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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@cmccormack414.bsky.social @lanidianerich.com Tonight's film is a forgotten classic. The Quiet American with Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine based on Americas deepening involvement in Vietnam youtu.be/GWTbf1IiIA4?...

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The Quiet American (2002) | Full Romance Drama Movie | Michael Caine | Brendan Fraser

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@thehistoryguy.bsky.social @kejamieson.bsky.social A book recommendation about the Naval War on Lake Ontario whoops I mean Lake America

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

time guy for Buffy and that helicopter chase. Even Jane Espenson (whose meant to be a Spuffy) has Xander and Anya discussing Riley and Buffys break up post sex like wtf Seriously what was the appeal of this character that I somehow missed even on the rewatch 20 years later, I don't get it ???

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

cool Riley is. As You Were was basically Riley fanfiction. He also said there were huge debates in the writers room over who should win the Angel/Riley fight with Angel only just winning out because he had the spin off show. Marti Noxon in her episode had 1 character call Riley the once in a life

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

yet the writers clearly loved Riley. Whether it was Joss on the Hush DVD so disappointed he couldn't write the first Buffy/Riley sex scene. He also later gas lit the fans saying the fans didn't want Buffy to be happy over them rejecting him. Doug Petrie on his DVD Commentaries often talks about how

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@cmccormack414.bsky.social @beerwithbuffy.bsky.social @iannitram.bsky.social @lanidianerich.com Question for all Buffy watchers but what the hell did the writers see in the Riley character as I don't get it, I never understood the appeal ? The character was boring, had no chemistry with Buffy

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Its like that Blackadder episode where you can have anything to eat provided its sausages. The announcer on the train saying they have drinks and food but its only for 4 carriages A,B,C,D and if your not in those you cant get a drink also they dont they dont have hot drinks or hot food 😄

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Spike "Shes evil you gormless tit" Angel completely appalled "Did you just call me a tit" 😂😂 Cordelia "you've made a deal with a devil" Angel "you're exaggerating" Devil "Iv got the paper work signed, racket ball Tuesday ?" Angel "yeah sure" 😂😂 @cmccormack414.bsky.social

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Spike back from Sunnydale. Why send him on missions and call himself Doyle as if Angel wouldn't find out ? So yeah its a good episode and Cordy as a character got closure but its not perfect though there are some hilarious scenes and dialogue

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

though its forgotten about by the next episode as is the Wolfram and Hart monster as a fail safe for Angel) but there are some stuff that if Spike biting Cordy as a taste test cliff hanger is ridiculous. Lindsey plan doesnt really make any sense. Why did he dig the Amulet and bring

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So Im glad it happened and the ending with her and Angel is truly touching "Thank you" Plus was Buffy gonna do anything aside from some crappy love triangle stuff with Angel and Spike ? Now I enjoy this episode and the idea of putting Angel back on his path (

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Well because of this they got Charisma Carpenter back as a replacement. Now straight away Im glad this happened. Cordelia was a regular character who deserved closure. To simply have her stuck in a coma forever was a terrible idea.

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@iannitram.bsky.social @lanidianerich.com You're Welcome on the Rewatch For everyone that doesn't know this was meant to be the episode Buffy would be on. SMG couldn't do it, said for a bereavement and Joss Whedon was genuinely angry over this. David Fury and others confirmed this.

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Spike "she's one of us now she's a monster" Angel "she's an innocent victim" Spike "so were we once upon a time" Angel "once upon a time"

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And it even makes Spike introspective giving him some development "The lass thought I killed her family,So what Im supposed to complain that hers wasn't 1 of the Hundreds of families I did kill" For me its one of the best Angel episodes and one of the best of either show. Also that great ending

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

don't know how they managed to get that on TV. This episode is basically a criticism of Buffys Chosen spell as she essentially did this to Dana. I thought it was noticeable Joss never brought Dana back for the S8 comics Her messed up head thinks that Spike murdered her family and tortured her achild

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@lanidianerich.com @iannitram.bsky.social So Damage on the rewatch , even if you don't watch Angel you should definitely watch this 1 episode as its a direct sequel to Buffy finale Chosen, with psychotic Vampire Slayer Dana. Watching her literally hack a person's head off with a saw is grim and I

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

which angered Steve Deknight who wrote it. Fury admitted he thought it would just be a case of simply changing the ending but Deknight was no its a lot more than that

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

was not a David Fury idea but a Joss Whedon one. Now David Fury was no Spuffy fan by any stretch of the imagination but even he was against it. Also they discuss how Angel originally actually won the fight between him and Spike but they changed it at the last minute to Spike winning

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Spike "Give me Wesleys office as hes gone" Angel "He's not gone He's on a leave of absence" Spike "oh bo ho, he thought he'd killed his father, TRY staking your mother when she's coming on to you!" Harmony "wow that explains a lot" 🤣🤣🤣 Interesting fact is that Spike having sex with Harmony

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@iannitram.bsky.social @lanidianerich.com @lackofsurprise.bsky.social So skipping ahead to episode 8 Destiny. Spike is now no longer a ghost and back to normal in this. Its also the episode Wesley isn't in because Alexis Denisof was getting married to Alyson Hannigan. One of the funniest exchanges

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Its a shame because this had the potential of being a decent episode but ruined because of the above

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

2) Angel gives a man away to be eaten alive, like WTF Id love for you to explain this because I can't understand this. Also how did get into the house as he wasn't invited ??? 3) Spike is written badly in this and the Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain clearly had no idea how to write Spike

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@lanidianerich.com @iannitram.bsky.social @lackofsurprise.bsky.social So Unleashed, it could've but wasn't a great episode. 1) The Actress who played Nina was terrible. The actual character is interesting but the actress, whose sole qualification was dating a writer, can't act to save her life

