You know I had severe doubts about the quality of the ANGEL show. I said Angel couldn't survive without Buffy. But he is because he's not attempting to forget her. He remembers and goes about his business and it's a good show. It's like Buffy of old. Just the same, I think both show suffer from the lack of the other character..the two very emotional leads..Buffy and Angel need each other and unil they are in each others' lives evens as friends..they're gonna miss a vital element of Buffy's success.
Okay, so this is what I'm going to do. I'm starting a new series that departs from the timeline in the middle of third season. Angel got through to Faith in the mansion that day. Buffy and Angel found a cure for the curse and are now together in every sense of the word. Faith and Xander are a new and beginning couple. Will and Oz are still together. Will and Buffy share a dorm room at the college. Angel still lives at the mansion. Giles' house is Slayer Central because the Mayor/blowing up the school thing still happened. Cordy left Sunnydale for a few weeks but then pulled a Brenda Walsh and came back home and is now living in a soriety house. And Joyce didn't disappear off the face of the planet.
Everything looks great right...get a grip. Nothing stays great for long...
I'm not too fond of this season of BUFFY. In fact, I think it's pretty bad. It's emotionless dribble where the main character has been reduced to a whiny little girl with loose knees and too little loyalty. She's not the strong self-reliant Buffy of old. This Buffy NEEDS a man. It's sad. And I can go on forever about the waste of the other female characters. It's like men carefree..women whiny and in need of men or can't survive. I mean come on..this is a show this used to build slowly and passionately. It used to bleed romance and torment. Now I just heard Backstreet Riley every five minutes and want to gag at the invention of possibly the blandest character ever. He's pathetic and everything he says and does is stereotypical and emotionless.
A simple yarn about Buffy/Angel and Faith/Xander attempting a double-date. But then of course the boys in need of dental insurance step in and blow that idea to hell.
Some really nasty guys in red cloaks grab Xander and Faith. A frantic Buffy and Angel rush to rescue them but with Xand serioiusly hurt, the clock is ticking and his fate lies in Faith's hands.
LAST UPDATED: January 11, 2000
