I should not have stayed up to watch Angel last night

[eye_of_a_cat]

Why is it always on so evilly late? No, I know why. It's because anything classed as 'cult' has an audience that'll watch it whenever it's on, so may as well put it in a horrible timeslot, isn't it? Bah. I'm still trying to catch up on all the sleep I missed from Channel 4 putting Babylon 5 on so late in 1997, too.

But it was worth staying up for, as always. I'm glad Connor got to be happy at last (and it didn't come a moment too soon - I appreciate he has very legitimate issues to work with, but I was beginning to wish he'd start working with them off-screen). And I would have agreed to the deal the minute Lilah mentioned Wolfram & Hart letterheaded notepaper, but on balance, Angel's way was probably better.

Speaking of Wolfram & Hart, do they have a plumbing department? Because our boiler has been slowly dying for a long, long time now, and it's getting into the time of year when you really need central heating, and two separate plumbers have 'fixed' it in a way that just made it get worse this week alone. Aaaagh. Now they're talking about taking up floorboards to find a leak. *sobs*

Comments

[gwyddfid.livejournal.com]

I appreciate he has very legitimate issues to work with, but I was beginning to wish he'd start working with them off-screen.

We all were. We all were!

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I mean, I think they did a lot better with his storyline than a 'hey, let's throw an angsty teenager in here!' storyline could have been played, but. But.

[gwyddfid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he did have his excuses, and it wasn't done badly, it's just...he was so annoying ;). It was the whole Connor/Cordy thing that I found repulsive. Although not as repulsive as Angel/Cordy.

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

::starts up chant:: Angel/Connor! Angel/Connor! Angel/Connor!

/flees

[gwyddfid.livejournal.com]

It's so wrong. So very, very wrong.

Angelus/Connor is way better ;D

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Where the hell did Angel/Cordy even come from? It seemed like I only missed a few episodes, and then when I came back Connor was grown up and Angel and SuddenlyCompletelyDifferent!Cordelia had discovered they were each other's Twu Wuv. Er... whuh?

Connor/Cordy is just ew.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I never truly watched Angel beyond Season 2. The end of that season, with the stupid demon dimension made me so angry I gave up on the series.

I saw a few Season 3 episodes but could never quite warm up to it again. Just as I hated the later seasons of Buffy. Probably that is why my vampire-related mega x-over leaves Jossverse canon shortly before the end of Angel's second season. But I prefer the Kindred: The Embraced universe anyway.

You could post your own vampire-related shipping list to Otherworlds, you know. There are way too few vampire people over there... Thanks for the "Elf of my choice", BTW.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

I missed out a huge chunk around... I think Season 3, because I was fed up with it and they kept switching around the timeslot. I love it now, though. (Still not entirely sure what's going on at any time, but yeah.) I don't know it well enough to draw up ships, but I'll come and be appropriately vampire-fan anyway!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved and adored season 4 of Angel. It totally made up for my season 3 disgruntlement, and in great part because Connor's storyline was such a perfect tragedy. Channeled my love into fanfic, too, The Haunting, Hunted Kind which is about Darla as well, and Ouroborous which deals with Connor post-season 5.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Do we get to see more of Connor after this episode? (After Angel makes the deal with W&H, and Connor gets a family.) I've never read any of your (or anyone else's, come to think of it) Jossverse fic. Anything of yours you'd care to rec which won't spoil me for late S4/S5? (Although I'm pretty spoiled already, through nobody's fault but my own "Is that Fred in your icon? Why does she have blue hair? What?" curiosity.)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

We see Connor two times more, in late season 5. (At which point we also find out the names of his new family, btw.)

My Jossverse stories:
An unspoilery Angel story which was written at your present state of canon, which remains a favourite of mine:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1380356/1/

An even earlier story, exclusively about Darla:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/481284/1/

I've written several more, including some dealing with the Sunnydale characters, but I don't know whether you've watched BTVS as well, and if so, whether you've watched the entire thing, which is necessary for at least one of them.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll go read.

I've seen pretty much every BtVS episode up until about mid-season 6, then some at random intervals after that.( I didn't see the last episode, but thanks to a housemate who did and has a better memory than I do, know what happens right down to large chunks of dialogue.)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

My favourite BtVS-inspired fanfic is probably City Girls, which is about Buffy and Dawn post-Chosen. (I.e. the finale; for the record, it's canon - thanks to a season 5 AtS remark - that they end up in Rome.) You can find it here:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1723301/1/

I'm also somewhat fond of my first attempt at the Five Things Which Never Happened... format, which I wrote about Warren:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1467137/1/