May 29, 2003

[Buffy] The Buzz, backing me up.

There is a really great article in the Buzz about which Vampire, Spike or Angel, has the greater capacity for goodness and is more deserving of being the one to fulfill the Shanshu prophecy. It is a fine analysis and I encourage its reading. However, I am going to paste the part here that is relevant to **my** analysis of the Buffy finale.

Cause, you know, it's all about **me**. :)

" The last glimpse we had of Angel and Buffy was presented during the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Angel, having only recently exiled his son to suburban mediocrity and leaving behind the comatose form of the woman he’s spent two years claiming to love, arrives in Sunnydale. One might expect a person who’s just deflected a "nefarious world-domination scheme" that cost him his woman and son to be a bit, well, devastated, sad, regretful, depressed even. Instead, Angel quips happily about how much he has missed watching Buffy in action and enjoys a post-bad-guy-slashing smooch.

Wasting no time, Angel moves right in on Buffy inquiring about the state of their relationship, whether there’s a future for them, and how could she really have any feelings for "Captain Peroxide". He is especially perturbed by the news that Spike has his soul and goes on at some length about everyone getting their soul now, how he was first, and now everyone is going to want one. "What, are you twelve, or something?" queries Buffy. And rightly so, the reaction to the news that Spike was ensouled could have been many things; concern, confusion, a desire for details (after all, if Spike has a soul without "clauses" perhaps he could get one too), elation that there was another powerful force for good. It was none of these. Angel was more concerned about his perceived loss of status, of not being special. "

I do love it when someone says what I am trying to say, only better.

Posted by Lori at May 29, 2003 3:52 PM