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What I was perhaps most struck by was the degree to which you don't know what the end of the world is going to look like -- one minute, everything is fine; the next? fiery death is raining from the sky. Even in a world without demons, this is a true thing, isn't it? Fireworks are just gunpowder; and 9/11 was the most beautiful day of the year. I was incredibly moved and chilled by this. There's a lot going wrong structurally in Angel for me right now, but this truth was significant.
The Wesley/Fred/Gunn drama is both too overt and too unpleasant to watch, which I suppose means there is a certain realism in its execution, but I'm finding it grating on some level. Similarly Connor/Cordy is a situation I find revolting, although there's truth there too.
Best line delivery, ever: "My throat was slit, and my friends abandoned me."
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Date: 2010-06-24 01:53 pm (UTC)Also? Why not tell someone, *anyone*, about that prophecy? I get keeping mum with Angel but, really? Couldn't confide in anyone else? Being all butt hurt because the girl of your dreams is with your best friend is not a very good excuse in my book. Plus there's Lorne who is kind of psychic and good with the reading of destinies so, you know... there were options.
This is just an occasion where Wes seemed to be looking for pity and I just don't have any for him. He has to accept at least some responsibility for losing his friends.
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Date: 2010-06-24 01:56 pm (UTC)Wes fucked up, but the aftermath everyone, including him, seemed to be doing their best to make everything much much worse.
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Date: 2010-06-24 02:19 pm (UTC)Everyone does make things worse in the aftermath and there are moments when each of them say and do things that make me want to throw sticks at them (Fred's behavior in "Supersymmetry" is a fine example). This particular line from Wes made me go from feeling sympathetic to thinking "Oh, fucking get over yourself, Wes".
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Date: 2010-06-24 06:40 pm (UTC)That just made my head explode.