I received an email from Shutterfly with this message and these photos:
I laughed when I saw it, and thought "Oh Shutterfly, you got that wrong."
These photos were from we filmed a short film called The Wave. It couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 years ago. Then I realized this photo was taken in the kitchen of Julie and my apartment. Which we haven't live in since 2006. Meaning this absolutely is from 11 years ago!
WHAT?!? Today I'm being bombarded with pictures on Facebook and Twitter of Buffy The Vampire Slayer turning 20. 20 years old. My fandom can almost buy liquor legally! (insert insensitive Nicholas Brendan joke here).
WHAT THE... My baby sister is in her 30s! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?
So there are currently 1460 days remaining in Donald J. Trump's current presidential term...that is, if he completes it in its entirety. The Vegas odds are currently 10/11 per this article.
So, you can spend those remaining days pulling out your hair at every single moment (check the clock above for up to second count), OR you can take some time for distraction.
I'm not saying put your head in the sand. I'm not even saying take whole days off, I'm merely suggesting take a breather so you don't suffocate.
But what can one do?
How about catch up on some TV!
Looking for some Happy Days? Well, there were 255 episodes of Happy Days. If you watched one a day, you'd only have 1205 days remaining (Jesus, that's still a lot!)
Well, then how about a little Law & Order in your life? The original show (not the 20 or so spin offs) ran for 456 episodes. Added to Happy Days, you're down to 749 days! (HOLY FUCK, that's still two more years of this guy in the West Wing!)
Did someone say The West Wing? (Yes...I did), well there's 156 episodes of that! Or 88 if you want to eliminate the non-Sorkin ones (you do), so that brings us to 661 days in the real world...
MTV's The Real World?!? There were 602 of those bad boys! But do you really want to watch them? Me either. Reality TV is kind of how we got into this mess...
So we're still suck with 661 days of this hellmouth. Speaking of the Hellmouth, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for 144 episodes, bringing us to 517 (we're under the 2 year mark! Soon we'll all be saying "CHEERS!")
Hell, let's say it now! Cheers ran 273 episodes. Sure Trump is likely Cliff Clavin'ing the country, but we're under a year with a mere 244 days! Not too bad!
You know what is bad? Breaking Bad! Have you seen it? Then watch it again! 62 episodes. Only 182 days to go stuck in this arrested development (I think you see what I did there)
Well, why not watch the 10 episode Netflix documentary series, Making a Murder...because if we have to do another 4 years of this, I might kill someone!
I couldn't embed the original posted by Stephen Byrne, but if you CLICK on his name, it'll take you to ALL of his art work including this Animated Doctor Who opening on his Facebook page:
So why should this series come to fruition? A few months ago, Billy Hanshaw of Leeds, created a FAN MADE opening to season 8 of Doctor Who. DW Show runner, Stephen Moffet saw it and immediately reach out to Leeds. With Leeds permission, the Doctor Who team used his opening as the basis for the ACTUAL season 8 Doctor Who opening.
Comparison of the Fanbase vs real opening
"It was the only new title idea I'd seen since 1963," said Moffat. Pretty powerful stuff, right? And who knows better than a fan? So, why wouldn't Buffy The Vampire creator, Joss Whedon and crew jump on board with this animated idea immediately? Well for one, they did! Back in 2001 Whedon, along with Comicbook guru and Smallville scribe Jeff Loeb, produced an animated series for 20th Century Fox which was to run on Fox Kids. Unfortunately the show died when Fox Kids went belly up and no other network was interested. WHAT?!? You can read ALL THE SORTED DETAILS here.
OK, fine. That was 2001. When things were simpler. We weren't fighting wars on 16 fronts and people still believed in the divinity of ABC, CBS & NBC (oh..and sometimes FOX). But this is 2014! Netflix (which isn't even a fucking network) & HBO dominate Emmy nominations. With shows such as Community having a second life after Network fumblings, there's no longer any reason a show with the fanbase of BTVS shouldn't have a dozen outlets clamoring to air the series. In an interview with TV Guide in 2005, Whedon said the animated series is dead. But perhaps, like vampires themselves, the dead shall rise again? Not always, but sometimes the fanbase knows what's best...ie Han shot fucking first!
Mr. Whedon, don't make us angry...you wouldn't like us when we're angry!
