The Good Stuff

[morrigirl]

Last night I had a naughty dream about starstealingirl. Well, we never actually got to the naughty part but we were obviously heading there. I was pissed when my alarm went off.

A brief list of awesome things that happened last week:

1) My boss came up to me on Thursday and said "Carla, I don't know if you've heard but people around here have nothing but good things to say about you." I told him I hadn't been informed. "Oh yeah! Sharon who you had lunch with yesterday told me that she was really impressed with you. And Adele thinks you're great. I just thought you should know that people are saying good things about you." I guess I'm more appealing then I imagine myself to be.

2) Famous people whose SLC giving records I've had access to in the last week:
Barbara Walters
Yoko O. Lennon
Sam Shepard
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Elisabeth Rohm
Julianna Margulies
Ann Patchett
JJ Abrams
Tovah Feldshuh

3) Saw Elf. Cute movie. Saw Signs. Scary movie that made me sleep with my light on last night. Shut up.

4) I had a great hair week.

5) I'm learning how to apply make-up. Yup, I'm 26 and have no clue what to do with foundation. But I will soon.



Last Friday I watched Angel episode 79 "Salvage", the one where Faith breaks out of prison. Great episode but watching it brought up some questions for me. When Wesley is telling her what her mission is she flat out refuses to take Angelus out. She says Angel is the only person in her life who never gave up on her so she isn't about to give up on him. Wesley tells her that's why she had to be the one to take him down, cause she's the only person who wouldn't kill Angelus if it came down to it. No one else was strong enough to subdue him without killing him. They needed a slayer.

This got me thinking about the series finale in which Angel calls Giles and asks for the help of Buffy and her crew. They of course refuse because they're convinced that since becoming the CEO of Wolfram & Hart Angel has gone to the dark side. This leaves Angel Investigations high and dry and on their way to undertaking a suicide mission. Now, after watching "Salvage" my question is this: why didn't anyone contact Faith? Sure, after she and the rest of the scoobies destroyed Sunnydale she joined the crew and went off to train new slayers with the rest of the gang, but the fact remains there has always been animosity between her and Buffy. Buffy hasn't always been there for her, Angel has. So...even if Giles refused to send any slayers to Angel's aid, there is no way in hell that Faith if contacted directly, would do the same. She's one of the higher ups in the slayer organization, she and Woods have their own army of trainees, if someone had told her Angel needed help she would have called up every last resource she had to aid him even if the rest of the slayer organization disapproved. She is the only avenue through which the remaining members of Angel Investigations can get out of the series alive.

I realize this oversight has more to do with writers who were trying to tie up a billion loose ends after being cancelled mid-season then plain old stupidity. But there are just so many plot holes. There are a ton in season 4 too due to Charisma Carpenter's surprise pregnancy. I don't know why the writer's felt they had to write her prgnancy into the script. They could just as easily have ignored it and done what every other good series does when one of its stars gets knocked up: shoot her from the waist up!

I think I need to sit down and re-write the entire series as I see fit. I'd begin with Connor's kidnapping. There are so many problems with that plot line I don't even know where to start the rehabilitation! And I'd carry the rehadb straight through to the last episode wherein Faith, having somehow gotten wind of Angel's impending doom, swoops in with a mini-army of slayers and they take out the bad guys. Unfortunatly Gunn will die because he already sustained a mortal wound that day, but Illyria, Spike, and Angel all walk away relatively unscathed. Faith and Woods are chastised by the scoobies for ignoring Giles's orders but they forgive her as soon as she convinces them that Angel hasn't gone evil. At which point the slayer organization allows the three Wolfram & Hart refugees to join up. They each go to a new continent and help train slayers. Angel is able to fight on Buffy's side without ever actually seeing her and everyone lives happily ever after :-)

Comments

[kdc4evr.livejournal.com]

See, in my mind, if ever in a million years Joss got around to writing a Buffy/Angel movie - then it would pick up where Angel ended with an army of slayers coming in to save the day. And Gunn wouldn't die, but that's just 'cause I said so. And then Spike could get the Shanshu & hook up with Buffy and Angel could go pine away somewhere & fight the good fight. Not that all that would actually happen in a movie, but it would happen in my movie.

See, what I'm curious about, is when W&H did the magic that erased all traces of Connor from everyone but Angel's mind - did they then erase the entire 4th season & forget all about Jasmine & why Cordy was in a coma & why they got invited to W&H? B/c when Wes gets the memories back he feels all bad about kidnapping Connor - but what about everything that happens after that - it's never clear if that was erased or changed or what, and I think that would make a big difference.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

I always though it meant that Connor's role in all the proceeding seasons had been erased. For instance, Cordy still got pregnant and still gave borth to Jasmine, Connor just wasn't the father. Darla still came back and still died, she just didn't die giving borth to Connor and she was never pregnant. That's how I always looked at it.