If you don't remember, then you haven't seen it. It's a film you can't forget. I watched it completely unspoiled, and got one of the biggest shocks in my movie experiences. The shocking revelation happens at the very end of the movie and, unlike "The Sixth Sense", the revelation not only changes the sense and meaning of the narrative; it switches the roles of the punisher and the victim, the revenger and the object of his revenge.
And I suspect that this is how season 8 is supposed to work. But we'll see.
for some absurd reason he seems to think he has to re-examine Buffy/Angel - which I was pretty certain was resolved way back in S4-7.
Yes, it was resolved as a first love. But it wasn't resolved as a conflict of two strong personalities.
There is a lot of Angelus in Angel. And the further he goes, the lower he sinks. If he finds out that he was manipulated by his grand-sire (or by PtB) to bring the apocalypse, he may snap completely. He may become Buffy's enemy. Not like Willow, for 2 episodes. But for a whole season.
And maybe in a few years we'll be rewatching IWRY, where Angel rewrites Buffy's life, and we'll be saying "those were early symptoms".
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Date: 2010-09-05 08:54 pm (UTC)If you don't remember, then you haven't seen it. It's a film you can't forget. I watched it completely unspoiled, and got one of the biggest shocks in my movie experiences. The shocking revelation happens at the very end of the movie and, unlike "The Sixth Sense", the revelation not only changes the sense and meaning of the narrative; it switches the roles of the punisher and the victim, the revenger and the object of his revenge.
And I suspect that this is how season 8 is supposed to work. But we'll see.
for some absurd reason he seems to think he has to re-examine Buffy/Angel - which I was pretty certain was resolved way back in S4-7.
Yes, it was resolved as a first love. But it wasn't resolved as a conflict of two strong personalities.
There is a lot of Angelus in Angel. And the further he goes, the lower he sinks. If he finds out that he was manipulated by his grand-sire (or by PtB) to bring the apocalypse, he may snap completely. He may become Buffy's enemy. Not like Willow, for 2 episodes. But for a whole season.
And maybe in a few years we'll be rewatching IWRY, where Angel rewrites Buffy's life, and we'll be saying "those were early symptoms".