Joss Whedon is always at his best when he's using storytelling as a metaphor. Buffy The Vampire Slayer was about how high school is really hell, Angel proved that lawyers really were evil and let's not get into all the ways that Joss showed that sex is a bad idea.

So it's no surprise that Act II of Whedon's hit web-series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has a little food for thought mixed in amongst the freeze rays and melodies.

Author, musician, actor, competition-level martial artist--Keith R.A. DeCandido is talented on so many levels, it is more than fair to call him a modern Renaissance man. The best-selling writer is probably best known for his SF media tie-in books, based on series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek, but he's spreading out and taking New York as well.

Last week's episode, Click, left some very big questions. What would Beth do now that she's quit Buzzwire? Would Mick find out that she and Josef conspired to murder a pesky paparazzi? What about their relationship, since they're now officially dating?

This week gave us an answer to the question of Beth's job search, as well as a look into Mick's pre-Coraline past and gave the couple a few questions to chew on about the meaning of family. All while they thwarted a serial killer/kidnapper.

After a long hiatus where nobody was sure there would be any more season one episodes, seeing Mick, Beth, Josef and the rest of the crew was exciting. And exciting is also a good word to sum up this episode.

The course of true love never did run smooth; -- William Shakespeare

Love makes you do the wacky – William the Bloody

When you love crazy people, it makes you crazy. Just ask Mick St. John. Fifty years ago, he married a woman named Coraline. But she neglected to tell him a slight detail. No, it's not that she was one spring roll short of an all-you-can eat Chinese buffet. She was, but that's a minor detail compared to the big secret: She was a vampire. Mick found that out the hard way, when she turned him into one as well.

One of the things that I like most about Moonlight is the way that the show consistently takes on television stereotypes and turns them on their ear.The vampires don't wear leather or goth makeup, and in episode 3.05, Arrested Development, the teenagers don't look like they've just escaped from the set of Smallville.

A film about fans, by fans, for fans ...

In a sign of yet more overwhelming fan support of the WGA strike, the writer/director of the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer fan documentary "IRL (In Real Life)" is donating $5 from each sale of the film towards a relief fund for entertainment professionals and their families. "IRL" tells the story of the fan community that sprung up around the official Buffy online posting board the Bronze, and what happened to that community once the show moved to UPN and the board was closed. The blurb on the film describes it as the "life, death and afterlife of an online community." Tuszynski sat down with Firefox News  for a few minutes to talk about the documentary and why she supports the striking writers.

A lovely image of Harry Potter and Dumbledore by "Mary Dreams" and a surprisingly effective fanfic crossover between Buffy and, of all improbable things, M*A*S*H by PaBurke ...

Anthony Stewart Head has confirmed that Joss Whedon is in talks with the BBC about spin-off miniseries "Ripper" ...