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Before I started writing this post, I googled the words "I Will Always Remember You" and found the following links to songs, each is a romantic tune that is somewhat wistful about someone who is long gone.
http://www.lyricszoo.com/sarah-mclachlan/i-will-remember-you/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zpVly8vVU
http://www.metrolyrics.com/ill-remember-you-lyrics-atlantic-starr.html
Do you remember your first love? A few, very few, people marry their first loves. My brother married his, and my mother married hers. But most of us -- don't or if we do, it ends in divorce, because once the wild passion ends there is little else. In the case of my parents and my brother - it was not "wild passion" so much as friendship that built into something more over time. They did not hop into bed or do wild makeout sessions at the start, they had discussions well into the night. It was in short not the stuff of novels - which seldom end well and often focus on those wild romances. Why do the wild and intense romances not last? The writers of Buffy and Angel examine those reasons in detail.
I Will Always Remember You ("Remember You") - the eighth episode of Angel the Series is not an episode that can be watched by itself. It needs to be seen in context of both series. And it is an ironic and somewhat dark episode in retrospect, not to mention deeply tragic. It comments on the choices we make for good or ill. Complex episode when seen in context.
( rather lengthy meta on the Buffy/Angel relationship and lost love, as well as being a hero as seen through the first eight episodes of Angel S1 and the first eight episodes of Buffy S4 )
http://www.lyricszoo.com/sarah-mclachlan/i-will-remember-you/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zpVly8vVU
http://www.metrolyrics.com/ill-remember-you-lyrics-atlantic-starr.html
Do you remember your first love? A few, very few, people marry their first loves. My brother married his, and my mother married hers. But most of us -- don't or if we do, it ends in divorce, because once the wild passion ends there is little else. In the case of my parents and my brother - it was not "wild passion" so much as friendship that built into something more over time. They did not hop into bed or do wild makeout sessions at the start, they had discussions well into the night. It was in short not the stuff of novels - which seldom end well and often focus on those wild romances. Why do the wild and intense romances not last? The writers of Buffy and Angel examine those reasons in detail.
I Will Always Remember You ("Remember You") - the eighth episode of Angel the Series is not an episode that can be watched by itself. It needs to be seen in context of both series. And it is an ironic and somewhat dark episode in retrospect, not to mention deeply tragic. It comments on the choices we make for good or ill. Complex episode when seen in context.
( rather lengthy meta on the Buffy/Angel relationship and lost love, as well as being a hero as seen through the first eight episodes of Angel S1 and the first eight episodes of Buffy S4 )
