoilers for the next few eps See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the buffy or buffy-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:53:20 -0500 (EST) From: maxvl@iname.com Subject: BUFFY: Precedent for Becoming? First of all, I want to thank Jill and sah for putting so much work into maintaining this list for our benefit for the last couple of years. Best of luck in your next activities! Since we still have this wonderful group together, I have a question about the most dramatic event of BtVS Season 2. I have heard that there are no new stories these days, so does anybody out there know of a parallel in history, literature, or myth for the act that Buffy performed in Becoming to save the world? That is, do you know of another story where a character was compelled by circumstances to deliberately and reluctantly kill her/his lover to achieve some noble goal? Cases of anger, jealousy, or mistaken identity get some points off. Thanks for your help! Max ========================================= MaxVL (maxvl@iname.com) "[I've got] me!" -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer - ----------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:00:32 EST From: DLovlyTina@aol.com Subject: BUFFY: Re:precedence for Becoming How about the Camelot legends? Arthur was forced to (almost) burn Gwenivyre at the stake for adultery in order to uphold his nation's newly established legal system. I know that she was unfaithful to him, but the legends seem to indicate that he was extremely reluctant to kill her, and that his action was not motivated by jealousy or revenge, but that his hand was forced to prevent the crumbling of his kingdom. Love, A - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:59:53 EST From: TknoPagan@aol.com Subject: BUFFY: Gingerbread Spoilers...There is some Spoiler Space Part 1 Hey guys I got this fromt he posting board, Thsi is the first part of it, if you decide to read the second part also, read the very end..its kind of funny... Jason TknoPagan@aol.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * Buffy is on patrol. Joyce comes to spend time with her. While Buffy goes off to find a vamp Joyce walks around and goes to the playground. There she sees the two little murdered kids. They have a mark on their hands. Buffy and Joyce call the police. Joyce is upset by the murders and vows to do something about it. The next day Buffy is talking to the gang about the whole incident. Amy is also there. Joyce comes up and tells Buffy that she thinks that witches murdered the kids. Joyce also tells Buffy that she has told the whole town about what happened. Buffy tries to tell her that these things need to be kept secret, but Joyce says she is just trying to help. She (Joyce) has also organized a vigil for the children. When Buffy and Willow arrive at the vigil practically the whole city is there. The mayor talks for a while and then tells Joyce to talk. Joyce gets in front and tells that witchcraft and slaying aren't making the city and better. She says the grownups need to take back the city. Buffy and Giles are horrified that Joyce said that. Next it shows what looks like a circle of witches. We see Amy and a boy who I don't recognize and Willow. We then see the triangle symbol on the floor. They are casting some sort of spell. It's the same triangle shape that was found on the children. At school the police raid the student's lockers and take all the books that deal with demons and other supernatural things from the library. Anyone who is found with any witchcraft things are sent to the office. It was ordered by the organization that Joyce started named MOO (Mothers Opposed to the Occult). Giles tells Buffy that it looks that witches did kill the children. Buffy goes to look for Willow. Buffy sees her books and the book that Giles wants. She picks up the book and sees a drawing of the triangle symbol on a note book page. When Willow returns Buffy asks about the symbol and she says its just a doodle. Buffy tells her it is the witch symbol found on the children. Shortly after this the school is raided by the police and they take all the witch craft books from the library and the kid's lockers. Willow is taken to the office for having books in her locker. Later back at her house, Willow's mom thinks she is going through a phase and seems to be just blowing it all off. Willow gets upset and tells her she is a witch. Mother grounds her. She gets more upset and tells her she is dating a musician and she is evil. Mom gets upset and tells her she is not to see Bunny Summers again. She doesn't know Buffy's name. Joyce tells Buffy that her slaying doesn't do any good. That Sunnydale isn't any better since she started slaying. She says that something else needs to be done. She tells Buffy that she can't see Willow anymore. Buffy leaves the house. When Buffy is gone the two kids appear to Joyce and tells her they cannot rest until the bad people who hurt them are gone. The next scene is the park where the kids were found. There are candles and flowers there as Buffy watches. Angel comes. They hug. She tells him about the kids. He says he knows. He says people are even talking to him about it. She starts talking about how she battles