To honor an issue about our favorite pop culture sponge nerd, I’m gonna list some pop cultural parallels that this issue reminded me of.

1)Star Trek: Voyager--Neelix feels his usefulness as Voyager’s navigator is almost up as they’re coming to the end of the Delta Quadrant so he lies his butt off just so Janeway doesn’t dump his ass on an M-Class.

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Spoilery Thoughts on
Buffy Issue #21 Harmonic Divergence

If no one has read Emmie’s analysis from Whedonesque get yourself to the website now. Brilliant. Nothing to add. To do so would result in heresy and burning. Here is the link.

http://angearia.livejournal.com/7502.html

Instead, I wanted to analyze the structure of what Jane Espenson has set up ( Read more... )

Her name is so soft and feminine, with a phonetic resonance with bubbly which suits her personality to a T. His name is hard, aggressive, intimidating. So much two opposites that have no business hooking up let alone fighting on the same side ( Read more... )