http://www.watchercast.com An episode by episode podcast review of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Three die hard Buffy fans review each episode and offer thoughts and opinions on characters, events, and impact of the show. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:21:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.watchercast.com/archives/226 A series of grisly murders of really stuffy British people lead straight to Giles, who gets drunk and pissy in response. Buffy and the gang rush to his rescue anyway, and Jenny Calendar becomes possessed by Eyghon, an ancient demon that Giles and his friends used to summon when ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/225 Buffy is pleasantly surprised when a friend from her old high school shows up in Sunnydale. Then, she's unpleasantly surprised when Ford catches her staking a vampire. Then she's pleasantly surprised again when he tells her that he already knows she is The Slayer. Then she's unpleasantly ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/218 Hey all! As per usual, I've listened to the finished podcast and realized that we had left out pretty much everything that we promised to put into the show notes. So, let's try and fix that, shall we? First up, "TurdBoy Brown-Eye". I've included a screen shot ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/219 Buffy and the Scoobies are volunteered by Snyder to show kids around for Halloween. Luckily, Halloween is the one night a year that evil lays low in the Buffyverse. Unluckily, Ethan Raine, a shady character from Giles past, never got the memo, and casts a spell that causes ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/217 Now you can review the episodes we're covering in the podcast even if you don't own the DVDs! Hulu has added the second season of Buffy to their site. As an added bonus we'll be using Hulu to add in some of our favorite moments of the episode into the ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/215 Buffy, in her never ending quest to try and just be a normal high schooler, gets caught up in Cordelia's newest obsession...College Frat Guys. While this is always a bad idea, it's an especially bad choice in Sunnydale, where we learn that the Delta Zeta Kappa guys sacrifice their ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/209 OOPs! Ok something goofy happened with the sound on reptile boy. We'll have that episode back up soon. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/210 Xander's luck in women looks like it's turning around as he falls for the beautiful foreign exchange student Ampata, who is staying at Buffy's place. But wasn't Buffy's exchange student supposed to be a guy? And what about that mummy that seems to have escaped from the local ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/208 The first 12 episodes of Buffy are available on Hulu.com for free. While there are some short payday loan companyloan payday yahoono checking account payday loanloan payday quick,quick low interest payday loan,fax loan payday quickpayday loan store milwaukeecash fast loan online paydaybad credit day loan payday same,bad credit loan payday,bad ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/207 Our forums have been upgraded to a fresh install of the super-new super-cool PHPbb 3.0!!! So it should be a lot easier to raise shields and fend off all those spammer accounts. The bad news? The Buffy-ised theme I hacked together didn't transport well to the forum's new home. The good ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/206 The Watchercast is now on: Pownce MySpace FaceBook If you're on any of these, friend the show and we'll keep everyone in the loop with the show and what we're up to. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/204 Buffy is sweating Parent / Teacher conference night, and the best way to keep her mother away from Snyder. Little does she know, she has much bigger things to worry about when Spike and Drusilla hit town! (literally!) Directed by: John T. Kretchmer Original Air Date: September 29, 1997 Guest ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/203 We're going to suspend the forums for a bit while I try and upgrade the PHPBB to version 3 and address the problem with spam accounts. We love having the forums so don't go to far. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/201 Chris and Eric, two students at Sunnydale High, have an exciting new Science Fair project: they’ve brought back Chris’s brother, Daryl, from the dead. The project complete they start on a new venture - making Daryl a perfect girlfriend from old body parts. They have their eye on Cordelia’s head ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/191 While being a bit tongue-in-cheek (I'll let you decide who's tongue in who's cheek) this pulls together just about all of the great Spike and Buffy moments. Hot. Link to it on YouTube http://www.watchercast.com/archives/189 The Watchercast now has forums! Be sure to read the "READ THIS FIRST!" post before signing up and posting. We're still working out what type of threads we'll have so post any ideas as comments to this post. Speaking of comments, please continue to comment on each of the episodes via ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/185 Buffy's back for the first episode of Season 2!After a summer with her father in L.A., Buffy returns to Sunnydale noticeably less sunny. Her near death experience at the hand of the Master months before has given her a serious case of the wiggins, and she's not handling it ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/172 Giles discovers a prophecy that Buffy will face the Master and die. Terrified, she wants to quit as a Slayer but an incident in the school, which upsets Willow, makes Buffy decide to face her destiny. The Master drowns her but she’s resuscitated by Xander. Buffy finally kills the Master. Directed ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/17 Marcie Ross is a quiet, unpopular girl in school who is ignored so much that she becomes invisible. She blames Cordelia and sets out to ruin her and her friends by hurting them in different ways. Cordelia is forced to turn to Buffy and her friends for protection, against all ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/15 Yes you can now see the hosts of The Watchercast on the About page. More info coming soon, including some exciting events coming up. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/140 Sorry for the chipmunking of the web player. I'll have it fixed tonight. -Jason A young boy is put in a coma and his nightmare world begins to take over Sunnydale. Everyone’s nightmares start to literally come true. Buffy rushes to help the boy before the world goes completely crazy - ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/14 I'm playing around with some themes to get ideas for the next version of the site so it may look odd once in a while. