"Buffy Fanmeet" Review

Guests met and discussed in this review :-

• Eliza Dushku

• James Marsters

• Nicholas Brendon

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Life Serial" Review (6x05)

Brief Synopsis: “Buffy decides that in order to pay her mounting bills and take care of Dawn she must go back to college and find herself a job. These new ventures are made much more difficult when ‘The Trio’ decide to test the Slayer with a series of challenges to determine the extent of her abilities.”

Angel, "Carpe Noctem" Review (3x04)

Brief Synopsis: “An old man casts a body-switching spell on Angel and enjoys the many pleasures of being eternally young, handsome, and bloodthirsty in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Angel is dying in an old man’s body in a retirement home. Can Angel Investigations figure it out and save Angel before his human heart gives out?”

Wales Comic Con 2014 Part II - A Detailed Review

Guests met and discussed in this review (with the franchise I most associate them with personally) :-

• Anthony Head (Rupert Giles in “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”)

• Emily Head (Anthony’s Daughter & Carli in “The InBetweeners”)

• Mark Sheppard (Badger in “Firefly”, Crowley in “Supernatural”, and King of the nerd TV shows)

• Ian Beattie (Ser Meryn Trant in “Game Of Thrones”)

• Road Warrior Animal (Wrestler)

• Booker T (Wrestler)

• Lance Storm (Wrestler)

• Doug Williams (Wrestler)

• Paul London (Wrestler)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Flooded" Review (6x04)

Brief Synopsis: “With her mother gone, Buffy finds herself broke, jobless, and taking care of a house that’s falling apart and haemorrhaging money. To make matters worse, Buffy is still having severe problems adjusting to life after being dragged out of Heaven by her friends, and a new trio of ‘super-villains’ have arisen in Sunnydale and send a demon to rob a bank for them just as Buffy is applying for a loan.”

Angel, "That Old Gang Of Mine" Review (3x03)

Brief Synopsis: “Gunn finds himself stuck between his old gang and his new team after he discovers that a string of brutal and indiscriminate demon murders were committed by his former gang. Even Caritas – a sanctuary for demons, vampires, and humans alike – isn’t immune to the devastation and Gunn is forced to make a choice once and for all.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "After Life" Review (6x03)

Brief Synopsis: “An unseen force is taking over the Scoobies one at a time. Could this spirit be somehow connected to Buffy’s resurrection? Meanwhile, Buffy is desperately struggling to adjust to life back on Earth and she confides in Spike the reason for this.”

Angel, "That Vision Thing" Review (3x02)

Brief Synopsis: “When Cordelia’s visions start manifesting as painful physical wounds, Lorne uses telepathy to discover why this is happening to her and how it can be stopped. It appears that Wolfram & Hart are behind the violent visions and Lilah won’t stop them until Angel breaks a vicious criminal out of a Hell dimension for her.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Bargaining Part Two" Review (6x02)

Brief Synopsis: “As a gang of demon bikers attack, the Scoobies are chased away from Buffy’s gravesite, thinking that the resurrection was a failure. Little do they know, it worked and the Slayer is now alive again, right where they left her...under the ground in her coffin. Buffy has to punch and claw her way out of her own grave. The Slayer is back, but she’s disoriented and thinks she’s in Hell. The Scoobies must convince her otherwise before she commits suicide all over again.”

Angel, "Heartthrob" Review (3x01)

Brief Synopsis: “Angel has been away for the summer, trying to cope with Buffy’s death. After returning to Los Angeles, Angel stakes a female vampire who recognises him and calls him ‘Angelus’ before she turns to dust. Now, her grief-stricken lover, Angelus’ old hunting companion, is out for vengeance against Angel.”

"Hallowhedon 6" Review

 
Guests met and discussed in this review :-

• Clare Kramer

• Mark Metcalf

• Troy Blendell

• Andy Umberger

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Bargaining Part One" Review (6x01)

Brief Synopsis: “It’s a dark and miserable world without the Slayer. Buffy is dead and the Scooby Gang have survived the summer the best they can without her. Due to Buffy’s mystical death, Willow fears that Buffy is trapped in some Hell dimension and she’s not going to leave her there to suffer eternal torment. Therefore, Willow, Tara, Xander, and Anya decide to perform a resurrection spell to bring Buffy back from the dead.”

