Hong Kong Wes!
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gwyn Big-ass spoilers for Angel episode 11/17, Apocalypse Nowish
Issues... we got yer issues right here, piping hot and fresh...
First, the good parts though — Angel and Lilah bring out the best in each other, in terms of acting and sparkage. Their scenes together electrify Boreanaz, especially, in a way I haven’t seen him since he was on Buffy.
Reservoir Dogs Wes with the two-fisted .45s! And the shotgun. I am weak for a man with a shotgun, especially one as hot as Wes is. I’m almost wishing I taped Angel just to have Wes with the two guns. Either that or I wish I wasn't graphically challenged and could make myself a cute little icon.
Watching Connor get his ass kicked by Big Horned Guy.
Seeing slimy little Gavin brought down, sitting there all meek and tied up and looking like he’d probably wet his pants before we saw him.
Hurt and angry Angel in that final shot. To me, Angel’s always been at his best when he’s miserable, and it’s a welcome relief to see him that way.
But the Joss giveth and the Joss taketh away...
I’m all for keeping lovers apart. Most of the time, I enjoy the tension, especially if they get together, then fall apart, for awhile, and are nicely thwarted. I’ve never bought into the whole Cordy/Angel romance thing anyway, but at least if they’re going to thwart it, I’d like it to be thwarted for something resembling genuine plot and truth to canon. For Cordelia to say that she can’t be with Angel because she “felt” Angelus was beyond absurd, it was somewhat insulting to the people who’ve stuck with these two characters since the beginning of Buffy. Hello! She saw plenty of what Angelus was like and capable of in Sunnydale, and if that didn’t give her a feeling, I can’t imagine what would. She *knows* what a soulless demon is like, and she knows what he was like in particular. I’d really rather have had it be simply that she wanted to boink a teenager one last time for memory’s sake than for this phony-ass excuse of such comprehensive lameness that it limps off the screen and into our living rooms, then lays down with a groan and dies.
The Graduate Sex Machine Action Figures featuring Cordy and Connor. Ceee-ripes. Not only is it vaguely squicky, in a can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it way, but there couldn’t have been less of a sexy vibe there. And with Cordy’s breasts becoming a larger-than-life, menacing character of their own, I was wondering just how mechanically that “love” scene was filmed because it looked awfully... action figurey stiff to me. And? Ew. The only mitigation was that Angel was playing voyeur and being rather pissed off, which is how I like him best. (Wouldn’t that be fun if he went and took his poor broken heart to Wes for some comfort? Okay, I’m dreaming.)
The Big Horned Guy. I don’t know what I was expecting (the Balrog, maybe), but he seemed somewhat of a letdown, and as others have pointed out in their LJs, he looks rather like Tim Curry’s devil in Legend (which I thought the Balrog in Fellowship of the Ring looked like as well, only cubed). Plus, I understand he’s being played by the wonderful actor who played Beuwiffiliffwilif in 13th Warrior (if there was a test on how to spell the names of the Scandihoovian characters in Warrior, I’d fail in a huge flameout of glory), and damn, I was kinda looking forward to seeing his face. I loooved Beuwiffiliffwilif.
The draggy setup. Too much Peyton Placeyness. If I want that, I’ll watch Gilmore Girls or Alias, thanks very much. I like a little suds with my supernatural drama but can’t work up the energy to care about Fred and Gunn’s love troubles or Connor’s deflowering. Unless, of course, it involves painful death. Then I’m all over it.
Issues... we got yer issues right here, piping hot and fresh...
First, the good parts though — Angel and Lilah bring out the best in each other, in terms of acting and sparkage. Their scenes together electrify Boreanaz, especially, in a way I haven’t seen him since he was on Buffy.
Reservoir Dogs Wes with the two-fisted .45s! And the shotgun. I am weak for a man with a shotgun, especially one as hot as Wes is. I’m almost wishing I taped Angel just to have Wes with the two guns. Either that or I wish I wasn't graphically challenged and could make myself a cute little icon.
Watching Connor get his ass kicked by Big Horned Guy.
