Heh - I was exactly the opposite. I figured "Wash, huh? I guess that means everyone else is safe."
But then, I'm not so much a fan of that 'verse, so I was pretty detached and analytical throughout the whole thing.
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
Angelus ,'Smile Time'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
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.
Jessica - Aug 21, 2008 9:10:16 am PDT #6576 of 10467
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Invisible Green - Aug 21, 2008 2:20:11 pm PDT #6577 of 10467
For me, Wash's death did pretty much what I imagine Joss wanted it to do--raised the stakes that much more.
Same here. Though I found Book's death to be Joss's least impressive: predictable, cliched, and merely plot-driven.
libkitty - Aug 21, 2008 2:36:03 pm PDT #6578 of 10467
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Same here. Though I found Book's death to be Joss's least impressive: predictable, cliched, and merely plot-driven.
Yeah, with Book, I felt the safeness that others felt from Wash. With Wash, I had no safeness. Just gutwrenching shock and sorrow.
quester - Aug 21, 2008 4:35:34 pm PDT #6579 of 10467
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I wept and wept and had to hide in a bathroom stall at the theatre after the movie.
le nubian - Aug 25, 2008 3:00:53 am PDT #6580 of 10467
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
You know, my allergies flared up during TNT's airing of "I will remember you."
Whew. Good morning, Monday. What a fucking heartbreaking episode. Never fails to get me.
Vortex - Aug 25, 2008 5:23:51 am PDT #6581 of 10467
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Whew. Good morning, Monday. What a fucking heartbreaking episode. Never fails to get me.
That was the first one where I really had allergies. My eyes had itched before, but "I felt your heartbeat" broke me.
SailAweigh - Aug 25, 2008 5:35:43 am PDT #6582 of 10467
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The middle was cheesy as hell, but the end broke me. Up until then, I really didn't get the Buffy/Angel shippers at all. Still not my OTP, but I could finally see it.
le nubian - Aug 25, 2008 5:51:55 am PDT #6583 of 10467
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh it WAS totally cheesy. but I do love my cheddar.
tiggy - Aug 25, 2008 6:22:33 am PDT #6584 of 10467
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
I was going through media cd's i'd made over the years last night and i came upon a Buffy one with clips like Spike's monologue in In the Dark about Angel being a big fluffy puppy with bad teeth, Giles singing Behind Blue Eyes and other such gems. really made me miss the show and i totally put them on the metallipod.
Beverly - Aug 25, 2008 7:34:33 am PDT #6585 of 10467
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
..you have a metallipod?
Oops. Wrong thread.
And see, Buffy/Angel was always my OTP. I thought Buffy and Spike were cute in Something Blue, but for me a little Spike goes a long way, sort of like cilantro, and I hated the whole time they were a couple. Although I really liked the Spike and Dawn interaction. I'd rather have seen them make something real out of Buffy and Riley than try and maintain the Buffy/Spike relationship. I realize I'm in the minority, but there you go.
Then again, I watched from ep.3 and caught up when the WB aired BtVS two nights a week, so I watched Buffy/Angel from the get-go, from when DB really was smart as a box of hair onscreen.
IWRY utterly broke me. I saw the narrative necessity for the breakup, it felt organic and earned to me, in a way B/S never did.
::shrugs:: Eh, different strokes.