::sigh:: a voice that melts

i was thinking about my campaign to have Joyce DeWitt elected President in 2004, when i suddenly wondered, "hey! what happened to the Ropers?" i never knew. all i remember was suddenly having Ralph Furley.

questions such as this are why god/Al Gore created the internet: the Ropers got their own series. i'm sure most of you already knew. a lot of the time, i'm a real dumb-ass when it comes to pop culture, but i think i can be forgiven for not knowing this. it looks to have lasted only one year, and because i don't even recognize the theme song, i'm certain that i'd never watched it.

anyway, vote Joyce DeWitt in 2004!

in the same vein as the "Haven't talked Trek in a while" post on Monday this week, here's my "Haven't talked Buffy comics in a while" post:

the Dark Horse website gives the Tales of the Slayer TPB a publication date of yesterday, which would explain why i haven't been able to find it, though they sent me an email notice two months ago saying it was available.

beginning next month, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer title begins a three issue arc ("Death of Buffy") covering events soon after Buffy's death at the end of season five, including how the Scoobs decided to bring her back.

Fray #6 is set for release at the end of March, with #7 in May and the conclusion in July. all of those dates are subject to change, of course. iirc, Fray #8 was originally set for last month, but hey, i can wait for it.

and some news from the DH Buffy zone: a new Willow and Tara limited series is in the works (check the front page for the story). GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has nominated Buffy the Vampire Slayer as one of the five best comics for 2002. The American Library Association has awarded Buffy: Ring of Fire an award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. And in the second week of January, Diamond Comics named Buffy: Haunted #1 (written by Jane Espenson) the top reordered comic, beating Superman #600 and Dark Knight Strikes Back #1.

there's an unofficial, anonymous source type thing saying that Warners has decided to release the rest of Babylon 5 on DVD. that should make some people very happy.

oh yeah, also saw "The Score" and "Two Can Play That Game." liked both, though watching either again by my own choice isn't likely.

i saw "O" this weekend. i didn't have the foggiest idea of what it was about until The Boyfriend told me "It's based on Othello." i thought that sounded cool. i didn't realize it was the inbred offspring of "Basketball Diaries" and "Romeo + Juliet," which, course, makes me wonder, 'is Josh Harnett the Leo DiCaprio of the new millennium?' feh.

honestly, the movie wasn't bad. i liked it. but i don't understand why the advertisements for the DVD release call it 'the controversial' film. i didn't think it was all that controversial.

also, if your planning to buy it and have a choice, there's no need to buy the "Deluxe Two Disc DVD!" i thought the bonus features sucked.


saw "Bubble Boy" too. added it to my Must Have list.

Xena Actor Smith Dies : New Zealand actor Kevin Smith, best known for his role as Ares in Xena: Warrior Princess, died from jnjuries sustained in a fall on Feb. 6.

KITTY LITTER BOX IS A PORTAL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION or TALKING FRENCH FRY SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE

anyone see the cover of the Weekly World News? check it out on the newsstand. Osama has been photographed hanging out on a nude beach. also, Al Gore is missing, and they have some Al-on-milk-cartons that cracked me up.

interesting: Supreme Court upholds school grading practice.

doubly so: Supreme Court to decide online copyright debate.

a friend of The Boyfriend stopped by for a while last night, just as Angel was coming on. she (the friend) had never seen the show before.

keeping in mind such scenes as the one from the ep "Carpe Noctem" (Cordy tells Marcus-as-Angel that he should tell puppy-love-Fred that the office is no place for romance. Marcus-as-Angel checks out his clothing and surmises that Angel must be gay), the friend sees the scene in last night's ep with Angel talking with the Host, and says 'Are they some kind of demon gay couple?' i giggled.

anyway, by the end of the episode, i was yelling at Angel "your hair goes straight up and you're bloody stupid! if you don't tell her dumb-ass, she won't know!" please, Cordy, the Groo? not cute. whether long haired and animal pelt clad or trimmed and Angel-clothes clad, not cute. and i caught that Battlefield Earth thing. yes, Groo does look like John Travolta.

and what was with Groo's eyes? first half of the show, they were brown. last half, this weird blue. thus, Groo's a demon and Angel must kill him.

why the hell doesn't someone slap Angel?

as for the Wesley-Gunn-Fred triangle, poor Wesley! i'm sad for him and all, because i like Wesley and he's sad, but i kinda like thinking that's he's not sad that Fred didn't choose him. instead, he's sad that Gunn didn't choose him. yeah, i'm a delusional Wesley/Gunn 'shipper, and i'll seize anything i can to support the thesis that they were meant for each other (hey, i can't be any more delusional than those Buffy/Angel 'shippers, right?).

summary: Angel needs bitchslappin'. Fred should jump back. Groo should die. horribly.

i haven't mentioned Star Trek in a while, so i'll fill the void.

i got way too excited last night when i discovered that the Voyager ep "Body and Soul" was on. it's one of my favorite episodes, true, but i like to limit how much i geek out (that's why i've known for more than a month that "The Inner Light," my favorite TNG ep, will be showing on TNN on the 26th at 10:30pm CST, and i really do have it marked on my calendar. yeah, i'm not too geeky). it was the first time i thought of Jeri Ryan as anything other than the bimbo in the tight costume.

<insert segue> bimbo in tight costume: i know it can take a while before the actors and writers get really comfortable with the roles on a series, but i'm still waiting for more from V'ulcan B'abe on Enterprise. really, how hard is it to act completely disinterested in everything and speak in a monotone? Robert Beltran did it for almost the entire last half of the Voyager series (up until the whole romance with Seven, which the writers seemed to have pulled out of their asses. where'd the hell did that come from? it was probably one of Beltran's contractual options: 'Few interesting scenes in exchange for kissing Jeri Ryan,' which, if you think about it, isn't all the bad for a heterosexual actor. if it'd been me, i would have demanded the right to frolic nude through Janeway's season one hair).

<insert another witty segue> geek: Why the Klingons would beat the crap out of the Hirogen. that one goes beyond my geek threshold.

i hope that's enough Star Trek to hold everyone for a while. for now, i return you to your regularly scheduled Buffy obsessiveness.