Huh. Fascinating. And also, makes me feel much better about the episode :) (Which, due to wrong continent and not having access to satellite, I haven't watched.)
It was interesting for me to write because I really had to sit down and ask myself what was going on with the ep. The execution is a shame, because it undercuts so much of the work the ep is trying to do. But if you can step away from that and focus on the story, it's not too bad.
This is completely off-topic. And hell, I may have mentioned it in your review of Not Fade Away.
But I loved loved loved, in Wes' death, the echo of role reversal when he asks Illyria to lie to him. It's only in his death that he can let go of some essential core of hard-eyed realism -- and in this tendency to cling to that analytical view, I find him reminiscent of Giles. And at the last he shows us his humanity in a much smaller, much sadder way than we've seen before -- except that the very revelation echoed the Slayer.
I know the shows, especially after Buffy's finale, were relatively well segregated, but I think that reference strengthened the emotional impact of the finale. Not only is Angel losing (the man who's come to represent) his humanity, he's losing a decent portion of his connection to humanity in the concrete.
And reading this made me think about that all over again!
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StA essay section?
And probably, quotes in my ALL ABOUT ANGEL Essay. :}
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But I loved loved loved, in Wes' death, the echo of role reversal when he asks Illyria to lie to him. It's only in his death that he can let go of some essential core of hard-eyed realism -- and in this tendency to cling to that analytical view, I find him reminiscent of Giles. And at the last he shows us his humanity in a much smaller, much sadder way than we've seen before -- except that the very revelation echoed the Slayer.
I know the shows, especially after Buffy's finale, were relatively well segregated, but I think that reference strengthened the emotional impact of the finale. Not only is Angel losing (the man who's come to represent) his humanity, he's losing a decent portion of his connection to humanity in the concrete.
And reading this made me think about that all over again!
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