(Wonder if I can make excuses. "But I only saw that one musical episode!")

[amanuensis1]

My delayed, not-until-the-credits response to the first episode of this season's Torchwood that completely blew away all other reactions?


"...Who?--Oh, my god. Okay, so there's a reason the guy playing John gave me a 'Heh, he's kind of like Spike the vampire on Buffy' vibe during that bar scene."

*facepalms*
*turns in geek fandom badge*

Comments

[gospikey.livejournal.com]

"Once More With Feeling" is the ep you saw, lol.

*g* at the rest.

I don't watch Torchwood (we don't have it, I think) but yeah, Spikey is someone I've seen ^^

Enjoy the show!

Spikey

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I have watched that episode and listened to it a hundred times, but for a long time it was the only Buffy episode I'd watched. I never got into the show but that musical is brilliant.

[pyewackets-paws.livejournal.com]

Oh it really is! I still remember, my roommate and I learned the words to every song and for months afterwards we'd just randomly start singing into 'I'll Never Tell'.

I was always Xander for some reason.

[pyewackets-paws.livejournal.com]

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[(Anonymous)]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I died a death of mirth at your icon.

[miya-tenaka.livejournal.com]

The musical is even more brilliant when you know well the rest of the show, for every word in the songs carrie so much meaning for the whole story...

By the way, love your Firefly icon! ^^

[phantomminuet.livejournal.com]

See, this is what happens when you don't read spoilers. ;-)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I don't read 'em! Everyone kindly put them behind cuts so I somehow stayed spoiler-free! What a polite fandom. ^_^

[dancesontrains.livejournal.com]

*Giggles* You win cred back with your song choice!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

And now I lose it by admitting I HAD TO LOOK UP WHAT IT WAS. But I've played it twice today, cool song!

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

HAHA I KNEW THE SPOILERS BUT I DIDN'T CONNECT WITH ME UNTIL LATER.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I didn't know 'em! You knew 'em and it didn't connect? Oh GOODY I feel better! :D

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I KNEW HE WOULD BE IN THE SHOW, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHEN.

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

LOL... I was actually pleased that he wasn't just Spike in another outfit, although there were some definite character similarities. Fortunately I was too busy going 'OMG! More... and of that too please...' to think Spike for very long.

There were a few moments of real 'Oh, there's something more there' in his eyes that I really liked.

*polishes your badge and hands it back*

Trust me, you still need it. :D

[slumber.livejournal.com]

iiiiiii take it you never spoiled yourself for torchwood, then. :|

to be fair, he was barely recognizable. *patpat* :|

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's not just you. My dear Canadian friend is a huge SG1 fan, somewhere around series seven she mentioned to her brother: "Jack really reminds me of MacGuyver, I used to love that show." To which he replied: "Well, yes, same actor." Her: "No! Oh god, yes! ARRRRRGGGGH!"

Which I would be able to laugh at more had I not famously jumped into a lift with a small grey man and his underlings in a secure Sydney building filled with politicians in 1996. He was all bonhomie and charm and insisted I get in, even though his underlings were frowning. "What do you do?" he asked, so I chatted about travelling and my then-job, to his smiles. "What do you do?" I asked. All the smiles disappeared. "I'm the Prime Minister," he answered.

"I'm English! Sorry!" I squeaked, trying very hard not to giggle.

[(Anonymous)]

Best. Story. Ever.

[phantomminuet.livejournal.com]

That is a great story. :-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I felt quite guilty, because he had seemed so happy up until that point ...

[aunty_marion]

Wonderful story! I did something similar, but not quite as impressive or humiliating, once.

I was at a Star Trek convention up in Newcastle upon Tyne; and we knew the guests of honour were (squeee!) Gene Roddenberry and his wife Majel Barrett Roddenberry. I got there on the Friday, and was messing around with friends in the lobby, as one does, and we decided it was time to go back up to our rooms and freshen up ready for the opening ceremony. So we got into the lift, and on the mezzanine floor a tallish middle-aged guy got in, smiled pleasantly at us, and got out about two floors later. And the doors closed behind him...

...and by the next floor someone had said, in a sort of I don't believe it, but... voice: "Wasn't that Gene Roddenberry?"

Now picture a lift full of half a dozen flailing, squeeing Trek-fans.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaaaa! Oh ... that's actually worse.

[letmypidgeonsgo.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* i was sooooo buffy-obsessed, and am becoming sooooo torchwood-obsessed, that i knew after 3 or so minutes that he wasn't using a different brit accent than he had on buffy *is vaguely ashamed*

[nopejr.livejournal.com]

I still haven't seen Torchwood!!! :( :( :(

[(Anonymous)]

I would have gotten Spike in about 6 seconds, such is my obsession, but I had a similiar Whedonverse complete blank out. The actor who plays Kane in "Phases" is the same one who plays Sahjhan in various Angel episodes and it took me YEARS to grasp that fact. And it's sad because even though he looked very different (in one he was a human, in the other, a demon), his voice didn't change. And it's one of those "recognize it anywhere" voices. Like Alan Rickman. I blame it on the fact that Kane was only the one episode, and never so much as mentioned it again, and Sahjhan was years afterwards. Still, I felt like I didn't deserve to call myself a Whedon fan then, hehe.

[aunty_marion]

I knew he was going to be on, and was gleefully anticipating it; but the reality was far better than I'd anticipated! Different semi-English accent, he looks much older and more mature (and MUCH nicer like that, too, I think!), and his interactions with Captain Jack were nothing short of FANTASTIC. He's going to be back, too... *flails*

You should watch a little more Buffy, if you can. Some of it is exceedingly good (by the laws of averages, of course, this means that some of it is rather more than 'meh', but there you go). At some point, when I can afford it, I really want to get all 7 seasons on DVD, because there's an awful lot I missed; I only started watching in about season 4 or 5, despite my best friend's efforts to get me hooked.

You'd like the episode where Buffy gets made invisible, for instance; there's an iconic scene where the others, looking for her, burst into Spike's crypt. To find him doing press-ups. In bed. Naked.

Yeah, right...

And of course he saves the world at the end. And if there haven't already been any stories written, I'm sure there soon will be some, where he vanishes from Sunnydale and reappears in Cardiff.

[fabularasa.livejournal.com]

Hmm, okay, much of the above is not really comprehensible to me, not having seen Torchwood and only having seen five or six Buffy episodes, but I saw enough to crush heavily on Spike. Is he on Torchwood now? Whoa. I have to come up with a way to see that show.

I never even watched Buffy!

[aiji-yuywell.livejournal.com]

My first outraged thought was "Why wasn't there boy-kissing in Buffy?!?!"
I also wondered when Spike John would call Jack "Peaches".

That aside, I had a problem with Jack knowing John was up to something and still going along with it and put people in danger. Very Jack-esque, but still annoying.