Buffy memories! Plus, win a signed ARC!
Happy Mother's Day to all vampires (or non-vampires) out there!
So our theme week is vampires, is it? That's right up my alley. The mother thing...not so much.
I mean, I have a mother. I forced her to watch many episodes of Buffy and Angel with me over the years. And I think she even enjoyed some of it.
Buffy, for me, solidified my vamp love -- after years of enjoying Ann Rice and other vamp fiction (usually, at that time, found in the horror section). It was the first time that I noticed vampires "choosing" to be good and actively fighting their darker natures. This really appealed to me. Buffy's relationships with the vampires in her life -- the slayer falling for the vamp -- was a perfect Romeo/Juliet scenario. What can I say? I'm a sucker for a love story (no pun intended).
Upon reflection of Buffy's relationships with both Angel and Spike, I think I like both of them in different ways. Angel was the self-sacrificing guy with the very dark hidden side. Spike was the unapologetic bad boy who'd do anything for love. Both layered, both interesting, and both -- at the time -- really hot!! The difference to me is that Angel would have chosen to save the world before saving Buffy. And Spike would have saved Buffy before saving the world. So...selfishly speaking, Spike edges Angel out on true pigheaded romance. only one of them actually died to save the Buffster. But luckily in Joss Whedon's world...dying isn't necessarily the end.
I had no idea I was going to talk about Buffy in my post! But I guess my love for that show still burns bright even after it's been gone for five years.
Okay.... whew. That was a lovely walk down television memory lane. I MISS YOU BUFFY AND SPIKE AND ANGEL!!! (Bones just does not do it for me. At all. Sigh.)
I want to give away an ARC (Advance Reading Copy) of the last book in MY vampire series, originally inspired by Buffy -- I started writing the first book when I got the news Buffy had been cancelled -- SOB!! I flipped things around and made my main character a vampire and the bad guys the slayers. I've had so much fun writing the five books and can't believe it's all over in September when TALL, DARK & FANGSOME releases.
Do you want to win a signed copy of this and have a sneak peek? Just leave a comment and tell me about your favorite Buffy or Angel moment. Or, if you've never watched the shows (gasp!!) what is your favorite vampire movie or television show?
I'll randomly pick a winner on Wednesday, May 13th. Good luck!!!
--Michelle
www.michellerowen.com
So our theme week is vampires, is it? That's right up my alley. The mother thing...not so much.
I mean, I have a mother. I forced her to watch many episodes of Buffy and Angel with me over the years. And I think she even enjoyed some of it.
Buffy, for me, solidified my vamp love -- after years of enjoying Ann Rice and other vamp fiction (usually, at that time, found in the horror section). It was the first time that I noticed vampires "choosing" to be good and actively fighting their darker natures. This really appealed to me. Buffy's relationships with the vampires in her life -- the slayer falling for the vamp -- was a perfect Romeo/Juliet scenario. What can I say? I'm a sucker for a love story (no pun intended).
Upon reflection of Buffy's relationships with both Angel and Spike, I think I like both of them in different ways. Angel was the self-sacrificing guy with the very dark hidden side. Spike was the unapologetic bad boy who'd do anything for love. Both layered, both interesting, and both -- at the time -- really hot!! The difference to me is that Angel would have chosen to save the world before saving Buffy. And Spike would have saved Buffy before saving the world. So...selfishly speaking, Spike edges Angel out on true pigheaded romance. only one of them actually died to save the Buffster. But luckily in Joss Whedon's world...dying isn't necessarily the end.
I had no idea I was going to talk about Buffy in my post! But I guess my love for that show still burns bright even after it's been gone for five years.
Okay.... whew. That was a lovely walk down television memory lane. I MISS YOU BUFFY AND SPIKE AND ANGEL!!! (Bones just does not do it for me. At all. Sigh.)
I want to give away an ARC (Advance Reading Copy) of the last book in MY vampire series, originally inspired by Buffy -- I started writing the first book when I got the news Buffy had been cancelled -- SOB!! I flipped things around and made my main character a vampire and the bad guys the slayers. I've had so much fun writing the five books and can't believe it's all over in September when TALL, DARK & FANGSOME releases. Do you want to win a signed copy of this and have a sneak peek? Just leave a comment and tell me about your favorite Buffy or Angel moment. Or, if you've never watched the shows (gasp!!) what is your favorite vampire movie or television show?
