escapism--it's better than catatonia
Mar. 19th, 2003 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyWell, the White House says the war has started.
I've said everything I have to say about it. I hope that it is over quickly and with the minimum possible loss of lives. I hope that things become better for the Iraqi people in the wake of this action. I hope the administration's alleged goal of making Americans safer (that is still an alleged goal, right?) is furthered rather than retarded.
And because there is nothing in the world that I can do right now about any of it, I'm going to talk about Angel.
Again, this is all from a highly Buffy-centric perspective.
So what was up with the Saturday morning cartoon version of Willow? She was funny (and I do love Alyson Hannigan in that mode), but it was like watching HighCamp!Willow, and I found it a little disconcerting. She seemed over-written.
And my god! Who in their right mind would not drop Kennedy like a hot and ugly rock for the chance to make time with Fred? I know long-time Angel aficionados have Issues with Fred, but as I've said before, I like Fred, and I think she's incredibly cute (in the same way the puppy Angel rescued in 20s Chicago is cute), and there was some actual geek-girl chemistry between her and Willow ... and besides, Fred/Willow has the potential to be as sweet as Tara/Willow (at least, over here in my head), only Fred has a real backstory and thus has an actual 3D existence (I love Tara, but she only ever existed on Buffy as a satellite of Willow's, except for "Family," and then brief moments in "Dead Things" and "Older and Far Away".) If Willow came over to Angel and hooked up with Fred, I might even watch.
Continuing hatred for Evil!Cordy and her Voice of Camp, check.
And speaking of camp, they purely did let DB pull out all the stops tonight. Not to mention the WIGS. Sweet muscular Jesus, I thought my eyeballs were going to start bleeding--most especially during the 70s donut shop sequence from Hell. (Rule #1: Angel always looks better in vampface. ALWAYS.) Although it was all worth it for Faith's: "Hey, Angel, glad to see you. Hate the hair." (Or whatever it is exactly that she says--v. bad with the auditory recall.) OTOH, I could watch Faith and Angelus snarking at each other all night. And the MPD Angel theory I put forward is looking pretty healthy: Angel and Angelus beating the shit out of each other in the alley, the way they talk about each other ... there was some other thing, something Angelus said, but again I suck with the recall.
Lorne's a sweetie-pie. I loved him amazingly much for caring about Faith when everybody else was all focused on Angel; she was sinking, and he wasn't letting her do that alone. I found that deeply moving.
And, yes, sports fans, I did spend the entire episode cheering Faith on. My Faith! Mouthy Faith! Faith who gives everybody shit! V. eager to see what happens with this Faith in Sunnydale ("... I'd rather have the bear ..."). She and Willow have some serious talking to do, and, ME-dudes, I want to see it. Not to mention her and Buffy.
And she gets to beat the crap out of Connor again, which is always fun. She's 2 for 3 on that front, and I did like Cordy calling Connor on it. There were flashes of the Real Cordy in this ep, but they were all but buried under Evil!Cordy, who is just kind of painfully embarrassing. They'd have done better to do a kind of inverse of the Mayor, where the evil is a kind of pervasive background thing to his goofiness--it's never not there, but it's just a given, not part of his presence--only with Cordy it would be the evil as background to the bitchiness. Let the evil be a foregone conclusion and leave CC alone to work her Bitch-self for all it's worth. Because that she can do.
Hate the pregnancy arc. Hate the nauseating rhetoric of family that Cordy wields like a sledgehammer. Hate the way Connor falls for it like a complete and total CHUMP. Am glad that at least Evil!Cordy is out in the open so that at least we maybe won't have to watch her yanking Connor's chain any longer.
I also loved Wesley getting his darkness trumped by Willow. The self-dramatizing, angst-wallowing, no-one-is-as-evil-as-me Wesley really did need that, and I liked his admission that maybe his sense of humor is shut up in a jar somewhere. And although the long Bon voyage, Faith! sequence was clearly and blatantly about tidying up loose ends, I did like the way he and Faith parted from each other. Things aren't over between them--assuming Eliza Dushku wakes up and smells the coffee burning and comes back to the ME fold--but it seems like they've reached a point where they respect each other, and that feels right and good.
I wish for the world to be able to stop being afraid. That's it. That's what I want. Strength and friendship and beauty and no more fear. I realize we're human beings and we're no good at that, but ... imagine all the people, living life in peace.
