Rabid's Fearless Predictions
Apr. 17th, 2004 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stIf you have read the Angel spoiler for the finale and are scratching your head...let me talk you through it by offering this
Okay...so what happens in the spoiler...happens...and then, when all appears lost...Angel has Illyria use her time traveling mojo to send him back to just BEFORE the moment of choice last season...there is Lilah with the Spike toasting Amulet...there is Connor suffering...but now Angel knows you can't make a deal with the devil and win. Cut to...Angel coming down to the group as he did the first time but this time saying, "We're NOT taking the deal...I turned it down!" People start to voice protests...Enter Spike all in a flurry from stage right, "Slayer needs your help!" everyone exchanges more glances and then they mount up to go deal with the First. The movies could go anywhere from there...Buffy is redeemed...Spike is saved...the First doesn't have to be as lame and pointless...Anya doesn't have to die...Sunnydale could still exist...maybe there are loads of Slayers...maybe not...and the A/B/S question is saved for yet another day. And the beauty of it is...the spoiler stands...and so does the Season of Hell. Angel learns a valuable lesson and the Buffyverse can go in almost any direction...JW could even say he planned it that way all along. As for the unanswered questions: I think JW will leave us with everyone doing the power walk (like in the credits with the weapons on the shoulders and the steely-eyed looks)but if I was writing it I would have a brief S/A exchange with Spike saying "We're together, Buffy and I!" and Angel, grabbing up a weapon, just shrugs it off with, "Yeah, I know. She could do worse!" because NOW Angel knows Spike better and maybe trusts him a bit more and he's seen the alternative and it wasn't pretty.
Also, offering this spin on Days of Our Lives... It IS not possession...it is a CURSE. It is the one cast by Larry Welch on Hope as he dies...Hope clued me in when she asked, "Why were we spared?" and then Julie, who is now acting as wacky as Marlena, clued me in the rest of the way...the Curse targeted Marlena in the form of a Tiger, when her clothes were torn, and Julie in the form of BATS...and it probably will turn out that some of the killings were done by someone OTHER than Marlena. This is why she kept confessing and yet didn't want to confess...she was fighting off the curse at times and being overcome by it at others.
Okay...so what happens in the spoiler...happens...and then, when all appears lost...Angel has Illyria use her time traveling mojo to send him back to just BEFORE the moment of choice last season...there is Lilah with the Spike toasting Amulet...there is Connor suffering...but now Angel knows you can't make a deal with the devil and win. Cut to...Angel coming down to the group as he did the first time but this time saying, "We're NOT taking the deal...I turned it down!" People start to voice protests...Enter Spike all in a flurry from stage right, "Slayer needs your help!" everyone exchanges more glances and then they mount up to go deal with the First. The movies could go anywhere from there...Buffy is redeemed...Spike is saved...the First doesn't have to be as lame and pointless...Anya doesn't have to die...Sunnydale could still exist...maybe there are loads of Slayers...maybe not...and the A/B/S question is saved for yet another day. And the beauty of it is...the spoiler stands...and so does the Season of Hell. Angel learns a valuable lesson and the Buffyverse can go in almost any direction...JW could even say he planned it that way all along. As for the unanswered questions: I think JW will leave us with everyone doing the power walk (like in the credits with the weapons on the shoulders and the steely-eyed looks)but if I was writing it I would have a brief S/A exchange with Spike saying "We're together, Buffy and I!" and Angel, grabbing up a weapon, just shrugs it off with, "Yeah, I know. She could do worse!" because NOW Angel knows Spike better and maybe trusts him a bit more and he's seen the alternative and it wasn't pretty.
Also, offering this spin on Days of Our Lives... It IS not possession...it is a CURSE. It is the one cast by Larry Welch on Hope as he dies...Hope clued me in when she asked, "Why were we spared?" and then Julie, who is now acting as wacky as Marlena, clued me in the rest of the way...the Curse targeted Marlena in the form of a Tiger, when her clothes were torn, and Julie in the form of BATS...and it probably will turn out that some of the killings were done by someone OTHER than Marlena. This is why she kept confessing and yet didn't want to confess...she was fighting off the curse at times and being overcome by it at others.
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Date: 2004-04-17 06:15 pm (UTC)I am indeed...in fact...I plan to take on JW...
Date: 2004-04-17 06:18 pm (UTC)Rae
Re: I am indeed...in fact...I plan to take on JW...
Date: 2004-04-17 06:20 pm (UTC)Very Funny...and is that a LUMI icon you have there?
Date: 2004-04-17 06:24 pm (UTC)Rae
You're right!
Date: 2004-04-17 06:41 pm (UTC)You post about Celeste may seem radical, but it sounds like a theory that must be heard.
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Date: 2004-04-17 08:43 pm (UTC)And incidentally I've never seen your icon before, but I've been looking for that exact picture to make basically that exact icon. Great minds.
YES...I should have new SS-AU for you soon...
Date: 2004-04-19 07:00 am (UTC)Rae
oh, and glad you liked my ending...fingers crossed.
Re: YES...I should have new SS-AU for you soon...
Date: 2004-04-19 10:51 am (UTC)I have a feeling the only reason he lasted as long as he did on the show was A: whoever had the idea for him had either won a bet or had major blackmail material or B: they couldn't think of a reasonable way to get him off the show. I guess having him fall into a woodchipper would've been too convenient.
Though, if he had, we wouldn't have had to see Buffy rubbing up on him when he came back not to mention that promo that said he was the man she loved.
Maybe you can have sweet , gentle harmless Clem go ballistic when he realizes Riley is an Inititive member and kick his ass.
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Date: 2004-04-19 02:19 am (UTC)Btw ,( no pestering now just interest) any progress on the Sweet Spot AU? I can't help but think that when Buffy first comes face to face with Wes , her jealousy should be interesting not to mention any attempts to explain the now female knocked up Spike to Angel.