10 TV Episodes That Everybody Pretends Never Happened
Saw this on i09.com.Two of Whedonverse were included.
3) Angel, "Eternity"In this episode, Angel is drugged with a "euphoric"
and briefly turns into Angelus… because apparently drugs are as good
as true happiness (yay shortcuts!) A lot of people hated the episode (if
you can just turn Angel evil with a pill, why don't his enemies do that all
the time?) but Tim Minear has defended it: I know there was a lot of
criticism on the Internet about the way he went bad, and did he really
go bad? The idea of giving Angel a variation of ecstasy-to me, that
just worked. I thought it was a really good way to bring Angelus into
the series for a moment so that he could interact with our characters
for a moment, without doing some big 'Angel has turned evil' arc. You
sort of get to have your cake and eat it too in that episode. It really works
when he goes evil.At the same time, Angel never took an "evil" pill again.
5) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Normal Again"In this episode, Buffy is
attacked by a demon whose venom causes her to believe that she's
actually in a mental hospital and that the last six years have all been
a hallucination… or, possibly, we discover that Buffy is in a mental
hospital and that the entire show has taken place in her mind. The
famous final scene, showing Buffy back in the mental hospital,
leaves room for interpretations either way, and Joss Whedon
has said that people can make up their own minds on the matter.
For his part, though, he thinks that the events of the series really
happened. The show never alluded to the "Buffy in a mental institution"
scenario again, in any case.
One of the comments got me to thinking. They said this episode
should have been the finale of the series. It would have left us
wondering which world was real.
io9.com/10-tv-episodes-that-everybody-pretends-never-happened-1657886672
3) Angel, "Eternity"In this episode, Angel is drugged with a "euphoric"
and briefly turns into Angelus… because apparently drugs are as good
as true happiness (yay shortcuts!) A lot of people hated the episode (if
you can just turn Angel evil with a pill, why don't his enemies do that all
the time?) but Tim Minear has defended it: I know there was a lot of
criticism on the Internet about the way he went bad, and did he really
go bad? The idea of giving Angel a variation of ecstasy-to me, that
just worked. I thought it was a really good way to bring Angelus into
the series for a moment so that he could interact with our characters
for a moment, without doing some big 'Angel has turned evil' arc. You
sort of get to have your cake and eat it too in that episode. It really works
when he goes evil.At the same time, Angel never took an "evil" pill again.
5) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Normal Again"In this episode, Buffy is
attacked by a demon whose venom causes her to believe that she's
actually in a mental hospital and that the last six years have all been
a hallucination… or, possibly, we discover that Buffy is in a mental
hospital and that the entire show has taken place in her mind. The
famous final scene, showing Buffy back in the mental hospital,
leaves room for interpretations either way, and Joss Whedon
has said that people can make up their own minds on the matter.
For his part, though, he thinks that the events of the series really
happened. The show never alluded to the "Buffy in a mental institution"
scenario again, in any case.
One of the comments got me to thinking. They said this episode
should have been the finale of the series. It would have left us
wondering which world was real.
io9.com/10-tv-episodes-that-everybody-pretends-never-happened-1657886672