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I’m in geek heaven! Here’s a fan video of Walk Through the Fire from the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer set to scenes from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Don’t worry, the video doesn’t have any spoilers to either series, I think most of the Avatar footage they used was from first season.
I love how they matched up the Buffy and Avatar characters really well. I really love the one they gave Willow. It’s also funny that both those shows are ones I resisted watching until other people insisted.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:03 am
I agree with your auto-play stance. Very annoying.
Happy Monday, Craig!
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:18 am
“Or maybe melt away” and “I hope she fries / I’m free if that ***** dies” = LOL!
I also love the bridge when they assign the lines to random peepz (especially Giles and Willow). And how “So one by one, they turn from me” leads to a collage of characters turning around. Brillz.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 am
Holy crap. I’ve never seen either but that video is really well done. Must have taken them a long time to match up everything to the song. Very cool. Have to admit it’s made me more curious about Avatar than Buffy though. Hmmm.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:48 am
I remember when Enrico showed me the “Walk Though the Fire” clip within the first week that we met. I stared in amazement at him while he stared in amazement at the computer screen.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Josh, that’s an awesome story – it perfectly captures your personalities.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 am
On the general topic of Whedon musicals and over-the-top fan efforts, have you seen Horrible Turn, the unofficial prequel to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog?
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:29 am
Jere: You are totally correct!
I’m not a huge fan of “Once More With Feeling” but I have to admit, that was a very well done video.
Tam: Avatar is worth watching. It was very well done.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:35 am
Is it still on Nick? We are getting Nick north of the border, maybe I can watch it there.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:15 am
So hate the autoplay, too. It looks like livevideo writes their code to bring up a proprietary player app, so there’s probably not a way to disable it. Bastards!
Neat video, even though I don’t know the Buffy episode. I watched the first season of Avatar on Netflix on your recommendation, though, and really enjoyed it. Annoying that they don’t have other seasons available for instant play.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:18 am
How is my personality defined by staring @ Enrico?
Anywayz and more importantly, I dance around this empty house. Tear us down and throw you out.
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Tam: It looks like that it is not playing on Nick anymore.
I’m going to start the third season on Saturday.
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
jere: I watched the first part of it, but then I realized that I didn’t have time to watch it for an hour.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Sigh. I’m bored. I don’t want to read about infrastructure anymore. Blah blah blah. You guys aren’t very entertaining at ALL today.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Tam, this is for your entertainment. You’re welcome.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Tam: Earth with rings is awesome.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Oh Josh. I know now why you are enamoured of the dear dear woman. Isn’t there some kind of law about the size someone has to be to allow piercers to do the belly button? If there’s not there damn well should be.
Ryan: That was sooo cool. I would love to live on a planet with rings. Maybe someday.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Tam: My colony drop plan would probably result in rings, but josh is preventing me from pulling it off by threatening to betray me to the heroes (who for some reason, I assume to be Craig and Enrico). Earth probably had rings in the past after asteroid impacts or near misses.
Some may point out that we could create rings without smashing a giant object into the Earth, but why do one when you can do both at the same time?
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
You’ve got a point Ryan. Maximum bang for the buck. We can lock Josh in the basement or something. Oh wait, send him on a date with Rhonetta, she’ll keep him busy while you implement your evil plan.
How much space would there be (in theory) between the rings and the earth? If the rings showed up tomorrow would satellites smash into them? (Not taking into account your brilliant plan.) I think being so far north I might not have a great view of rings, but perhaps more interesting than places on the equator. Maybe you could make your rings wobble somehow like a spinning top so we’d all get a different view depending on the day/time. Work on that problem and get back to me.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Tam: The view in southern Canada would be similar to the one shown for Paris in the video.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Ryan: I still want them to wobble. And more colorful.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Tam: You are tempting me to do some numerical simulations to determine what configurations are stable.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Ryan: I’m great at distracting other people. I imagine there would be a wobble limit without them going completely off the rails and … I don’t know, crashing to earth or flying off into space I suppose. Astrophysics is my weak point.
Would the earth’s magnetosphere change with the addition of rings? What would that mean in the long run? What about solar winds hitting the earth? More or fewer borealis? Teach me something Monday Ryan.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Tam: Since the magnetosphere is driven by the convection of Earth’s mantle, I don’t think it would be affected to much by the rings.
It looks like the simplest way to make rings would be to simply place an object in an orbit that is inside the Roche Limit.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I think we could get colored rings using comets and dyes. However, UV bleaching would probably be a problem.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Ryan: That’s interesting but I think to get rings as big as Saturn (which might be overwhelming for earth) you’d need to a lot of “stuff” to make a decent ring. Perhaps the moon could be pulled closer (slowly) so that it could disintegrate to create enough mass for decent rings. Because really, go big or go home.
I think we completely lost the other readers on this string. Sorry Craig.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Ryan: Sunblock, in bulk. (Time to go home while I ponder this problem.)
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Rhonetta: I can’t believe she didn’t make the Monday Muse.
Ryan: I caught the rings earlier today and thought it was really neat. It makes me thing our planet is boring, but it really isn’t.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
john: I lurrrve how it lookz like you are writing to Rhonetta herself. I know…Deven Green better not take for granted that she stole the spotlight from Rho-Rho! It’s okay though, she’s still gonna make it. And when she gets there, you best believe, she’s settin’ da city on fiya!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Is there anyway we can get rings to orbit Rhonetta? That might interest me.
HUGS..
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Ryan: In the car (see, I really was pondering this) I was thinking if we could enough cobalt and sulfur up there we could have the Swedish rings but I’m not sure there is enough to make it truly look blue and yellow from earth.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Tam: Ooooh, Swedish rings! They’d be red and gummy and tasty right? We could send the shuttle up to mine them and bring them back down here to sell!!! Sweet!
HUGS…
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I’ll have to check out this Avatar business.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Nice video! I listened to this song once a few days ago. I thought it was just “nice”. Hearing it again I feel it growing on me a little more. It is the kind of dramatic musical type thing I tend to like. If knew more about Buffy I probably would be even more into it. I was really inspired by songs from Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along (haven’t even seen the whole thing yet [was waiting for my HD TV]). Once I get a TV I will have to make more of an effort to explore the world of Joss Whedon.
November 24th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Who is singing at 2:15 and 2:00 (From video end, since the time counts down)? Same guy? I really like his voice. Does he have a larger part in any other songs from OMWF?
November 24th, 2009 at 7:47 am
No sir, I don’t wanna be the blame. Not anymore. It’s your turn to take a seat, we’re settling the final score.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Chris – that’s Anthony Stewart Head who plays Giles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Head
November 25th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Thanks Michelle!
I hadn’t heard of him before, but he seems cool. I think his voice reminds me a bit of Richard Thompson. I like male vocalists with deep edgy voices.