Buffy 4x18-4x21, small spoilers for S5
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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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Tue, May. 18th, 2004 06:35 pm (UTC)Argh, I was so annoyed at the cat-fight! I absolutely hate scenes in which characters fight each other for the Romantic Interest -- it just feels humiliating to me for some reason.
Riley's not very interesting with conflicts and whatnot (at least, not yet), but I'm rather fond of him just because he's so nice. And I liked that in the beginning, he was just genuinely nice, no tortured past, no angst. Course, that all changes later!
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Tue, May. 18th, 2004 07:46 pm (UTC)But instead, Riley hears some of his Initiative guys getting creamed by a vampire over the radio and rushes to help them. He comes across Angel, who was ambushed by Army guys and really just fought them off in self-defense.
Riley has also just gotten an earful from Xander about Angel losing his soul when he slept with Buffy. Riley is insecure about Buffy's visit to Los Angeles, not convinced it's just about tracking down Faith. He fears Buffy lit the old flame with Angel. He has an irrational fear that they even had sex, and when he sees Angel attacking "the good guys", he fears, irrationally, that Angel is soulless.
So he attacks Angel, and Angel defends himself. At this point, their brief conversation has let both of them know who each other are. It's vampire against Initiative soldier. It's the ex-boyfriend against the boyfriend.
They calm down pretty quickly after Buffy straightens out the misunderstanding, and we're back to the petulance we would have gotten under any circumstances.