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Best. Finale. Ever.
In other words: SQUEEEEE!!!!!!
Lilah's back! Lilah's funny! There's Gunn and Wes interaction on Lilah! Fred and Lilah spat! I love the part in which Lilah says her thing, dramatic music plays, the action pauses.... and instead of going to the theme song, we get, "Well, not my lifetime of course." Or words to that effect.
I need to know what happened to Gunn. Does anyone know? Any speculations? Thought the panther was very much like Buffy's spirit guide in Intervention.
Wes is cool and sexy and has weapons that shoot from his arm. Wes/Lilah is so the new B/A. Love the moment when he looks right at Lilah in the lobby before heading off with his guide. Love how he tries to find her contract and burn it. Love her reaction. Love his trying to gloss over "loved ones" with Gunn. Much WesLove here! I think Wes has officially now topped Spike in my list of favorite characters. Love love love the new Wes/Gunn interaction, how Gunn doesn't quite know what to say to Wes now, and how Wes just brushes things off. I love Fred's uneasiness around him too.
I love Gunn again. I mean, I have since Players aired, but I thought I'd just say it again.
I even like Fred! Love nervous, awkward Fred trying to juggle the enormous rifle and geeking out over the lab. BTW, if anyone offered me a book that could take the text of any book in the world, I swear, I would sell my soul in a second...
Need to know what happened to Gunn.
Loved the Angel/Lilah interaction. I hope desperately that a) Angel is renewed because it would just be a shame after this if the WB gave up on it and b) Lilah is back at least as a semi-regular. I love Angel's resisting temptation, even after Lilah offers him something that will help Buffy, until Connor steps in.
And oh, the Connor-gettage of last week continues! Finally, I feel the Connor-love, and good god the boy is scary! But I like him like that. His total and utter despair and Angel's desperate reaching out to him hurt so badly in that final scene. Connor's existential crisis is extremely sympathizable for me, and his attempts to reach out and the continual failure to do so, and his blame of everyone somehow hits a deep nerve in me. And this is what I love about Angel the show... it's about adults. The characters in Buffy have had a much harder time growing up, I think, whereas Angel and the crew are adults who make tough choices day after day. And they do it without withdrawing and without being generals (usually). Even if I didn't get Connor or like him by now, I would love having him on the show because of the sheer angst and pain he causes Angel -- a pain that I think goes far beyond losing Buffy and breaking up with her. I guess this is partly why I have a hard time thinking of them getting back together now. Angel's experiences parenting vs. Buffy's attempts at raising Dawn just seem to show that the two are at very different stages in life right now.
The final scene was heartbreaking. I loved how it paralleled Angel's fantasies in Deep Down, how it also visually paralleled his Peeping Tom routine in Rain of Fire. Need to read AtPo analyses on this now! I feel like Angel did what he thought was best for his son, giving him a new, untainted start, one so that Connor would hopefully never end up in the despair and hopelessness that he was at. And it hurt so incredibly much, watching Angel watching his son.
I still miss old Cordy. I kind of wish Cordy would wake up with no real memory of this season, be her own snarky self again and act as the buffer between Wes and Angel, who are (obviously) shaping up to be the two major players in Team Angel. I still miss their dynamic from the first two seasons of Angel. It's funny, but because I actually watched Angel in order from the beginning (downloaded), as opposed to Buffy, I feel a much greater investment in the "Scoobies" of Angel, as opposed to the Buffy/Xander/Willow/Giles relationship. Even though I adore that dynamic as well. But I fell in love with Buffy's scoobies after I knew how they would be in season 6, whereas I grew to love the core group of AI while the show grew as well, and I still feel the absence of Cordy leaves a hole. I want to see how she'd react to darker!Wes and Lilah and all that. I especially love watching Cordy, Wes and Angel interact on season 3 Buffy because they have no idea what's coming to them! Hee.
Diverged from my point. Anyway, love Angel so very very much! Did you hear that, WB?! RENEW DAMNIT!
In other words: SQUEEEEE!!!!!!
