youtube is contagious

While I'm avoiding all the nasty errands that I have to run today... I just thought I'd link this.

Nathan Fillion was on the Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night. Now, I already really like Craig Ferguson. Add Nathan, and I knew it'd be funny. But really - screaming fangirls? Please shut up long enough for the funny men to say their funny things. *Sighs*

Obligatory statement: Nathan is adorable and silly and wonderful. And I really hope his career picks up, because I love watching him and his cuteness.

fannish 5

Today's fannish5: What five unexplained mysteries or questions raised by canon do you most wish you knew the answer to?

1. Firefly: What the hell was going on with Inara's backstory, and what was the plan for that in the series? I'm sold on the idea that something pretty serious sent her away from the Guild proper, from what Nandi said, and it just drives me crazy trying to figure out what it would have been. I want to know, damn it!

2. Buffy and/or Angel: What's really the deal with vampires, demons and souls? I know that theoretically this is something that's totally covered by canon, but the explanations always struck me as pretty weak, and not just in the "I don't believe in absolute good and evil so I don't believe that anybody (demons, vampires, or 'good' spirits) can be completely good or evil" kind of way. ( Not really believing in the soul as a separate entity is a definite impediment in this fandom, let me tell you... )

3. Buffy: When the activated potentials (yes, I'm spoiled on that) die, will they each activate another new slayer? Or will only one true slayer remain after this one weird generation - that girl presumably being whoever is activated after Faith's death? I favor the latter theory, myself, since I really don't like the whole "now there's thousands of them!" thing. There's supposed to be only one, damn it! That's kind of the whole cool point!

And, on a tangent from that, 4. How did the Watchers Council remain cohesive and in contact before the advent of modern technology? How did they make sure a Watcher was there when a new slayer was activated when it would have taken months to get from one part of Europe to another, forgetting the rest of the world? With slayers popping up all over the globe from the beginning of humanity on out, how could they possibly have been that organized? Perhaps this explains the other great mystery of the Watchers - what is their connection to the Watchers of Highlander? Maybe they're really two factions of the same group that managed to schism early on, leaving both sides flatly unaware of the existence of the other while they operate right under each other's noses...

5. Why, out of all the species in the cosmos, were Minbari souls being reborn in Human bodies? Does this mean there's some kind of weird cosmic connection between the two races, or that Minbari souls are really being born into all the species, without them noticing? ...Actually, I'm not sure I really want the answer to that one. But it is something that bothers me on occasion. Edit: *Coughs* Thanks to arionrhod, who reminds me that this was actually covered in canon... oops. Jen's a bad B5 fan. Move along to the next question... ;)

Edit! No, wait - a better question!

5.a., possibly meaningless to all but the housemates. James Alan Gardner's Expendable-verse: WHO/WHAT IS FESTINA RAMOS' PATRON????!!!