I wish I hadn't been watching Angel DVDs with someone who fucked me over emotionally, because it makes it unwarrantedly hard for me to even open the DVD case now.
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
'Help'
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.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2012 7:27:46 am PDT #9034 of 10458
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Mar 23, 2012 7:30:40 am PDT #9035 of 10458
Because books.
Oh, I have movies like that. Emotional associations suck when they ... suck.
I could stand to rewatch Angel, too, but not until I get through the first three seasons of Buffy. Not that I have any idea when I'm going to do this, since I don't think S. will be interested.
sj - Mar 24, 2012 4:17:50 am PDT #9036 of 10458
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
From Mark Watches Doomed this made me laugh and laugh: "Oh, right, Buffy and Riley save the world and they kiss. Meh, who cares when SPIKE IS ONE OF THE SCOOBIES THIS IS THE DAY WHEN THE ANGELS SANG VICTORIOUS IN HEAVEN."
Frankenbuddha - Mar 30, 2012 6:26:24 am PDT #9037 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Mark's up to "Goodbye Iowa". This made me laugh:
I still can’t figure out what Adam’s “purpose” might be. Why did Professor Walsh create him?
Yeah, if you DO figure that out, please let me know. Joss too, by the way.
erikaj - Mar 30, 2012 7:47:33 am PDT #9038 of 10458
Always Anti-fascist!
Dude, she's a researcher...does she really need a bigger purpose than "to see what happens?" Although I would agree that the narrative would have been enhanced by having one...but iirc, they found out sooner than expected that the actress that played Dr. Walsh couldn't be there and compressed the arc. Unless I'm crazy(SORRY MARK!) But that could be, too.(Also, that was about eleven million fandoms...or at least eleven, ago...I could have become unmoored from BTVS arcana.)
Polter-Cow - Mar 30, 2012 7:48:31 am PDT #9039 of 10458
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
iirc, they found out sooner than expected that the actress that played Dr. Walsh couldn't be there and compressed the arc.
Yep.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 30, 2012 8:02:22 am PDT #9040 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
That's right - I'd forgotten about that. They had that a bit of that season 4, what with Seth Green asking to go.
erikaj - Mar 30, 2012 8:33:58 am PDT #9041 of 10458
Always Anti-fascist!
I think what they intended was probably more interesting. Not that I hated those eps or anything(rewatching for fanfic *right now* AIFG, although still without all of Mark's feels.) But there are places where things feel rushed sometimes(Riley, who's generally not the kind of character a latter-day hippie like me is primed to dig anyway, but they really didn't get much time to decide who he was before he had to go be something else.)
Frankenbuddha - Mar 30, 2012 8:55:25 am PDT #9042 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think Adam could have been a lot more interesting of a big bad then they made him, and based on the actor's appearence in Restless it doesn't look like a lack of acting ability (unlike, say, if Adam had been played by Bailey Chase or Charlie Weber).
Not that the Mayor's or Angelus/Drusillas' motives/plans made all that much more sense, but they did their villiany with panache. But a decent plan for Adam would have made up for the (I assume) deliberate lack of style.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 30, 2012 1:51:44 pm PDT #9043 of 10458
"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
The Mayor's plan made a lot of sense: attaining apotheosis into an ageless colossal demon that could push around anyone he wanted. He'd just been at it so long he failed to take into account the ready availability of modern explosives.
An error in judgment that was also the Judge's undoing, as I recall.