but the evil still comes back. He tells her she has to never give up the fight. for people like those kids and their parents. Buffy realizes there is nothing about the kids parents. - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:01:06 EST From: TknoPagan@aol.com Subject: BUFFY: Ginerbread Spoilers Part 2--Spoiler Space 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 Giles is cursing at a computer since all of his books are gone. Xander and Oz come in. Buffy comes in later and ask them to find out about the kids. There was never any information about them other than that they were killed. They didn't even know their names. They get a hold of Willow, who is at home grounded, and she gets them to Internet sites that let them know that these two have been dying every 50 years since 1649. At this point Willow's mom comes into her room and turns off her computer and locks her in. Back at the library, Giles says that some fairy tales are real although somewhat changed. This instance is a take on Hansel And Gretal who said the old lady in the Gingerbread house was a witch. This demon lives by causing people to turn on each other. Hansel and Gretal tell everyone about the woman and they go kill her. The guy witch runs into the Library talking about his parents attacking him and going to city hall. They already took Amy. Buffy and Giles go to warn her mom about what is happening. Xander and Oz go to help Willow. At Buffy's house Joyce and some of her MOO friends use Chloroform to drug Buffy and Giles and take Buffy. Willow's mom and friends take Willow before Xander and Oz arrive. Cordy finds Giles unconscious at Buffy's and slaps him until he awakens. She says her mom burned all of her black clothing and scented candles. He gets up and they go to help Buffy. Xander and Oz find that the people are at city hall and go there to help. The are chase by the MOO people. Inside a hall Buffy, Amy, and Willow are tied to stakes and are about to be burned along with all the books which are used to star the fire. Amy gets mad and starts casting a spell. She turns herself into a rat and scurries off. Willow says she will turn everyone into vermin if they don't release them. The little boy and girl persuades the people to let them burn. Buffy and Willow are left to burn. Giles and Cordy are driving to city hall and making a potion and spell to make the demon show itself. At city hall Oz and Xander start crawling through the air ducts to get to Willow and Buffy. When Giles and Cordy reach city hall the door is locked where Buffy and Willow and Buffy are burning. Giles grabs a hairpin from Cordy's hair and picks the lock. Cordy and Giles come in. Cordy holds of the crowd with a water hose as Giles says the spell. Willow is about to catch on fire as Buffy yells to Cordy to put out he fire. Cordy saves Willow and Buffy as Giles finishes the spell and throws the potion on the floor near the children. They merge into one big ugly demon and the people start running from the room. At this time Buffy gathers her strength and pulls up the stake she is tied to, bends over and rams the stake towards the demon. She asks, "Did I get it," not being able to see. She has rammed the stake through the demon's neck and head. Xander and Oz fall through the ceiling and proclaim "We're here to rescue you." The scene shifts to Willow's house and she is casting a spell. Buffy is there and asks if Willow's mom will get upset. Willow says her mom is having selective memory loss and hasn't talked about her being a witch but remembers that she is dating a musician. She completes the spell but the little rat doesn't change back into Amy. - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:31:32 -0800 (PST) From: Sonja Marie Subject: BUFFY: Website Update - New Links, Mailing Lists, ASHFC, GASP! Halo! NOTE: The update is actually today cause I am moving to CA this morning and uploading this site around 1:30amish. I will be to exhausted from moving for my usual Tuesday update. This is my usual Buffy Night Post. This message contains info on Sonja Marie's Buffy Links Page, ASH/Giles Mailing list, The ASHFC, GASPers, and the Buffy Beta Fanfic List. ***** Sonja Marie's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Links I have added 25 more URLS to my Buffy Links Page at it's NEW location: http://www.planetx.com/~sonja/btvsurls/btvsurls.html If you have a link for me at your site, please change it, and your bookmarks as well! There are now 1914 pages listed! And if you are so inclined, PLEASE sign my guestbook! If you have a page for the show or cast members and IT IS NOT LISTED already, please send me the URLS and I will add them. ***** The Anthony Stewart Head Mailing List Are you a fan of Anthony Stewart Head? Giles? Oliver from VR5? Then the Anthony Stewart Head List is for you! We talk about all his work, share fanfic stories related to Giles and Oliver, etc. To join: 1. Send an email to ash-gasp-request@eskimo.com or gaspers@eskimo.com 2. in the message put S*BSCRIBE ASH-GASP or S*BSCRIBE ASH-GASP-DIGEST ***** The Anthony Stewart Head Fan Club (ASHFC) If you are interested in joining Anthony's Official Fan Club check out the Official Fan Club Page at: http://worstwitch.simplenet.com/ASHFC/ashfc.htm ***** Wanna Join the Giles' Appreciation Society Panters? Are you a fan of Giles? Anthony Stewart Head? Then the GASPers is the group for you! We are a group of fans who share a common interest namely Giles/ASH, we are also the official Keepers of Giles' Stuff. Check out our Home Page at: http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/7728/gaspers.html (PS - there is a picture of me and Anthony on the front page :D). IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those who email me about becoming GASPers and follow the directions I send them will be considered real Keepers in my eyes. To join email me PRIVATELY at gaspers@eskimo.com and I'll send you the info on how to join. DO NOT: request anything from the episodes, I will sent you a list of stuff to keep. ***** The Buffy Beta Fan Fic List Want a place to post you unfinished work so other can read it and help you get it ready for others to read? Then this is the place for you! This is a place where you can get your work critiqued, etc. We will except all Buffy and related stories and VR5 related stories (IF Oliver Sampson is the main character). To join: 1. send a email to buffy-beta-request@eskimo.com or gaspers@eskimo.com 2. in the message put S*BSCRIBE BUFFY-BETA or S*BSCRIBE BUFFY-BETA-DIGEST Sonja Marie - The White Rose @--'->-- http://www.eskimo.com/~whtrose/sonja.html Paul Wylie Fan Pages - http://www.eskimo.com/~whtrose/pwylie/pwylie.html Owner of the Jeff Fahey, Paul Wylie, Anthony S. Head, & Buffy-Beta Lists Pres. of Giles' Appreciation Society Panters - GASP!- Keeper of Coats & Ties Anthony Stewart Head (Giles-BTVS) About What Fans Sent Him in the Mail: "Fair amount of lingerie, yeah, all of which I tried, none of which fitted" - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:37:28 EST From: Toph179@aol.com Subject: Re: BUFFY: Out of the Madhouse <<1/10/99 9:55:03 PM cah@firefly.vscc.cc.tn.us writes: I just finished the last adult Buffy novel, Out of the Madhouse. Has anyone else read it yet? I'm dying to talk to someone about it... any takers? Erin >> I'm about 1/2 way through it now. It IS the most complex so far that's for sure, but I like it, at least what I've read. Give me a day or two! louise - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:38:29 -0500 (EST) From: Robin Carrollmann Subject: Re: BUFFY: Precedent for Becoming? On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 maxvl@iname.com wrote: > That is, do you know of another story where a character was compelled by > circumstances to deliberately and reluctantly kill her/his lover to > achieve some noble goal? Star Trek classic: "The City on the Edge of Forever". Kirk went back in time to correct a disastrous alteration in the timeline. While in the past, he fell in love with a woman named Edith Keeler. He then discovered that, in order to save history, Edith had to die in a hit-and-run accident. If she had lived, she would have started a pacifist movement that would have delayed U.S. involvement in W.W. II, thus ensuring a Nazi victory. It should be noted that Kirk did not have to kill his love, only watch her get run over, so it's not *quite* a perfect parallel to Buffy's anguish. Regards, Harper Harper *** Robin Carroll-Mann harper at idt dot net .sigless at work - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:14:09 -0800 From: alanazar@jasper.uor.edu Subject: BUFFY: NY TIMES ARTICLE Taking 13 Hours to Fix the Errors Made in 90 Minutes Forum Join a Discussion on Television By MARGY ROCHLIN f it's true, as the adage goes, that a second-rate novel can be made into a good movie, then surely a second-rate movie can be made into a good television show. Or so it would seem in the case of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," a flatly directed horror spoof that lived and died on the big screen in 1992 but was reborn five years later as the critically lauded series that legitimized the struggling WB network. In its second incarnation, the quirky title, the stake-flinging blonde high school girl and her all-knowing, older mentor (the Watcher, as he is known, sort of a guru regarding all things creepy) remained. But everything hackneyed had been tossed aside and craftily replaced with new ideas by Joss Whedon, the creator and executive producer of the television "Buffy." In what he has often described as a sequel to the film, Whedon's heroine (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) has gone from a smug-but-dim cheerleader to a social outcast. Gone is her San Fernando Valley address; she now lives in Sunnydale, a fictional Southern California suburb that rests atop a portal called the Hellmouth. While Buffy's nights are still spent snuffing monsters and fanged assailants, they are no longer mere pop-up scare tactics but metaphors for the real-life traumas that teen-agers face on the path to adulthood. Of course, Whedon's expert repair job should have been no surprise. Before he became a dual-medium success story, he was known in Hollywood as the guy who was brought in to fix the scripts of event movies like "Speed," "Twister" and "Toy Story" (which earned him an Academy Award nomination). Whedon was also known as the guy who wrote the original "Buffy" screenplay but felt the