Like stormwreath says this is a valid nd even quite likely interpretation of what's up with Angel. But it's one that's based on information in the Riley one shot and the #36 preview that Buffy have no knowledge of. She doesn't even know the half of what Angel's done since he left Sunnydale. All Buffy has to go on is the Angel who wanted to kill himself out of remorse,who tried to save Faith when she was too wound up to be able to, who comforted her when her mother died and brought her the amulet to help fight the First. Alternately petty and taciturn isn't evil. So like any good Buffy qua Buffy fan I'd ask myself how all this reads to Buffy. In particular a Buffy who's near the end of her rope but has psyched herself for the fight to end all fights only to find her Snark is a Boondog.
It looks to me as if she's focussing on the in character sense making part of Boondog Angel's account of himself. The part where he says what he was doing was making himself a figure head for the forces already ranged against her in order to divert them from making the 206 a round 500 and much sooner. True she's not pushing him on why he didn't do a better job of it but my reading is that she's more consumed by the godawful mess she's made of her girl's lives (she balmes herself for the war remember). The allusion he makes to "while I push" gets lost in the confusion over not pushing her to soak up power from her dead friends. They end up in Twilight but Angel's seems as surprised that they got there as she is ergo not planed even if he does know more about the place than she does.
Angel is Superman in this scenario. Angel could pretty much stop anything from happening. But Superman hasn't been able to stop pretty much anything from happening. Spiderman and most of the X-men are hated pariahs, fine for beating up bad guys but with minimal influence on society and public opinion. Buffy herself has had superpowers and hasn't been able to save any Slayers with them and has no plans to use them force or manipulate humanity into changing its opinions. Why should she blame Angel for not making like Dr Manhattan or Ozymandias?
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Date: 2010-08-30 09:13 am (UTC)It looks to me as if she's focussing on the in character sense making part of Boondog Angel's account of himself. The part where he says what he was doing was making himself a figure head for the forces already ranged against her in order to divert them from making the 206 a round 500 and much sooner. True she's not pushing him on why he didn't do a better job of it but my reading is that she's more consumed by the godawful mess she's made of her girl's lives (she balmes herself for the war remember). The allusion he makes to "while I push" gets lost in the confusion over not pushing her to soak up power from her dead friends. They end up in Twilight but Angel's seems as surprised that they got there as she is ergo not planed even if he does know more about the place than she does.
Angel is Superman in this scenario. Angel could pretty much stop anything from happening.
But Superman hasn't been able to stop pretty much anything from happening. Spiderman and most of the X-men are hated pariahs, fine for beating up bad guys but with minimal influence on society and public opinion. Buffy herself has had superpowers and hasn't been able to save any Slayers with them and has no plans to use them force or manipulate humanity into changing its opinions. Why should she blame Angel for not making like Dr Manhattan or Ozymandias?