Angel, "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb" Review (2x22)

Brief Synopsis: “Cordelia learns that when she ‘comshuks’ with the Groosalugg, her visions will pass to him, but Cordy isn’t sure if she wants to lose them. Meanwhile, Wesley and Gunn are working to overthrow the monarchy, while Angel and Fred are struggling to control the beast inside of Angel.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "The Gift" Review (5x22)

Brief Synopsis: “Glory has Dawn and plans to use her to open a portal back to her own dimension. If this happens, all dimensional walls will crumble and there will be Hell on Earth, quite literally. The Scoobies must find a way to stop the Hell God before it’s too late, while living in the knowledge that this is the toughest challenge they’ve ever faced.”

London Film And Comic Con (Winter) 2014 - A Detailed Review

Guests met and discussed in this review (with the franchise I most associate them with personally) :-

• Ralph Macchio (“The Karate Kid”)
• Jerome Flynn (Bronn from “Game Of Thrones”)
• Miltos Yeromelou (Syrio Forel from "Game Of Thrones")
• Ross Mullan (Primary White Walker from "Game Of Thrones")
• Andrew Rothenberg (Jim from “The Walking Dead” and Malcolm from “True Blood”)
• Michael Koske (Various Zombies from "The Walking Dead")
• Alberto Rodriguez A.K.A. Alberto Del Rio (Wrestler)
• Solofa Fatu Jr. A.K.A. Rikishi (Wrestler)
• Brian Christopher A.K.A. Grandmaster Sexay (Wrestler)
• Scott Garland A.K.A. Scotty 2 Hotty (Wrestler)

Angel, "Through The Looking Glass" Review (2x21)

Brief Synopsis: “Cordelia has inexplicably been made Princess of Pylea, but she begins to suspect that her guards may be her jailers. Meanwhile, Wesley and Gunn search for a way to free Cordy from the castle, while Angel and Lorne get a cold reception from the Deathwok Clan.” 

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "The Weight Of The World" Review (5x21)

Brief Synopsis: “Despite their best efforts, Glory has succeeded in taking Dawn. This failure on top of everything else this year proves too much for Buffy and she slips into a catatonic state. Willow must use magic to enter Buffy’s mind and help her work through her trauma in time to attempt to save Dawn...and the rest of the world.”

Angel, "Over The Rainbow" Review (2x20)

Brief Synopsis: “After being inadvertently sucked into a dimensional portal, Cordy finds herself stuck in Lorne’s home dimension, Pylea, a place where humans are slaves. Back in Los Angeles, Angel is desperately trying to find a way to rescue Cordelia, but Lorne is reluctant to head back home in order to help.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Spiral" Review (5x20)

Brief Synopsis: “Buffy and Dawn narrowly escape Glory, but they only remain unscathed because a truck inadvertently hit Glory. Buffy and the Scoobies decide that their only option left is to flee Sunnydale...”

Angel, "Belonging" Review (2x19)

Brief Synopsis: “When a savage demon emerges from a magical portal on the stage at Caritas, Lorne turns to Angel for help in destroying the beast before it cuts a bloody swath through Los Angeles. After Angel discovers that the beast is from Lorne’s home dimension, Pylea, he is reluctantly pressed into service, but the answer to his problem may come from yet another mystical portal.”

"Vampire Ball 5" Review

Guests met and discussed in this review :-

• James Marsters
• Emma Caulfield
• Jeff Ricketts
• Jonathan Woodward
• George Hertzberg
• Dayne Johnson

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Tough Love" Review (5x19)

Brief Synopsis: “While Buffy tries to control a motherless Dawn and bring their lives back to some form of normalcy, Tara is captured by Glory, who is desperately trying to discover the identity of The Key.”

Angel, "Dead End" Review (2x18)

Brief Synopsis: “Lindsey is given an amazing gift by his bosses at Wolfram & Hart...a new hand to replace the one Angel sliced off. However, when the new hand begins acting strangely of its own accord, Lindsey becomes suspicious about where the hand came from. After singing at Caritas, Lorne teams Angel and Lindsey up begrudgingly, as Angel is also researching transplanted body parts that have been turning on their owners. What they find forces Lindsey into making a life-altering decision.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Intervention" Review (5x18)

Brief Synopsis: “Buffy feels that being the Slayer is turning her to stone, so Giles takes her to the desert on a vision quest to meet the First Slayer. While they’re gone, Spike decides to have a little kinky fun with the Buffybot, but the Scoobies see her and mistake her for the real Buffy. Meanwhile, Glory’s minions also mistake the Buffybot for the real Buffy, and after noticing how devoted she is to Spike, they begin to suspect that he is The Key.”

