Watching Angel

[mac_stone]

 Heh. Netflix has all the seasons of Angel - which I've not seen, but tnh  says is better than Buffy in many ways. And I don't have to wait for the DVDs, because they've got 'em streaming!

I'm sort of excited, and suspect I'll be talking about it a lot in the coming weeks. The Tor.com rewatch/reread posts--about everything from Star Trek TOS to Jordan's Wheel of Time books--have me itching to write about pop culture stuff, too, even though it's not properly a rewatch since I've never seen 'em.

Thoughts, recommendations, advice? Please, please tell me I don't have to watch the sixth and seventh seasons of Buffy again, unless it's absolutely crucial to continuity or mythology?

Comments

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about Angel:the Series is that we get to have a much more rounded view of Angel:the Character. In BtVS, he' pretty much all seen from the outside, and Buffy's POV at that -- he's her teen romance, her big tragic vampire love, the Scourge of Europe Cursed with a Soul.

Once he gets his own series, we start seeing all the less epic things about him: he's got a deadpan sense of dark humor that flies right past a lot of people (including Buffy); he likes his creature comforts but is a real tightwad when it comes to actually spending money on anything or anybody else; he can, on occasion, be a great big clueless dork; he can do things in cold blood while he's completely sane and still cursed with a soul that are as scary and vicious as anything he ever did while he was Angelus; and -- despite the fact that he can be amusingly vain about the image he presents -- he really doesn't like himself very much.