I'll randomly pick a winner on Wednesday, May 13th. Good luck!!!
--Michelle
www.michellerowen.com
Comments
Hope you enjoyed yourself at the Charlatan party and at RT.
One of my favorite Spike moments was when he was being tortured trying to get his soul back, in hopes that Buffy would then return his love. Spike really would do anything for love. Sigh...I am a sucker for Spike, always have and always will be.
Debi Murray
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Spike: Hey, big guy. Need another car. 'Fraid this last one ended up in the drink.
[pause]
Angel: Spike...
Spike: Look at you.
Angel: Spike, just turn around and walk away.
Spike: You're a...
Angel: Spike!
Spike: You're a bloody puppet!
I loved that episode. That whole hour was just hilarious.
As for Buffy, I don't think I have one moment that rocks. There are a bunch of ones that come to mind - the musical was awesome - but that makes me bust out and giggle like Smile Time did.
Angel: What are you people lookin' at? Well?
Spike: They're lookin' at the wee little puppet man.
Angel - season 4 ep, while Angelus is on the loose. Wesley goes to tell Faith (who's in jail) that Angel needs her help. She doesn't even hesitate, just busts out of jail. I love that entire episode.
Buffy - series finale, that final moment in the corridor. Giles watching Buffy, Xander, and Willow walk away chatting about shopping and food. Just pulls it all full circle.
But what would my fave vampire TV show be? Kindred: The Embraced. : )
I have never seen Buffy the TV Series or Angel, but I have seen the original Buffy movie in the theater. My favorite vampire movie must still be Interview With the Vampire. I have read all three of your Immortality Bites books. Excellent! (PS Have you read the Queen Betsy books?) Anyway, I would love to have an ARC (I had to Twitter to find out what that was) & signed *gasp - she touched THIS book!* :)
Keep on writing. Please. There is hardly anything on TV & I need your books.
Loved every single episode with even a glimpse of Angel's perfect chest it affected me to the extent that upon my first glimpse of my husbands chest he was greeted with a "OMG you have an Angel chest!" at which point I pounced then we cut to happilly ever after music and fade to black.... oh the memories! ;-)
My fav Buffy moment, what heartbreak when Angel and Buffy finally "get together". And then all hell breaks loose, literally. But the music was so lovely and tragic.
Though the "Once More, With Feeling" ep was so cool. Who thought you could do an all singing all dancing dramadey??
I followed Buffy the Series closely for a few years but dropped it after Angel left. I was utterly crushed, but thankfully, I had Angel the series to look forward to.
I had briefly given up on all things vampy until I joined another library and saw a shelf of Anita Blake books. Quickly exhausted the supply, jumped to the Queen Betsy Books, exhausted that too, and found your first book in the Immortality Bites but had to wait on the jerk who had it overdue for a few days. That's the only one the library had :(.
I have to say thanks for contributing to my vamp summer reading fest! I can't wait to read TDF and I'll probably be crying because it'd be the last time to read about the gang!
Alright, maybe not the favorite scene, but it's somehow memorable. lol
Also, love the whole musical ep!!!
I do love Spike!!!
Sign me up for the contest.
Can't even shout, can't even cry
The Gentlemen are coming by.
Looking in windows, knocking on doors,
They need to take seven and they might take yours.
Can't call to mom, can't say a word,
You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
You can still enjoy season 8 of Buffy in comic book form. Joss Whedon is over seeing the series. I never read comic books but I love this series so much. They are up to #24, it rocks!
As for favorite Buffy/Angel/Spike moment, I tried to think of one & couldn't decide. I loved them all. I was less of a fan of Riley, who wasn't "touch of evil" enough to fill Angel or Spike's shoes.
p.s. Just finished Stakes & Stiletto's which I enjoyed very much - does that get me bonus points? :)
Also another favorite park is in the series finale, after Buffy and Angel kiss, Buffy goes to talk to Spike and he is punching the punching bag with a drawing of Angel taped on it... LOVED IT!!