Angel, "Disharmony" Review (2x17)

Brief Synopsis: “Angel Investigations is whole once again with Angel rejoining the team, but things are still awkward between Angel and Cordelia. When an old friend of Cordy’s from Sunnydale High, Harmony, arrives in Los Angeles as a newly sired vampire, Angel has to choose between supporting Cordelia and protecting her from her now soulless friend.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Forever" Review (5x17)

Brief Synopsis: “Refusing to accept her mother’s death, Dawn uses magic to try to bring her back. Meanwhile, Buffy receives some comfort from an old boyfriend who returns to Sunnydale to support her, and the Scoobies try to recover from losing Joyce and say goodbye at her funeral.”

Angel, "Epiphany" Review (2x16)

Brief Synopsis: “After an empty night of passion with Darla, Angel wakes to discover that his soul is still intact. This leads to Angel having an epiphany, and he realises how far into darkness and despair he’s sank. Angel wishes to counteract his destructive behaviour by righting some wrongs, starting with his former team. However, Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn may not live long enough for Angel to make amends...”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "The Body" Review (5x16)

Brief Synopsis: “Buffy is devastated when she arrives home and finds her mother dead. The rest of the Scoobies try to pull themselves together and deal with their own grief as best they can in order to be there for Buffy and Dawn during the worst day of their lives.”

Angel, "Reprise" Review (2x15)

Brief Synopsis: “Angel learns of the impending visit of one of Wolfram & Hart’s ‘Senior Partners’, and he plans to use this occasion to launch a kamikaze mission to the ‘Home Office’ of Wolfram & Hart to take on their evil at the source.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "I Was Made To Love You" Review (5x15)

Brief Synopsis: “A strange girl arrives in Sunnydale desperately searching for her boyfriend, Warren. She’s sweet, pretty, and polite, but there’s just one thing about her that seems odd...she can easily throw Spike through a window. While this amuses Buffy greatly, she decides that she must do something to stop her before someone less impervious to damage gets hurt. After tracking down Warren, Buffy discovers a startling revelation about the strange girl’s origin...”

Angel, "The Thin Dead Line" Review (2x14)

Brief Synopsis: “Anne informs Angel Investigations of renegade cops that are brutally attacking people on the streets for no reason. At the same time, Kate brings the same case to Angel’s attention. However, these cops aren’t what they seem, as they all died months ago...”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Crush" Review (5x14)

Brief Synopsis: “Buffy notices that Dawn is spending a lot of time around Spike and assumes that Dawn has a crush on him. When she confronts Dawn on this, Dawn surprises her by revealing to her that Spike is too in love with her to notice Dawn at all. Meanwhile, a train pulls into Sunnydale station with every passenger slaughtered by a particularly savage vampire, and Buffy is finding it hard to concentrate on the investigation while simultaneously fending off Spike’s advances.”

Angel, "Happy Anniversary" Review (2x13)

Brief Synopsis: “Angel and Lorne are hunting for a physicist who they fear will cause the end of the world inadvertently. However, their progress is being slowed by a group of Lubber demons who seek to use the scientist’s work for their own dark ends. Meanwhile, Angel Investigations are setting up their new office and Virginia gives them their first official case as a new team.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Blood Ties" Review (5x13)

Brief Synopsis: “Buffy finally reveals to her friends that Dawn is the mystical Key that Glory is searching for. After they know Dawn is The Key, the Scoobies start acting strangely around her and Dawn knows that something is wrong. She’s noticed the crazy people talking to her, she’s noticed the big snake that recognised her, and now she’s heading to the mental ward of Sunnydale hospital for answers.”

Angel, "Blood Money" Review (2x12)

Brief Synopsis: “Angel, who is still distracted from fighting the good fight by his hatred of Wolfram & Hart, threatens to expose Wolfram & Hart’s criminal activities after he discovers that they’re stealing large sums of money that were donated to a homeless shelter. However, an old enemy of Angel’s has arrived in Los Angeles and has other plans.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Checkpoint" Review (5x12)

Brief Synopsis: “The Watcher’s Council, headed by Quentin Travers, arrive in Sunnydale with valuable information about Glory. However, since Buffy no longer works for the Council, they decide that they must put her and her friends through a series of gruelling tests to determine if she’s worthy of their trust and news.”

Angel, "Redefinition" Review (2x11)

Brief Synopsis: “After firing his staff and cutting himself off from the world, Angel begins intense physical and mental training in preparation for an encounter with Darla and Drusilla. Meanwhile, his former team are trying to continue fighting the good fight on their own now that Angel has abandoned the cause.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Triangle" Review (5x11)

Brief Synopsis: “While trying to create a new spell to help Buffy with her slaying, Willow is distracted by an argument with Anya and accidentally releases a troll from a mystical prison. With Buffy in mourning over Riley leaving town, Willow and Anya may need to defeat the troll themselves before it eats all the babies in Sunnydale...oh, and Anya used to date the troll. Eww.”

