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Thoughts on Angel S4 Rewatch...among other things
1. So scanning the kindle library, and comixcology, resulted in an impulse purchase - Bloody Fool for Love - A Spike Prequel by William Ritter - I got the kindle e-book, not the audiobook - mainly because I can't listen to anyone but James Marsters read it.
Also found an absurd AU "published" Buffy fanfic - where Buffy is the villain that all the bad guys have to get rid of to save themselves. Big Bad by Lily Anderson
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Suicide Squad in this adult dark, rompy novel in which the most beloved villains from Buffy must team up to stop the Slayer from ending their evil universe! Demondale, Callifornia, 1999...Like Sunnydale, but whole lot more evil. Step into this alternate reality, where chaos reigns supreme. The Mayor's sun-shade has created permanent darkness over Sunnydale, fully opening the Hellmouth once and for all. Now the newly christened Demondale has become a safe haven for vampires, beasts, and all types of ruffians. It's never been better to be bad. Aspiring supervillains (and super nerds) Jonathan and Andrew attempt to hold their own in a town full of monsters, while eleven-hundred-year-old vengeance demon Anya is just looking for something to give her life purpose again, spending her days working at an evil juice bar. But soon word gets out that there's a new Big Bad on the scene, one more powerful and more destructive than anyone who has come before. She, of course, is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And she's hell-bent on rooting out all of this reality's evil by any means necessary. Now Jonathan, Andrew, and Anya must recruit a team of Demondale's most notorious villains—including Angelus, Spike, Drusilla, and even Ripper the malevolent magic shop owner—in order to save their world. "
LOL. No, I didn't get it. But the writing from the audiobook is actually not bad.
I blame my Buffy Rewatch for this. Sometimes fictional characters jump off the screen or page, and refuse to leave my head. Not always. Sometimes.
I never quite know why?
Also, I don't have a type. Because, another character that jumped off the page for me was Cyclops from the X-men, who is the exact opposite of Spike.
You'd think I would love Wolverine? But nooo. I loved Cyclops.
2. Angel rewatch S4 - the Lilah/Wesley romance, Wes's entire arc, and Faith's return are the best things in the season and worth watching just for that alone. Actually it's why I love Angel S4 - I love Wes's arc (helps that Denisof is insanely attractive). Wes and his women. Faith, Lilah, and Fred. Also his interactions with Angel and Angelus are a lot of fun.
Connor...is a mixed bag. For the most part he's just annoying. But his interactions with Faith (albeit brief) are fun. (I remember being disappointed that he barely had any with Spike, because that would have been even more fun. Or Buffy.)
Cordelia at this point is just waiting for her coma. Charisma was six months pregnant, and looked it. She's not in that many scenes, and the few she is - she's annoying. Although having Cordy kill Lilah and frame Angelus for it, was rather brilliant. Then he returns the favor by killing her minion, the Beast. Most of S4 is actually Angel and Cordelia chasing each other's tails. They go from friends to wannabee lovers to frenenemies to enemies.
Meanwhile we have Wes - whose arc is a lot better than Cordelia's. (The actor is better.) There's this great scene between him and Lilah in Salvage - I think it is Salvage, right before he visits Faith in prison and asks for her help with Angelus. Salvage is among my favorite episodes in Angel.
Angel S4 has a couple of my favorite episodes: Deep Down, Supersymmetry, Habeas Corpus, Soulless, and Salvage. I like it better than S3. (But I'm admittedly not a Cordelia fan, nor do I care one way or the other about Connor - was always ambivalent.)
In the Lilah/Wes scene - Wes imagines Lilah discussing their relationship with him, and budding romance, and whether she cared for him - as he's preparing to remove her corpse's head to insure she can't become a vampire. It's clear from the interaction - that Wes loved and cared for Lilah, and is not sure about pursuing Fred, or if he even wants to at this point. Fred's reaction to his relationship with Lilah - causes him to pause. Angelus tells her - and he waits until he can do the most damage.
Then we get the Wes/Faith scene - where Faith wonders why Wes of all people is visiting her. Obviously only Angel has. Wes, being among those she injured, hasn't. Until now.
Wes: I need your help. We need it.
Faith: Sort of unavailable at the moment, being in prison and all that. I'm sure Angel can take care of whatever it is on his own -
Wes: Angel is gone. Angelus is back. We need your help with Angelus.
Faith: Stand back from the glass. (She leaps through it.)
And then tells him it's a Salvage mission, and Wes states - why do you think I asked for your help?
The Wes/Angel relationship is possibly among the most interesting in the series and has a nice complete arc to it. They don't start off as friends, and their relationship becomes increasingly complex as we go. Wes may be the closest thing to a best friend that Angel has in the human world - he's among the few who understand Angel, yet appear to accept him anyhow.
Some of the Buffy characters just work better in Angel - such as Wes, Cordelia, and Faith. The darker characters do. We get to see more angles on them. Buffy herself - doesn't work as well - mainly because we see her through Angel's point of view. Xander and Giles don't at all - which is why they never crossed over. Spike works beautifully - of course.