feature film didn't fully realize his concept. But what if Whedon's dark, witty script had been more faithfully translated as a movie? It might have become a classic instead of taking in only $16 million at the box office. And that could have stood in the way of its eventual television success. That's because turning not-so-great movies into prime-time series may be a growth industry. At least two cable series -- "La Femme Nikita" and "The Net" -- have come into being the same way. Television can be the perfect environment for fine-tuning an imperfect film. The movie is the failed prototype, offering a clear look at numerous mistakes to avoid. And 13 hourlong episodes (rather than 90 movie minutes) can give the characters enduring dimension. Maybe more television producers should be looking at the critics' 10-worst lists for possible future projects. Looking back on the history of small screen knockoffs, much-loved hit movies often make for pretty uninteresting prime-time fare. Yes, there have been memorable ratings toppers like "The Odd Couple" and "M-A-S-H," but they're the exceptions to the rule. In the name of trying to appease the nit-picking expectations of an adoring fan base, the people who adapt the films often end up doing a cautious imitation of a movie like "The Client," a short-lived 1995 series that cleaved to the source material and featured actors who were fuzzily reminiscent of the stars who created the roles on the silver screen. JoBeth Williams and John Heard in the Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones roles, that is. In fact, had Whedon's original "Buffy" script been a box-office blockbuster, instead of a Kristy Swanson-Luke Perry misfire, the sales pitch to the WB brass probably wouldn't have been, "This is going to be extremely different from the movie." "The series probably would have been done exactly like the feature," said Gail Berman, an executive producer of the series, who says, in all honesty, that she loves both Buffys. "You wouldn't have explored anything differently. And if you look at the shows based on feature films that are successful, they are the ones that explore things differently and move the concept forward. Television series that continue the concept are just silly." In a way, Berman's prediction is best proved by the USA Network, which has made a name for itself in the world of basic cable by programming original hourlong shows that bear film titles. Aside from its World Wrestling Federation slamfests, USA's primary draw is "La Femme Nikita," which takes its inspiration and core premise from Luc Besson's stylish but ultimately hollow 1991 underground hit. As it happens, USA was not the first to spot potential gold in the movie's tale of a heroin addict who kills a policeman and is given the offer of being executed or being groomed as a professional assassin for a top-secret government organization, whereupon she wisely chooses the latter. In 1993, John Badham directed "Point of No Return," an American remake of "La Femme Nikita," which was an almost shot-by-shot duplicate, save the rechristening of its central hit-woman character as Maggie (with Bridget Fonda as a most incongruously petite hired gun). So when the series "La Femme Nikita" had its premiere in January 1997, the smartest thing about it was how it had been retrofitted for television. Chosen as its headliner was a 5-foot-11, blond, blue-eyed Australian unknown named Peta Wilson, who was not quite as feral as Besson's leading lady Anne Parillaud but a more credible fighting machine than Fonda. Operating on the logic that audiences might not want to invite an amoral murderer into their living rooms every week, Joel Surnow ("Miami Vice," "The Equalizer"), the executive consultant, gave Nikita a more sympathetic back story. Falsely accused of the crime that keeps her duty-bound to her employers, she never relishes whacking evildoers, but if she doesn't dispatch them, she'll be handed her mortal pink-slip. On a happier note, every day is designer day for the pacifist superspy. The impracticality of Nikita's work wardrobe is never addressed. And who cares? This is pop fantasy television. You're supposed to lean back and appreciate the parade of Dolce & Gabbana, Mizrahi and Gaultier. A little bit "Mission:Impossible," a little bit "MTV's House of Style," Surnow's "Femme Nikita" doesn't try to be what it isn't. No series has the budget to reproduce big-money action sequences, but things can stay current. While Besson and Badham's second-rate look-alike became dated the second the final print was struck, Surnow makes sure that his characters' weaponry and computer gadgets appear state-of-the-art and that his story lines are ripped straight from the international section of the evening newspaper. "Stylistically, we have the opportunity to give a five-minutes-into-the-future look at where we are technologically," said Surnow, who feels that the public is inured to small-time urban violence because of reality programming like "Cops." "Dealing with the Abu Nidals and the Osama bin Ladens and the stuff that's happening right now seems to be really scary in a real world way." It would have been interesting to have sat in on the creative meetings that hatched USA's "Net," which is based on Irwin Winkler's 1995 thriller about Angela Bennett, a freelance software consultant whose electronic identity is erased by cybercrooks and replaced with that of a known felon. No doubt the $50 million in domestic ticket sales was emphasized, while no one probably mentioned that at the time moviegoers were so besotted by its star, Sandra Bullock, that they would have paid to see her in an update of "Howard the Duck." And did anyone bring up the brutal reviews? ("Riddled with more coincidences and implausibilities than Hitchcock permitted himself in his entire career," said one review.) In truth, USA's version of "The Net" doesn't always make sense either. Still, it's touching to watch how Brooke Langton, last seen kvetching to Billy on "Melrose Place," throws her entire being into the principal role, looking relieved to have landed the part of someone who actually has something worthwhile to add to a conversation. Langton's computer whiz is spunkier and sexier than Bullock's mopey recluse and, given her life-threatening circumstances, refreshingly social. But there's nothing Langton can do to get around the fact that the writers of "The Net" have made her a novice at the art of cloak-and-dagger. Still on the lam from both deadly techies and the police, Angela moves from town to town, armed with only a half-alias (distressingly, she only bothers to change her last name) and always seems ready to blow her cover to the first person who asks. Aside from this glitch, or perhaps because of it, there's more fun to be had in any episode of "The Net" than in Winkler's plodding, overly serious movie. There's something amusing about how the baddies are often shot in leering, comic-book close-ups and how the show's producers aren't above crowbarring in bits that are meant to keep the men in their mixed demographic happy. (Recently, for example, Angela managed to escape arrest from a yacht by diving overboard and swimming to shore, but not before removing her shiny blue cocktail dress to reveal her matching bra and panties.) Even so, Langton's heroine isn't a patsy. When the chips are down, she takes charge -- which, of course, is what makes the series similar to "Nikita" and "Buffy." Not only are these protagonists linked by smarts and self-sufficiency; they are prisoners of their own bad luck. Having been assigned jobs they never applied for, they still try to rid planet Earth of sinister forces with type-A zeal. But given the chance, they'd trade in their white hats for ordinary lives -- you know, love, stability, no blood on your hands. Which makes for a different action dynamic. "Anyone can write a tough guy," said Patrick Hasburgh, executive producer of the television version of "The Net." "Bringing a female sensibility to that kind of character expands it 10 times. There's a kind of truthfulness to the violence and a sense of how painful it really all is." In this way, Gellar, Wilson and Langton inhabit three of the most complex and unusual female characters on television. To be sure, there are plenty of examples of shows with strong, competent, reflective women, but, with the possible exception of "Xena: Warrior Princess," they are spoon-fed to us as colorful personalities that exist within the ensemble population of, say, a law office or a police station or a Federation starship. That Buffy, Nikita and Angela are allowed to drive the story has something to do with the fact that the WB and USA networks have neither the budget nor the viewership to compete with the Big Three, so they have no recourse but to be experimental. That these shows bore the names of feature films allowed the shows' creators and executives alike to reason that at least these experiments came with a built-in promotional hook. Each project had a cult following. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," for example, was No. 1 in video rentals more than once. Be it a large cult or a small one, that's still thought of as an incremental edge in the netherworld that is weblets or basic cable. "There you are, buried up on channel 39 or something and competing against the traditional networks with very lean resources," said Rod Perth, USA's former president, who acquired the rights to "La Femme Nikita" and "The Net" because he wanted his roster of shows to include "assertive, pro-active female leads." "A project based on a feature gave me viewer awareness without putting a nickel behind marketing." Such is the redemptive power of television. After all, if the overblown heroism of Kevin Costner's 1997 bomb "The Postman" were toned down, would it be impossible to envision a postapocalyptic drifter saving mankind on a weekly basis? And given the success of CBS' "Martial Law," starring Sammo Hung, is it that big a leap to see "The Replacement Killers" -- a middling 1998 action flop starring Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino -- rejiggered into a series? (He's a Hong Kong hit man who got a conscience! She's a high-priced forger who looks good in gauzy half-tops!) The possibilities are endless. Somebody someday may even have a bright idea about "My Giant." - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:09:28 -0500 From: genevieve@gist.com (Genevieve