Year End Kudos for W/T and BtVS

[xita]

I have not gotten my copy but someone on willtara posted this:

From Entertainment Weekly's year-end issue:

"THE GERTRUDE STEIN AWARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF LESBIANISM IN THE FAMILY
HOUR: Willow and Tara's levitating sapphic shenanigans on UPN's 8 o'clock
drama 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'."

[Dumbsaint]

Heh. Gertrude does indeed approve.

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[xita]

rofl julia. Somehow I knew she would.

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[AutumnT]

quote:

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Originally posted by xita:
Willow and Tara's levitating sapphic shenanigans on UPN's 8 o'clock
drama 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'."

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Nothing like a good old sapphic shenanigan.quote:

[Dr.G]

Oh that rhymes with Hannigan.
Sorry, I have nothing to add as I do not have a clue who Gertrude Stein is, I just need to post, it's like I'm addicted or something.

[Rane]

lol, Garfield! gertrude stein is a famous lesbian writer from like the 20's? QED, The autobiography or alice b toklas, and some others. i wrote a college paper on QED.

and i haven't read the EW yet. guess i should now huh?

edited to add: cool to see BTVS as 2 best of the year.

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[Dr.G]

Ah thanks Rane
I do not like to display my ignorance, but every once in while you just have to and hey I actually learned something because of it. heh heh. I had heard of the name, but that was the extend of my knowledge. Time to expand it, but the books I have yet to read are piling up because I just *cannot* stop posting.

Someone help me...

Someone help me...

[tommo]

You're beyond help, Garfield. You always have been.

All those sapphic shenanigans
Made us love Miss Hannigan

Fer shure.

I bet Gertrude was um...'weeping'...

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[Puff]

I could knock you unconcious, me being butch and all Garfield Kidding of course, I'm not really big with the butch...ask anyone.

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[xita]

I finally got my issues also in this issue, they chose Buffy as the #2 show on tv behind the Sopranos.

[tommo]

Is this the current issue, xita?

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[Dumbsaint]

quote:

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Originally posted by tommo:
I bet Gertrude was um...'weeping'...

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Actually it was more like she was getting in the holiday spirit and doing her impression of the Little Drummer Girl. A queer one indeed, that Gertrude, ever marching to her own gaily sung little tune.

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[xita]

Yes Ruth it is the current issue Dec 21/28 with Nicole Kidman on the cover. I just got my issue today.

[kitten scout]

Let's all give a cheer to EW for recognizing Buffy (especially W/T) as a program worth watching!

[xita]

EW has also picked buffy for one of it's top 5 tv moments of the year. Only #2 behind the events of sep. 11. This is more great press from EW.

EW had now recognized buffy as the #2 show, the #2 tv moment of the year plus they singled out our girls in their magazine.

That gets a big

YAY

[spellbound 13]

DR.G Gertrude Stein is a sister from Franken Stein!!!!

Nicole

[Warduke]

Damn I was sure I had replied to this thread, oh well, Yay! for our girls and the show, this rocks!

[lion + dove]

okay ewonline finally posted their tv list so i can excerpt the #2 love for those of us without subscriptions (i accidentally posted as a new topic at first as i rely on ewonline now not the mag and was fooled into thinking it was new *darn laggards*).

so if anyone's interested: http://www.ew.com/ew/features/011223/ye ... esttv.html
here's the blurb:

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (UPN)

In a calendar year's worth of emotional episodes that saw the death of Buffy's mother, the death and resurrection of Buffy herself, and a musical production that put most contemporary Broadway efforts to shame, the Slayer's fiercest battle continues to be against that old TV shibboleth, Industry Respect. No matter; wise, stern creator Joss Whedon still forces us to go where we may not want to venture, but are ultimately always glad we did: Alyson Hannigan's Willow gone witchcraft-crazy; James Marsters' Spike gone soft for Buffy; Nicholas Brendon's Xander and Emma Caulfield's Anya picking out wedding china patterns. Oh, the horror, the exquisite horror!

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and hopefully more good news coming soon with golden globes announcement in less than 1:30...

edited to add that's on Ken "I always liked him better" Tucker's list. On Frett's list, Buffy doesn't even rank. But two of her direct timeslot competitors do (unlike on Tucker's) maybe Frett was trying to spread the love a little...

[xita]

Time has also placed the musical in its top 10 of the year:

#9 "Once More, with Feeling," Buffy the Vampire Slayer (UPN)
You could apply the title of this audacious musical episode to the whole season of Buffy, which survived an acrimonious move from the WB to return smarter, funnier and dramatically richer than ever. Who'd have thought creator Joss Whedon (who taught himself piano to write the episode's surprisingly tuneful score, as well as the nimble lyrics) studied his Sondheim along with his sarcophagi?