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@iannitram.bsky.social @lanidianerich.com @beerwithbuffy.bsky.social So Iv finished my Buffy Rewatch and am on Season 5 of Angel My Top 10 Buffy episodes in no order Innocence Passion Becoming pt2 The Zeppo The Wish Something Blue Fool For Love Once More With Feeling Selfless Fear Itself

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

some point, but the idea of her rooted somewhere seemed wrong to me. The idea of her constantly on the move seemed right to me. And she broke out of prison (on Angel) so there would have been some people after her."[2]

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

wonderful, but she felt like she wanted to do something new. There is no hard feelings there. But the show was basically going to be Faith meets Kung Fu. It would have been Faith, probably on a motorcycle, crossing the earth, trying to find her place in the world. I'm sure it would get an arc at

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@iannitram.bsky.social @lanidianerich.com @lackofsurprise.bsky.social Reading this pitch and I really wish we had gotten that Faith show. Tim Minear explained some of the details about the spinoff and reasons why it did not happen: "I had come up with a pitch. Eliza was gracious, kind and

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This conversation is gold Wesley "Iv been to a darkness I don't think you could possibly understand" Willow "I flayed a guy alive" 😂😂 Wesley "oh flayed , well I kept a girl in a closet" Willow "Hey thats pretty dark Wesley "No it doesn't compare" 😂😂

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Faith after beating Angelus up "No Im nothing like you" Orpheus Willow "So your Angels androgynous son" Connor "Its Connor" Willow "And the sneers genetic, who knew" 😂

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

So Salvage/Release and Orpheus Salvage - Wesley to Faith in Prison "Angels gone Faith, Angelus is back" Faith "Step away from the glass" Such a great moment Release- The fight scene between Angelus and Faith is really great Angelus "You're a murder and an animal and you enjoy it, just like me"

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

DB Woodside gives a great peformance as Wood even though its clear they had no idea what to do with his character (why did he bury Jonathans Corpse) But those are moments. Any future rewatch I might just Watch 9 and skip straight to 15 which Iv not started yet I should add

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

and there are individual things I like in them like Spike realising Buffy is real at the end of Showtime Xander speech to Dawn in Potential Adam Busch peformance as Willow in Killer in Me Giles brilliant deadpan delivery with his flash cards in First Date and Spike trying to tackle him 😄

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Caleb shows up later in the season as the writers realised they need something for Buffy to hit. And there's some real cringe. Xanders gay me up line is 🙈. The fact Willow is sleeping with a 15 year old which is only not commented on because the actress is older. Now I don't want to be to negative

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

old and a bit racist very fast and that was during 2003 as well so its not a time issue thing. The First Evil shows up and makes a threat. Everyone sells it like it's death then Buffy makes a let's all stand together speech rinse and repeat and they do it every episode. That's actually the reason

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So episodes 11/12/13 and 14, they all just blur Locations are now just basically Buffys house 😬 I just want something different to look at ! Its focus is on the Potentials who I don't care about and adding new ones each episode doesn't help. Plus the joke with the Asian potential Chao-Ahn gets

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@iannitram.bsky.social @lanidianerich.com One Sci-fi show that you might like to try is Life on Mars. A man Sam Tyler is investigating a string of murders in 2006 and then wakes up in 1973. Is he mad, in a coma or back in time, he doesn't know. youtu.be/NEBuJFyErWI?...

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Sam Tyler Wakes Up in 1973 (Life on Mars)

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

are actually. A lot of wasted potential no pun intended 😄

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

a guy in rubber costume. Also Spike's line about The Slayer and her boy and Xanders outrage over it always makes me chuckle. If I had 1 issue it was more that Willows issues were about whether her friends still liked her and not what she'd done. Id forgotten how good these early season 7 episodes

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

good is maybe to good given the next episode we get lines about Smelly Spike which don't gel well Same Time Same Place is also really well done and Gnarll was an excellent Demon literally peeling strips of skin off Willow to eat was creepy. Less is more anqd so we as an audience weren't just seeing

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Watched Beneath You and the episode is actually pretty good but its all about that final church scene. Its just so well shot. Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Marsters bring there A Game for this, was maybe to well done as the next episide (that scene had been rescripted and reshot) while really

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I finished Season 6 on my rewatch and Dark Willow should've happened earlier in the season imo. It was to short for just 3 episodes. Start it off in E14/15 and have her develop her powers from there. Also I despise Normal Again on rewatch.A true failure of writing and any future rewatch Ill skip it

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I think its great. Fantastic writing, a very dark British sense of humour but ignore the first season. You can skip straight to the 2nd with the Queen Elizabeth era. The 3rd is the Regency period and the the 4th in WW1 is the best with one of the best series finale Iv seen for a TV series.

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Blackadder

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

He'd mellowed a bit by Angel Season 5. He makes plain the Harmony/Spike sex scene was a Joss scene in Destiny not his youtu.be/rmor4Axnufo?...

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Angel Commentary Track - (S5E08) "Destiny"

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just curious but have you or Ian ever tried Blackadder ? youtu.be/R7ylFCbgo0Q?...

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Prince Woos a Bride | Blackadder | BBC

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

name on it wasn't the way to go !

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

season finale. Joss Whedon said he had an originally a 5 year plan for the show. Maybe he should've stuck to that rather than getting greedy for 2 more years. Who knows Ill find out when I finish 6 and 7 on the rewatch! But if you want to keep Buffys death a secret maybe a big gravestone with her

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Geraint @geraint.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So I finished Weight of the World and The Gift That whole Ben is Glory joke would work better if Id not heard it constantly being repeated for the last 20 years 🤨 That aside I still enjoyed the episode. The Gift... I can't help feel this would've worked better if it had been the series rather than a

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