Buffy or rather Angel & Buffy Character Wars Take II

[shadowkat]

To amuse and cheer myself up after a difficult work period..head-inducing is an understatement, I'm doing another crazy Buffy and Angel Character Wars Poll, although this is more Angel than Buffy. I don't really care why you pick whoever you pick. But I'm pairing people that a lot of folks, including myself, love equally and making you choose one. Hopefully you'll play along. There are admittedly some easy choices in there.

Rules? None. Pick the one you like best. Don't over think it. Don't worry about the other fella or gal, just pick the one you like and run with it. You can change your mind tomorrow, I might. This is for kicks. I may or may not speculate on it later.

Hopefully, more than 10 people will play, so I don't look like an idiot. One can never tell with polls...;-)

PS: LJ only permits 15 entries...I could have easily come up with 20.

[Poll #1851403]

Comments

[lostboy-lj.livejournal.com]

It came to Jane Espenson in a dream.

Ah, but sometimes an artist's greatest inspirations come in our dreams! Not saying that happened with Wood, but I did love what they (admittedly, eventually) did with his character, fitting him nicely into the moral puzzle of Season Seven with LMPTM. I thought there was some really subversive stuff going on there, particularly with the notion of ancestral crimes, identity politics, racial animus, etc.

But yeah, Holtz still wins the Revenge-O-Thon for me, because it was so poetic and beautifully constructed. Whereas Robin exacted his revenge more or less as a crime of opportunity, Holtz' (as you noted, well-planned) plan felt more like the grand revenge of Titus Andronicus. It's so round and perfect that I almost found myself rooting for him, even as Angel sinks to the bottom of the sea. I think the Holtz arc was when I first actually become invested in AtS to a similar degree that I was in BTVS.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ah, but sometimes an artist's greatest inspirations come in our dreams! Not saying that happened with Wood, but I did love what they (admittedly, eventually) did with his character, fitting him nicely into the moral puzzle of Season Seven with LMPTM. I thought there was some really subversive stuff going on there, particularly with the notion of ancestral crimes, identity politics, racial animus, etc.

Now, if only she'd had had that dream a lot earlier. ;-)

I agree on a "meta" level it ultimately worked out. Or they wouldn't have done it, I suspect. But...you can sort of tell that they hadn't plotted it out. Since it gets brought up, dealt with, dropped. When I discovered they hadn't - I went, oh that explains a lot.