Seeing slimy little Gavin brought down, sitting there all meek and tied up and looking like he’d probably wet his pants before we saw him.
Hurt and angry Angel in that final shot. To me, Angel’s always been at his best when he’s miserable, and it’s a welcome relief to see him that way.
But the Joss giveth and the Joss taketh away...
I’m all for keeping lovers apart. Most of the time, I enjoy the tension, especially if they get together, then fall apart, for awhile, and are nicely thwarted. I’ve never bought into the whole Cordy/Angel romance thing anyway, but at least if they’re going to thwart it, I’d like it to be thwarted for something resembling genuine plot and truth to canon. For Cordelia to say that she can’t be with Angel because she “felt” Angelus was beyond absurd, it was somewhat insulting to the people who’ve stuck with these two characters since the beginning of Buffy. Hello! She saw plenty of what Angelus was like and capable of in Sunnydale, and if that didn’t give her a feeling, I can’t imagine what would. She *knows* what a soulless demon is like, and she knows what he was like in particular. I’d really rather have had it be simply that she wanted to boink a teenager one last time for memory’s sake than for this phony-ass excuse of such comprehensive lameness that it limps off the screen and into our living rooms, then lays down with a groan and dies.
The Graduate Sex Machine Action Figures featuring Cordy and Connor. Ceee-ripes. Not only is it vaguely squicky, in a can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it way, but there couldn’t have been less of a sexy vibe there. And with Cordy’s breasts becoming a larger-than-life, menacing character of their own, I was wondering just how mechanically that “love” scene was filmed because it looked awfully... action figurey stiff to me. And? Ew. The only mitigation was that Angel was playing voyeur and being rather pissed off, which is how I like him best. (Wouldn’t that be fun if he went and took his poor broken heart to Wes for some comfort? Okay, I’m dreaming.)
The Big Horned Guy. I don’t know what I was expecting (the Balrog, maybe), but he seemed somewhat of a letdown, and as others have pointed out in their LJs, he looks rather like Tim Curry’s devil in Legend (which I thought the Balrog in Fellowship of the Ring looked like as well, only cubed). Plus, I understand he’s being played by the wonderful actor who played Beuwiffiliffwilif in 13th Warrior (if there was a test on how to spell the names of the Scandihoovian characters in Warrior, I’d fail in a huge flameout of glory), and damn, I was kinda looking forward to seeing his face. I loooved Beuwiffiliffwilif.
The draggy setup. Too much Peyton Placeyness. If I want that, I’ll watch Gilmore Girls or Alias, thanks very much. I like a little suds with my supernatural drama but can’t work up the energy to care about Fred and Gunn’s love troubles or Connor’s deflowering. Unless, of course, it involves painful death. Then I’m all over it.
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Date: 2002-11-18 03:49 pm (UTC)That's all it would take to redeem the craptasticness of C/A/C love triangle that never was for me.
Well, that or maybe someone finally fucking remembering that the REAL reason Cordy can't hump Angel is because he will lose his fucking soul but would require the crack writing team to stop smoking said crack and remember how to spell continuity.
Grr! /rantyness
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Date: 2002-11-18 04:41 pm (UTC)Hey, I see your rantyness and raise you a foaming at the mouth. I keep watching them talking about this (and talking and talking) and every time they skate by it, I start screaming at the TV, "Angel booty call with twu wuv equals death of soul!" Well, okay, I usually scream "you morons!" but that's kinda dull. Ever since I realized where they were going with the love thing, I couldn't figure out *how* they could gloss over such a fundamental issue to Angel's character. And this is how they do it? Bah!
I want more pissed!Angel, but not at the expense of continuity. If they retcon this, I swear... I'm going Shotgun Wes medieval on their asses.
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Date: 2002-11-19 03:52 am (UTC)This was best expressed by someone elsewhere:
And the villain was all poorly lit to disguise the fact that it's a man in a funny suit, and that just never works out.
"I've come to destroy the world!"
"Yeah, but your weak spot is that obvious zipper on your back."