I hope the writers go with your idea, I too like Spike as Angel's shadow-self. It makes a lot of sense, works with the Buffy-Faith thing, and as long as the main focus is on Angel's journey, I probably won't have a problem with it.
Agree about Gunn! He looked so menacing as he stepped off the elevator, so my first thought was that he's evil or has been possessed. Just spec, of course. But then I thought, well, we already did the evil possession with Cordy. So what if the mind-meld is actually a good thing? And the cat wasn't taking over him so much as opening his eyes to possibilities? Cuz I think a big theme of next season will be choice and free will.
And wow, Fred is the good one. Never thought about it that way, but yeah, she really is despite the whole professor thing. Here's what I figure: Gunn is in tight with W&H, reasons unknown. Angel is in with his eyes wide open, willing to use Lilah but ready for her backstabbing. Still, he might drop his guard at some point. Lorne is in, willing to be seduced by the sparklies.
Wesley is the interesting one because, when you get right down to it, W&H under Wesley's control? Is pretty much the Council with books *and* state-of-the-art technology. Will he fall into Quentin Travers' mentalitiy where the people he helps becomes mere pawns? Wes has never been great with emotional connections, despite his ability to sense people's motivations. He could end up as cold as his father. The Wes in my head comes from a privileged class. He's used to money and resources. So he can either: (1) be really effective using W&H for good, while remaining aware that helping the helpless requires emotional connections; (2) be effective, and emotionally cold; (3) *think* he's being effective, while really being so seduced with power that he forgets W&H is still evil; (4) some combination of these.
And I really do hope they don't drop Connor. I don't think they will because Joss has never been one for easy, not-messy endings. And the mind-wipe, while not *easy* for Angel, has no real consequences for anyone other than Angel.
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Sun, May. 18th, 2003 11:18 pm (UTC)Agree about Gunn! He looked so menacing as he stepped off the elevator, so my first thought was that he's evil or has been possessed. Just spec, of course. But then I thought, well, we already did the evil possession with Cordy. So what if the mind-meld is actually a good thing? And the cat wasn't taking over him so much as opening his eyes to possibilities? Cuz I think a big theme of next season will be choice and free will.
And wow, Fred is the good one. Never thought about it that way, but yeah, she really is despite the whole professor thing. Here's what I figure: Gunn is in tight with W&H, reasons unknown. Angel is in with his eyes wide open, willing to use Lilah but ready for her backstabbing. Still, he might drop his guard at some point. Lorne is in, willing to be seduced by the sparklies.
Wesley is the interesting one because, when you get right down to it, W&H under Wesley's control? Is pretty much the Council with books *and* state-of-the-art technology. Will he fall into Quentin Travers' mentalitiy where the people he helps becomes mere pawns? Wes has never been great with emotional connections, despite his ability to sense people's motivations. He could end up as cold as his father. The Wes in my head comes from a privileged class. He's used to money and resources. So he can either: (1) be really effective using W&H for good, while remaining aware that helping the helpless requires emotional connections; (2) be effective, and emotionally cold; (3) *think* he's being effective, while really being so seduced with power that he forgets W&H is still evil; (4) some combination of these.
And I really do hope they don't drop Connor. I don't think they will because Joss has never been one for easy, not-messy endings. And the mind-wipe, while not *easy* for Angel, has no real consequences for anyone other than Angel.