I've said everything I have to say about it. I hope that it is over quickly and with the minimum possible loss of lives. I hope that things become better for the Iraqi people in the wake of this action. I hope the administration's alleged goal of making Americans safer (that is still an alleged goal, right?) is furthered rather than retarded.
And because there is nothing in the world that I can do right now about any of it, I'm going to talk about Angel.
Again, this is all from a highly Buffy-centric perspective.
So what was up with the Saturday morning cartoon version of Willow? She was funny (and I do love Alyson Hannigan in that mode), but it was like watching HighCamp!Willow, and I found it a little disconcerting. She seemed over-written.
And my god! Who in their right mind would not drop Kennedy like a hot and ugly rock for the chance to make time with Fred? I know long-time Angel aficionados have Issues with Fred, but as I've said before, I like Fred, and I think she's incredibly cute (in the same way the puppy Angel rescued in 20s Chicago is cute), and there was some actual geek-girl chemistry between her and Willow ... and besides, Fred/Willow has the potential to be as sweet as Tara/Willow (at least, over here in my head), only Fred has a real backstory and thus has an actual 3D existence (I love Tara, but she only ever existed on Buffy as a satellite of Willow's, except for "Family," and then brief moments in "Dead Things" and "Older and Far Away".) If Willow came over to Angel and hooked up with Fred, I might even watch.
Continuing hatred for Evil!Cordy and her Voice of Camp, check.
And speaking of camp, they purely did let DB pull out all the stops tonight. Not to mention the WIGS. Sweet muscular Jesus, I thought my eyeballs were going to start bleeding--most especially during the 70s donut shop sequence from Hell. (Rule #1: Angel always looks better in vampface. ALWAYS.) Although it was all worth it for Faith's: "Hey, Angel, glad to see you. Hate the hair." (Or whatever it is exactly that she says--v. bad with the auditory recall.) OTOH, I could watch Faith and Angelus snarking at each other all night. And the MPD Angel theory I put forward is looking pretty healthy: Angel and Angelus beating the shit out of each other in the alley, the way they talk about each other ... there was some other thing, something Angelus said, but again I suck with the recall.
Lorne's a sweetie-pie. I loved him amazingly much for caring about Faith when everybody else was all focused on Angel; she was sinking, and he wasn't letting her do that alone. I found that deeply moving.
And, yes, sports fans, I did spend the entire episode cheering Faith on. My Faith! Mouthy Faith! Faith who gives everybody shit! V. eager to see what happens with this Faith in Sunnydale ("... I'd rather have the bear ..."). She and Willow have some serious talking to do, and, ME-dudes, I want to see it. Not to mention her and Buffy.
And she gets to beat the crap out of Connor again, which is always fun. She's 2 for 3 on that front, and I did like Cordy calling Connor on it. There were flashes of the Real Cordy in this ep, but they were all but buried under Evil!Cordy, who is just kind of painfully embarrassing. They'd have done better to do a kind of inverse of the Mayor, where the evil is a kind of pervasive background thing to his goofiness--it's never not there, but it's just a given, not part of his presence--only with Cordy it would be the evil as background to the bitchiness. Let the evil be a foregone conclusion and leave CC alone to work her Bitch-self for all it's worth. Because that she can do.
Hate the pregnancy arc. Hate the nauseating rhetoric of family that Cordy wields like a sledgehammer. Hate the way Connor falls for it like a complete and total CHUMP. Am glad that at least Evil!Cordy is out in the open so that at least we maybe won't have to watch her yanking Connor's chain any longer.
I also loved Wesley getting his darkness trumped by Willow. The self-dramatizing, angst-wallowing, no-one-is-as-evil-as-me Wesley really did need that, and I liked his admission that maybe his sense of humor is shut up in a jar somewhere. And although the long Bon voyage, Faith! sequence was clearly and blatantly about tidying up loose ends, I did like the way he and Faith parted from each other. Things aren't over between them--assuming Eliza Dushku wakes up and smells the coffee burning and comes back to the ME fold--but it seems like they've reached a point where they respect each other, and that feels right and good.
I wish for the world to be able to stop being afraid. That's it. That's what I want. Strength and friendship and beauty and no more fear. I realize we're human beings and we're no good at that, but ... imagine all the people, living life in peace.
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Date: 2003-03-21 11:18 am (UTC)Actually, the deus ex machina thing's probably going to help Willow out with the self esteem and "I daren't trust myself with this stuff" issues once she gets back to Sunnydale, after all, it's one more success.