oh, angel.
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Things I am crap at lately:
1. Responding to LJ comments.
2. Writing anything.
3. Vidding anything.
4. Being a functional social human being.
There is a huge pile of stress that's been weighing me down very, very badly over the past couple of weeks and making me nonfunctional in a lot of ways. My body is not wired for panic attacks, which is a good thing, because I'd probably be hyperventilating on a regular basis otherwise. The attendant insomnia is shitty enough, not to mention feeling like my head's going to burst into a million tiny pieces at any given moment. Argh, this is very vague, sorry. I'm just...panicking, constantly, over a personal decision that I've known was coming for a long time but have been avoiding making, and it's crunch time. It'll be done with soon enough. Well, provided I don't give myself an aneurysm in the process. And not having anyone who can actually give me solid advice to talk it over with isn't helping.
SO MEANWHILE, OVER IN BUFFYLAND.
I still prefer BtVS overall, but down in LA:
1. Gunn is my favorite character now, unsurprisingly. I think Dennis comes in second. What? Dennis is AWESOME.
2. I'm finally starting to warm to Wesley. Why his pretending to be Angel is what finally did it for me, I don't know.
3. I really, really dislike the Darla storyline, and it's making the top half of S2 a bit of a slog to get through. Dunno why she irritates me so much, but there we go. Her backstory with Angel does interest me, despite the truly heinous flashback!hairdo, so those bits are fine. But I just can't stand her in the present day. Ugh.
4. I HAVE JUST GLIMPSED PRE-VAMPIRE SPIKE, AND HE IS GLORIOUS. BRB, LOLING FOREVER. [ETA: and back over on BtVS, getting Spike's backstory fleshed out a bit more in "Fools for Love" was fucking amazing. And the last scene swung me very soundly over into the Spike/Buffy camp, which I am trying not to feel too guilty about given the fact that Spike still is kind of a horrible person.]
5. This is totally a very minor quibble, unrelated to the episodes themselves. The X-Files was occasionally very fan-savvy in a quirky way, and knew that real fans would recognize recurring guest actors' names in the opening of an episode. Starting around S3 (I think), they'd get very sneaky, and omit certain guest stars from the opening credits on certain episodes -- you could never fucking predict whether Krycek would show up, for example, because Nicholas Lea's name would never show up in the opening. And this was AWESOME, because it meant that spoilers aside, fans could actually be surprised every now and then. I wish Whedon would follow this sometimes. Dru's sudden reappearance in S2 Angel -- when we haven't seen her character since the finale of S2 Buffy, three years prior -- would've been a hell of a lot more shocking if "JULIET LANDAU AS DRUSILLA" hadn't flashed across the screen twenty minutes earlier. Yes, I know this is a really stupid thing to get nitpicky about. I'm just sayin'. The Buffyverse likes its fair share of unexpected plot twists. This spoils some of that.
1. Responding to LJ comments.
2. Writing anything.
3. Vidding anything.
4. Being a functional social human being.
There is a huge pile of stress that's been weighing me down very, very badly over the past couple of weeks and making me nonfunctional in a lot of ways. My body is not wired for panic attacks, which is a good thing, because I'd probably be hyperventilating on a regular basis otherwise. The attendant insomnia is shitty enough, not to mention feeling like my head's going to burst into a million tiny pieces at any given moment. Argh, this is very vague, sorry. I'm just...panicking, constantly, over a personal decision that I've known was coming for a long time but have been avoiding making, and it's crunch time. It'll be done with soon enough. Well, provided I don't give myself an aneurysm in the process. And not having anyone who can actually give me solid advice to talk it over with isn't helping.
SO MEANWHILE, OVER IN BUFFYLAND.
I still prefer BtVS overall, but down in LA:
1. Gunn is my favorite character now, unsurprisingly. I think Dennis comes in second. What? Dennis is AWESOME.
2. I'm finally starting to warm to Wesley. Why his pretending to be Angel is what finally did it for me, I don't know.
3. I really, really dislike the Darla storyline, and it's making the top half of S2 a bit of a slog to get through. Dunno why she irritates me so much, but there we go. Her backstory with Angel does interest me, despite the truly heinous flashback!hairdo, so those bits are fine. But I just can't stand her in the present day. Ugh.
4. I HAVE JUST GLIMPSED PRE-VAMPIRE SPIKE, AND HE IS GLORIOUS. BRB, LOLING FOREVER. [ETA: and back over on BtVS, getting Spike's backstory fleshed out a bit more in "Fools for Love" was fucking amazing. And the last scene swung me very soundly over into the Spike/Buffy camp, which I am trying not to feel too guilty about given the fact that Spike still is kind of a horrible person.]
5. This is totally a very minor quibble, unrelated to the episodes themselves. The X-Files was occasionally very fan-savvy in a quirky way, and knew that real fans would recognize recurring guest actors' names in the opening of an episode. Starting around S3 (I think), they'd get very sneaky, and omit certain guest stars from the opening credits on certain episodes -- you could never fucking predict whether Krycek would show up, for example, because Nicholas Lea's name would never show up in the opening. And this was AWESOME, because it meant that spoilers aside, fans could actually be surprised every now and then. I wish Whedon would follow this sometimes. Dru's sudden reappearance in S2 Angel -- when we haven't seen her character since the finale of S2 Buffy, three years prior -- would've been a hell of a lot more shocking if "JULIET LANDAU AS DRUSILLA" hadn't flashed across the screen twenty minutes earlier. Yes, I know this is a really stupid thing to get nitpicky about. I'm just sayin'. The Buffyverse likes its fair share of unexpected plot twists. This spoils some of that.
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Date: 2011-03-02 12:35 am (UTC)Also, I am not at all related to Juliet Landau, but I really wish I were, because it would make family reunions so much more awesome.
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Date: 2011-03-14 03:27 pm (UTC)WOULDN'T THAT BE SO COOL. :D
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Date: 2011-03-02 07:49 am (UTC)I never did like Angel as a whole as well as BtVS, partly because I found it more uneven. Sometimes it could be utterly amazing, but it had a fair amount of extended storylines that I found irritating, like some of the Darla stuff and the vast majority of the Connor stuff you will hit soon, and more I won't name because I don't know in how much detail you've been spoiled.
Flashback "William the bloody awful poet" FTW! "Fool For Love" is one of my top 5 BtVS episodes. I love the backstory: William the earnest, dorky poet to the vampires' slow motion Power Walk of Badass Evil through the burning streets in China to punk!Spike's subway fight with the slayer. ♥
Welcome to team Buffy/Spike! It's a bit messed up, but there's free drinks. ;)
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Date: 2011-03-14 03:30 pm (UTC)I'm well into S6 Buffy now, and dear god, team Buffy/Spike is a deeply fucked-up place to be. And yet I love it so. (The fight/sex scene at the end of "Smashed" with the house collapsing around them is one of the most oddly beautiful things I've ever seen in television, no lie.)