Friday, December 4, 2009

Whedonist ramblings, part 1

Dollhouse, that show about sex slaves that nobody watches and is thus never going to get another season, returns briefly to our screens for the next two months. Given what I know about who's going to be in these episodes (and who's not going to be in episodes after the ones airing tonight), I won't be at all surprised if we hear the line "there are three flowers in a vase" come up tonight. Just sayin'.

That was going to be the extent of my post until I read yet another cracked.com article making fun of Twilight. The fact that it threw Spike in there as an example of an anti-Edward at first didn't gel; as any Buffy fan can tell you, Spike was the most whipped former badass of all time until Edward came along. Then it occured to me that mid-Season Five Spike (I'm thinking specifically the episode "Triangle," where he wants credit for not feeding on bleeding disaster victims, but that just shows you how much of an unforgivable geek I am) is still more badass than Edward. When your main vampire is more pathetic than a chipped, whipped whiner, you're not doing anyone any favors. To round off my descent into unforgivable nerdhood: Spike may be love's bitch, but he's man enough to admit it.

Also? Football good. No beat scrawny geek up, cavemen. Please?

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