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Off to bed again. It's that time. Time gets away from me as I ramble.
Also found an absurd AU "published" Buffy fanfic - where Buffy is the villain that all the bad guys have to get rid of to save themselves. Big Bad by Lily Anderson
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Suicide Squad in this adult dark, rompy novel in which the most beloved villains from Buffy must team up to stop the Slayer from ending their evil universe! Demondale, Callifornia, 1999...Like Sunnydale, but whole lot more evil. Step into this alternate reality, where chaos reigns supreme. The Mayor's sun-shade has created permanent darkness over Sunnydale, fully opening the Hellmouth once and for all. Now the newly christened Demondale has become a safe haven for vampires, beasts, and all types of ruffians. It's never been better to be bad. Aspiring supervillains (and super nerds) Jonathan and Andrew attempt to hold their own in a town full of monsters, while eleven-hundred-year-old vengeance demon Anya is just looking for something to give her life purpose again, spending her days working at an evil juice bar. But soon word gets out that there's a new Big Bad on the scene, one more powerful and more destructive than anyone who has come before. She, of course, is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And she's hell-bent on rooting out all of this reality's evil by any means necessary. Now Jonathan, Andrew, and Anya must recruit a team of Demondale's most notorious villains—including Angelus, Spike, Drusilla, and even Ripper the malevolent magic shop owner—in order to save their world. "
LOL. No, I didn't get it. But the writing from the audiobook is actually not bad.
I blame my Buffy Rewatch for this. Sometimes fictional characters jump off the screen or page, and refuse to leave my head. Not always. Sometimes.
I never quite know why?
Also, I don't have a type. Because, another character that jumped off the page for me was Cyclops from the X-men, who is the exact opposite of Spike.
You'd think I would love Wolverine? But nooo. I loved Cyclops.
2. Angel rewatch S4 - the Lilah/Wesley romance, Wes's entire arc, and Faith's return are the best things in the season and worth watching just for that alone. Actually it's why I love Angel S4 - I love Wes's arc (helps that Denisof is insanely attractive). Wes and his women. Faith, Lilah, and Fred. Also his interactions with Angel and Angelus are a lot of fun.
Connor...is a mixed bag. For the most part he's just annoying. But his interactions with Faith (albeit brief) are fun. (I remember being disappointed that he barely had any with Spike, because that would have been even more fun. Or Buffy.)
Cordelia at this point is just waiting for her coma. Charisma was six months pregnant, and looked it. She's not in that many scenes, and the few she is - she's annoying. Although having Cordy kill Lilah and frame Angelus for it, was rather brilliant. Then he returns the favor by killing her minion, the Beast. Most of S4 is actually Angel and Cordelia chasing each other's tails. They go from friends to wannabee lovers to frenenemies to enemies.
Meanwhile we have Wes - whose arc is a lot better than Cordelia's. (The actor is better.) There's this great scene between him and Lilah in Salvage - I think it is Salvage, right before he visits Faith in prison and asks for her help with Angelus. Salvage is among my favorite episodes in Angel.
Angel S4 has a couple of my favorite episodes: Deep Down, Supersymmetry, Habeas Corpus, Soulless, and Salvage. I like it better than S3. (But I'm admittedly not a Cordelia fan, nor do I care one way or the other about Connor - was always ambivalent.)
In the Lilah/Wes scene - Wes imagines Lilah discussing their relationship with him, and budding romance, and whether she cared for him - as he's preparing to remove her corpse's head to insure she can't become a vampire. It's clear from the interaction - that Wes loved and cared for Lilah, and is not sure about pursuing Fred, or if he even wants to at this point. Fred's reaction to his relationship with Lilah - causes him to pause. Angelus tells her - and he waits until he can do the most damage.
Then we get the Wes/Faith scene - where Faith wonders why Wes of all people is visiting her. Obviously only Angel has. Wes, being among those she injured, hasn't. Until now.
Wes: I need your help. We need it.
Faith: Sort of unavailable at the moment, being in prison and all that. I'm sure Angel can take care of whatever it is on his own -
Wes: Angel is gone. Angelus is back. We need your help with Angelus.
Faith: Stand back from the glass. (She leaps through it.)
And then tells him it's a Salvage mission, and Wes states - why do you think I asked for your help?
The Wes/Angel relationship is possibly among the most interesting in the series and has a nice complete arc to it. They don't start off as friends, and their relationship becomes increasingly complex as we go. Wes may be the closest thing to a best friend that Angel has in the human world - he's among the few who understand Angel, yet appear to accept him anyhow.
Some of the Buffy characters just work better in Angel - such as Wes, Cordelia, and Faith. The darker characters do. We get to see more angles on them. Buffy herself - doesn't work as well - mainly because we see her through Angel's point of view. Xander and Giles don't at all - which is why they never crossed over. Spike works beautifully - of course.
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Off to bed again. It's that time. Time gets away from me as I ramble.
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