The Importance of Being Angel

[lostboy_lj]

So, I closed my poll.  The result wasn't close and didn't look like it was gonna be, and the topic chosen required a lot of work, so I thought I should get cracking on it right away.  It's coming along fine, but it's gonna take a bit more time to cook -- with myths like this one, I've discovered you have to do a lot of long, boring research and

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[lostboy_lj]

Yeah, I think I know what you mean. I don't think it's quite as horribly overplayed as a lot of shippers seem to think (or underplayed, depending on the object of their ship). His appearances mostly feel like what they are: a handful of brief crossover cameos where they say nice things to each other and maybe handle a bit of exposition. He's not "always there" -- Buffy is in trouble all the time. Sunnydale is a world filled with gods and monsters, killer cyborgs, mad scientists, etc, but Angel only shows up four times. And while Joyce's death could certainly be considered her lowest point emotionally, "Ghost Indians" weren't exactly as much of a threat to Buffy as a Hell God who was trying to use her sister's blood to tear open a hole in the universe. Was Cordy's vision-brain broken when that stuff was going down?

Plus, Angel doesn't really do much of anything on the show after the third season split. As far as I can tell, the only things that Angel does in Sunnydale from the fourth season on are as follows:

- Punches an Indian Ghost.
- Punches Riley in an alley.
- Sits with Buffy under a tree.
- Punches Caleb.
- Gives Buffy an amulet.

I'm not trying to be nasty about it. It's just not a lot of stuff to work with, you know?

[rebcake]

Yeah, there's not a lot of there there, which is kind of my point.

To be fair to Cordy's visions, she was sucked into Pylea just as the S hit the F in Sunnydale with Glory. It's just 2 episodes after the tree-sitting, but Angel apparently doesn't feel the need to check in with Buffy about her little hell-god problem before haring off on his rescue mission. His priorities are clear and I'm not saying they are wrong.

Somebody (angearia?) suggested a fic that was a transcript of the increasingly urgent messages left by the Scoobies on Angel's answering machine while he was off in Pylea. Maybe if I write it, I can let it go...

[lostboy_lj]

a transcript of the increasingly urgent messages left by the Scoobies on Angel's answering machine while he was off in Pylea.

Wow, that idea could actually be done a lot of different ways. Why does my brain automatically want to turn it into hilarious-ness? Does that make me a bad person??

I guess my mind often wanders back to that scene in "Grave", when Buffy rattles off the litany of all the terrible things that have happened to them in Giles' absence, and then they start laughing their asses off.

[bone_dry1013]

a fic that was a transcript of the increasingly urgent messages left by the Scoobies on Angel's answering machine while he was off in Pylea.

Oh, dude, that is just a fantastic ficcage idea.
Somebody needs to write this.

[us_malka]

a fic that was a transcript of the increasingly urgent messages left by the Scoobies on Angel's answering machine while he was off in Pylea

Except that Angel does not know how to use his voicemail, so presumably all those messages just disappeared into the void.