I started watching Angel season 2 today.

[rsadelle]

1. Wesley in a yellow shirt! Throwing darts!
   
2. I totally can't remember the old Angel Investigations office blowing up.
   
3. I can't decide who's gayer: Lorne or Andrew.
   
4. Angel singing "Mandy" is just about the funniest thing ever. Why did anyone ever try to make David Boreanaz do anything serious?
   
5. Angel visiting Faith in prison. Dude. Where is the good Faith/Angel?
   
6. I love Angel's theme song. I find Buffy's kind of irritating.
   
7. Angel in the Hyperion in 1952. One of his neighbors hiding secrets is gay. I heard at Escapade that Joss has said that in Angel season 6, Spike and Angel were gonna hook up. I hope he was going to reference that scene with them.
   
8. I've found myself oddly resistant to Buffy. I can watch the show and love it, but I'm not passionately loving it. It's like I just won't let myself fall head over heels into the Buffy love, and I don't know why. I love Angel. Perhaps not passionately, but more unreservedly than I love Buffy.

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Re: i am not giving up

[rsadelle]

There you go! And Angel takes his somewhat-broken heart and meets this older guy with a motorcycle who, it turns out, is actually a serious college student. And even as he's really enjoying making out with Wesley, he keeps wondering why it is that he keeps falling for these geeky types when he's such a badass. It must be Spike's fault.

Re: i am not giving up

[schuyler.livejournal.com]

Spike finds it *hilarious*. But Wes is super cool and Angel goes to keep him company in the library and he's suddenly thinking about going to college. And then summer comes and he and Wes take a motorcycle trip out to the middle of nowhere and get a hotel room near the Grand Canyon and have a lot of sex and don't think about anything and it's fantastic.

Re: i am not giving up

[rsadelle]

And in the meantime, Spike and Willow are still just in the talking and hanging out and being shy together stage. They practice together, her on the clarinet and him on the violin, and even though they really do mean to just be practicing, it makes both of them hot and flustered, and there's a little bit of kissing before Spike packs up his violin and goes home.

"I want to," Willow says to Xander, "but what if he doesn't want to? What if it makes everything all weird and ooky?"

Re: i am not giving up

[schuyler.livejournal.com]

Willow will just start rhapsodizing about how very good he is. And one of his friends says something mean about her and Spike just pounces and starts beating on the guy and Angel has to pull him off and away and he drags him across the street into his car and Spike's bleeding and breathing hard and hysterical about how they can't talk about her like that, they don't know her, and she's too good for them! And Angel has to work to calm him down and then at the end of it, he says very quietly, "You have to tell her. You know that, right?" And Spike just nods and looks down.

Then Spike comes over for practice, like always, and Willow opens the door and he's got this ugly cut on his eyebrow. And she just flies right over to him and touches it and asks if he's all right and he loves her so much and he tells her, right there on the front steps, because he can't hold it in.

Re: i am not giving up

[rsadelle]

And then they're seriously kissing. And Spike's been around the block, but he's never kissed anyone like this, and Willow's certainly never been kissed like this.

All their awkwardness doesn't matter now, because they go down the hall to Willow's bedroom, and her parents aren't home from work yet, and they have sex, and it's wonderful, and afterwards they can't stop touching each other, and Willow kisses the cut on his eyebrow.

Can I play, too?

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Angel and Buffy have hatesex almost every night, until one day his cousin Faith shows up and his parents invite her to live with them. Faith and he go back a long time and she was the first person he came out to about being bi, but preferring guys. She's always been bi, and helped him through that transition. As such, she's so completely flabbergasted that he's still destroying his life by having meaningless, hateful sex with someone he really hates, so she goes over to Buffy's house to give her a piece of her mind.

And then they have sex.

And then Faith goes home, more confused than ever about this Buffy chick. Who is she?