#buffyat20

This weekend is New York Comic Con! I'll be at booth 1483 with #LGBTHQ all four days. Here's my panel schedule, both panels are on Sunday: "#BuffyAt20" (10/7,10:45 AM, room 1B03) & "#Cosplay Rule 63 & Beyond!" (10/7, 12:00 PM, Cosplay Central Stage in the River Pavilion) #NYCC #NYCC2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BocDl15nbc4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1neyidaur52ij

Oh, and I am a significant number of #BuffyAt20 postings behind, oops, but I had to make sure I got today's! It is SO FLIPPING COOL that #Buffy has a #LeapDay episode. Not only that, but s04e16 "Who Are You?" is such a special and magical episode with the Buffy/Faith body swap and the implicit lesbian sex. This was also one of the Joss written/directed episodes from this season, which was becoming rarer by the year. While SMG typically (and rightfully) gets lauded with praise for her performances on #BtVS, I really feel like #ElizaDushku shined extra bright in this episode. Her performance as Buffy-in-Faith's-body was truly outstanding, and showed great potential for her performance in #Dollhouse less than a decade later. https://www.instagram.com/p/B9K-63cJO7W/?igshid=1h7svms3nfbhf

omg so many IG posts today! It's the first Saturday of the month, which means it's time for the #BuffyAt20 schedule! There's several hits this month - though, interestingly, more #Angel than #Buffy. "Rm w/a Vu" has a fantastic performance from @karazma, "Sense & Sensitivity" really showed off the comedic talents of @dbodbo69 and @elisabethrohm, "I Will Remember You" was a landmark episode for shippers, and of course Glenn Quinn's farewell performance in "Hero." Meanwhile, on the #BtVS side of things, we have the likes of "Beer Bad" and "Pangs." Ye-e-eahhh. "Something Blue" was pretty funny, though. And fun fact: Kal Penn appeared in "Beer Bad' here and Angel's "That Vision Thing" in 2 years as a completely different character! Ah the magic of the #Buffyverse. So enjoy following along with this month's #Buffy20 programming! And to see more of how deep the rabbit-hole of my dedication to pop culture goes, check out the podcast I do with my husband Nico at http://www.cageclub.me/html/ 😁 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Y1uvDlYso/?igshid=z2w3ocww9qdl

WELL! It HAS been a spell, hasn't it? Here we are, two weeks before the return of #BuffyAt20 proper, with the original air date for S03E18 "Earshot." I spoke about this episode already back in April when it was scheduled to debut, before being pushed by the tragic events of that same month. Finally airing on 21 September 1999, it's about one week shy of five months delayed. It didn't even repeat in order. Fun fact! The preceding episode, S03E17 "Enemies," did in fact air in repeat the week before this one in September. However, there wasn't enough room to repeat "Choices" or "The Prom" before Season 4. Instead, next week, for the first time, S03E21-22 "Graduation Day, Parts 1 & 2" aired back-to-back. Exciting! Also, as you're probably aware, we're coming up on one of the greatest landmarks in #BuffyHistory: the debut of #Angel! The annual #Buffyverse output literally doubled every single year, for FOUR WHOLE YEARS! I still can't believe how blessed I was to be given so much of a show that was such a comfort to me at a formative time of my life. I'm also exceptionally excited that this date will coincide with #NewYorkComicCon this year! So make sure to celebrate #Buffy on #NYCC Day 3. SATURDAY! And be sure to come by Booth 1487 as well to check out me and @nicoaction with @lgbthq.info and the @kidriotcomics team! https://www.instagram.com/p/B2sXzPJF_xh/?igshid=o81ajayvxw3l

