Hey, Help!

[tabaqui]

Can anybody give me a little 'Angel' info? Please?
When Buffy came back in season six, i know at one point she went to see Angel - he had found out she was back.
HOW did he find out, and what was happening in L.A. at that point? BabyConner? Cordelia Love? Darla, still? I've only seen season five of 'Angel' so i have no clue.

Please help!!!
I'd be ever, ever so grateful...

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[tabaqui]

Oooh, all very cool. So basically no Conner yet, and if i say Angel's lovin' Cordy it's wrong... Maybe leaning that way?
Hrmmmmm...k.
:)
No, actually, not too much, i like to have things be right, so this is cool.
And i don't HATE Angel, i guess i just don't like how he was written in 'Buffy', and i've only seen season five of 'Angel' and, being a Spike fan, wasn't happy about his attitude there, either.
That and most fic makes him a total jerk towards my boi.
I'm TRYING to be fair to him...but i also mostly know him only through 'Buffy', so...
Thanks so much for the info, i appreciate it!

[anelith.livejournal.com]

You could say Angel was "leaning" that way, sure. That would be very accurate. I found the whole thing to be OOC, to say the least. Here's the thing -- he fell so hard for Buffy, the whole soulmate thing, you know, and at the end of Angel S2 when she died it was still extremely traumatic for him. And then he starts falling for Cordelia, and NO ONE mentions the fact that he CAN'T be with her because of the curse! So not only does he conveniently forget Buffy, he forgets (for at least a season) that he can't have Cordy either! Also I hate that in S3 they destroyed what I loved about Cordy's character -- they made her a saint and took away her snark. Oh well, I love S3 for other reasons, mainly the character development of Wesley, who absolutely stole the season.

Back to Angel and Season 5, the problem with him in that season is that he was very one note. Grumpy. All season long. With some valid reason for being so, but still... You rarely get to see him anything but grumpy. I spent most of Season 5 reading the forums on TWOP and there was much discussion of how bad the character continuity was that year. I also hated how they wrote Spike most of the time, to be honest. I thought the writers devolved him to play the fool most episodes. And yes, Angel did treat him very badly most of the time. One of the TWOP posters (I think it was Teenes, who had very insightful posts) said that both Angel and Spike regressed to their worst and most childish aspects whenever they were around each other.


The only fun to be had that season was the fact that the writers seemed to think it was OK to crank up the HoYay! factor to the highest notch allowed on network TV. The only fanon pairings not given airtime were those with Xander, simply because Xander never appeared. But if you liked Angel/Lindsey, Angel/Wesley, or my god Angel/Spike (that one is now canon!) you were happy.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, i kinda wondered about the curse. Although - could sex ever AGAIN equal perfect happiness? It seemed like a rather stupid idea in the first place, and then - after it had happened...
Ah well.
Yeah, season five was awfully grumpy and doomy and woe-is-me.
I watched because of Spike but was terribly, TERRIBLY disappointed with what they did. You got it exactly right - they wrote him to play the fool, and that was just - wrong.
And yeah, the cavemen/astronaught argument was kinda funny, but when stuff like that just went on and on....Blah.
And, i know, i'm a Spike fan, but would Angel REALLY just dismiss what he did in Sunnydale (dying and stopping the First) and his soul so casually? So PETTILY? I mean - that was dumb.

*sigh*
Another reason i like fanfic - this stuff can be fixed!
Nice post, by the way - interesting stuff. :)
I'm trying to borrow my sis-in-law's 'Angel' dvds but she has one missing from season one and that sucks. Trying to figure out how to fix that. hehe.