There are no absolutes
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annundrielMy play was a success. (Yea!) I was very pleased with the performance Friday night. The audience was pleasantly surprised. They laughed! They laughed at the funny bits! They thought my writing was funny! (Yea!) And I got interviewed afterword. Heh. We'll see how that turns out.
And I'm feeling lazy right now so I'm just gonna post this with my big old spoiler-laden ramble about Angel, the best show ever.
I love Angel. I really do. This was the best season so far. At the end of "Home" I felt like I do when I finish a good book, a feeling of complete satisfaction that involves goosebumps and sad sighs. Sometimes tears. I have a habit of becoming abnormally attached to whatever I'm reading. This sometimes carries over to the TV shows I watch. Which is why I don't watch crap, cause hey, no one sighs over crap. Anyway, I think the last time I enjoyed a season finale this much was when Buffy took the dive in "The Gift". (Personally, Buffy could have ended there. I loved the episode. Loved "Restless", too.) Everything in S4 fit together somehow. And, yes, questions were left unanswered, but that's fine. There's always next season. (Yea!) Speaking of which, I love the writers. Instead of leaving the big climax with Jasmine until the last episode, they took care of that and introduced plots for the next season.
Which leads me to Connor. I miss Connor. But I don't think they should bring him back. That would defeat the purpose of what Angel did for him and torture the boy even more. And he really doesn't need that. I mean, he really did need a rest. Nothing ever went right for him. (I would have loved to have seen one of his statements proved right just once.) He couldn't trust anyone; he didn't have anyone to really listen to him. Angel was there for him, but Connor couldn't see that. And even if he had tried to confide in Angel before going loopy I don't think Angel would have understood. Not really at least. Being raised the way he was, he had no strong home/family foundation to base everything else on. Angel did at least have a home. At least he had relationships that were never compromised by lies and mistrust. Connor never had one relationship that wasn't tainted in some way or another. Holtz used him, he was raised to believe Angel was evil, Cordelia used him, Jasmine used him, Fred, Gunn, Lorne, Wesley all lied to him at some critical point. And no one ever talked about Darla. What is up with that?? Darla sacrificed herself for Connor, shouldn't he have been taught that? So, Holtz tainted that relationship too. So, I am sad to see him go. I really felt for him. That scene in the church with Cordelia was just amazing. As wise the fight with Angel at the end of "Home". And the very last moments of "Home". Perfect.
Stephanie Romanov needs to be made a regular right now. Wes/Lilah all the way. Even their gazes of sad longing are pretty.
Hmmm. And now looking back at all that I've just written, and the quote I used for the cut makes me think more about what Jasmine's purpose was and how Angel may have acted hypocritically. Oh, but maybe not. Angel's whole thing with Jasmine was about choices and that we are allowed to make them, even if they're the wrong ones. So, Connor has had no choices in his life and Angel makes the choice to give him choices. He goes against what he has said to bring the meaning of it to light.
Or something like that.
Leaving now.
And I'm feeling lazy right now so I'm just gonna post this with my big old spoiler-laden ramble about Angel, the best show ever.
I love Angel. I really do. This was the best season so far. At the end of "Home" I felt like I do when I finish a good book, a feeling of complete satisfaction that involves goosebumps and sad sighs. Sometimes tears. I have a habit of becoming abnormally attached to whatever I'm reading. This sometimes carries over to the TV shows I watch. Which is why I don't watch crap, cause hey, no one sighs over crap. Anyway, I think the last time I enjoyed a season finale this much was when Buffy took the dive in "The Gift". (Personally, Buffy could have ended there. I loved the episode. Loved "Restless", too.) Everything in S4 fit together somehow. And, yes, questions were left unanswered, but that's fine. There's always next season. (Yea!) Speaking of which, I love the writers. Instead of leaving the big climax with Jasmine until the last episode, they took care of that and introduced plots for the next season.
Which leads me to Connor. I miss Connor. But I don't think they should bring him back. That would defeat the purpose of what Angel did for him and torture the boy even more. And he really doesn't need that. I mean, he really did need a rest. Nothing ever went right for him. (I would have loved to have seen one of his statements proved right just once.) He couldn't trust anyone; he didn't have anyone to really listen to him. Angel was there for him, but Connor couldn't see that. And even if he had tried to confide in Angel before going loopy I don't think Angel would have understood. Not really at least. Being raised the way he was, he had no strong home/family foundation to base everything else on. Angel did at least have a home. At least he had relationships that were never compromised by lies and mistrust. Connor never had one relationship that wasn't tainted in some way or another. Holtz used him, he was raised to believe Angel was evil, Cordelia used him, Jasmine used him, Fred, Gunn, Lorne, Wesley all lied to him at some critical point. And no one ever talked about Darla. What is up with that?? Darla sacrificed herself for Connor, shouldn't he have been taught that? So, Holtz tainted that relationship too. So, I am sad to see him go. I really felt for him. That scene in the church with Cordelia was just amazing. As wise the fight with Angel at the end of "Home". And the very last moments of "Home". Perfect.
Stephanie Romanov needs to be made a regular right now. Wes/Lilah all the way. Even their gazes of sad longing are pretty.
Hmmm. And now looking back at all that I've just written, and the quote I used for the cut makes me think more about what Jasmine's purpose was and how Angel may have acted hypocritically. Oh, but maybe not. Angel's whole thing with Jasmine was about choices and that we are allowed to make them, even if they're the wrong ones. So, Connor has had no choices in his life and Angel makes the choice to give him choices. He goes against what he has said to bring the meaning of it to light.
Or something like that.
Leaving now.
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hi
Date: 2003-05-18 01:23 am (UTC)By the way, I know what you mean by the good feeling you get when you finish a book. Although right now I am reading what I consider kids/young adult books (The Series of Unfortunate Events-book the sixth), I still love coming to the end. My favorite book is "Neverwhere," and when I got to the end, I was sad to put it down.
Re: hi
Date: 2003-05-18 02:23 pm (UTC)I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who knows that good feeling. :) I've read the first three Snicket books and even their endings give me a little thrill. And don't even start me on Neverwhere. Words cannot describe how much I love that book. I kept re-reading the last page because I didn't want it to end. Which only proves that I am pathetic.
Re: hi
Date: 2003-05-23 03:56 pm (UTC)Buffy
Date: 2003-05-24 12:52 pm (UTC)Oh well, I bet Sarah Michelle Gellar made more than enough money from the show to last her for a long time.