Stuff Not To Watch When You're Single, No. 3; Angel, Series 1, Episode 8 (I Will Remember You), Final Ten Minutes
I hate Buffy and Angel.
They are both rubbish, teen-facing, recycled bits of plot randomness that don't really make sense or bear any sort of resemblence to reality or worthwhile fantasy.
But sometimes I see the shows by accident.
I think the final ten minutes of this episode are fantastic.
Enough to warrant single sentences in each paragraph.
Hopefully you're not the type to follow the plotlines of these shows, so I shall fill you in. Buffy is a vampire slayer. Yes, it's shit already, I know, but bear with me... Buffy (played by samey, fakey actress Sarah Michelle-Gellar) is a vampire slayer who falls in love with Angel (David Boreanaz) who is... Oh no! A vampire! What a tragedy, eh? Don't worry, it's not a key factor in why this episode is so great.
Anyway, they can't be together as Angel isn't human and Buffy should really be slaying him. So they fight back their feelings of love and stay away from each other.
One day, Angel becomes human, through some quirk of fate to do with him slaying a demon. Buffy and Angel finally have a chance to explore their feelings for each other (which have been built up for an entire series), and they share a night of legendary passion and romance. They wake up fully in love, to find that the demon Angel had slain has returned, more powerful, and wants to kill them both. Rather than let Buffy (and countless others) die, Angel makes a pact with gods to turn back time until he's a vampire again, so that he can kill the demon properly (but remain a vampire this time). And, of course, none of this would ever have happened.
The last ten minutes of the episode, when Angel tells Buffy what's going to happen and that there's only a minute before it happens, is perfectly moving. Buffy is crying, whispering "it's not enough time" and "i'll never forget" over and over, in a way which is so distraught, so heartbreakingly demented that I was in awe. She's beats on his chest and claws at every inch of him, not hearing him try to calm her, to the point where he starts to cry as well. The tragedy of 'it's not enough time', being that she's actually using what little time they have left to become devastated over it, rather than use it wisely. Such is love.
Sarah Michelle-Gellar is usually shit. I'd give her one up the arse, but she's so put-on and made-up. However, in this scene she's so real that I was genuinely shocked at these few minutes of acting.
I'm getting worked up even describing it. There's nothing like a scene which captures the essence of being parted from your loved one forever. Even though this one is set up using a ridiculous plot and characters, perhaps that's what it takes to really convey the suffocating feelings of 'it's not enough time'.
I adore it, even though I've only seen it once, even though it's only ten minutes long, and even though I hate Buffy and Angel. It really got to me.
9/10
They are both rubbish, teen-facing, recycled bits of plot randomness that don't really make sense or bear any sort of resemblence to reality or worthwhile fantasy.
But sometimes I see the shows by accident.
I think the final ten minutes of this episode are fantastic.
Enough to warrant single sentences in each paragraph.
Hopefully you're not the type to follow the plotlines of these shows, so I shall fill you in. Buffy is a vampire slayer. Yes, it's shit already, I know, but bear with me... Buffy (played by samey, fakey actress Sarah Michelle-Gellar) is a vampire slayer who falls in love with Angel (David Boreanaz) who is... Oh no! A vampire! What a tragedy, eh? Don't worry, it's not a key factor in why this episode is so great.
Anyway, they can't be together as Angel isn't human and Buffy should really be slaying him. So they fight back their feelings of love and stay away from each other.
One day, Angel becomes human, through some quirk of fate to do with him slaying a demon. Buffy and Angel finally have a chance to explore their feelings for each other (which have been built up for an entire series), and they share a night of legendary passion and romance. They wake up fully in love, to find that the demon Angel had slain has returned, more powerful, and wants to kill them both. Rather than let Buffy (and countless others) die, Angel makes a pact with gods to turn back time until he's a vampire again, so that he can kill the demon properly (but remain a vampire this time). And, of course, none of this would ever have happened.
The last ten minutes of the episode, when Angel tells Buffy what's going to happen and that there's only a minute before it happens, is perfectly moving. Buffy is crying, whispering "it's not enough time" and "i'll never forget" over and over, in a way which is so distraught, so heartbreakingly demented that I was in awe. She's beats on his chest and claws at every inch of him, not hearing him try to calm her, to the point where he starts to cry as well. The tragedy of 'it's not enough time', being that she's actually using what little time they have left to become devastated over it, rather than use it wisely. Such is love.
Sarah Michelle-Gellar is usually shit. I'd give her one up the arse, but she's so put-on and made-up. However, in this scene she's so real that I was genuinely shocked at these few minutes of acting.
I'm getting worked up even describing it. There's nothing like a scene which captures the essence of being parted from your loved one forever. Even though this one is set up using a ridiculous plot and characters, perhaps that's what it takes to really convey the suffocating feelings of 'it's not enough time'.
I adore it, even though I've only seen it once, even though it's only ten minutes long, and even though I hate Buffy and Angel. It really got to me.
9/10
posted by Juliet is Bleeding... | 11:10 pm
i found the name before you! word up, jigga!
Cell Mate: That's why it's called 'Stuff Not to Watch when you're Single' - where Single = any situation in which you're cunted by love.
Pillowfeather: Congrats.