Eve should die. Soon. Be used as a human sacrifice in a spell to re-animate Lilah.
Hmmm. I like this. Could fit with Rodger's discussion of Wes attempting to reanimate a bird at one point. I completely agree, not fond of Eve. I really wish they'd found someone a bit stronger for this role, someone like Monica Bacarrin or Stephanie Romanov.
But in a season where ME is trying to do monster-of-the-week eps, they need better monsters. So far they have almost all been lame (hulk!Lorne, the tacky looking Aztec demon, the cyberninjas). Nina was OK, but werewolves have SO already been done a hundred times. The human baddies in Conviction and Hellbound (ghost human baddy) were the best so far.
Oddly enough I preferred the ninjas to Nina. Why? Less obvious metaphor. Nina is "Angel's beast locked inside". The cyberninjas are about giving up your will to be someone else's puppet - letting someone else pull your strings or destroy you as warranted. This speaks directly to Connor - who felt like he was everyone's puppet and who Angel in a sense destroyed and re-programmed in Home.
Do agree - the human baddies in Conviction and Hellbound were the best. Although I did sort of like Hainsely in Just Rewards.
Has anyone written Spike well so far this season?
I'd say Deknight and Bell did pretty good jobs in Hellbound and TCONC, also Fury/Edlund weren't bad in Just Rewards.
But I agree the writing seems uneven on him. I've found a way to fanwank it - I think they may be deliberately writing him in this manner, a)to keep him unpredictable (sorry not working) and b)to show that the bravado and snarkiness is a show or act - and getting more and more forced. He could do it better without the soul. But now, his heart isn't in it and it's coming across weirdly.
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Re: Agree about the weakness (floating reply)
Date: 2003-11-13 01:03 pm (UTC)Hmmm. I like this. Could fit with Rodger's discussion of Wes attempting to reanimate a bird at one point.
I completely agree, not fond of Eve. I really wish they'd found someone a bit stronger for this role, someone like Monica Bacarrin or Stephanie Romanov.
But in a season where ME is trying to do monster-of-the-week eps, they need better monsters. So far they have almost all been lame (hulk!Lorne, the tacky looking Aztec demon, the cyberninjas). Nina was OK, but werewolves have SO already been done a hundred times. The human baddies in Conviction and Hellbound (ghost human baddy) were the best so far.
Oddly enough I preferred the ninjas to Nina. Why? Less obvious metaphor. Nina is "Angel's beast locked inside". The cyberninjas are about giving up your will to be someone else's puppet - letting someone else pull your strings or destroy you as warranted. This speaks directly to Connor - who felt like he was everyone's puppet and who Angel in a sense destroyed and re-programmed in Home.
Do agree - the human baddies in Conviction and Hellbound were the best. Although I did sort of like Hainsely in Just Rewards.
Has anyone written Spike well so far this season?
I'd say Deknight and Bell did pretty good jobs in Hellbound and TCONC, also Fury/Edlund weren't bad in Just Rewards.
But I agree the writing seems uneven on him. I've found a way to fanwank it - I think they may be deliberately writing him in this manner, a)to keep him unpredictable (sorry not working) and b)to show that the bravado and snarkiness is a show or act - and getting more and more forced. He could do it better without the soul. But now, his heart isn't in it and it's coming across weirdly.