Angel mostly (Dance of Joy!); some Buffy (no dance! all angst!)
For once, I'm at a point in my viewing experience where "Angel" is the fun, lighthearted series and "Buffy" is the heavy, depressing one. I fell behind schedule with "Angel", so they aren't lining up at the same chronological spot, but anyway, I just finished A. season 2, and the episode "Seeing Red" in B. season 6. Yeah. Dark ugly stuff in that latter one--in the whole disc, in fact. Except Andrew. Andrew is hilarious. The geek trio is pretty funny as a whole ("Touch your magic bone...teeheehee"), but Warren by himself is a huge creep, and Jonathan is fairly harmless. Andrew's the only really interesting (and hilarious) one. As for the issues of attempted rape and seemingly imminent character deaths in this last episode--hrmf. Not fun. I am, for the moment, rethinking my Spuffy love, but then Spike *is* technically soulless and therefore some nasty behavior is understandable. (Soulless for the moment, anyway. Yeah, I've heard rumors of future events.) Maybe Buffy and Xander should just get together and enjoy a calm, reliable relationship. But moving on...
"Angel" has been warming on me this season, and burst into brilliance with the final three episodes where they visit Lorne's home planet. So creative--and so funny! (Felt like "Firefly", by the way, this visiting of other planets. Though of course "Firefly" came later.) Incidentally, I was all confused for a while there. I kept hearing, "Oh, you'll meet Lorne soon" and "I'm curious what you'll think of Lorne" without realizing that I *had* met Lorne, and that we just don't know his name is "Lorne" until about three-quarters of season 2 is over.
Possibly the funniest moment was the Dance of Joy performed by Numfar--a.k.a. Joss Whedon! I was a basket of giggles, especially upon learning who played Numfar.
Song and dance moments are always good comedy in Joss's hands. Thus I really do love Lorne and the Caritas karaoke plot device. It even turned me around on my opinion of Lindsay. Before he did his little guitar number, I found him unattractive. He had the physical makings of a good-looking guy, but the whole slimy-lawyer veneer turned me off. Then he pulled the awesome performance in the bar, and suddenly I thought, "Wow, he's dreamy!" (Much like Angel's crew thought. Heheh.) Plus, the whole "evil hand!" sequence in the W&H meeting was pretty funny.
Think those comprise my thoughts for now. Yes.
"Angel" has been warming on me this season, and burst into brilliance with the final three episodes where they visit Lorne's home planet. So creative--and so funny! (Felt like "Firefly", by the way, this visiting of other planets. Though of course "Firefly" came later.) Incidentally, I was all confused for a while there. I kept hearing, "Oh, you'll meet Lorne soon" and "I'm curious what you'll think of Lorne" without realizing that I *had* met Lorne, and that we just don't know his name is "Lorne" until about three-quarters of season 2 is over.
Possibly the funniest moment was the Dance of Joy performed by Numfar--a.k.a. Joss Whedon! I was a basket of giggles, especially upon learning who played Numfar.
Song and dance moments are always good comedy in Joss's hands. Thus I really do love Lorne and the Caritas karaoke plot device. It even turned me around on my opinion of Lindsay. Before he did his little guitar number, I found him unattractive. He had the physical makings of a good-looking guy, but the whole slimy-lawyer veneer turned me off. Then he pulled the awesome performance in the bar, and suddenly I thought, "Wow, he's dreamy!" (Much like Angel's crew thought. Heheh.) Plus, the whole "evil hand!" sequence in the W&H meeting was pretty funny.
Think those comprise my thoughts for now. Yes.