Xander ,'Chosen'
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
They just aired "Hero" on TNT, and I didn't realize until the middle of it that I'd avoided rewatching since Glenn Quinn's death. I thought it was a fairly lackluster episode when I first saw it, but man does that ending get rougher in light of what happened afterwards.
Wow, remember how cute and natural the budding romance between Doyle and Cordy was? What happened to that organic, believable approach to relationships in later seasons?
Ballet, beatification, heavenly ascents, and supernatural prophylactics.
Even before then. In season 2 the show's quality was undiminished, but the Darla/Angel relationship seemed to set the tone for the rest of the series. And their dynamic made Buffy/Spike look emotionally healthy by comparison.
It occurs to me that many of Season 3's problems could have been avoided if the writers had traded off partners in the big game of Angel Investigations Spin the Bottle. If they'd followed up on the initial flirty vibe between Cordy and Gunn we could have gotten a great snarky argue-and-trade-insults-but-got-your-back pairing similar to Turk and Carla on Scrubs. Without his mooning over Cordy, I could easily see Angel getting pulled into reciprocating Fred's unrequited crush given his prior pattern with tiny, seemingly helpless women who are deceptively dangerous and have more issues than National Geographic. And that still could have helped spin a hurt Wesley off into Lila's clutches, the one good coupling spawned by all the Season 3 melodrama.
It occurs to me that many of Season 3's problems could have been avoided if the writers had traded off partners in the big game of Angel Investigations Spin the Bottle. If they'd followed up on the initial flirty vibe between Cordy and Gunn we could have gotten a great snarky argue-and-trade-insults-but-got-your-back pairing similar to Turk and Carla on Scrubs. Without his mooning over Cordy, I could easily see Angel getting pulled into reciprocating Fred's unrequited crush given his prior pattern with tiny, seemingly helpless women who are deceptively dangerous and have more issues than National Geographic. And that still could have helped spin a hurt Wesley off into Lila's clutches, the one good coupling spawned by all the Season 3 melodrama
Oh, HELL YEAH. Man, that would have been AWESOME.
I want Matt to revive the show.
I want Matt to revive the show.
If there's mouth -to-mouth involved with Boreanez, perhaps we can persuade him!
Heh, I must be in the universe that's a spooky mirror-mirror version of yours. Okay, I might describe Cordy & Doyle's relationship as "organic" in the sense that it went bad quickly... But then, the only relationship I ever really bought was the one between Darla & Angel, so I suppose I have a slightly different view of what is and isn't cute.
Oh, they definitely sold me that they were headed toward their tricentennial of dysfunctional hotness together. But I completely bought just about all the show's relationships up though the first few episodes of Season 3.
Well, unless you count the idea of Lindsey being hung up on Darla purely for her own sake. I mean, c'mon.
I want Matt to revive the show.
Hey, from your lips to the Powerball Lotto's ears.
Becoming Part 1 in about 25 minutes. . . or after Veronica Mars.
It's too bad this episode has to start off with that accent. But other than that -- excellent episdoe. (I'm at close to the end here -- I belive that Dru will be killing Kendra at any moment.)