Progress report

[doyle]

So I've written up about half of experiment 1 (of 5).

That's progress, right?

The rest of my time was spent reading the scripts of The Prom and Flooded for clues to Andrew's pre-supervillain days. The damn SCRIPT for The Prom makes me weepy. So glad my DVDs are at my other house so I can't torment myself even more.



In no particular order:

Jonathan's Class Protector speech in The Prom.

Anya's monologue in The Body about things Joyce is never going to do again.

Doyle's video at the end of Hero. "Is that it? Am I done?" :sniffles:

The last scene in Becoming, as Full of Grace starts and Buffy leaves town.

Angel seeing his reflection in... I think it was In the Dark rather than IWRY, and him stepping into the sunlight on the beach in ItD (I Will Remember You would have had so much more impact for me if Angel hadn't had his day in the sun about four episodes before.) My poor boy's never going to get a happy ending, is he? connorbeast and I had a deeply depressing conversation about this a few nights ago, and decided Angel's going to end up like Lestat at the end of Interview With the Vampire, crazy and alone in the Hyperion. Forever.

The end of The Gift, with the music and the slow-mo dive off the platform and Spike cowering from the sun and the shot of the grave...

Giles finding Jenny's body in Passion and his breakdown outside the factory.

The end of The Wish, as everybody dies.

In summary: I am a big soppy fool.

Comments

[roseveare.livejournal.com]

Her speech in that scene just... gets me, and ties a knot in my insides. The whole 'you can't see what they made of me' - for some reason I feel that, it feels more honest, the emotion and the damage in that scene, than anything else I can think of on the show.

It's sadder when I've watched than episode over a dozen times and it does it every one. :)

Also, the very end where she tells Angel her 'fairy tale'. That gets me, too, but not quite so much.

I also bawled through the entirety of 'The Body'. And 'The Gift' tears me up, too. And Beloved Father in 'The Prodigal'.

[octopedingenue]

I think one of the things that gets me most about Fred is that she is one of the LEAST overtly broody characters in Angel's posse, among which Fearless Reflectionless Leader's attitude has spread in a big way. She even picks up flack for her bubbliness. And yet with the possible exception of Angel (Mister "I Got Stuck In A Hell Dimension By My Girlfriend One Time For A Hundred Years"), Fred has more personal experience with torture, isolation, misery, and madness than anybody else in the Fang Gang--she spent *four years* in a hellish dimension in which she was a slave and an animal, and for some extended period of that time she was either insane or had convinced herself that she was. She has the most right of anyone to lurk in dark corners for the rest of her life, but her bright, brittle show of *trying* is more authentic than that. I'm surprised that she hid under furniture for only three months. Either she's the most resilient woman their world has ever seen, or she has more potential as a ticking time bomb than even Sleeper!Spike (see "Supersymmetry" re: ticking). Probably, she's both. Kudos, Fred!

I have this snarky, silly vision of Fred having a heart-to-heart with season 6 Depresso-Buffy (like Wesley & Willow's Eviler-Than-Thou! conversation). "Soooo...Buffy...you think THIS world is hard and bright and violent? Uh...huh..."

[octopedingenue]

Ack. I am stupid: she spent FIVE years in a hell dimension, of course. Which makes it so much better for her...