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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reunion : Thoughts, Pictures, Videos!

On March 20th, at the 25th Annual William S. Paley Television Festival the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion occurred. Along with Joss Whedon, Marti Noxon and David Greenwalt, cast members that were there included Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emma Caulfield, Nicholas Brendon, Amber Benson, Charisma Carpenter, Seth Green, James Marsters, and Michelle Trachetenberg.

So, I did not get to attend the Paley Festival. But that doesn’t mean I won’t cover it. Generous fans and other media outlets are sharing their experiences, pictures, etc. What I thought I would do was analyze the interviews that TV Guide’s Ausiello had with Sarah, Seth, Charisma, Nicholas, and Michelle.

Well, my first instinct is to wonder why Sarah and Seth were interviewed together. Everyone else was interviewed separately. Although Seth isn’t taller than Sarah (and she’s short) he’s protective, and a good friend to Sarah. My guess might be that Sarah was a bit fearful of any reporters who’d dig in to her about this being her first real appearance for the Buffy fandom. If I were her, I would have been nervous of the questions that could be asked. Seth did a lot of joking with Sarah, and he intercepted and fielded some of the harder questions - deflecting them with jokes.

When asked if he was ready for the pandemonium that would erupt, Seth said (jokingly) that he’d been training with weapons, in martial arts, and he recently saw Never Back Down. I’ve never heard of that movie, but maybe I should. I trust Seth’s taste.

Ausiello did us a solid when he asked them why there wasn’t a Buffy movie yet. Seth answered the question with a question, asking why there hadn’t been a sequel for The Italian Job (The Italian Job) yet - and then he said that it was just hard to get a movie made in Hollywood. If Sarah is the one who won’t agree to a movie, who knows. Joss said something about ‘a lot of stars (that) would have to align’ for that to happen.

Sarah said she was open to coming back to TV. I’m pretty positive that’s a different answer then what she was saying a few years ago.

An admission came when Sarah she said had just found out about Buffy’s latest adventure in bed with a woman in the comics. She said she would have assumed it was with Willow. “Shouldn’t it have been Willow if it was anybody?” Ausiello suggested Cordy/Buffy and she just kind of laughed. Sarah, of course, has kissed at least one girl (Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions - Cruel Intentions DVD), although whether or not she’d have played a bisexual or lesbian relationship on the show is something only she knows.

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Heinous Hair Tragedies on TV

Deciding to start the new year off with a haircut isn’t a totally original idea, but I needed one anyway. So, the other day I went to to get my hair cut. I tend to wear my glasses a lot these days so I wasn’t really able to see where my stylist was pointing as she asked me things about my soon-to-be new look. I was in a good mood, and I agreeably nodded as she spoke.

As she began cutting, a sensation of dread started at the dead center of my stomach and began to curl outwards, imbolizing all of my limbs. She was cutting it shorter than I’d expected, shorter than I thought I’d told her to. But what can you do in a situation like this? The damage is done - your hair is on the floor, they can’t glue is back.

I decided to breathe calmly and think as rationally as I could. Hair is a natural resource. I’ve had it long, for so long, it could be good for a change. And it’s not as though it was being cut that short. Something else flickered into my mind, given that I’m such a fangirl: I could weather this, no matter how bad the cut might turn out to be, because there were so many actresses who’d had their bad haircuts play out on the TV screen.

I’d witnessed these, I’d mocked occasionally, I’d felt sympathy, I’d considered sending letters of advice to these poor women. I knew that it happens. Now, I personally lucked out. My stylist did a fabulous job.

So now, dear Sofachip readers, I am going to walk you through some of the most heinous hair tragedies we’ve witnessed on the small screen.

Cordelia Chase from Angel the series

Cordelia, portrayed by Charisma Carpenter, always had gorgeous dark brunette hair (just like me). And even when she cut it shorter, chin-length, we had hope it was just a small goof. But then she turned up with an angled bob, in blonde. This was years and years ago, and I’m still recovering.

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Felicity Porter from Felicity

Lately, we know her for roles in movies like August Rush, or the amazing Waitress. But we first knew her as indecisive, introverted, imaginative college freshman, Felicity. When she cut her hair, it was a huge scandal. Word is, that after this (she did it on her own and then had to wear a wig for the first part of season two’s first episode) the WB started…

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