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/129 Sunnydale High’s new Principal - Snyder - forces Giles to run the school’s annual talent(less) show. Things start to go wrong when a demon begins to steal body parts from those taking part. Things get worse when the Scoobies realise a ventriloquist’s dummy may be to blame. (Description provided by ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/13 More episodes are coming. The FriedGeek Studios (AKA Jason's place) has moved to it's new, Permanent location. The last few weeks have been crazy with buying a house, moving, and having to travel for the day job. I'll have the gear setup in the next few days and as soon ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/119 An evil demon called Moloch with the power of persuasion is accidentally scanned into the school’s computer system. Moloch begins to take over the Internet thereby gaining the power to wreak havoc on the world. At the same time, Moloch disguises himself as Willow’s on-line boyfriend - Malcolm. Directed by: Stephen ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/106 Buffy and Angel are chased by vampires and hide out at Buffy’s place. There, they kiss and Angel reveals himself to be a vampire. When Buffy later hunts him, she discovers that he actually has a soul. Angel proves his loyalty to Buffy and to the greater good by killing ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/93 The iTunes feed should be fixing itself and the rest of the episodes should be showing up in iTunes soon. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/91 While enduring the annual field trip to the zoo, Xander and several other students enter the quarantined Hyena pen and become possessed by the spirit of the wild animals. Buffy notices that Xander is acting different, more aggressive and mean, but she must figure out what happened and how to ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/9 Currently there is something odd with our feed, not all of the episodes are showing up in itunes. We currently use podPress but something seems to be odd with it. I really hope I don't have to revert to manually witting the feed but if it comes down to it ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/81 I'm upgrading Podpress and with luck it shouldn't goof the feed. If it does, have no fear, I'll roll back. UPDATE: I upgraded WordPress to the latest version and it killed my custom theme. Still working out the issues. UPDATE: Update Podpress: CHECK Update WordPress: CHECK Update W.C. Theme: Hmmm. maybe I'll make a ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/80 Buffy goes out on a date with the much sought-after Owen, but a vampire-related emergency arises, forcing her to take him along to the local mortuary. Meanwhile, the Master’s brethren await the coming of the Anointed One, who Buffy believes she has killed… but she’s in for a big (or ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/8 The next episode of The Watchercast, "Never kill a boy on the first date", will feature a few special guest host(s). And we've got about three more episodes locked and loaded! http://www.watchercast.com/archives/69 With the success of the Joss Whedon penned Buffy Season 8 comic, IDW Comics are following suit with an "Angel" series, picking up right where Season 5 left off! At the Wizard World Los Angeles convention, Chris Ryall, editor of IDW Comics, made the following announcement (as reported on Newsarama): ...Joss Whedon ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/68 In keeping with the spirit of our "Teacher's Pet" episode, I thought I would post on something I read on Newsarama.com today...there is some VERY exciting news for us comic book / Buffy fans ahead! Bruce Timm, the genius behind Batman the Animated Series, has been tapped to create some direct ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/66 Offering up the finest in Angel bloopers... with minimum silly music. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/65 This is one of the best Buffy highlight reels I've seen. Hot stuff. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/64 http://www.watchercast.com/archives/63 Xander falls for a new substitute teacher in school called Miss French, who, amazingly, seems to like him too. It turns out she’s a man-eating Praying Mantis in human form and is after Xander’s virgin sperm for fertilization. No, really. Xander is saved by Buffy, but his pride is lost ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/10 Two new episodes are in the can and are being edited. Watch for a new episode soon. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/52 The first non vampire episode where a witch tries to take out cheerleaders to get on the squad. Oh and since Buffy tries out, it just get's kind of Freaky Friday. Written by: Joss Whedon Directed by: Stephen Cragg Original Air Date:17 March 1997 Guest Stars: Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy Madison) Trivia: The sign in the ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/42 * WARNING * for those of you who haven't seen Season 7 yet, you may want to hold off on reading any further...there be some slight spoilage ahead... Wait! Stop the Watchercast! There is one more season of Buffy to come! That's right. Season 8 is coming! OK, ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/41 The second half of the pilot for Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Buffy and the soon to be Scoobies learn of the Harvest and the Master. Written by: Joss Whedon Directed by:John T. Kretchmer Original Air Date:10 March 1997 Guest Stars: Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall) Trivia: An earthquake did hit the Torrance High School in 1933. Brian Thompson ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/4 I was shopping for stuff to make the family feel better after we all got our ass kicked by the stomach flu and saw this sitting on the book shelf. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/30 The first episode of season one! Quotes: "What is your childhood trauma?" - Cordillia Trivia: The unaired pilot stared a different principal and a different Willow. The High School that was used for Sunnydale High is Torrance High School. The courtyard seen throughout the series is actually the Senior Patio. Uber-Buffy fans ... http://www.watchercast.com/archives/3 The blog theme is in place, the first two episodes have been recorded. Once I have them edited the show will officially launch! http://www.watchercast.com/archives/21 Coming soon, The Watchercast. A hand full of serious Buffy fans sit down and go episode by episode and discuss the finer details of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. http://www.watchercast.com/archives/18