I am reading [this book] and taking perverse glee in marking in pen Buffyverse canon errors, even small ones. It's kind of like when I went to the sold-out Chicago showing of The Buffy Musical Sing-a-long and was perplexed that I won the Spike Trivia contest out of like 700 people there because I really don't think of myself as the kind of fan who is good with the details. Not compared to many of the rest of y'all. But then this woman tries to tell me that it was the principal instead of the mayor who turned into an enormous snake and misquotes lines of Giles's dialogue.

There are some interesting ideas in the book, particularly in relation to melodrama, but hmmm, we'll see what I think when I get to the end of it. I already suspect that this woman is letting her obviously rabid Spike fangirling unduly influence her text. And I mean, I'm a Spike fangirl! Always have been! But I don't understand how you can talk extensively about the association of the figure of the sympathetic vampire with the Byronic (anti)hero and NOT include any pictures of Angel. WTF? Also, AtS the show gets multiple page numbers indexed but Angel the character none on his own whereas Spike is referenced in 8 (some multiple page) sections. She included pictures of both Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt from Interview With the Vampire, so...humph.

And I kind of wish I was alive when Dark Shadows was on.

*sniffles*