I knew this day would come

Just saw the very first episode of Buffy, directed by Charles Martin Smith- Toad from American Graffiti- it's my fourth overall, after Hush (tres Clive Barker), Once More, With Feeling (hellllooo, piano bar requests! Is there a score out, I wonder?), and the last one. Immediate reactions (other than being amused that I am apparently the last person in the Western hemisphere to follow this show; I remember when a friend of mine introduced me to the movie's director, back around the time of its release. No, I didn't ask her what it was like to work with both Pee Wee Herman and Roy Batty; tempting, though.):

-Giles, you're simply pre-OoTP Remus Lupin after a Polyjuice binge, aren't you?

-"You look like DeBarge!" *CACKLE* (The show seems to be disagreeing with itself at points as to exactly how scary vs. funny it's going to be- but early days yet.)

-Wow, the guy Buffy fights in the crypt really does remind me of an uberjerk from high school; pity nothing worse happens to him.

-For a first episode, I'm digging it; this being the Whedonverse, I'm expecting character death in 3... 2...

(Man: between Torchwood- my rented disc of which froze just as an alien thingie was turning someone into lunchmeat before a horrified policewoman's¹ eyes- and this, I really am going to have to take the Nestea plunge with Netflix.)


Also: Apparently, Tim Burton is about to make a feature-length version of Frankenweenie. (Incidentally, if you ever watch the original short, keep an eye peeled for the blond girl billed as "Domino"- that's the young Sofia Coppola, who- apart from directing Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette- also starred in one of my favorite music videos.)




¹This would be Gwen, if I recall my LJ-gleaned facts correctly. Hello, Gwen; I hear you're quite nifty when the DVD you're on is in better shape.

(Also, Waffle House today!)

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Via interactiveleaf: Retroactive super-sizing with Jesus.

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Here's to the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of cinema's greatest: happy 100th birthday, Kurosawa-san.