'Shells'
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Looks up at thread title. Grins.
Not trying to piss in your pool. I like Angel, I really do. Just...not with Buffy. I'm probably one of the few who actually liked Angel and Cordy. I don't think CC was a good enough actress to sell the ship, but as a concept, I thought they went well together.
I don't think CC was a good enough actress to sell the ship, but as a concept, I thought they went well together.
Them's fighting words. CC was great! Actually, I didn't hate all of S3, but Saint Cordy. Blech.
It's probably just me. While I thought CC could look incredibly sexy, I just felt she couldn't sell the feeling. Some of that may have been because DB is the same. He's smoldering hunk, but he didn't seem to have any chemistry with any of the females on the show. Maybe I just missed out on the brunette oost all around. Most people hated "She", yet I thought there was more chemistry between Angel and Jhiera than Angel and Buffy, ever.
I thought he had decent chemistry with Darla in Season 2, but then Julie Benz has good chemistry with lots of actors, especially CK.
I think Julie Benz is the female equivalent of James Marsters. She'd have chemistry with a BBOC. Although, I thought her most compelling performance was her manifestation to Connor in season 4. I think it was the only episode where she wasn't trying to sell sex. And she did a wonderful job selling her love as a mother to Connor, it was compelling and heartwrenching.
You know what would be hot? Julie Benz and James Marsters.
There might well be chemical burns.
I'm probably one of the few who actually liked Angel and Cordy.
Sheesh. You and SA.
Crazy people! ;)
Seriously. It's one of my few remaining fannish squicks. As in, visceral eewwwwwwwwwwwww. I don't even get that with Buffy/Giles anymore.
(edited to add: sa tries to convince me, so I always counter with the beauty of CoCo, to which she screams and runs from the room. I suspect our pairing arguments are very circular.)
I think I was perhaps overly invested in the beauty of them as just friends. Because fuck, that's rare and wonderful.
Yeah. Aside from the event horizon of chemistry and St. Cordy issues, the tinkering with a romantic pairing destroyed what I thought was the best friendship on television. It was wonderful that they had no illusions about each other's worst qualities but still had a deep afffection for each other, warts and all.
I think C/A could have worked. When we first started getting hints that the show would go in that direction (season 1 of A:ts, really), I expected it to work.
It did not work for me.