Trivia: Principal Wood was given the gender-neutral name "Robin" because when the season began production, the producers were unsure about what gender the character would be. So they gave the character a name that could have applied to either a male or a female.
Cubs Fan
26th Mar 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
24th Mar 2008
Angel (1999)
22nd Mar 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Seeing Red - S6-E19
Trivia: Many gay and lesbian rights groups were angered by the decision to kill Tara. Joss Whedon has argued that the decision was made not because Tara was gay, but because she was involved with Willow; had Willow remained with Oz, he would have been killed instead. Killing Tara was a way for the writers to advance Willow's storyline and transform her into Dark Willow for the season finale.
21st Mar 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
21st Mar 2008
Angel (1999)
Question: Was Doyle written out of the show because of Glenn Quinn's death, or was that a decision made well before?
21st Mar 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Trivia: While Joss Whedon considers the 1992 movie non-canon, two characters were carried over: Buffy herself (obviously), and her first Watcher, Merrick. Merrick only made one appearance on the show, through a flashback, and was played by Richard Riehle; in the film, he was played by Donald Sutherland.
20th Mar 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
School Hard - S2-E3
Trivia: The Anointed One was killed in this episode because over a season hiatus, Andrew J. Ferchland had grown too much. Had he remained, it would have been obvious he had aged, which would have contradicted the established concept that aging is something vampires don't do. For most, if not all, of his scenes, Ferchland remains on his knees.
18th Mar 2008
Ed Wood (1994)
18th Mar 2008
Ed Wood (1994)
18th Mar 2008
Angel (1999)
Carpe Noctem - S3-E4
Trivia: The episode title is a play-on-words of the Latin phrase "Carpe diem," which means "Seize the day." "Carpe Noctem" literally means "Seize the night."
18th Mar 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
17th Mar 2008
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
10th Mar 2008
24 (2001)
Trivia: Reiko Aylesworth based her performance as Michelle Dessler on her mother.
10th Mar 2008
MLB 08: The Show
Factual error: The Seattle Mariners' AA affiliate, the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx, have the logo patch of their previous affiliate, the Chicago Cubs, on their jerseys' right sleeve.
9th Mar 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Trivia: Joss Whedon also wrote the 1992 "Buffy" film. Because of the dramatic differences between his screenplay and the finished film, he doesn't consider it canon as established by the TV series. In fact, the series isn't based on the completed movie at all: it's based instead on the screenplay Whedon initially wrote.
9th Mar 2008
General questions
I've noticed that occasionally, some of the no. 1 films at the box office are also some of the worst reviewed by critics. Why is this?
Chosen answer: The films are reviewed by critics, but attended by the regular movie-going public. Critics see every movie, so they have a tendency to get (a) jaded or (b) overly critical. They tire of plot devices and story lines that they have seen all too many times and often wish for more intelligent writing and witty dialogue. However the movie-going public is, admittedly, less demanding. They easily flock to movies that simply appeal to the masses.
8th Mar 2008
The Master of Disguise (2002)
Trivia: One of Pistachio's disguises is President George W. Bush. On "Saturday Night Live," Dana Carvey was known for his impression of Bush's father, former President George H. W. Bush.
7th Mar 2008
Zodiac (2007)
Question: Are this film's Zodiac killer and the Scorpio Killer in "Dirty Harry" based on the same person?
Chosen answer: Scorpio is loosely based on the Zodiac killer, yes. However, "Zodiac" is made to portray the hunt for the real-life Zodiac killer (as accurately as possible), with only a few ficticious elements thrown in for the sake of story-telling, while "Dirty Harry" is pure fiction.
7th Mar 2008
Angel (1999)
Question: How is the vampire no-reflection effect achieved?
Chosen answer: There are severals ways to go about this. They could film the scene without the vampire in place so there's no reflection of him/her in the mirror, then film the scene with the vampire, and finally digitally splice the two together. Or, for quick passes, they could just digitally remove the reflection and replace it with the background. Camera tricks can also be used by putting the camera at a certain angle in relation to the mirror so it only looks like the person's reflection would be visible if they weren't a vampire. Depends on how much time and money they've got available.
6th Mar 2008
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Question: In terms of days, weeks, months, etc., how long were Lorelai and Christopher married in season seven?
Chosen answer: Lorelai and Christopher get married impulsively in Paris but they get divorced shortly after returning home. I don't know the exact number of days or weeks but they definitely weren't married for more than a couple of months.
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Chosen answer: Quinn didn't die until three years after being written out of the show. According to Joss Whedon, the character, while popular, simply failed to mesh well with the pre-existing characters brought across from the Buffy series, and the reluctant decision was taken to write the character out of the series; it was also mentioned by producer David Fury that Whedon liked the idea of messing with the audience a bit by introducing a main cast member, then defying expectations by killing them off swiftly, although he also mentioned this was not the original intent with Doyle.
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