Comments on: Imaginary Xander is quite the machine http://www.moley75.co.uk/2007/04/12/imaginary-xander-is-quite-the-machine/ This blog is supposed to be about all sorts of things but, shall we say, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a minor interest of mine. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:45:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Andy http://www.moley75.co.uk/2007/04/12/imaginary-xander-is-quite-the-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Andy Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:27:14 +0000 http://www.moley75.co.uk/letsfoldscarves/?p=400#comment-82 Being the sort of person who is happy to accept things in Buffy (I'm understand that a 17 year old girl is likely to find it difficult to kill her first lover despite the number of deaths she may subsequently be responsible for) I have been working hard trying to find the good in Angel. I've struggled with the <em>using the sewers</em>, I've worked hard to explain away the casual approach to the <em>having to be invited in</em> and I've grimaced at the sunlight shooting around the place while Angel casually strolls around - it bothers me more, it seems, than it bothers him. I've tried...I really have...and something will keep me trying - but so far all the effort on my part seems to have had little reward...and the more I think about it the more it seems that the key ingredient missing is humour - oh they keep trying to throw it in (Cordy and Dennis or Wesley falling over all the bloody time and even Angel occasionally punning during a punch up) but it just isn't working. When it works (dancing!) it almost hides the fact that the stories are weak, the continuity is rubbish and everything else is nearly forgotten. But those moments are so brief and we have to drigft back to the dark, humourless and sullen show that it is. (The other thing missing of course is indie guitar music - we have to suffer grown up music on Angel when the music comes - I miss The Bronze, and Cibo Matto and Lotion and The Breeders and The Dingoes...) Being the sort of person who is happy to accept things in Buffy (I'm understand that a 17 year old girl is likely to find it difficult to kill her first lover despite the number of deaths she may subsequently be responsible for) I have been working hard trying to find the good in Angel. I've struggled with the using the sewers, I've worked hard to explain away the casual approach to the having to be invited in and I've grimaced at the sunlight shooting around the place while Angel casually strolls around - it bothers me more, it seems, than it bothers him.

I've tried...I really have...and something will keep me trying - but so far all the effort on my part seems to have had little reward...and the more I think about it the more it seems that the key ingredient missing is humour - oh they keep trying to throw it in (Cordy and Dennis or Wesley falling over all the bloody time and even Angel occasionally punning during a punch up) but it just isn't working.

When it works (dancing!) it almost hides the fact that the stories are weak, the continuity is rubbish and everything else is nearly forgotten. But those moments are so brief and we have to drigft back to the dark, humourless and sullen show that it is.

(The other thing missing of course is indie guitar music - we have to suffer grown up music on Angel when the music comes - I miss The Bronze, and Cibo Matto and Lotion and The Breeders and The Dingoes...)

]]> By: ap http://www.moley75.co.uk/2007/04/12/imaginary-xander-is-quite-the-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-83 ap Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:19:21 +0000 http://www.moley75.co.uk/letsfoldscarves/?p=400#comment-83 "Anya’s trousers are a sartorial disaster" Agreed (and nice wording, there.) "Buffy is wearing one of Willow’s hats" True enough. And might I add - what the hey is with Willow's tablecloth skirt, eh? "Anya’s trousers are a sartorial disaster"
Agreed (and nice wording, there.)
"Buffy is wearing one of Willow’s hats"
True enough.

And might I add - what the hey is with Willow's tablecloth skirt, eh?

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