too much spare time...
Tonight was a slow night at work, so I ended up watching quite a bit of Angel.
This led to me wondering, who would win in a showdown between the Buffy crew and the Winchester boys? This was quite easily resolved by the fact that one side has superpowers, lots of magic and is used to preventing apocalypses on a yearly basis, while the other side has some pistols. Sure, pistols are lethal and all, but at one point Buffy does her thing on a guy with a minigun and a grenade launcher, so there's no real contest there.
Against the LA chapter of the scooby gang however, things might go a little differently. I'm thinking of a pretty basic outfit on either side, set somewhere in season two of the respective shows, with the Winchesters having Billy and Ruby for backup, while Angel brings Wes, Cordelia and Gunn.
I'd say this is pretty fair, as they each have one monster, one seer and two guys with a lot of know how on the breaking and hurting department.
That being said, the question is wether Angel would start with Ruby or Dean. Though Ruby would probably be the bigger threat, and possibly prove unmanageable for Gunn (who would be the other logical choice to oppose her), Dean is pretty much the main character, and would thus seem like a logical opponent.
From this it follows that Wesley would be fighting Billy, a battle whose outcome I'm unsure about. On the one hand Billy is rather old and decrepit, but on the other hand he has a tendency to shoot things. The firearms may not be quite the showstopper one might suppose, as Wesley has also shown himself to be a dab hand with both crossbows and thrown weapons, being able to hit the heart of a running person on several occasions.
The final matchup, namely Sam versus Cordelia is however sadly a foregone conclusion.
I would say the overall outcome depends mainly on how fast Angel kills or incapacitates whoever he's fighting. Bullets won't really harm him, and one of his defining traits is that he wins fights. I'm thinking that Gunn and Dean would be fairly well matched, with Gunn having shown a remarkable ability to kill vampires while Dean usually unable to keep up with even a single one.
Also, I'm feeling bad for even having thought of this, let alone posting it... But no matter.
This led to me wondering, who would win in a showdown between the Buffy crew and the Winchester boys? This was quite easily resolved by the fact that one side has superpowers, lots of magic and is used to preventing apocalypses on a yearly basis, while the other side has some pistols. Sure, pistols are lethal and all, but at one point Buffy does her thing on a guy with a minigun and a grenade launcher, so there's no real contest there.
Against the LA chapter of the scooby gang however, things might go a little differently. I'm thinking of a pretty basic outfit on either side, set somewhere in season two of the respective shows, with the Winchesters having Billy and Ruby for backup, while Angel brings Wes, Cordelia and Gunn.
I'd say this is pretty fair, as they each have one monster, one seer and two guys with a lot of know how on the breaking and hurting department.
That being said, the question is wether Angel would start with Ruby or Dean. Though Ruby would probably be the bigger threat, and possibly prove unmanageable for Gunn (who would be the other logical choice to oppose her), Dean is pretty much the main character, and would thus seem like a logical opponent.
From this it follows that Wesley would be fighting Billy, a battle whose outcome I'm unsure about. On the one hand Billy is rather old and decrepit, but on the other hand he has a tendency to shoot things. The firearms may not be quite the showstopper one might suppose, as Wesley has also shown himself to be a dab hand with both crossbows and thrown weapons, being able to hit the heart of a running person on several occasions.
The final matchup, namely Sam versus Cordelia is however sadly a foregone conclusion.
I would say the overall outcome depends mainly on how fast Angel kills or incapacitates whoever he's fighting. Bullets won't really harm him, and one of his defining traits is that he wins fights. I'm thinking that Gunn and Dean would be fairly well matched, with Gunn having shown a remarkable ability to kill vampires while Dean usually unable to keep up with even a single one.
Also, I'm feeling bad for even having thought of this, let alone posting it... But no matter.