I Suck At Buffy The Vampire Slayer

last night, my friends (marc and kelley) came over. with lost being a clip show (as opposed to a new episode) we figured that we would switch things up a little for the week.

anyway, it was a great time as usual. while marc and kelley picked up karen after work, i made my legendary mac 'n cheese for dinner. surprisingly, the mac 'n cheese dinner came out okay even with my little spice incident. for anyone curious, while i was trying to open one of the spice containers, i accidentally ripped off the lid a little too vigorously and spice went flying... everywhere. so needless to say, there was a lot of paprika in the mac 'n cheese dinner last night. luckily for me, i have no idea what paprika in and of itself tastes like... so i personally didn't notice anything with the dinner.

following dinner, the four of us watched the final episode of angel season 1 on disc 2. the episode "sense and sensitivity" was about a sensitivity training class gone awry. it was a silly episode, but fun nonetheless. after all, the episode produced one of the silliest quotes ever uttered by angel: "you could be a rainbow and not a "painbow".

perhaps i enjoyed the line so much because of the wine. my drinking buddy: kelley and i imbibed a little last night on some wine. in fact, we finished off a 1.5 liter bottle between us. i don't think i have had wine since my last and only hangover ever... in which i drank an entire bottle of wine only to be curled up in bed the day after. luckily, no ill effects today. so, i'm back to my normal non-hangover self. (i think it was the type of wine that did me in last time.) yay!

anyway, in addition to angel, the four of us were able to complete disc 3 of season 4 of the world's greatest television show ever: buffy the vampire slayer. now i suck at buffy the vampire slayer. good thing there were only three episodes on the disc.

the episodes included:"something blue" about how whatever willow wills magically comes true; "hush" about how everyone's voices in sunnydale are captured by demons known as the gentlemen; and "doomed" about the aftermath of buffy and riley discovering each other's secret identity.

of the three buffy episodes, "hush" is easily my favorite. after all, the episode earned the show its first emmy nomination for best original writing. sadly, the show did not win the emmy. interestingly enough, marc enlightened me about the episode as well... saying the episode was written in response to criticism about how the show was dialogue heavy. (for anyone curious, the episode goes through a stretch where there is no dialogue whatsoever... because everyone's voice is gone.)

as well, the episode was the first appearance of tara. according to my friend imdb, amber benson, the actress who played tara in the series, was actually originally passed over for the role because she did not fit joss whedon's image of tara.

another interesting fact about the episode... andy hallett, the actor who would eventually play lorne on angel is actually in the episode. he appears in the top left corner of the classroom.

anyway, it was a great night as usual... hanging out with marc and kelley.