You know what, if you don't see how anyone (least of all the woman concerned) could conceivably find this guy's behavior creepy and inappropriate in any way, shape or form I'm not going to change your mind.

Fair point - but Buffy isn't the only fandom where arguments from canon are on unstable ground, if enormously fun in a nit-picky fan-wanky kind of way, and long may it continue! :) I agree with Drew Goldberg, "one of my favorite aspects of Joss's world is that it takes the things you know, or think you know, and…

Meanwhile at HBO, someone is pitching an incredibly unsafe for work-or-anywhere-else line of Game of Boners mech.

But John Hamm's wing-wang going out in public without being strangled by underpants is NEWS of vital public interest, Josh. Didn't you get the memo? :)

Oh, I'd agree - McClintock isn't a showy actor, but he has a nice sense of how to pitch the comedy without going over the top. But even the best actor and most likable person can't do much with bad material. Warehouse 13 isn't a perfect show, by any means, but like Eureka it's really nice to see an insanely endearing…

I take your point, but it's a shame "genre show introduces awesome female character who isn't immediately killed/brain-wiped/turns out to be an evil bitch-troll/does something incredibly stupid in lieu of foreplay with our studly hero" isn't so commonplace it's unworthy of comment, let alone a headline. Sadly, that's…

The Canon for Buffy says that the slayer has to be a [fe]male.

But it also gives Pete a lot more layers, by showing him being more than just the comic relief.

If he's not Chosen then how is a Slayer?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. If he's not a slayer with superpowers but just a self-trained fighter of monsters... then he's not a slayer. Article done.

Haven't Andrew and Xander ended up as the de facto Watchers Council, though without Giles' awesome dithering and expressive glasses-cleaning superpowers. :)

Don't think so - but if you think about it, the whole origin of the Slayer line is arguably hellishly misogynistic.

Given that so many narratives seem to use vampires as a metaphor for gay people (vampires are underground, they're misunderstood, fundamentalists hate them) is it weird to sort of turn vampires into gay-bashers instead?

Alexandre Aja is directing Horns? Forget it.

Really? Even with prosthetic makeup, Nicole Kidman's resemblance to Virginia Woolf in The Hours was vague at best. Didn't prevent her getting rave reviews and an Oscar.

Budget constraints: the only villain more played out than the Daleks.

Perhaps you'd prefer he made "sexual" advances towards her in a group setting then?

Oh, I talk to people all the time. Weirdly enough, I don't expect a particularly warm reception if I waint until I've got someone alone in an elevator at 4am before making not very welcome sexual advances to them. Perhaps you'd like to e-mail me your home address, phone number and a daily schedule so I test my…

Fair points well made, and thanks for doing so - and I don't think our points of disagreement are that huge. Still, if everyone agreed on everything all the time wouldn't the world be tedious beyond belief? :)

But I really do think you're trolling. Hey, think I've made a bad argument please try to convince me — it's not like I've never been wrong on the internet before. But just driving by to be a condescending ass? Waste of both our time.