I don't think it's ideal either, but especially post-Cyberwoman it's a bit like Angel and Wesley from S4 onwards - the situation is so complicated and fucked up on any normal scale of things that it's almost impossible to talk it through, except in a roundabout mostly non-verbal way, like Wesley rescuing Angel, or Angel acknowledging Wesely's relationship with Lilah and his grief over her death. (You were mortal enemies. Why should you care what happened to her? — Because you did. Best line ever.)
I don't dislike S6; in fact it used to be my favourite season, but in some ways Joss pulling the strings and pushing his characters over the edge one after another is a bit too obvious for me. It's never out of character as such, but for my taste you feel the writer's hand too strongly sometimes. But it definitely had very good moments, no doubt about that.
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Date: 2010-05-12 08:41 pm (UTC)I don't think it's ideal either, but especially post-Cyberwoman it's a bit like Angel and Wesley from S4 onwards - the situation is so complicated and fucked up on any normal scale of things that it's almost impossible to talk it through, except in a roundabout mostly non-verbal way, like Wesley rescuing Angel, or Angel acknowledging Wesely's relationship with Lilah and his grief over her death. (You were mortal enemies. Why should you care what happened to her? — Because you did. Best line ever.)
I don't dislike S6; in fact it used to be my favourite season, but in some ways Joss pulling the strings and pushing his characters over the edge one after another is a bit too obvious for me. It's never out of character as such, but for my taste you feel the writer's hand too strongly sometimes. But it definitely had very good moments, no doubt about that.