The hosts of Buffy RPG page shared a video from him just five days earlier, talking about art, the weather and coffee. He was in a good place.
Saturday, 21 March 2026
Friday, 20 March 2026
V5: Stolen 2.05
Vampire: The Masquerade
Stolen
2.05
Who Can You Trust?
Beck
Robin
Vince
Beverley meets Beck as arranged.
Beck can see Robin hiding, and see him tense, ready to spring, giving him a warning look.
He asks her to steal the Book of Nod fragment from Astor, if he already has it and is looking or more buyers. Noting the urgency, she recalculates her fee for a strike tonight.
Robin forces himself to wait for her to go before joining Beck.
Vince strolls up to join them.
Beck narrows his eyes. “What are you doing her? I don’t want worming your way into this, unless you can actually help.”
“I can always find a way to help.”
“Sure you can, you slimy bastard.”
“Well, emotions seem high, perhaps a nice meal would help? I saw a couple of gentlemen at the pub shaking hands with their left hands?”
“I do not sully myself with the blood of inebriates.”
“I’m sure they were just having something light.”
“Perhaps you could do something for me instead?”
“Oh, I’m sure.”
“One of my bride is also helping our sire’s fundraiser. I don’t want to sabotage her, but I would like...”
“Revenge?”
“No, just to outshine her... a little.”
“I’ll see what I can do. But I’m just a little fish here, I’d never dream of crossing you.”
“Good.” Beck smiles thinly. “But there’s no need to be afraid of me. Well, besides the obvious.”
The three go their separate ways. Beck making sure the others aren’t following him this time.
Single Girl, nananananana Single Girl
Been a long time since I edited a fan vid, but I have just the song for Ready Or Not:
Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come (trailer) starts immediately after the original, embiggens the setting as lightly hinted at, retcons a minor detail to be a major plot point and - yes! - has Sarah Michelle Gellar getting stabby in horror-comedy action.
Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton bounce off each other nicely. The enemies this time aren’t all as inept as Grace’s inlaws in the first, Gellar’s Ursula and Shawn Hatosy as her brother Titus providing most of the serious threat. The funniest fight with a couple of standout gags (one referencing the Schwarzenegger oeuvre) is intercut with the most serious, which was an interesting choice but does deflate the fun one for me.
Since it can’t match the surprise of the original ending it plays that card a few times unexpectedly.
Lacking that surprise and not being so nicely self-contained means it doesn’t hit as well for me as the original, but it’s still big fun.
The creators compared the setting expansion to John Wick and this is pretty literal, but does mean I got something Wick failed to provide in four and a half movies.
Thursday, 19 March 2026
I have been summoned
Someone just asked for ideas for low-level powers and sources characters could have in a Buffy RPG.
I typed quite quickly for a few minutes there.
Stranger Things on disc
Stranger Things is coming to physical media, in 4K and Blu-Ray box sets. Which is nice.
Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom trailer
Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom trailer, and talk at Empire, “a race against time to save Halloween” so the September 18th release date for half-term is a bit early.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer
Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer and talk at Empire.
These have been a pretty consistently fun part of the MCU, something the MCU needs.
The Punisher! Bruce Banner! A changing powers storyline! Dealing with his last choice! Ninjas! Dropping off high things and it not being reversed to soar like in Spider-Verse!
And is this really the first time we’ve gotten a live-action version of the Amazing Fantasy 15 cover? Huh. Seems so obvious now it’s there.
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
And for me...
Been a while. Time to run Buffy.
I know the official system well enough to run it in my sleep (just about, GMing while unconscious doesn’t really work) but could look at alternatives that are in print if I’m feeling nice.
Yeah there’s Monster Of The Week but I will never forgive it for stealing that term for its title.
Where next for Buffy?
Assuming Sarah doesn’t burn that man down and overthrow the Hulu gatekeepers (which, fingers crossed) what next?
I would imagine the next attempt would be a full reboot with no-one back in their original roles. It’s been tried before in the 2010 film script by Whit Anderson who went on to work with Buffy writing veterans on Daredevil, and the Boom! comics - and also the show itself, which is why I’m always fine with this when it potentially comes up.
The New Sunnydale screenplay
According to Slayerfest 98 “the script leak floating around is an early draft - not the shooting script” so I’ll work from there.
I’d say it largely works.
And not just because Nova wants to go to Cambridge.
(Early naming, later Rowan.)
One of the possible new Scoobies gets to spotlight the horror of the whole thing well.
“What are you?”
“You know.”
It does feel very much like part one of an intro two-parter. Basically a whole story but ending on an appeal to come back.
And it’s very much a sequel, which is cool for audiences like me but I can see concerns about getting new people. I’m sure they could have gotten the balance in time.
Sarah Michelle Gellar on New Sunnydale
Sarah Michelle Gellar talks to People about being sad for the cast and crew and fans, angry about when the announcement came, and suspicious of one of the execs involved and merciful not to name him.
Monday, 16 March 2026
Chloé Zhao on New Sunnydale
Chloé Zhao talked about Buffy on the red carpet at the Oscars, saying she was not surprised:
“I had an incredible, incredible time with Sarah, with all the cast and crew doing this. And we, first and foremost, see ourselves as the guardians of the original show. Our priority for Sarah and for us has always been to be truthful to the show, to be truthful to our fans. So, things happen for a reason, and we keep our hearts open and we welcome the mystery. And what this might lead us to.”
(She was all in black with a mourning veil, but says this was a themed look for her film Hamnet.)
Oscars 2026
Sinners did great, and I was sad but not really surprised it didn’t get everything
Most years, an action comedy state-of-the-nation piece about inept leftist terrorist heroes would be a very cool Best Picture win.
Best Supporting Actress going to Amy Madigan for a straight-up monster performance in Weapons is delightful.
Frankenstein getting the design awards, fair do’s.
K-Pop Demon Hunters getting Animated Feature and Song, cool too.
Yay for Jessie Buckley although it means for budgetary reasons I should stop fancasting her as the Doctor.
Sunday, 15 March 2026
Winter Paralympics 2026 closing ceremony
Closing ceremony starting rather TRON Legacy. No ninjas yet.
Now wanting a wheelchair using Jedi.
Danger danger snowglobe critical
Well, glad Brazil got a medal for the first time, after doing that at the Olympics too.
Firefly: The Animated Series
Firefly being pitched as an animated series, set between S1 and Serenity. Could work depending on style, if it happens.
That concept art looks realistic video game or Arcane ish. Could do okay.
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| If it can move, I guess? |
Though I’m very aware it’s a decidedly grounded series considering the spaceship flying. Animation could tempt them to change it up - hopefully keeping no aliens but they could easily have more space action? Thinking of the Buffy animated presentation ending with fighting a dragon, as well as the canon comics not matching the live action series’s budgetary practicality.
But also Adam Baldwin is there. Can he keep his head down for a job?
Well, one of the showrunning couple worked on Agent Carter.
Saturday, 14 March 2026
I understand that this sort of thing requires ice cream of some kind.
Comfort food, episode, serious thought to running a Buffy game again.
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