Interesting stuff! I do wonder how much, if anything, of the future history for Angel and Darla was mapped out at the beginning - but it's a tribute to the quality of the writing that we can work out explanations for their behaviour in S1 based on what we later discover about them.
I don't know if you've seen the movie or read the shooting script or the comicbook adaptation of it? It's quite interesting to see both how Joss drew a line under the aspects of the movie he didn't want to keep in his TV series, but also, I think, played off some of the characterisation he'd established before - it adds depth to Buffy choosing Willow and Xander over Cordelia, for example.
Just how strongly can we feel the righteous cause of the overlooked nerdy boy when he himself is perfectly happy to overlook the perfectly wonderful nerdy girl who is crushing on him
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Date: 2010-08-16 04:55 pm (UTC)I don't know if you've seen the movie or read the shooting script or the comicbook adaptation of it? It's quite interesting to see both how Joss drew a line under the aspects of the movie he didn't want to keep in his TV series, but also, I think, played off some of the characterisation he'd established before - it adds depth to Buffy choosing Willow and Xander over Cordelia, for example.
Just how strongly can we feel the righteous cause of the overlooked nerdy boy when he himself is perfectly happy to overlook the perfectly wonderful nerdy girl who is crushing on him
*Re-quoting this just because I like it.* :-)