[Willowsgf]

how do you get a sig at the bottom of ur posts?!

[xita]

Go here and each time you post make sure you check the box that says Show Signature: include your profile signature. Only registered users may have signatures.

[xita]

double posting to put another list this from
MSNBC where a critic places Buffy at #1.

THE BEST, but not the easiest to watch.
In it, death came to the vampire slayer’s house as suddenly and as unexpectedly as it comes to many others. Buffy (who is, for all her vampire-fighting prowess, supposed to be just a young college student) came home to find her mother, who’d earlier had surgery for a brain tumor, dead on the living-room couch.
From there, the script moved through all the wretched, painful, human stages that are familiar to anyone who’s lost someone.
Capable Buffy, stuttering and clinging to the 911 operator’s voice. A short fantasy sequence in which Buffy imagines that paramedics are able to perform a miracle and bring her mother back to life. The desperation of her vampire-hunting friends, the Scooby Gang, as they struggle to be there for a friend who is, for the moment, beyond any help they can offer.
One such powerful episode would have been enough for most shows to rest on all season long, but Buffy isn’t most shows.

A few months after Buffy lost her mother, she was forced to sacrifice her own life to save her sister Dawn. That couldn’t last forever - the show’s not called “Dawn, the Vampire Slayer’s Sister” - so Buffy was brought back.
But again: Not that simple. Her desperate friends pulled her out of what they thought was hell, but the audience soon learned that the new Buffy was keeping a secret. She’d actually been ripped away from heaven, and wasn’t sure she’d ever get over the loss.
For all those reasons (not to mention the daring and catchy all-musical episode that aired this fall), “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is my show of the year.

[Dr.G]

Amen to that. Thanks for posting this Xita.

[LadyJ]

Wow. I still say we should infultrate the Nielson HQ and have all BVS fans become a neilson family. Just think 100 million veiwers watching Buffy on Tuesday and no other show. Ok maybe its a stretch, but I know I am not the first to venture this far into the gutter.

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[kissystarcowboy]

heehee, we could bribe nielsen families or something. i've never met a nielsen family... nor do i know anyone who does. my family does the radio version and it's very very very frustrating.

yay for EW for recognizing buffy. i get all smiley when magazines mention it, as no one here at home watches buffy, much less has any knowledge of its existence!

and sapphic shenanigans is a cute phrase. much better than that article about Shannen Doherty that said shennenigans.

[Willowlicious]

The Detroit News named Buffy #1 after all of HBO's original series. Yay!

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DETROIT NEWS--TV TOP 10
By Tom Long

Any discussion of the past year's top television shows has to start with HBO's Sunday night lineup of The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and Sex and the City. Luckily, it doesn't have to end there.
The quality of the premium cable channel's Sunday lineup -- easily the best on TV -- has, happily, driven the major networks into a competitive creative frenzy that has resulted in some of the best free programing in the history of the medium, including a number of promising new shows. Ceding top honors to HBO then, the 10 best shows on major network prime-time TV in 2001 are:
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m. Tues., UPN): Last season's story arc on the WB, which saw Buffy die at the end, was the best-written in the show's history, and this season's love affair between the reborn Buffster and bad boy vampire Spike is throwing off major sparks. A fantasy show that deals with both the mythic and personal, always including humor and humanity. And November's musical episode was the best hour of television this year.
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Edited to add: Hello, Mods! Perhaps this thread should be renamed "Year End Kudos" or something as it includes references from a few publications now? A ton of Top 10 lists will be coming out in the next week.

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[Brynn*]

Robert Bianco the television critic from USA Today published his list of top shows and Buffy made the list at #4. Here is what he had to say:

4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (UPN): In its new UPN home, this audacious series produced the single best hour of any show so far this season, a made-for-TV musical hour that brilliantly illuminated the characters while providing a better score than most recent Broadway shows. Buffy also has found new ways to develop its two long-running themes: acting responsibly and accepting responsibility for our actions. I can think of no series over the past five years that has been more consistently inventive or entertaining.

[Web Warlock*]

There is a lot of this going around. Time, TV Guide andtwo local papers, Chicago Tribune and the Daily Herald (Chicago 'Burbs) have also claimed that Buffy is the best.

Here is an article I was *just* reading on MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.com/news/675451.asp?0dm=N19QL

I'll look up others, if anyone is interested.

Warlock

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Chicago = city of great taste. Heh.

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[WiccanBex]

everyone loves buffy!

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