"The pain...the pain!"
May. 14th, 2003 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuNo, not my headaches, which have mostly disappeared. I'm talking about Buffy the Vampire Layer--uh, Slayer. That show will be lurching into richly-deserved, long-delayed and well-earned oblivion next week. Oh how the mighty have fallen. What was once a pleasure to watch deteriorated into an appalling mess. Incoherent plots, talky but hapless villains, unlikeable heroes and heroines, utter disregard for continuity and backstory (to say nothing of logic).... It's really very sad.
And Angel, which was no less incoherent but was at least more interesting this season, is going to be saddled with twenty-two (22!) episodes of Spike! next season. Will "Angel" turn into "All Spike, All The Time!" next season like Buffy did? Maybe not. But the deification of Spike, the blatant pandering to his fans by keeping him around and putting him centerstage when there's no good reason why he shouldn't have been staked years ago, doesn't bode well.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the introduction of Dawn was the presenting symptom of the rot that ultimately destroyed BtVS, and which shows every sign of destroying Angel. (And the flame wars in alt.tv.angel have already started, with the Spike! fanatics doing handsprings while the Spike-haters are horrified.)
And Angel, which was no less incoherent but was at least more interesting this season, is going to be saddled with twenty-two (22!) episodes of Spike! next season. Will "Angel" turn into "All Spike, All The Time!" next season like Buffy did? Maybe not. But the deification of Spike, the blatant pandering to his fans by keeping him around and putting him centerstage when there's no good reason why he shouldn't have been staked years ago, doesn't bode well.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the introduction of Dawn was the presenting symptom of the rot that ultimately destroyed BtVS, and which shows every sign of destroying Angel. (And the flame wars in alt.tv.angel have already started, with the Spike! fanatics doing handsprings while the Spike-haters are horrified.)
