Thanks! Yeah -- they do move their goalposts, don't they? It was worth arguing with them once just to see if there was any there there. But there's not and so there you go.
I agree with you that realizing he had no shot at Buffy was crucial at Crush/IWMTLY. But I'd add in that his first reaction was to go for possession of the not real Buffy. On that account Intervention is the decisive episode where he learns that he'd rather be respected by the real Buffy than have possession of the fake Buffy. But alas, he forgets that in season 6 when he has possession of the real, but badly off-track, Buffy. (Intervention is hugely important. Elisi did a lot with that, but I think there's even more that can be said. Plus, funny.)
The Angel/unsouled Spike comparisons crack me up. But even better is when they start arguing that if we insist on comparing apples to apples, unsouled Angel is better than unsouled Spike because he's so much better at being evil!!!! We should make a collection of stupid arguments that we have come across.
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Date: 2009-01-27 09:55 pm (UTC)I agree with you that realizing he had no shot at Buffy was crucial at Crush/IWMTLY. But I'd add in that his first reaction was to go for possession of the not real Buffy. On that account Intervention is the decisive episode where he learns that he'd rather be respected by the real Buffy than have possession of the fake Buffy. But alas, he forgets that in season 6 when he has possession of the real, but badly off-track, Buffy. (Intervention is hugely important. Elisi did a lot with that, but I think there's even more that can be said. Plus, funny.)
The Angel/unsouled Spike comparisons crack me up. But even better is when they start arguing that if we insist on comparing apples to apples, unsouled Angel is better than unsouled Spike because he's so much better at being evil!!!! We should make a collection of stupid arguments that we have come across.