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dangermousieOne of the episodes I was watching on the train yesterday was “Enemies,” the S3 episode where Faith and the Mayor try to rob Angel of this soul and Angelus and Faith kidnap and torture Buffy but we find out at the end it was all a ruse between Buffy and Angel to trick information out of Faith.
If I ever compile a list of my Top 10 favorite Buffy episodes, this would be on it. Maybe it’s because the first time I saw it, I really did think Angel lost his soul and the reveal at the end was a “whoa” moment for me (though on rewatches you can see little clues that this is not the case). Maybe because for an angst-maven like me, there is so much angst in this episode: Buffy’s jealousy of Faith is small potatoes compared to the rest, i.e. the horrifying flashbacks the return of Angelus (even if it was fake) must have brought for her. I can’t imagine how much it must have broke her heart, playacting or not. Angel isn’t exactly having fun either, considering the guilt he feels for his Angelus episode, and the whole he’d-rather-die-than-hurt-Buffy thing he has is getting violated in a big bad way here and he can see her hurt. And of course at the end, he did what she asked and she still freaks out and needs a break. Yeah.
Angel: “You still my girl?”
Buffy: “Always”
Dangermousie: Guuuuh.
And we also have the funny: the Mayor (who remains my favorite Buffy villain), Angelus and Faith interactions etc etc. And the mushy bit in the beginning with the “artsy” movie Buffy and Angel went to see, which, seeing their peculiar sex problem is both sweet and funny and awwww (Yeah, I am a sap who has a thing for couples with teeny girls and big guys).
And the dialogue is sharp enough to make me pretty much revel in it…
But this episode does bring up two questions, one of which I’ve had for a long time, and one that I just thought about.
First, the new one. Did Angel and Faith have sex or at least get really frisky? Normally, I’d say no, seeing as the whole “Angel loves Buffy” thing is there, but wouldn’t Faith be a bit surprised if Angelus just smooched her and showed no further interest. Hmmmm….
And the one that has been bugging me since forever. Why does everyone in Whedonverse assume that sex=Angel loses his soul (Faith and Mayor do, in this ep). As far as I am aware, it’s “moment of true happiness”=”Loses his soul.” And unless you are a sex maniac, every time you have sex isn’t going to lead to the true happiness they are talking about. If sex=true happiness, then whoa, talk about simplistic (and bizarre). Angel lost his soul making love to Buffy, because she’s Buffy, the love of his life. Why would it follow he’d lose his soul whoever he had sex with? With this logic, the guy has got to be the most frustrated vampire ever, because you know…not even his right hand?
Also, Buffy makes the world bond. I ended up sharing the screening (and a set of headphones) with a nice 50ish gentleman who helped me wrestle my bag into the space above (am short so need all the help I can get), and he ended up loving it.
The one English language book I bought in New York was Susan Carroll’s, “The Courtesan,” a semi-fantasy (it has witches) novel set during the reign of Henri III. It’s a middle part of a trilogy about 3 witchy sisters and their twu wuv. It’s entertaining (and has the two ingredients I like, angst and hot men), though nothing super-memorable. The Catholic “courtesan” of the title falls in love with the man she thought long dead, who is a Huguenot soldier planning to rescue Henri of Navarre. Much angst ensues. At one point the hero is described as having “thighs of iron” which made me laugh out loud, because wouldn’t that be painful?
I am interested in the last book though, because it involves the youngest sister and her beloved, and sounds like it’s full of wangst (TM![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crumpeteer), since they are childhood friends, but she is a witch and he is a witch-hunter and he tried to kill her brother-in-law and arrest her sister, and she threatened to shoot him and then he wouldn’t let his flunkies fire when she jumped between their prey and the gun and they have major angst over each other already in the second book and maybe he’ll have thighs of steel. Hee.
Also, after seeing the way S2 of BSG is going, and the previews for the next ep, I'd say Cylons don't need to worry about destroying humans. They are doing a good job on their own.
If I ever compile a list of my Top 10 favorite Buffy episodes, this would be on it. Maybe it’s because the first time I saw it, I really did think Angel lost his soul and the reveal at the end was a “whoa” moment for me (though on rewatches you can see little clues that this is not the case). Maybe because for an angst-maven like me, there is so much angst in this episode: Buffy’s jealousy of Faith is small potatoes compared to the rest, i.e. the horrifying flashbacks the return of Angelus (even if it was fake) must have brought for her. I can’t imagine how much it must have broke her heart, playacting or not. Angel isn’t exactly having fun either, considering the guilt he feels for his Angelus episode, and the whole he’d-rather-die-than-hurt-Buffy thing he has is getting violated in a big bad way here and he can see her hurt. And of course at the end, he did what she asked and she still freaks out and needs a break. Yeah.
Angel: “You still my girl?”
Buffy: “Always”
Dangermousie: Guuuuh.
And we also have the funny: the Mayor (who remains my favorite Buffy villain), Angelus and Faith interactions etc etc. And the mushy bit in the beginning with the “artsy” movie Buffy and Angel went to see, which, seeing their peculiar sex problem is both sweet and funny and awwww (Yeah, I am a sap who has a thing for couples with teeny girls and big guys).
And the dialogue is sharp enough to make me pretty much revel in it…
But this episode does bring up two questions, one of which I’ve had for a long time, and one that I just thought about.
First, the new one. Did Angel and Faith have sex or at least get really frisky? Normally, I’d say no, seeing as the whole “Angel loves Buffy” thing is there, but wouldn’t Faith be a bit surprised if Angelus just smooched her and showed no further interest. Hmmmm….
And the one that has been bugging me since forever. Why does everyone in Whedonverse assume that sex=Angel loses his soul (Faith and Mayor do, in this ep). As far as I am aware, it’s “moment of true happiness”=”Loses his soul.” And unless you are a sex maniac, every time you have sex isn’t going to lead to the true happiness they are talking about. If sex=true happiness, then whoa, talk about simplistic (and bizarre). Angel lost his soul making love to Buffy, because she’s Buffy, the love of his life. Why would it follow he’d lose his soul whoever he had sex with? With this logic, the guy has got to be the most frustrated vampire ever, because you know…not even his right hand?
Also, Buffy makes the world bond. I ended up sharing the screening (and a set of headphones) with a nice 50ish gentleman who helped me wrestle my bag into the space above (am short so need all the help I can get), and he ended up loving it.
The one English language book I bought in New York was Susan Carroll’s, “The Courtesan,” a semi-fantasy (it has witches) novel set during the reign of Henri III. It’s a middle part of a trilogy about 3 witchy sisters and their twu wuv. It’s entertaining (and has the two ingredients I like, angst and hot men), though nothing super-memorable. The Catholic “courtesan” of the title falls in love with the man she thought long dead, who is a Huguenot soldier planning to rescue Henri of Navarre. Much angst ensues. At one point the hero is described as having “thighs of iron” which made me laugh out loud, because wouldn’t that be painful?
I am interested in the last book though, because it involves the youngest sister and her beloved, and sounds like it’s full of wangst (TM
crumpeteer), since they are childhood friends, but she is a witch and he is a witch-hunter and he tried to kill her brother-in-law and arrest her sister, and she threatened to shoot him and then he wouldn’t let his flunkies fire when she jumped between their prey and the gun and they have major angst over each other already in the second book and maybe he’ll have thighs of steel. Hee.Also, after seeing the way S2 of BSG is going, and the previews for the next ep, I'd say Cylons don't need to worry about destroying humans. They are doing a good job on their own.
