Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
@Kg4, good luck with the job. Unfortunately I've got always been a bit too scared to balls up my computer to try all this region changing shenanigans with the Japanese games, not to mention installing god knows how many bits of software, I actually wish there was an easier way of doing it or at least a translation.
Buffy isn't really in the same league as narnia. It's a tv series about a 16 year old girl at school and her friends who has been born the slayer and has the power to kill vampires by pounding on them repeatedly with martial arts. Episodes involve buffy and her friends dealing with various supernatural threats like vampires and demons, and of course there is an ongoing story. The premise and world actually I haven't found that unique yet but I'm just loving the series for its amazingly good characterization, very witty dialogue and ongoing story, but then again that is typical of Joss Weaden from what I've seen. We're alive was a wsome, indeed though in genre and tone it is very different from Buffy it does share the fact of having very good characterization, I also went through series 1-3 in around two days flat at the end of last year, then have grabbed the last few episodes as they became available. Funny you should mention audio dramas, I'm starting the Dorian grey series from Big Finish, it's going to be interesting to see how they deal with a different premise from all their Dr. Who related stuff, although they've had some very interesting Dr. Who spinoffs not involving the doctor, which have ranged from the sixties spy series countermeasures, to eclectic victorian Jago and Lightfoot, to the full on epic space war Dalek Empire, and even the sort of weerd semi adult experimental series Graceless, about two girls with close to infinite power to change reality but who have no idea what they're doing.
Still, I'm interested to see what they can do with something outside the wh oniverse.
@Tom, we don't have any of those chains over here, so I can't say anything for certain. In fairness I can't think of the last time I went to Mcdonalds, Kfc or Burger king, ---- oh yeah it was a few years ago when I needed to use their wifi and just bought a mcdonald's coffee .
I actually don't go in for fast food that much, not when for example there is a really nice local sandwich place sinse after all why would I go to somewhere like Subway for something from the freezer when I can go to the Picnic baskit and get a freshly made Sandwich and some very good home made cake, --- same for burgers etc, indeed if I fancie burgers I usually tend to buy my own and do them on the George.
I have the Angel series as well as Buffy and will be starting season 1 when I've finished Season 3 of Buffy (sinse that is apparently where it picks up), then alternating seasons to get the various cross overs, though I do hope Angel has a bit more personality by then as thus far the hole Buffy/angel romance is probably my least favourite part of the plot sinse it's so sort of standard.
On the other hand, things are getting interesting sinse the last story I watched promised some secrets about Giles which I definitely didn't expect, sinse while we didn't know about his background I wasn't sure there was that much to learn, that is going to be interesting to find out, plus Spike is indeed Awsome! Sort of awsome!
Btw, I didn't realize Armin Shimmerman who played Quark in Ds9 was the sarcastic principle in buffy, though it's always nice to see actors doing something utterly different to what you expect albeit it's taking a little getting used to having him as a child hating,totalitarian dictator rather than everyone's favourite dodgy Ferengi barman .
ACtually i really admire Quark, when I came to do "master of the house from Les Miserables", which you can Find here on sendspace I based my idea on a quotation I saw Shimmerman make about how much he loved Quark sinse Quark was always so enthusiastic about everything and absolutely threw himself into being such a scummy character, which is sort of the same way I think about the inkeeper from les Miserables as well.
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