Lilah's back! Lilah's funny! There's Gunn and Wes interaction on Lilah! Fred and Lilah spat! I love the part in which Lilah says her thing, dramatic music plays, the action pauses.... and instead of going to the theme song, we get, "Well, not my lifetime of course." Or words to that effect.
I need to know what happened to Gunn. Does anyone know? Any speculations? Thought the panther was very much like Buffy's spirit guide in Intervention.
Wes is cool and sexy and has weapons that shoot from his arm. Wes/Lilah is so the new B/A. Love the moment when he looks right at Lilah in the lobby before heading off with his guide. Love how he tries to find her contract and burn it. Love her reaction. Love his trying to gloss over "loved ones" with Gunn. Much WesLove here! I think Wes has officially now topped Spike in my list of favorite characters. Love love love the new Wes/Gunn interaction, how Gunn doesn't quite know what to say to Wes now, and how Wes just brushes things off. I love Fred's uneasiness around him too.
I love Gunn again. I mean, I have since Players aired, but I thought I'd just say it again.
I even like Fred! Love nervous, awkward Fred trying to juggle the enormous rifle and geeking out over the lab. BTW, if anyone offered me a book that could take the text of any book in the world, I swear, I would sell my soul in a second...
Need to know what happened to Gunn.
Loved the Angel/Lilah interaction. I hope desperately that a) Angel is renewed because it would just be a shame after this if the WB gave up on it and b) Lilah is back at least as a semi-regular. I love Angel's resisting temptation, even after Lilah offers him something that will help Buffy, until Connor steps in.
And oh, the Connor-gettage of last week continues! Finally, I feel the Connor-love, and good god the boy is scary! But I like him like that. His total and utter despair and Angel's desperate reaching out to him hurt so badly in that final scene. Connor's existential crisis is extremely sympathizable for me, and his attempts to reach out and the continual failure to do so, and his blame of everyone somehow hits a deep nerve in me. And this is what I love about Angel the show... it's about adults. The characters in Buffy have had a much harder time growing up, I think, whereas Angel and the crew are adults who make tough choices day after day. And they do it without withdrawing and without being generals (usually). Even if I didn't get Connor or like him by now, I would love having him on the show because of the sheer angst and pain he causes Angel -- a pain that I think goes far beyond losing Buffy and breaking up with her. I guess this is partly why I have a hard time thinking of them getting back together now. Angel's experiences parenting vs. Buffy's attempts at raising Dawn just seem to show that the two are at very different stages in life right now.
The final scene was heartbreaking. I loved how it paralleled Angel's fantasies in Deep Down, how it also visually paralleled his Peeping Tom routine in Rain of Fire. Need to read AtPo analyses on this now! I feel like Angel did what he thought was best for his son, giving him a new, untainted start, one so that Connor would hopefully never end up in the despair and hopelessness that he was at. And it hurt so incredibly much, watching Angel watching his son.
I still miss old Cordy. I kind of wish Cordy would wake up with no real memory of this season, be her own snarky self again and act as the buffer between Wes and Angel, who are (obviously) shaping up to be the two major players in Team Angel. I still miss their dynamic from the first two seasons of Angel. It's funny, but because I actually watched Angel in order from the beginning (downloaded), as opposed to Buffy, I feel a much greater investment in the "Scoobies" of Angel, as opposed to the Buffy/Xander/Willow/Giles relationship. Even though I adore that dynamic as well. But I fell in love with Buffy's scoobies after I knew how they would be in season 6, whereas I grew to love the core group of AI while the show grew as well, and I still feel the absence of Cordy leaves a hole. I want to see how she'd react to darker!Wes and Lilah and all that. I especially love watching Cordy, Wes and Angel interact on season 3 Buffy because they have no idea what's coming to them! Hee.
Diverged from my point. Anyway, love Angel so very very much! Did you hear that, WB?! RENEW DAMNIT!
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And it sounds like a good ensemble episode which makes me happy cos I love all the main characters on AtS. Happy sigh.
Connor. Angel. Awwwwwww. Damn
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