So excited for this book!!!
Gosh. Buffy and Spike. Buffy and Angel. So that's where Lost came up with Kate/Sawyer/Jack, huh? We're behind here in NZ so Jack's still save the world first, whereas Sawyer is save Kate and then the world.
Can't comment on fav Buffy scene as I honestly can't remember, it's been so long since it screened in NZ. But fav vampire movies (excluding such splatterfests as From Dusk Till Dawn) are
1. Underworld: I love that whole angst-ridden vampire loving a lycan aspect.
2: a steam-punk vampire movie filmed in NZ called Perfect Creature...awesome take on the vampire mythos.
As for romantic moments in either the Buffy or Angel series, I don't have one. Really. Bear in mind, I've yet to see the final series in either shows. However, I just pine for the day when Weasley gets the girl.
("They got the mustard out!")
loved angel but in the end wanted him with cordy!
Fav Buffy moment - Final season of Buffy when Angel & Spike are arguing. Buffy threatens to oil them up and let them duke it out, but then starts fantasizing of being the filling in an Angel/Spike sandwich. Funny and sexy at the same time!
My favorite vampire movie is The Lost Boys and my favorite TV show was Forever Knight.
My favorite Buffy episode is "The Body". Beautiful writing that had nothing to do with vampires.
I really like Bones, I think Davids' acting has improved since his Buffy days.
Can you believe I never saw Buffy or Angel!! I don't watch much TV or movies. But I did see MOONLIGHT and so miss that show! I loved Mick on that! I do love that they tied up the show nicely so that it had an HEA ending. Its on again now on another channel (not sure which) if people missed it. I do plan to get the first season of both Buffy so that I can start watching and see what I missed!
Love to be in for the ARC. Thanks!
Goosebumps!!
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I used to write some of the supplements for the Buffy/Angel RPG's, back when Eden Studios still had the license. Part of the process of putting out any kind of role-playing game book is to have people playtest it; basically go through and see what works in an actual game and what doesn't, as well as just catching things you might have gotten wrong.
Game Geek 101. The point of all that is one of the playtesters was running a game at a Con at the time that I was working on the a "Welcome To Sunnydale" book. He was using characters from that particular book, including Willow's Season 7 girlfriend Kennedy.
Who should be at the convention and decide that she wants to sit in on the game and play Kennedy? Iyari Limon, the actress who played Kennedy.
The reason I find out about any of this is that the guy emails the playtest group and says that Iyari thought some of her stats in the game should be different. I figure she knows the character better than I do, so I make the changes.
Then it occurs to me that, technically, this makes Iyari Limon a playtester for the Welcome to Sunnydale book. She played, she tested, she had ideas about how it could be improved. I'm listing her as a playtester in the credits of the book. Sadly, Eden lost the license and the book still hasn't been released yet.
Still, I am fairly certain that this is the first time an actor ever playtested the character they actually portrayed for a licensed role-playing game.
There are people who hate Kennedy because she ain't Tara, but I have no problems with her at all. Kennedy is a-ok in my book :)
The whole "Drusila made me a vampire but you made me a monster" speech.
The way Spike reacts when he finds out Drusilla has also been sleeping with the Immortal.
On Buffy itself, I love The Body and Anya's speech is always the one that makes me tear up. Just a little. In a manly way.
One of Willow's first conversations with Oz always makes me laugh. Oz asks if they always break into military bases for fun and Willow replies that they don't have cable so they have to make their own fun.
So many favorite moments. Between Buffy and Angel, that's a dozen years of win to choose from.
tehashley(at)yahoo(dot)com
Katee
I will have to settle on the musical.
too much fun!
I also loved Smile Time and the scene where Spike discovers his "affliction."
Fave Spike episode, where he had the robot that looked like Buffy. You know, before he actually got Buffy.
It's impossible to pick just one favorite moment, so I picked three:
-the episode of Buffy where she and Angelus are fighting while Willow tries to restore Angel's soul and she does, but it's too late and Buffy has to kill him anyway.
