{"id":2450,"date":"2007-02-24T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2007-02-24T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T20:57:00","slug":"2450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Maybe it doesn&#8217;t bother me so much since I don&#8217;t usually go in for merchandising tie-ins, but I think maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveruin.com\/2007_02_18_archive.html#5720684145988223090\">Mike Sterling sort of has a point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, that &#8220;Angel turns into a puppet&#8221; episode of <i>Angel<\/i> is probably the peak of the whole Buffyverse saga&#8230;it&#8217;s cute, it&#8217;s funny, it&#8217;s self-mocking, it&#8217;s actually as good as some hardcore Buffy fans think <i>every<\/i> episode is, and for some reason, every time one of the licensees dips into the puppet well, it diminishes the original for me. I&#8217;ve spoken before about the multiple Angel-as-puppet dolls, and the apparently based-on-fanfic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveruin.com\/2006_07_23_archive.html#115398390295779591\">Spike-as-puppet doll<\/a> (resolicited this month, in fact!), and now this comic, featuring a Angel puppet story. Hey, maybe it&#8217;ll be great, but I&#8217;m all puppeted out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puppetup.com\/\">Puppet Up<\/a>?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it doesn&#8217;t bother me so much since I don&#8217;t usually go in for merchandising tie-ins, but I think maybe Mike Sterling sort of has a point: You know, that &#8220;Angel turns into a puppet&#8221; episode of Angel is probably the peak of the whole Buffyverse saga&#8230;it&#8217;s cute, it&#8217;s funny, it&#8217;s self-mocking, it&#8217;s actually as &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2450\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}