Buffy 4x18-4x21, small spoilers for S5
Mon, May. 17th, 2004 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterWatched Where the Wild Things Are, New Moon Rising, Yoko Factor and Primeval for the first time yesterday. Well, I think I've seen New Moon Rising before, but maybe not in its entirety.
Buffy 4x18-4x21, small spoilers for S5
Amazingly, I am actually quite fond of Riley. Well, except when he is having the stupid testosterone fight with Angel and when he comments he is going to try to beat Buffy earlier in the season. But other than that, I think he's rather cute and almost painfully earnest. I think it also helps that I really didn't have much invested in the B/A relationship ever... I think it's also interesting to see Riley's "evil Spike" speech in As You Were in light of all this -- Riley's strongest memories of Spike probably include watching Spike and Adam pal around (well, in a minion-like way), which really would not endear Spike to him at all. I always sort of wonder if some characters always remember others at their worst -- maybe Giles will forever remember Jenny Calender when he sees Angel (ditto with Xander?) and Riley will always remember Spike in cahoots with Adam.
Anyhow, while everyone always quotes Riley's "Demons bad, humans good" attitude at the beginning of New Moon Rising, it seems as though not so many people go on to say that his views really drastically change by the end of the episode.
Also, does Yoko Factor take place right after Five by Five and Sanctuary on Angel? I can't remember, and it seems strange because there are a few eps between the Faith arc on Buffy and Yoko Factor.
Buffy 4x18-4x21, small spoilers for S5
Amazingly, I am actually quite fond of Riley. Well, except when he is having the stupid testosterone fight with Angel and when he comments he is going to try to beat Buffy earlier in the season. But other than that, I think he's rather cute and almost painfully earnest. I think it also helps that I really didn't have much invested in the B/A relationship ever... I think it's also interesting to see Riley's "evil Spike" speech in As You Were in light of all this -- Riley's strongest memories of Spike probably include watching Spike and Adam pal around (well, in a minion-like way), which really would not endear Spike to him at all. I always sort of wonder if some characters always remember others at their worst -- maybe Giles will forever remember Jenny Calender when he sees Angel (ditto with Xander?) and Riley will always remember Spike in cahoots with Adam.
Anyhow, while everyone always quotes Riley's "Demons bad, humans good" attitude at the beginning of New Moon Rising, it seems as though not so many people go on to say that his views really drastically change by the end of the episode.
Also, does Yoko Factor take place right after Five by Five and Sanctuary on Angel? I can't remember, and it seems strange because there are a few eps between the Faith arc on Buffy and Yoko Factor.
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Mon, May. 17th, 2004 07:54 pm (UTC)Yes, but the reason for the gap is that after Faith left Sunnydale in Who Are You?, it was another two weeks until Five By Five aired on Angel, immediately following the 8 pm showing of Where the Wild Things Are. The next week, New Moon Rising aired at 8, followed by Sanctuary at 9...so the next Tuesday, Angel visited Buffy in The Yoko Factor at 8.
So the schedule roughly ran like this (can't remember the actual dates)
Week One: Who Are You? (Faith leaves Sunnydale)/The Ring
Week Two: Superstar/Eternity
Week Three: Where the Wild Things Are/Five by Five (Faith arrives in L.A.)
Week Four: New Moon Rising/Sanctuary (Angel leaves for Sunnydale)
Week Five: The Yoko Factor (Angel in Sunnydale)/War Zone (Angel returns to L.A. at start of ep)
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Tue, May. 18th, 2004 06:35 pm (UTC)Huh, wonder what Faith was doing in the interim...
Fanfic! ;)