ANGEL THE SERIES | 5.22
Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.
every episode of buffy the vampire slayer⇾ 2.04 Inca Mummy Girl
Five hundred years ago, the Incan people chose a beautiful teenage girl to become their princess. I hope this story ends with, “And she lived happily ever after.” No, I think it ends with, “And she became a scary, discoloured, shrivelled mummy.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar (1999)
She smashed all the mirrors. Why? Isn’t it obvious? The weight of her soul, she’s feeling it
Wait no help. I’m actually laughing because Anya is not so very different from the vampires. She started out as human and then became a demon, except the different is she always had a soul. And vengeance demons do have souls because there was that whole “life and soul of a vengeance demon” thing. So she’s been out here killing people for a millennium with a soul. Meanwhile there’s Angel like “I’ve killed so many. Done horrible things until I got cursed with a soul which made me feel endless guilt about it. I can never atone. Never forget. How am I supposed to—“ *goes on for thirty minutes*
Then there’s Anya who’s been killing people with a soul for like 900 years longer: “yeah so anyway, one time I made this guy rip his own guts out and—“
i will say, one of the reasons why wolfram and hart is one of my favorite buffyverse villains is bc of the amazing job it does parodying corporate culture. angel is literally every destructive CEO a company has ever hired to gut the company from inside out so the shareholders can collect on the spoils while royally screwing over not only the clients but also the staff. angel is so good at his job BECAUSE he’s so bad at his job. wolfram and hart hired his clown ass on purpose bc they knew he was gonna fuck up enough that the staff would naturally decrease, so then the firm would have no choice but to employ the lean staff method aka doing more with fewer resources. that and the C-suite (fang gang) are all in it for themselves, with a mission that’s the antithesis of the company’s, making the executive board of the company absolutely untouchable. it’s PEAK corporate clownery, and i have been laughing for over twenty years because of it 😂😂😂
this bitch was SERVING looks at her party
I may be dead, but I'm still pretty!
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The thing about, the the thing about Buffy the Vampire Slayer is, is
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Giles, season 1: living on a hellmouth is so fascinating! we are seeing creatures i barely hear about in legend!!!
Giles, anytime post season 1: tired tired tired tired tired ti-
ANGEL MEME ✞ seven characters [2/7] ➙ Darla
My soul is well past saving. Let the devil take me if he’ll have me. Either way, I die.
Fred's death is particularly gross to me not because she died necessarily but because of how she died along with the surrounding narrative of the episode. She died in an excruciatingly gruesome way that felt like both martyism and punishment to her character. But the worst part is, is that 'A Hole in the World' wasn't ever about her. The plot was about trying to save her yes, but narratively, it was never about her. It was about Wesley. It was about Angel, and Gunn, and Spike, and Lorne. We never had input about how she felt about her own impending death because her death was for the sake of male pain. As much as I still like most of s5 of Angel, Fred's departure felt isolating for me specifically because it really showed the absolute carnage the whole show had for female characters. I realized how empty everything was, and that the only main characters left were men.
Sure, there was Illyria, Eve, and Harmony. But they were never main characters like Fred, and also classified as baddies for the most part. Not to mention that the treatment of Eve came across as humiliating, Harmony still being a joke despite her growth and Illyria being a constant reminder of how disgusting Fred's departure was. And yet, still not as repulsive as Cordy's.
While Buffy did have needless lady deaths I think Joss's hatred of women was held back from going too far if only because Buffy had a female lead. While Angel had it's high points, I really think Joss felt he could have a field day with Angel because he could kill as many women as he wanted to without taking out the main lead.
That's just my theory though. I don't rewatch Angel fully like I do Buffy because I genuinely think that Angel's show is just so dour and oppressive.