Vampires, kneeling and the draw of a cute blonde slayer

[sl_podcast]

So rewatching Buffy this time (as I do often)... I noticed that both Spike and Angel kneel in front of Buffy (Angel, right after he returns from hell and Spike, during OMWF).

I'm sure this was purposeful... but I'm not sure what to think the purpose is.... what do you guys think?

Comments

[maxdemon76]

Hmmm. I doubt that is true. By the time the final season of Buffy was on the air, Angel had already had his own show for three years, and working on a fourth. There was a lot of plot overlap in season four of Buffy/season one of Angel, but that seemed to be in order to help promote Angel as its own show by getting Buffy watchers to watch the show. As Angel progressed, there were less crossovers, as Season Two of Angel had very few crossovers with Buffy. Also Season Five of Buffy was possibly going to be the last season as it had not been renewed by the WB. It did get picked up by UPN, and due to contractual obligations, they were not allowed to have characters from the shows cross over to the other network. However, Joss did manage to convince the networks to let him to it for Season Seven, as by then they knew it was going to be the end of the show, and Joss did want to go out with a bang.

Honestly, I doubt there was much of a Season Seven storyline by the time Angel had his own show. I've only ever seen evidence on the DVDs about foreshadowing to future seasons during the last episode of Season Three with the dream shared with Buffy and Faith and in the last episode of Season Four. The writers seemed quite clear that there was foreshadowing about Buffy's death at the end of Season Five and the arrive of Dawn, but I don't really see any evidence that they planned on having Angel be back in Season Seven in order to have him in the main story line. Also by Season Seven, Spike had been fully integrated into the cast of Buffy.