Am I the only one feeling more of a sense of loss for Angel than for Buffy? Mainly because the final season of the former has been so much better than the latter.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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thegrommit - May 19, 2004 4:50:06 am PDT #417 of 3531
Um.
Vortex - May 19, 2004 4:53:19 am PDT #418 of 3531
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Y'all are making me feel all introspective and nostalgic when I had planned on being deep in denial.
this is great. May I tag?
Am I the only one feeling more of a sense of loss for Angel than for Buffy? Mainly because the final season of the former has been so much better than the latter.
I think that I am feeling the Angel loss more than Buffy for two reasons:
1. I'm happier with Angel at the series end than I was with Buffy. Between the Spuffy, the annoying potentials, Dawn, Kennedy, etc., I wasn't feeling the deep and abject love that marked earlier watchings.
2. I knew from the beginning that Buffy was a 7 season arc. I was prepared for it to end when it did. This is abrupt and unpleasant.
billytea - May 19, 2004 4:56:02 am PDT #419 of 3531
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I don't really feel much right now, courtesy of my exam. Mostly my reaction to all the season finales is "ok, now I can get more study done on Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday etc". Except the Frasier finale gave me a new tagline.
Sometimes, I'm callous and strange.
Lilty Cash - May 19, 2004 4:57:01 am PDT #420 of 3531
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
This is abrupt and unpleasant.
This. I haven't had time to prepare. I may feel the loss of the Scoobies more in the long run, but I was annoyed with the speechifying of S7, and I had lots of time to prepare. BTVS is still my favorite show in the history of the universe, but the loss of Angel hurts more. I'm not ready.
Fred Pete - May 19, 2004 5:00:28 am PDT #421 of 3531
Ann, that's a ferret.
Am I the only one feeling more of a sense of loss for Angel than for Buffy? Mainly because the final season of the former has been so much better than the latter.
Also no, "We still have Angel."
sumi - May 19, 2004 5:01:24 am PDT #422 of 3531
Art Crawl!!!
Exactly.
Jessica - May 19, 2004 5:02:36 am PDT #423 of 3531
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Angel was always more my show than Buffy was, so this hurts much more. I don't miss Buffy, but I will miss Angel.
-t - May 19, 2004 5:08:49 am PDT #424 of 3531
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tag away Vortex.
I am arguing with myself over whether I have time to watch the last 11 hours of Angel today. I think the rational part of the brain is winning. Damn it.
Narrator - May 19, 2004 5:11:03 am PDT #425 of 3531
The evil is this way?
"Buffy" was ready to go. Seven seasons is a lot, and although parts of Season 7 were good, it had too much Potentials for me. [Plus, the whole is Giles dead and being imprersonated by The First ("No, let's just tweak the fans) -- left me feeling snarky.] But "Angel" had at least one more season in it. It smartly kept the focus on the core group (although it did add Spike), who had a lot more stories to tell.
Jeff Mejia - May 19, 2004 5:27:26 am PDT #426 of 3531
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
In the nostalgic vein, here are a few statistics that I've cobbled togehter:
For the entire Buffyverse
- 12 seasons
- 254 hours of episodes
- 20 different lineups in the title sequences
- 21 different actors in the title sequences
- 22 different title sequences
That breaks down this way
Buffy
- 7 seasons
- 144 hours
- 12 different lineups in the title sequence featuring combinations of 12 different actors
- 13 different title sequences
Angel
- 5 seasons
- 110 hours
- 8 different lineups in the title sequence featuring combinations of 12 different actors
- 5 seasons
- 110 hours of episodes
- 8 different casts in the tltle sequence
- 10 different actors in the title sequence
- 10 different title sequences
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