Angel was the grown-up show
That's the reason I gave Hubby when he asked me why I liked AtS better than BtVS.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2005 6:03:12 am PST #2825 of 3531
brillig
Jim - Jan 05, 2005 6:05:32 am PST #2826 of 3531
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
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...
Frankenbuddha - Jan 05, 2005 6:05:52 am PST #2827 of 3531
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Wolfram - Jan 05, 2005 6:06:42 am PST #2828 of 3531
Visilurking
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.
Jim - Jan 05, 2005 6:07:02 am PST #2829 of 3531
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
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.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2005 6:07:23 am PST #2830 of 3531
brillig
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?
Stephanie - Jan 05, 2005 6:14:35 am PST #2831 of 3531
Trust my rage
This conversation is really making me miss Buffy and Angel.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 05, 2005 6:34:31 am PST #2832 of 3531
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 05, 2005 6:37:30 am PST #2833 of 3531
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Not technically perhaps, though we got proper knock-down drag-out fights between Buffy and Angelus on several occasions, and those certainly rocked.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Jim was talking about arguing for which show was superior as a topic of discussion. Which did sound like a fun, if potentially dangerous, idea to me.
tommyrot - Jan 05, 2005 6:38:39 am PST #2834 of 3531
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Buffy was better. Except when Angel was.