Angel, "Reunion" Review (2x10)

Brief Synopsis: “Drusilla has turned Darla into a vampire once again. Angel is desperately trying to find Darla and kill her before she rises from the grave and goes on another killing spree with her former partner in crime. As Angel becomes more and more frantic, the rest of his team are worried that they are all that’s standing between Angel and real darkness.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Into The Woods" Review (5x10)

Brief Synopsis: “Joyce’s surgery is a success! In celebration, Dawn spends the night at Xander and Anya’s house so that Buffy and Riley can spend a romantic night together. When Riley sneaks out the house in the middle of the night, Spike follows him and shows the Slayer just what her boyfriend has been getting up to recently.”

Angel, "The Trial" Review (2x09)

Brief Synopsis: “After tracking down Darla, Angel discovers that she’s dying of syphilis, just like she was before being sired 400 years earlier. Angel is faced with an impossible choice: watch his former sire and lover die or turn her into a vampire once more...unless Lorne can give Angel another avenue to explore.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Listening To Fear" Review (5x09)

Brief Synopsis: “A Queller demon from outer space lands in Sunnydale and begins to kill all the mentally ill people that have been piling up lately. Meanwhile, Joyce has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and her behaviour is becoming more erratic while she waits for her operation. Can Buffy stop the Queller demon before it latches on to Joyce?”

London Film And Comic Con 2014 - A Detailed Review

Guests met and discussed in this review (with the franchise I most associate them with personally) :-

• Stan Lee (no explanation needed)
• Anthony Head (Rupert Giles from “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”)
• Juliet Landau (Drusilla from “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and “Angel”)
• Summer Glau (River Tam from “Firefly”)
• Robert Knepper (Tommy Dolan from “Carnivale”)
• Billie Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian from the Star Wars franchise)
• Gethin Anthony (Renly Baratheon from “Game Of Thrones”)
• Sibel Kekilli (Shae from “Game Of Thrones”)
• Amy ‘Lita’ Dumas (wrestler)
• James Storm (wrestler)
• Al Snow (wrestler)
• David Yost (Billy Cranston from “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers”)
• T. J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins from “Bones”)

Angel, "The Shroud Of Rahmon" Review (2x08)

Brief Synopsis: “Gunn brings a new case to Angel Investigations as his cousin has been caught up in a robbery attempt that’s going to take place the next day. Angel and Gunn pose as members that are going to be involved in the robbery in order to stop it. However, the shroud that is being stolen has mind-altering powers...can Angel and Gunn keep the shroud from falling into the wrong hands before they lose their minds?”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Shadow" Review (5x08)

Brief Synopsis: “Riley falls deeper and deeper into insecurity over his feelings that Buffy doesn’t love him. Meanwhile, Joyce is undergoing further tests for her brain issues and Glory is conjuring up a creature that will be able to locate The Key for her.”

Angel, "Darla" Review (2x07)

Brief Synopsis: “Angel is desperate to save the human Darla from the clutches of Wolfram & Hart. Through flashbacks, Angel journeys back over his previous life with Darla and history seems to be oddly repeating itself from a time just after Angel was re-ensoulled for the first time.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Fool For Love" Review (5x07)

Brief Synopsis: “When a vampire Buffy encounters on a routine patrol almost kills her with her own stake, Buffy begins to obsess over the deaths of the previous Vampire Slayers. Desperate for answers, she turns to the only person she knows with firsthand knowledge on how two former Slayers were murdered, having killed them himself...Spike.”

Angel, "Guise Will Be Guise" Review (2x06)

Brief Synopsis: “Under Lorne’s guidance, Angel travels to a mystical swami to help him understand his haunting dreams and regain some focus. While he’s away, Wesley assumes Angel’s identity to try and save a woman in peril.”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Family" Review (5x06)

Brief Synopsis: “As the Scoobies get ready to celebrate Tara’s birthday, her family arrive in Sunnydale to take her back home. Tara tries to resist her family, but her father demands that she returns home before the family curse turns her into a demon on her 20th birthday.”

Angel, "Dear Boy" Review (2x05)

Brief Synopsis: “Angel’s continuing restless dreams take him back to his first meeting with Drusilla in 1860. When Angel sees Darla in real life, however, the rest of Angel Investigations see the gaping cracks in Angel’s resolve and fear that he may return to his former ways...”