About Buffyology

Not so much, but at least everything's in a database.

So that made it easier to cross-reference everything. I was inspired by IMDB. Plus, really everything's in the database. Every role and every actor, over 700 of each.

In a way ... and this is going to sound weird, I think of this simply as Fandom Done Properly. Who was the guy who played Rusty, the museum guard who got frozen in Smashed? It was Jack Josephson. There you go. Someone somewhere should be doing a site like this for every show.

Did you know that Brian Thompson, who played Luke in Welcome To The Hellmouth and The Harvest also played The Judge in Surprise and Innocence?

In other sites you'd probably only come across that detail by accident in a "did you know?" section on Brian. Here you just click on Brian's name wherever you see it and there you are. It's not about the references, it's about the cross-references.

I tried to make everything clickable that made any sense, like seasons, months, years and so on. Somebody, someday might want a list of "all episodes originally broadcast in February" or whatever.

And not to be mean, but a lot of sites just list Cordelia and Angel as "regulars" for the first season. They were regular, but they weren't in each episode. Click on Cordelia to see which ones she was in.

If you're thinking "wow, that's boring!" that's OK. I want this site to be a reference work, where you look up who played which role, or get a list of all Marti Noxon's episodes, easily and quickly. It should be boring in the way that a good dictionary is boring.

I like to cross-reference episodes too. If you look at Doppelgangland you'll see that it's cross-referenced under "episodes where people have twins" and also "gay themes" because it's the first hint we get that Willow might be gay.

And there's a collection of transcripts and a search engine for them. You can search every word of every episode. The search engine is new as of November 2005, and supports plus and minus for keywords as well as phrases and stemming.

Nope, Elena B did. Thanks Elena! You may email your appreciation to her at elenabtvs@yahoo.ca and you should also check out Elena's Stories, her fic at http://bifictionalbedlam.slashcity.net/guests/elena.html.

I honestly don't know. They were floating about in PDF form, and a bunch of people knew about them, but nobody really knew where they originated. I converted them to XHTML, which was fun. [NB: Actual fun not guaranteed.]

Yes I have! Just think of the possibilities. No, seriously. Think of the possibilities, and email me. Or download the whole set and work on it yourself, whatever.

No, sorry. I'll help you do it if you want.

IMDB of course, plus the Watchers' Guide books, and particularly, Keith Topping's brilliant Slayer series.

Those are available on the Geeky Details page.

This is something like version 1.1 -- I planned a version 1.2 which would have character cross-references as well, things like "we know Giles wanted to be 'a fighter pilot -- or a grocer' from Never Kill A Boy On The First Date" but I don't think that will happen for a long time, unless I make it a Wiki.

I might add more detailed writing credits though. It would be a good excuse to watch every episode all over again...

Absolutely. Anything that you notice that isn't right, let me know. Anything you think should be added, let me know. Cross-references are particularly welcome. Email me.

There have been some huge clunky omissions spotted by helpful people so far, like Angel being absent from season three entirely and "Goodbye Lowa" instead of "Goodbye Iowa"!

I only want to do stuff about the Buffyverse itself. Lots of other sites will be better at what college Charisma went to or SMG's wedding pictures or Tony's stage career. I just want to make a good reference work for the Buffyverse. I don't want to editorialise either, I just want people to be able to look stuff up. Long long ago on a board far far away someone joked that they were working on a dissertation called "Dairy Products -- Central Theme Of Season 3", and I say, why not?

Well now it's finished, it's a finite set of data that won't need to be kept up to date. And the show didn't stop being my favourite show just because it ended.

Nope. And I apologise to those pages, sites or communities etc for grabbing the name. I didn't do any research on the use of the word. Sorry. I considered calling the site "1630 Revello" for a while, but that means "the home of Buffy" which isn't exactly the vibe, and I called it "IBDB" to myself for ages, because of my imitation of IMDB, but that has obvious problems.

Yes. Yes they do.