Faulkner) Subject: BUFFY: NB at Fangoria in NYC Info about Fangoria... It Sunday Jan 17, at the New Yorker Hotel in NYC. Fangoria is also on Sat., but Nick is only there Sunday. The number to the hotel is (212)971-0101, and tickets are $17 from Ticketmaster. They are $20 at the door. The times are 12pm to 7pm. I called Ticketmaster and figured out that after all the extra charges, it will be cheaper to buy tickets at the door. Also, this saves us if NB does not show up. It happened before: ASH was scheduled to appear at an event, but someone in his family got sick. If you want more info go to Buffy.com to the "Lounge" area, then there is a link to the Community Board. It gives info there. I have no idea how it works to get an autograph. There is the option of preferred seating for $35, and that guarantees a chance with him. You may have to call Tickmaster for those tickets. You should probably email me off list with any questions, and I will you give details on where and when to meet. I would not have posted this on list, but I had many people asking me about it. Genevieve I'm a Buffaholic, I'm a Cordy Girl, "Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass."(KBD)-- My new motto to live by. Love ya, Cordelia! Guardian of Cordelia's Homecoming disapointment, and heartbreak (two defining moments in Cordy's life) I'm Spike's slave--and proud of it! I'm a GASPer, keeper of Giles' "Burt Reynolds"-like status - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:45:01 PST From: "Mz. Gwyn" Subject: Re: BUFFY: Books Katie I'm getting ready to do a shameless plug here but if you go to my web site at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/8961/store/nb-store.html You will be getting an entire list of buffy related cataloge, except for clothing that I have for sale, today - tonight I will be adding a pre-order for the Xander Cronicles and the Buffy postcards. Come check it out. Ciao Ms. Gwyn <> ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:54:27 -0500 From: Ryan Harrington Subject: BUFFY: Spoilers for the next few eps TV Guide ish episodes summaries for the next three eps * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Gingerbread" Jan. 12 THE SUNNTYDALE WITCH HUNT - Picking the worst possible night for a surprise "mother-daughter bonding" visit with Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Joyce (Kristine Sutherland) is haunted by the discovery of two murdered children and feels compelled to take drastic action. When Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) suggests that the killings appear to be an occult sacrifice, Joyce rallies the entire adult population of Sunnydale behind, a Salem-like witch hunt, leading the murderous mob directly to Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Buffy. Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter, David Boreanaz and Seth Green also star. James Whitmore Jr. directed the episode, teleplay by Jane Esperson, story by Thania St. John & Jane Esperson (#3ABB11). "Band Candy" Jan.18 "Helpless" Jan.19 COMING OF AGE - For her upcoming 18th birthday, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) eschews her friends' offer of a big party, hoping to celebrate with quiet reflection and a traditional trip to the ice show with her father. But unbeknownst to Buffy, preparations are being made for a life-threatening rite of passage that drains the slayer of her powers and then entraps her with a powerful vampire foe that she must defeat in a defenseless state in order to pass the test. Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, David Boreanaz and Seth Green also star. James A. Contner directed the episode written by David Fury (#3ABB12). "The Zeppo" Jan. 26 ODD MAN OUT - Xander's(Nicholas Brendon) lack of slaying superpowers has him feeling painfully expendable, but his quest to prove he's cool leads him to an unforgettable night that finds him consorting with fast women, raising the dead and rolling with a dangerous crowd that could put Sunnydale. in a world of hurt. Meanwhile, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) and the rest of the crew engage in a furious battle with an all-female apocalypse cult that intends to reopen the Hellmouth and bring about the end of the world. Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, David Boreanaz and Seth Green also star, James Whitmore Jr, directed the episode written by Dan Vebber (#3ABB13). Is it me or does "The Zeppo" sound pretty cool? Ryan Harrington * ryanh@intermediatn.net * http://members.xoom.com/darlafan "Close your eyes"- Said by both Darla and Buffy to Angel (both right before they killed him). Keeper of Darla's voice & smart @$$ attitude - - ------------------------------ End of buffy-digest V3 #15 ************************** To subscribe to buffy or buffy-digest, send the command subscribe buffy-digest or subscribe buffy to majordomo@xmission.com. You will need to go through a confirmation process, and the listowners have to manually approve your subscription request, so it may take some time. Back issues of this digest can be found at: ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/lists/buffy/archive/ For help, contact Jill Kirby (jtkirby@mcs.com) or sah (romana@mindspring.com)