- the crossover episode with Buffy visiting Angel and he became mortal again and got to eat food for the first time in centuries, and they could make love with nothing bad happening, but at the end he had time turned back so she wouldn't remember
- and episode of Angel where Spike and Angel go flying off to Europe to "save" Buffy
Great Contest!
Tabatha
but for a fav episode.
I loved when they were up agains Dracula... I love when Spike says
Dracula? Poncy bugger owes me £11, for one thing........
And when Xander is like yes ohhh I will serve you, your Excellent Spookiness.
Buffy says why did you come here to meet a Slayer... Dracula says Why else would I come here? For the sun?
Priceless........ I might be a little slightly obsessive.
I thought the world was going to end at that episode! As much of a badass Angeles was, I adored Angel.
'who's the wittle tiny demon?"
Lurved Illyria, though.
Only one favourite! Hmm... I do love the scene in Buffy at the end of the episode when Jenny is killed and Angel us doing a voiceover. But a great happier moment is when Buddy, Willow and Xander are waling in college and Xander yells "nothing can defeat the penis!"
As for Angel, I love the part in the last episode where Illyria pretends to be Fred for Wes as he dies :( waaaa
"I started it, the whole having a soul, before it was all the cool new thing."---Angel
There's too many episodes going around in my head and every time I think I've found my one favorite episode, I remember something from another one! If I have to chose, I will pick (and it's a tie) The Girl In Question and Not Fade Away. The Girl in Question made me laugh (Oops, but not as much as Tabula Rasa) I have watched Not Fade Away countless times and still cry at Wesley's death scene (but I still cry when Buffy leaves Spike in the Buffy finale, too) And then there's Smile Time when Angel is a wee little puppet man, and when Cordelia dies, and when Wesley sits with Fred when Illyria is taking over her body, and every episode with Faith.
Forget it. I'm not choosing. I love them all!
leaves the post singing Barry Manilow songs
I loved Buffy and Spike together! The last scene where Buffy tells Spike she loves him and he says : No you dont, but thanks" I wanted to go into the tv and kill, lmao!!!!
My fav scene with them two was probably when they are talking kinda about there relationship and what may happen after the big fight. When Spike said that was the best night of his life *the night they cuddled and talked* *dreamy sigh* He's so damn hot!!! :D
I am SO looking forward to Tall, Dark and Fangsome! I so love this series!!
Buffy: I kill your kind.
Spike: And I bite yours. So how come I don't wanna bite you? And why am I fightin' other vampires? I must be a noble vampire. A good guy. On a mission of redemption. I help the hopeless. I'm a vampire with a soul.
Buffy: A vampire with a soul? Oh my god, how lame is that?
Buffy: My diary? You read my diary? That is *not* okay! A diary is like a person's most private place! I... You don't even know what I was writing about! 'Hunk' can mean a lot of things, bad things. And, and when it says that your eyes are 'penetrating', I meant to write 'bulging'.
Angel: Buffy...
Buffy: And 'A' doesn't even stand for 'Angel' for that matter, it stands for... 'Achmed', a charming foreign exchange student, so that whole fantasy part has nothing to even do with you at all...
Angel: Your mother moved your diary when she came in to straighten up. I watched from the closet. I didn't read it, I swear.
Spike: I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
Buffy: The Cliff Notes version? I want a normal life. Like I had before.
Angel: Before me.
Buffy: No, Angel, it's not you. You're the one freaky thing in my freaky world that still makes sense to me. I just get messed sometimes. I wish we could be regular kids.
Angel: Yeah. I'll never be a kid.
Buffy: Okay, then a regular kid and her cradle robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend
Ter
Lots of fun ahead, I guess :)
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kayanne
I'm so lame that I'm not much of a tv watcher unless it's LOST or something on HGTV. Just think if they added vamps to those shows, just how much more interesting they would be! :-)
I do love your books, even if my love is newfound. I just finished up Bitten and Smitten and will get started on Fanged and Fabulous later tonight. Fabulous work, my dear and I can't wait for your YA title to come out too!
Jen