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[thebratqueen]

So I was talking about how The Gift has some of the worst continuity that BtVS has possibly ever seen and it got me and others talking about moments in Buffy and Angel that are so bad or dumb that at this point you can't help but look back on them with an indulgent smile

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[lerefuge]

Oh my God I love this thread :D Make me all tingly from the show love.

One of my worst annoyance was the muddy definition of Angel's "perfect happiness". First it was sex, then it was sex with Buffy, then it went back to sex, then it could be drugs (wtf?), then it was not sex anymore except... oh wait, it's sex again (and I am sure I am missing a few "evolutions").

[lm]

Having it be sex was bad enough. I was always thinking, "So, how does masturbation fit in? Wet dreams? Do vampires have wet dreams? If vampires don't have heartbeats how can they get erections?" Etc. etc.

[lerefuge]

LOL! Wet dreams! Imagine the technical problems of preventing that. And seriously, the person who thought up that perfect happiness is an orgasm really had an unfulfilling life, cose dude.

[thebratqueen]

And of course the birth of his child? Pfft. Not even a blip on that radar.

[mpoetess]

Definition of perfect happiness hell -- I'm still stuck on "It was true happiness, not perfect happiness." It seemed pretty obvious to me that by Uncle Enyos' definition, it meant Angel's life was supposed to be so fucked up that he couldn't possibly even achieve even one moment of 'true' happiness, the way any normal person on a warm summer day by the river eating an ice cream cone could. And if he did somehow manage it, well then bwhahaha to you, Angel.

Then it started being quoted by the other characters as 'perfect happiness' and the mechanism behind the curse shifted, as spells and curses always do based upon how people who didn't cast them refer to them, to the point where Wes could say with a straight face "Angel, most people in the world have to settle for reasonable happiness; what makes you think you're so special that you'd pull off perfect twice? Go have lunch with wolf-girl."

[thebratqueen]

By which, of couse, Wes meant "Have sex with lunch with me."