Interesting speculation about the First... but it would seem to require that Buffy's resurrection was predicted. Not impossible, but if I needed to stretch like that to preserve something that mattered to me, I'd feel like I was cheating.
Re: Angel, how he was he supposed to know? There's this funny invention called a telephone. You're right that nobody used it, but that's the point. They are so out of touch that it's not instinctive for Buffy to reach out to him when she's in the fight of her life, or for him to have followed up on her obviously dire situation that he learned about in Forever. OTOH, they're in touch enough for Angel to know about Joyce's death. So who knows? It goes on in season 6. They see each other, but either Buffy keeps her depression and (especially) her dire financial situation from Angel or he knows and doesn't act to help her.
I think Bangel's can put the rough edges down to plot contrivance. But I also think that the story can be used by an anti-Bangel like myself to argue that by season 5, Angel and Buffy are more about their ideals of each other than anything else.
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Re: Angel, how he was he supposed to know? There's this funny invention called a telephone. You're right that nobody used it, but that's the point. They are so out of touch that it's not instinctive for Buffy to reach out to him when she's in the fight of her life, or for him to have followed up on her obviously dire situation that he learned about in Forever. OTOH, they're in touch enough for Angel to know about Joyce's death. So who knows? It goes on in season 6. They see each other, but either Buffy keeps her depression and (especially) her dire financial situation from Angel or he knows and doesn't act to help her.
I think Bangel's can put the rough edges down to plot contrivance. But I also think that the story can be used by an anti-Bangel like myself to argue that by season 5, Angel and Buffy are more about their ideals of each other than anything else.