While it is one thing to post Spoilers for an episode that has already aired in the US (and notice I keep them out of the initial part of my blog entries so folks in the UK or who have had eps pre-empted don’t have to see them), I’ve given it some thought and am not going to allow deliberate spoilers of shows that haven’t hit the airwaves yet.

At the VERY least, I am requiring that such posts use the “invisible” format which, if anyone is confused, I’m sure Glenn will be happy to post a reminder of how to use it. [Spoiler text can be made invisible by surrounding the text with <font color=”#bdc4df”> and </font> and reminders are now above the Post Comment button so you have no excuse– GH] Posts which do not make any endeavor to do anything except wreck upcoming events–such as that put up by “Spoiler Boy” over in the “Angel” thread–I will simply delete, as I’ve done with that particular post on the off-chance there are those who haven’t seen it yet.

Personally, I despise advance spoilers, because they can make any story–no matter how well executed–sound trivial and stupid. As a writer, I find them offensive.

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Word is out that “Angel” has been renewed. Not only that, but James Marsters will be joining the cast as Spike, while Cordy will be remaining in a sustained coma (i.e., Charisma Carpenter is not expected back.) Which is a shame, but hey…nutty idea…maybe she wants to spend time with her baby. Unfortunately it also means that, for the time being, we’re going to remain unclear on whether she was just a vessel turned evil by the already existing baby, or Cordy went evil while in that other place, or maybe she was never Cordy to begin with, or what.

Interesting notion of having two vampires with souls on “Angel,” presuming that’s still Spike’s status. It means that every single prediction about “the vampire with a soul” suddenly gets called into question since we’re not sure to whom it refers.

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Spent the weekend up in Boston attending Shana’s graduation from Berklee College of Music. I was pleased that she was willing to attend, since graduations are usually long (and often boring) affairs that bear no resemblance to the graduation in the movie “Fame.”

Adding some interesting kick to the graduation was that Steven Tyler of “Aerosmith” was given an honory doctorate, and handed out diplomas while official school photographers took pictures. Shana, steeling her nerve, walked up and kissed him on the cheek while the photographer snapped away. Then, overwhelmed by what she’d just done, she rabbited away as Tyler was about to say something to her, so she’ll never know what it was he was going to tell her. The school is supposed to send us pictures of it, at which point we’ll endeavor to get a picture to Tyler.

Sunday was Kathleen’s first mother’s day. We spent it going out to meals and at Babys R Us, picking up a high chair (actually, a booster seat) so we can start Caroline on solid food.

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Peter’s been out of town (I’ll let him say why) so there haven’t been any posts this weekend from him.

I haven’t done my usual posting of BIDs in his absence because I was out visiting my mother and mother in law. And you should be doing so as well.

I could talk about the upcoming project… nah, you’ll hear about it soon enough.

Mention has been bandied about (most lately, over in the Pulse on Comicon.con) over a notion involving the permanent return of Captain Mar-Vell. No hoax, no dream, no imaginary tale. The Guy, back from the dead.

The answer is, yeah, we considered it. We consider a lot of possibilities. In this case, I have a story line I’d been building towards involving a sort of massive cosmic intervention to deal with Marv’s current mental state (as some fans have quite correctly observed, there’s only so long Marv can go on doing this stuff before others start trying to rein him in). We discussed it, and ultimately decided we wouldn’t bring Mar-Vell back from the dead for it. This all happened weeks ago. So the matter was already settled well before word started leaking out. We’re still doing the storyline (over issues #15 to 18) but Mar-Vell will not be a part of it.

Beginning, middle, end of rumor.

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(Sorry about the posting delay: We had lightning storms hereabouts last night, and I shut down the computer to avoid mishaps.)

Unusual episode: A series creating a pilot for itself as what would be, effectively, a new series. If “Angel” continues, possibilities galore. If it doesn’t, it’s not an unreasonable last episode (although the lost potential will sting.) Spoilers follow:

Continue Reading “ANGEL, THE FINALE” →

And once more into the fray…(spoilers below)…

Continue Reading “TONIGHT’S BUFFY (with spoilers added for extra flavor!)” →