Buffy Between The Lines

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We sit down and talk with the band behind the Buffy Between the Lines Theme song about writing music, the band, writing a book, being creative and their upcoming kid’s album. Please be sure to check them out at their website.

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by Tabitha Grace Smith

Oz is forced to tell the band members about his wolf-ism while Riley is recruited by the Initiative for a very special case.

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How to Grow Your Geek

Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing

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In this photo: Tee Morris (who now owes us a role), Rory (the dragon), Nuchtchas, Christianna Ellis (Air/Fairy), Phil Rossi (Creation Narrator), Scott Sigler, Mark Smith (Smitty Halibit), Junkie Mae, and Jason N.

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I certainly didn’t expect Buffy: Between the Lines to turn itself into essential listening in just two episodes. Not without some of the technical issues that plagued the first episode, there is however so much Buffy goodness in this story it’s virtually a fanfic dream come true. This second story in the soon to be hot radio play offers us a slice of genuine horror in the excellently executed opening scenes, as a young opera singer is mysteriously murdered, the use of song and sound here being particularly exemplary. It then throws in some classic Buffyesque comic touches, some genuine mystery in the mode of Buffy Seasons 2/3 as the gang and in particular Tara (it’s so great to see Tara lead a story) try to work out who is behind the calling of this demon and finally treats us to a great twist ending.

You want more? With Willow going to L.A to let Angel know about Buffy’s death we’re even treated to a number of crossover scenes that never did but should have happened in the TV series (or at least the comics goddammit). No, it doesn’t quite fit in with the mad demon murdering university choir-singers storyline, but Willow’s trip also becomes a disaster as there’s a demon on the loose in Angel’s hotel and Willow has to stay cool and save the day. Even more importantly, praise the lord, we’re treated to a wonderful characterisation of Cordelia that casts aside the tedious uninteresting character from Angel and gives us something close to the uber-bitch of Buffy seasons 1-3 as she lays smack into Willow and Buffy when she turns up on their doorstep. Throw in an uncanny Fred impersonation and it makes one eagerly anticipate the inevitable (this is inevitable, right?) Angel Between the Lines spin off show.

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Join Brian Brown (Giles), Barbara Jungbauer (Joyce), Beth Nelson (writer), Sue O’Donovan (writer), Nathaniel (Mr. McClay), and Cliss (Tara) as they discuss Buffy Between the Lines Season 2 episode “Better Safe Than Sorry in Sunnydale”.

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Promo Read by: Scott McCoy

We as Browncoats and Whedon fans are known for rallying to help those in need. Because of Browncoats we’ve been able to donate thousands to “Kids Need to Read” and “Equality Now”. Buffy fans have helped “Make a Wish” with their yearly Buffy marathon. Now, Sonny needs our help.

Currently this piece of Firefly’s history, Sonny Rhodes, is facing a financial hardship. Being too sick to work has drained his personal finances and to help this great bluesman his friends have decided to start a relief fund for the months that Sonny will be laid up recovering from these surgeries. While a majority of Sonny’s medical will be paid by insurance but not all expenses will be covered.

Buffy Between the Lines wants to help out, so we’re doing a special episode that will -only- be available to those who donate to Sonny via his paypal button. We’re not collecting the funds ourselves, but we would like you to head over to Sonny’s Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/sonnystorch

Donate whatever you can to help out. Every little bit helps in these tough times. Once you’ve donated, send us an email at Buffy BetweentheLines at gmail dot com. Also include your Paypal transaction number or some proof of your donation. Add the Subject line “for Sonny”.

We’ll be sending everyone who participates and sends us an email a link to a special episode on April 1st, 2009. This episode will not appear anywhere else, and is only available to those listeners who donate to help Sonny out.

We’re also going to give away some special goodies to randomly chosen entries. We have some Buffy Between the Lines schwag, Buffy Season 8 posters and other things we’ll send to the lucky winners. So please help us help a friend.

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[Editor's Note: We asked Juss, from the New Time Radio Blog over at Play-Time.com if we could repost some reviews he wrote of our first season. He happily agreed. Make sure you check out his blog for more reviews of audio dramas. Thanks Juss!]

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Major kudos to Tabitha Smith and all the guys at Buffy Between the Lines for undertaking and pulling of such a bold and daring project.

I’ve kept away from expanded universe Buffy material including books comics and fan-fiction mostly as the quality of the TV show (and Season 8 comics) has been so high it would seem like desecration and only make me angry. However, having heard about Buffy Between the Lines, a radio production which follows the lives of the Buffy characters inbetween seasons 5 and 6, my curiosity got the better off me; this project was so ambitious It’d either be immensely gratifying to see it pulled off or at the very least it would give me a good laugh for 30 minutes listening to a bunch of Whedonites pretending to be Willow, Xander et al and falling flat on their faces.

There are immense difficulties involved in portraying characters so loved and cherished as the Buffyverse characters, with the acting styles and mannerisms of the Buffy actors so ingrained on our consciences it was always going to be difficult to convince listeners of the validity of this project, particularly with an amateur cast. Worse for them maybe is that Whedon and Co’s scripts are so tight, fast paced and funny whilst simultaneously containing such smart character development and genrebusting ideas that it’s going to take a scriptwriter of some talent to make it worth these actors getting out of bed for.

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Buffy Between the Lines presents a full PDF of our script for Season 2 – Ep 006 Better Safe than Sorry in Sunnydale
Written by Sue O’Donovan & Beth Nelson
Cover Art by Scott Tofte
Coloring by Nuchtchas

Pat invites Joyce to join her book club and they seem to be other than normal. A strange disappearance seems to confirm Joyce’s suspicions. Can the scoobies help her save Kelly in time? Meanwhile Tara deals with her family and her mother’s death.

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Our hearts are very sad for our dear friend Sonny Rhodes, the singer who performed the Firefly theme song. He’s been very sick and not able to work and now is struggling to make ends meet. You can read all about his situation on Whedonesque.

In order to help him out, we’re going to be creating a VERY special episode of Buffy Between the Lines that is -only- available to people who donate to Sonny’s paypal fund. We’ll also be giving away some copies of Buffy Season 8 the comic, special Buffy Between the Lines posters, S1 of BBtL on DVD, and other prizes (TBA)

If you’d like to receive this secret episode, please make a donation to Sonny’s paypal (you can find the button on his Myspace) and then send us an email to buffybetweenthelines-at-gmail.com with the subject line “For Sonny”. In the email please put your name and Paypal transaction number (or other proof of donation). ANY amount can help Sonny out, so please give as you are able.

All emails received will receive a link to a secret episode on April 1st, 2009. Other winners will be notified by email.

If you have any questions, please leave us a comment or email the address above.