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Anyway, in non medical related stuffs...since I ran out of Buffy I am now rewatching all of Angel, something I haven't actually done since it finished, though I have rewatched bits and chunks here and there.
The thing is, I forgot just how damn good season 2 of Angel really is. I've been going through a bit of a revival of my Angel the character love, and this is kicking it up hard core. And first time through this is really when I got invested in him as an individual too.
The thing about Angel is...okay. Angelus is vastly entertaining and interesting, though I suppose not for people on the inside of the show dealing with him. But, y'know, for me at home, GOOD TIMES. Pre season 2 AtS, though...Angel is. He's sympathetic, I feel for the dude and his burden of guilt, I really do! I especially feel for him in relation to his attempts to pull himself out from under the weight of it all with Buffy, only to have that lifeline snap like the necks of his victims. Sympathy is not the problem.
But, it's like. Okay, the thing that is fascinating to me about Jossverse vampires is not the human parts that go away with the soul, but the ones that remain. Which is kinda why Spike is such a delight to me, because there is never a point where the two aren't out on the table, soul or unsouled. But that's a tangent. Angel, understandably, does not want to deal with this. He just walls it off into souled/unsouled and in a lot of ways it kind of immobilizes him in terms of growth. He can brood and feel all guilty, but he can't really move forward in a lot of ways because he's insisting to some level that it's not really him who did those things, ya know? I'm not surprised he spent a hundred years eating rats and sitting around feeling sorry for himself.
And the thing is, even with Buffy, and that first year of Angel, he's still in that holding pattern. And then. Then. Here we are in season 2 and all those walls come a crumbling down and he's got to deal with that shit. And it is amazing.
The thing is, I forgot just how damn good season 2 of Angel really is. I've been going through a bit of a revival of my Angel the character love, and this is kicking it up hard core. And first time through this is really when I got invested in him as an individual too.
The thing about Angel is...okay. Angelus is vastly entertaining and interesting, though I suppose not for people on the inside of the show dealing with him. But, y'know, for me at home, GOOD TIMES. Pre season 2 AtS, though...Angel is. He's sympathetic, I feel for the dude and his burden of guilt, I really do! I especially feel for him in relation to his attempts to pull himself out from under the weight of it all with Buffy, only to have that lifeline snap like the necks of his victims. Sympathy is not the problem.
But, it's like. Okay, the thing that is fascinating to me about Jossverse vampires is not the human parts that go away with the soul, but the ones that remain. Which is kinda why Spike is such a delight to me, because there is never a point where the two aren't out on the table, soul or unsouled. But that's a tangent. Angel, understandably, does not want to deal with this. He just walls it off into souled/unsouled and in a lot of ways it kind of immobilizes him in terms of growth. He can brood and feel all guilty, but he can't really move forward in a lot of ways because he's insisting to some level that it's not really him who did those things, ya know? I'm not surprised he spent a hundred years eating rats and sitting around feeling sorry for himself.
And the thing is, even with Buffy, and that first year of Angel, he's still in that holding pattern. And then. Then. Here we are in season 2 and all those walls come a crumbling down and he's got to deal with that shit. And it is amazing.