Anya ,'Storyteller'
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I know that this viewpoint is probably more common than my own, but I can't help it -- it gives me hives. Angel was my favorite show for 4 years while Buffy was becoming unwatchable. Angel was the grown-up show. It never needed to be defined by its relationship to Buffy, any more than Angel-the-character needed to be.
I'm right there with you.
(And, honestly, even if I didn't feel so strongly about Angel standing on its own, I loathed Buffy S7. So the fewer reminders of it, period, the better.)
Angel was the grown-up show
That's the reason I gave Hubby when he asked me why I liked AtS better than BtVS.
Angel was the grown-up show.
We've never had a proper, knock-down, drag-out Buffy vs Angel fite, have we?
That might be fun...
See, they had the whole "fuck you, you're with the bad boys now" stuff, so I figure once they're back on the path to righteousness they get backup.
Right. I figure the Slayer contingent has enough psychic/magic firepower that they would know what's going on. It's whether I could buy them wanting to help Angel's crew after the rest of their contact season 5. They'll be dealing with any aftermath in any case.
Again, not that I actually wanted to see that, cause I love the way it did end. But I could buy it. If they'd SHOWN the big battle, however they set it up, that would have ticked me off.
Yes, because they hadn't even been mentioned since the Crazy!Slayer episode. The writers would have had to lay a LOT of non-anvilly groundwork throughout the 2nd half of the season for me to buy anyone swooping in to join the battle.
I don't know, I thought the writers had thrown in several hints that the former Sunnydale crowd was keeping tabs on Angel's crew, especially their recent descent into gray morality. I'd think they'd have known pretty quickly when Angel tripped the Black Thorn apocalpyse.
I should say that I'm not, like "I wsih it'd gone that way"; I like the cliffhanger. But that was the way I always thought they should get out of that corner if need be.
I figure once they're back on the path to righteousness they get backup.
Yeah, but did Slayer Central know/believe they were on the path?
This conversation is really making me miss Buffy and Angel.
We've never had a proper, knock-down, drag-out Buffy vs Angel fite, have we?
That might be fun...
Not technically perhaps, though we got proper knock-down drag-out fights between Buffy and Angelus on several occasions, and those certainly rocked.