Buffy Season 5 and Angel Season 2
And then I finished The Gift two nights ago amidst sobs and heartbreak. Oh Buffy! Last night I watched the end of Angel with the adventure in Pylea a nice break in the darkness and surrender to the inevitable of Buffy only to be hit in the guts by the last scene of the troop heading back into the hotel and teary Willow sitting in the foyer waiting to give them the bad news.
That scene was, I believe, the prompt for me to write my first fan fiction vignette. I always felt cheated not seeing the next 5 minutes after Angel gets the news.
So. Now I feel like I need to gird my loins to progress into Season 6 of Buffy. In fact that could be the reason I needed a chick flick this evening and some chocolate. Season 5 is so despairing in some ways - in others its the inevitable. We know that Slayers die and that they die young and that Buffy has had a good go and lived longer than most. And she dies not in the heat of a battle where her enemy outwits her or is more powerful. No, Buffy gives her life to save the world. Because she is a hero and that's what heroes do. And what she was always going to do. And its terrible sad. And heroic. But even worse to see her friends, who are not heroes, and are flawed and have weaknesses, have to deal with the aftermath. And in some ways its been this great ride watching those who are not the Slayer give everything to help save the world even though that's not their job but because it's the right thing to do.
I dunno that I have much to say about Angel Season 2. Yay we got girly vampire action. I wasn't that interested in the Angel/Darla/Druscilla storyline. It gave us a chance to have Darla back and to understand her backstory, which is cool. But a lot of the episodes felt like filler and exposition for me. Granted they were a blessed relief to turn to whilst working through the hard, dark Buffy episodes. And they did well to build character relationships and development, which pay off in later seasons.
I think I'm going in for Season 6 of Buffy - if I put it off for a bit I suspect it will take me another batch of years to get through and in some ways this was the season I wanted to rewatch. Buffy is very interesting as a character in this season. I've been where she ends up (though not brought back from the dead, obviously). And her self destruction is something that her earlier self could almost not imagine - heroes don't come back from their self sacrifices and they don't have to keep going when they give their life for the greater good. And ... she really did seem to have given up, towards the end of Season 5. Her fight can't surely be endless and without final reward? And yet in the end ... in the end she is Buffy and figures out how to take her power back. Because she's Buffy. And maybe that's why I relate to her the most - I get her journey the most.
That scene was, I believe, the prompt for me to write my first fan fiction vignette. I always felt cheated not seeing the next 5 minutes after Angel gets the news.
So. Now I feel like I need to gird my loins to progress into Season 6 of Buffy. In fact that could be the reason I needed a chick flick this evening and some chocolate. Season 5 is so despairing in some ways - in others its the inevitable. We know that Slayers die and that they die young and that Buffy has had a good go and lived longer than most. And she dies not in the heat of a battle where her enemy outwits her or is more powerful. No, Buffy gives her life to save the world. Because she is a hero and that's what heroes do. And what she was always going to do. And its terrible sad. And heroic. But even worse to see her friends, who are not heroes, and are flawed and have weaknesses, have to deal with the aftermath. And in some ways its been this great ride watching those who are not the Slayer give everything to help save the world even though that's not their job but because it's the right thing to do.
I dunno that I have much to say about Angel Season 2. Yay we got girly vampire action. I wasn't that interested in the Angel/Darla/Druscilla storyline. It gave us a chance to have Darla back and to understand her backstory, which is cool. But a lot of the episodes felt like filler and exposition for me. Granted they were a blessed relief to turn to whilst working through the hard, dark Buffy episodes. And they did well to build character relationships and development, which pay off in later seasons.
I think I'm going in for Season 6 of Buffy - if I put it off for a bit I suspect it will take me another batch of years to get through and in some ways this was the season I wanted to rewatch. Buffy is very interesting as a character in this season. I've been where she ends up (though not brought back from the dead, obviously). And her self destruction is something that her earlier self could almost not imagine - heroes don't come back from their self sacrifices and they don't have to keep going when they give their life for the greater good. And ... she really did seem to have given up, towards the end of Season 5. Her fight can't surely be endless and without final reward? And yet in the end ... in the end she is Buffy and figures out how to take her power back. Because she's Buffy. And maybe that's why I relate to her the most - I get her journey the most.