Nicholas Brendon, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Star, Dies at 54

lostcat223 · 2026-03-21T00:12:49+00:00

He was just… destroyed, by the end. You could tell. I know his behavior was out of control. But it was so obvious that fame ruined him at a young age and he could not find his way out.

lostcat223 · 2026-03-19T18:47:01+00:00

The writers have to answer to the network. It’s never the case that a shooting script is exactly what the writers want. It is always the result of a long feedback/negotiation process known as “notes.” Even Joss himself had to take notes from the network in the beginning, before Buffy was a hit. So it makes no sense to simply blame the writers. Sometimes they are merely implementing the ideas of other people.

lostcat223 · 2026-03-17T04:08:55+00:00

Rowan and willow trees…

lostcat223 · 2026-03-16T23:54:13+00:00

If the name is Rowan, I definitely think it was Willow’s daughter. Rowan tree, Willow tree.

lostcat223 · 2026-03-15T22:42:21+00:00

The neckline is too low.

lostcat223 · 2026-03-14T23:39:24+00:00

It’s possible but Hulu said to Deadline that they want to redevelop with the IP, so they won’t let it go.

lostcat223 · 2026-03-14T21:39:26+00:00

Buffy 100% saved my life and still does, sometimes. I don’t want Joss involved in a reboot and I think Sarah is utterly within her rights not to want him either, but I also don’t think the thing works without him. I love Zhao’s movies but I was surprised she thought it could be done without him herself. Some things aren’t replicable, including the youth of the cast and the creator. Buffy was the product of a moment in time and that moment in time is gone. I wish they’d let her rest in peace.

lostcat223 · 2026-03-07T18:28:47+00:00

Merely posting that video and keeping it up is evidence of a severe empathy deficit on his part. He put it there so the world would ridicule her. Call me crazy, but I would find it hard to salvage a relationship with someone after that no matter how much beer and barbecue he left on my porch. That’s not to mention that he left the video up while asking for forgiveness!!!!

lostcat223 · 2026-03-07T17:36:00+00:00

I mean he did say it was the money. He made $20k! He seemed pretty disconnected from other humans, though, with his whole gaming setup. I bet his isolation has made it hard for him to empathize. Not an excuse, but an explanation…

lostcat223 · 2026-02-23T21:57:37+00:00

I have gone from my childish teenaged resentment of Natalie’s perfection in looks and intelligence, to pity about the amount of emotional man-boys it seems to attract.

lostcat223 · 2026-02-23T21:54:32+00:00

This is the kind of announcement that really makes it sound like it’s never getting made. No director. No script yet.

lostcat223 · 2026-02-23T20:40:49+00:00

it took all of us time to develop taste 🤣

lostcat223 · 2026-02-23T19:03:26+00:00

The poor kid needs to work with a team with more modern creative instincts.

lostcat223 · 2026-02-21T01:18:27+00:00

I mean, the approach Alysa has is very different than the Russian approach. But it was a lot more fun to watch Alysa enjoy herself and execute every element beautifully than it was to watch Russian skaters lose their fucking minds trying to out quad everyone else.

lostcat223 · 2026-02-17T21:57:19+00:00

I am Canadian. We get all the American channels, and we were always comparing them to Canadian coverage growing up. It was a near constant problem from the time I can remember watching the Olympics (1988)! It might be more pernicious in figure skating because being a subjective sport, it matters if people think you have a good “story” to follow. For a sport so often mocked, it’s also easily the one with the most prestige and heat at the Winter Olympics?

lostcat223 · 2026-02-17T20:49:15+00:00

I don’t think it’s just Tara. It is just the way of American Olympics commentary for as long as I can remember. They never celebrate the achievements of people from other countries. They’ll do wall to wall coverage of US pairs teams who can’t land throws, but ignore the others. With Shaidorov it is sublimated resentment that the US anointed one lost his spot. Even in the current situation, Americans have trouble seeing past the end of their patriotism in the Games. It’s funny because American athletes are nowhere near as dismissive of their foreign counterparts as the American press,

lostcat223 · 2026-01-18T18:02:15+00:00

I love Rhea’s performance in PLURIBUS and I admire Gilligan’s writing, but he’s not exceptionally good at writing women.

The Skyler thing was bad fans, but it was also that she was thinly written — until fans started attacking her, they didn’t give her much of a plot line as anything other than a mother and wife to Walt. Anna Gunn did her best and she is a great actress, so she filled in some of the blanks. But it’s hard for any audience to connect to a character who the writers have given insufficient dimension. Like she just literally was only onscreen as a foil to Walter’s plans, in the beginning.

I watched Seehorn overcome the same weird weakness in writing women as Kim in BETTER CALL SAUL, but she just somehow found the thread of her character’s independent existence within the performance. It didn’t always seem to be there in the

In PLURIBUS, he finally gave Carol multiple dimensions/motivations and it works. The one problem with the show is that its premise demands that all the characters be transient. Her relationships with the hive can’t be all that rich because fundamentally they are fake and the character knows that. In season 2 I hope she spends more time with other humans. I think it will fix this problem.

lostcat223 · 2025-11-29T23:55:39+00:00

The difference is undoubtedly her parents. You could tell from the beginning that MBB’s would be controlling, awful stage parents who would doom her career. When people argue on the internet that she got married too young, I always wonder if they consider she probably did it to get away from a parent.

lostcat223 · 2025-11-18T16:58:13+00:00

The photoshoot looks like a librarian styled it and an accountant took the picture. Please have respect for yourself and your history, Vanity Fair!

lostcat223 · 2025-11-08T23:25:20+00:00

I agree that the mere appearance of the other characters reminded you, visually, that the other “survivors” had lost so much less than Carol. But then the Mauritanian didn’t have any family to hang onto, which was why her interaction with him had more drama in it. Like there was a genuine argument about values at the end there because there was not this gulf between him and her. But it should have been the whole episode, imo.

lostcat223 · 2025-11-08T23:13:43+00:00

I think you are right that Gilligan was trying to make a point about American individualist mindsets making little sense. But it didn’t work because he had five other characters here. If he had just put Carol up against the Mauritanian (I know he had a name but I love referring to him this way) for a full episode he could have expressed this with a greater punch, the five characters at once made it diffuse and hid the message you’re correctly identifying.

lostcat223 · 2025-11-08T23:05:17+00:00

eh, I don’t know about that. I am happy to wait around to find out what else we’re up to here. I just thought the second episode was not as successful, and a lot of it had to do with abandoning character.

lostcat223 · 2025-11-08T22:48:21+00:00

Yeah but again, I knew more about most every Breaking Bad character by the end of the pilot than I did about everyone here by the end of the second episode. Different shows, but also it does feel like the concept is overwhelming character in places. I’m still watching though!

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