A request and some B/A thoughts.
Can anyone recommend to me an Angel vid set to ‘Mandy’, with Buffy as Mandy, but non-shippy?
*listens to crickets chirping*
The thing is, that ‘Mandy’ belongs to AtS. Angel liked the song *years* before he met Buffy, and he sang it after he’d left her. It is their perfect song - or rather his perfect song about him and what he found in her.
Lyrics:
I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
A shadow of a man
A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into
Morning, just another day
Happy people pass my way
Looking in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
you made me so happy, oh Mandy
Well you came and you gave without taking
but I sent you away, oh Mandy
well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
I need you today, oh Mandy
I'm standing on the edge of time
I Walked away when love was mine
Caught up in a world of uphill climbing
The tears are in my mind
And nothing is rhyming, oh Mandy
Well you came and you gave without taking
but I sent you away, oh Mandy
well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, oh Mandy
Yesterday's a dream I face the morning
Crying on the breeze
the pain is calling, oh Mandy
Well you came and you gave without taking
but I sent you away, oh Mandy
well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, oh Mandy
Watching S3 I’ve found myself rather warming to B/A. Not in a relationship way, but in that I can perfectly understand where both characters are coming from. To speak just of Angel for now, then he knows right from the start that it can never work (I walked away when love was mine). There is no way they’ll ever get to be together forever, because he is just a shadow of a man, standing on the edge of time (sorry, couldn't help myself) and she’s a little girl... and yet, he clings on. In S3 I think he’s trying to pretend that he’s paused time. He knows he should walk away, but right there in his arms is Buffy - and she’s beautiful and good and pure, and everything he’s never had before - and she loves him. I can see why he stays. Oh yes.
So that’s part of what I’d like to see in a vid - the sense of Angel being utterly alone before meeting her, and yet dreaming of having a ‘Mandy’ of his own. And then when he finds her, he knows that he’s going to walk away sooner or later, no matter how much he tries to pretend otherwise - before finally looking back, grateful, but longing still.
The song beautifully evokes the inherent tragedy in B/A, which I like very much:
ANGEL
Look . . . this can't . . .
BUFFY
I know, ever be anything. For one
thing you're like two hundred and
twenty-four years older than I am.
ANGEL
I just gotta . . . I gotta walk away
from this.
BUFFY
I know. Me, too.
Now what I don’t like is the break up scene in ‘The Prom’. Grrrr. Everyone is going behind Buffy’s back and treating her like a silly little girl who needs ‘her man’ to do ‘what’s best for her’. *sporks them all* I want to reach through the screen and slap Angel about, reminding him that she broke up with him first!!!!! It was only half a year ago, did everyone catch amnesia? She told him, as plain as can be “What I want from you I can never have.” Well he should have acted on it then. (As I said I rather like him in S3, and all the set-up for AtS is very good. But that the break up is just awful!) /end rant
*sigh*
Just to mention Darcy for a moment: I was saying something about how now Angel could take off for his nice new spin-off and actually begin to get interesting and stuff. Darcy doesn’t see it that way. For him the joy of Angel is to watch him being utterly pathetic - because it’s funny. Which is why AtS doesn't do all that much for him...
*listens to crickets chirping*
The thing is, that ‘Mandy’ belongs to AtS. Angel liked the song *years* before he met Buffy, and he sang it after he’d left her. It is their perfect song - or rather his perfect song about him and what he found in her.
Lyrics:
I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
A shadow of a man
A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into
Morning, just another day
Happy people pass my way
Looking in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
you made me so happy, oh Mandy
Well you came and you gave without taking
but I sent you away, oh Mandy
well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
I need you today, oh Mandy
I'm standing on the edge of time
I Walked away when love was mine
Caught up in a world of uphill climbing
The tears are in my mind
And nothing is rhyming, oh Mandy
Well you came and you gave without taking
but I sent you away, oh Mandy
well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, oh Mandy
Yesterday's a dream I face the morning
Crying on the breeze
the pain is calling, oh Mandy
Well you came and you gave without taking
but I sent you away, oh Mandy
well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, oh Mandy
Watching S3 I’ve found myself rather warming to B/A. Not in a relationship way, but in that I can perfectly understand where both characters are coming from. To speak just of Angel for now, then he knows right from the start that it can never work (I walked away when love was mine). There is no way they’ll ever get to be together forever, because he is just a shadow of a man, standing on the edge of time (sorry, couldn't help myself) and she’s a little girl... and yet, he clings on. In S3 I think he’s trying to pretend that he’s paused time. He knows he should walk away, but right there in his arms is Buffy - and she’s beautiful and good and pure, and everything he’s never had before - and she loves him. I can see why he stays. Oh yes.
So that’s part of what I’d like to see in a vid - the sense of Angel being utterly alone before meeting her, and yet dreaming of having a ‘Mandy’ of his own. And then when he finds her, he knows that he’s going to walk away sooner or later, no matter how much he tries to pretend otherwise - before finally looking back, grateful, but longing still.
The song beautifully evokes the inherent tragedy in B/A, which I like very much:
ANGEL
Look . . . this can't . . .
BUFFY
I know, ever be anything. For one
thing you're like two hundred and
twenty-four years older than I am.
ANGEL
I just gotta . . . I gotta walk away
from this.
BUFFY
I know. Me, too.
Now what I don’t like is the break up scene in ‘The Prom’. Grrrr. Everyone is going behind Buffy’s back and treating her like a silly little girl who needs ‘her man’ to do ‘what’s best for her’. *sporks them all* I want to reach through the screen and slap Angel about, reminding him that she broke up with him first!!!!! It was only half a year ago, did everyone catch amnesia? She told him, as plain as can be “What I want from you I can never have.” Well he should have acted on it then. (As I said I rather like him in S3, and all the set-up for AtS is very good. But that the break up is just awful!) /end rant
*sigh*
Just to mention Darcy for a moment: I was saying something about how now Angel could take off for his nice new spin-off and actually begin to get interesting and stuff. Darcy doesn’t see it that way. For him the joy of Angel is to watch him being utterly pathetic - because it’s funny. Which is why AtS doesn't do all that much for him...