Episodes
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Episode 32 - New Moon Rising / The Yoko Factor (feat. Nikki Stafford)
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Nikki Stafford, author of Bite Me!: The Unofficial Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (AND Once Bitten: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Angel, but we’ll get there) returns! Stepping briefly away from her watch on the Wall (the final season of Game of Thrones is a demanding master), she joins me to discuss great werewolf actors, bad werewolf makeup, and uncomfortable contemporary readings of previously endearing moments in 419, “New Moon Rising.” And then in 420, “The Yoko Factor” we talk about the perceptiveness of evil, the unnecessary apologies of Angel, the comedic stylings of drunk Giles, and our respective sympathies whenever people gang up on Buffy.
Next: I’ll be joined by...somebody?...to close out the controversial college season with episodes 421, “Primeval” and 422, “Restless.”
THE BREAKDOWN
Run Time: 00:00:00
00:00:55 - Intro / Guest
00:06:15 - Main Topic
01:19:29 - Outro / Next
THE LIBRARY
Bite Me!: The Chosen Edition The Unofficial Guide to Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Seven Seasons One Book), by Nikki Stafford
Once Bitten: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Angel, by Nikki Stafford
THE LINKS
Nikki Stafford’s Great Buffy Rewatch Archive
THE MUSIC
“Conversations (feat. Wesley Mead)” by Azura (2017)
“Free Bird” by Anthony Stewart Head (2000)
THE SCHOLARS
Whedon Studies Association is a non-profit academic organization devoted to the study of the works of Joss Whedon and his associates. They put out Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, and Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, both blind peer-reviewed twice-yearly online publications. They also host the biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, which brings all these incredible scholars together to present papers, discuss ways of incorporating Whedon Studies in education, and basically just geek out together.
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Episode 31 - Superstar / Where the Wild Things Are (feat. Kenn Edwards)
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Superstar Kenn Edwards returns, as Conversations with Dead People transitions into what it was always meant to be...Conversations about Jonathan Levinson! While discussing episode 417, “Superstar,” Paul indulges in many of his worst tendencies to go off on tangents, pondering the nature of magic as “the language of outcasts,” learning to be more accepting of Buffy Summers, and how Danny Strong has cast his own augmentation spell to become the Jonathan Levinson of the real world. And in 418, “Where the Wild Things Are,” we talk about the baffling absence of Oz, orgasm walls and other unsubtle metaphors, and Paul takes another unfair jab at Marti Noxon. Sorry.
Next: the long-awaited return of fan-scholar/scholar-fan Nikki Stafford as we discuss episodes 419, “New Moon Rising” and 420, “The Yoko Factor.”
THE BREAKDOWN
Run Time: 01:37:55
00:00:55 - Intro / Guest
00:03:52 - Main Topic
01:25:13 - Outro / Next
THE LIBRARY
Library Closed For Filing - Please Come Back Tomorrow
THE LINKS
The Alex Jonestown Massacre on Bandcamp
American Juggalo (Documentary)
THE MUSIC
“Conversations (feat. Wesley Mead)” by Azura (2017)
“Superstar” by The Isley Brothers, Body Kiss (2003)
THE SCHOLARS
Whedon Studies Association is a non-profit academic organization devoted to the study of the works of Joss Whedon and his associates. They put out Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, and Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, both blind peer-reviewed twice-yearly online publications. They also host the biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, which brings all these incredible scholars together to present papers, discuss ways of incorporating Whedon Studies in education, and basically just geek out together.