Why name this blog after Nathan Fillion?

Originally this blog was going to be called 'How cute is Katee Sackhoff?' after Pema and I exchanged emails upon seeing this photo. As we're both Battlestar Galactica (2000s version) geeks, our fondness for Starbuck and the woman who plays her is boundless. (Simply put, Katee rocks.) Many is the discussion we've had about BSG, about Starbuck, about, about, about ...

We're also both very fond of Nathan Fillion because - you guessed it - we love the Joss Whedonverse even more than we love BSG. As the inhabitor of Mal Reynolds and Captain Hammer - not to mention a very entertaining Tweeter - Nathan has his own pedestal. He's also very entertaining in Castle. In the end, that's what did it: we wanted to be able to discuss mainly sci-fi TV shows but also branch out into other things. Nathan's 'crossover' into mainstream TV made him the perfect candidate to have this blog named after him, even if it's his Tweeting and general Nathan-ness that makes him our Imaginary Best Friend.

So on this blog we plan to not discuss the minutiae of Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica or any of the Star Trek franchise. There will be no talk about that-line-Andrew-said-in-season-seven-ep-whatever. But there may be an analysis of whether or not Cordelia Chase exists in a moral vacuum. We plan to talk about the themes, the storytelling and what it means to us, on trivial and not-trivial levels. Because stories are what drive both of us in our work and non-work lives. Talking about story makes us go misty-eyed and weak-kneed and all that good stuff.

As Spike said to Buffy in the season six episode After Life: 'Every night I save you.' Story saves me every night and day. And I'll always want Joss Whedon's girls with superpowers to rescue me too. So that's it for now. No doubt Pema will have something to say too.

- Sophie