Hi! Remember #BuffyAt20? And #GraduationDayPart1 about 2 months ago? lol! Yes, it's been quite a while since Faith left Buffy behind on that balcony, but here we are together at last: first airing on 13 June 1999, the third season finale of #BuffyTheVampireSlayer was "Graduation Day, Part 2" - and it was a big one! The end of an era, y'might say. Or even - 🔥 explosive🔥! Okay, I'll stop punning for now. What can even be said about #GraduationDayPart2? It certainly delivers on the promise of #GraduationDayPart1. I never realized just how little Faith there is until right now. Apart from psychic dream, her part is over until her resurgence in Season 4. We get fun finale trappings like Cordy finally getting a staking, Jonathan (and, let's face it, Xander) finally getting to be heroic. RIP Larry the Gay Jock, sadly. Burying our gays a little early here in the era of queer visibility. Sigh. And then on top of that, obligatory hetero copulation before graduation for Willow. She doesn't even get in 10 episodes of dude-smashing before lezzing out! Another just-noticed. You know, it's odd, but I have no memory of this episode airing. Unlike #Becoming last year, which I still remember now twenty-ONE years later. But this hyped up delayed finale, I don't really recall. Huh. Perhaps because, exciting as it surely was, so much was already a foregone conclusion. Or maybe I read spoilers already, lol. Who knows? The internet was a wasteland then. Anyway, that's probably all I've got for now. I had gotten really down on myself about this project at the start of the season because it's sort of - well, basic. But I'm glad I've realized that that's sort of okay. It's still good groundwork for the next step, which I'm tentatively calling #BuffySilver for the 25th anniversary. If anything, I underestimated just how much there would be to do for this show! And that's not bad. #Buffy #BuffySeason3 #Buffy20 #BuffyGraduation #SunnydaleHigh #ClassOf99 #BuffyBlog #BuffyWatch #BuffyGeek #GayGeek https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3p650lj-t/?igshid=iqs4408n9k9v

Sorry, got exhausted from a convention yesterday and my #BuffyAt20 post totally slipped my mind. But then, a hazy morning after post does make sense for this one: S03E20 "The Prom." Now, I love Event-and-Holiday Episodes, so getting a prom episode made me very happy. You'd be surprised how many teen shows on The WB at the time cocked this one up. Like, #Roswell had a Junior Prom but not a Senior one? But I digress. There's a lot in this one! The most major, final #BuffyAngel breakup for one 💔 and the seeming development of the Cordy/Wes relationship 🤨 Like, I wish I could say it squicked me as an adult, but I have such a hard time buying Charisma as a high school student anymore, and Wes is such an obvious baby - or, as Giles put it, "blueberry scone." I don't ship it, but I don't entirely condemn it. What I do ship that clearly begins here is #Xanya! Holy crap, Anya really was the breakout hit of Season 3. She's only really majorly in 2 episodes as the Anya we know, playing mostly backup in "The Wish" and appearing only briefly in "Grad Day, Part 2." At the time, we didn't even consider that she might come back for another season, but it was amazing when she did. Now for this week's fun fact: Brad Kane! Probably one of my favorite #Buffy revelations as an adult is the actor who played Tucker Wells, @bradcalebkane, who was also the singing voice of #Aladdin! He will also appear next year as the singing voice of Jonathan, aka Danny Strong. That's two AMAZING #EvilTrio connections that weren't even planned at the time of this appearance. I'll always wonder what the franchise would be like if Tucker had beeing the #Troika's mastermind, but that is a wondering for down the line 😁 I can't believe we only have ONE regular week of #BtVS left this whole TV season 😱 this is some wild stuff. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxXKqnoFe6M/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u8eny2sk38fn

There is no #BuffyAt20 this week. But there would have been. Initially, S03E18 "Earshot" was meant to air on 27 April 1999. However, a week before #Buffy could return for its final 5 episodes of Season 3, tragedy struck. Despite lobbying from @sarahmgellar herself to air it on time, hoping it could help those affected by the tragedy, the broadcast was ultimately pushed almost 5 months to September. I vividly remember a lot of this happening at the time. It boggles my mind to hear Oz grimly call school shootings "trendy" 20 years ago because at the time it was honestly still a fairly rare occurrence. Now, elementary school kids have active shooter drills. To this day, #Earshot is considered a landmark episode of both #BtVS and the #teendrama genre. It's important to reflect on why, how far we've come, and how much further we need to go to protect our students and our world. https://www.instagram.com/p/BwyCCb3lBky/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r3k9xhn9th75

What fortuitous happenstance that I stumbled across this #FunkoPop figure today! As the #BuffyAt20 I'll post shortly attests, today is the 20th anniversary of @elizadushku's Faith outing herself as a villain on #Buffy! 💘 https://www.instagram.com/p/BvFriLalHA5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zp60mffmvlu4