a pyschotic vampire slayer...i'm still trying to get my head round it...

...which suggests Spike never got the full story on Faith.

Was anyone surprised at the revelation the crazy in Damage was a Slayer? It's one of those things which I suspect everyone wondered back when Chosen aired. The whole Faith story arc suggests that the Council had procedures for dealing with rogue Slayers, so we all knew Faith wasn't a one-off. It had to occur to people that Buffy's method of creating a Slayer army would cause a lot of unstable young girls to get an awful lot of physical power. Thank god, Angel is around to pick up the strands: dark Slayers always work better in the gritty urbanity of the LA series.

Despite the suspect effects (Xander's blinding was a believable mutilation so late in a series, Spike's injuries...less so...) and some bad bad stuff from Andrew, I really like this episode. It's partially the recursion: Andrew taking away Dana in a way Wesley never managed way back in Consequences. The moment when he reveals that Buffy no longer trusts Angel makes all the "vampyre" stuff worth it. The final conversation with Angel and Spike really works, reminds us both of their similarities and differences. The final lines, for some reason, brought a tear to my eye.

I'm just an undead gal trying to make it in the big city...

Harm's Way makes me think of Miss Match for some reason. I suspect it's Mercedes McNab's pastishe of Alicia Silverstone.

possession is nine-tenths, you know that

Got Destiny just before the Christmas break. Will marshall my thoughts after new year.

I was building a NYE CD for the party and added The Bitterest Pill by the Jam. I've suggested elsewhere that this would be a great song to do a vid to. However, it got me writing when I should have been out shopping for cocktail ingredients, so here's my The Bitterest Pill fic. Short, but I'm working on a longer, more complex, piece involving hindu mythology.

I liked your poems
You like Barry Manilow

I am now up to epsiode 7 of Angel season 5 but have yet to marshall comments and thoughts on them beyond "Eve bad, Spike pretty" for boring personal complicated reasons.

I did do yet another quiz though:

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fic rec: Summer Lovin by Deepa
Whoa!

The last few episodes of Angel are somewhere in the postal system and ought to arrive early next week. Meanwhile, I've started passing season 7 of Buffy - in the American cut - to someone at work who watched Sleeper in the BBC2 6:45pm cut and could make no sense of it.

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You are Anya



"I can just hear you in private: 'I dislike that Anya. She's newly human and strangely literal.' "

What "Buffy" Character Are You?

Host: "My question first. And answer true, because you know I'll know. Why Mandy?"
Angel: "Well, I-I know the words - (leans in closer) - I kind of think it's pretty."
Host: "And it is, you great big sap!

Westlife are releasing a cover version of Manilow's Mandy (mpg). As you can imagine, this brings a smirk to my face every time it comes on the radio at work. Snapshots of a Historical Nature by Kate Bolin has Angel the utter fanboy, "a hulking caveman with a cheap haircut", which just sums up the oddness of the great tortured brooding Proust-reading hero who likes Barry Manilow. Not for our hero the shiny boots of the Velvets' Venus in Furs, or the thudding basslines of Led Zep's Kashmir. Not even the mild despair of the Eagles' Hotel California (although it's safe to say that's the plot of Are You Now or Were You Ever summed up in a 3 minute MOR song). No, he likes Barry Manilow. What's next? The Carpenters' Close to You? The New Seekers' I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing?

still not done the sitemap, on account of getting easily distracted. Sadly not by the next episodes of Angel season 5, due to complicated reasons up to and including a postal strike in the UK. I have tarted up the blog itself though, with a shiny new "comment" link, all scripted up. Go on, click on it. You know you want to...

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fic rec: Bring Your Own Lampshade
by glossolalia
mmmm. lickable boys.

I'm still waiting on the next episodes of Angel. Grr.

BBC2 have just started Buffy season 7 but for some bizarre reason are showing three episodes in a row over Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday nights. Plus, whilst on a little later than last year's attempt to show season 6 at 6pm (because all that masochistic sex is just right at that time - the cuts to Dead Things were hysterical) it's still on nice and early. And no late night repeat for grown-ups.

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Due to the whole Waiting for Angel thing (hmmm, there's a lit fanfic there), I've been wasting my life reading fanfic and taking online quizzes:

fic rec: Persuasion
Spike introduces Buffy to Austen. Not literally, because Jane Austen is not, as far as I am aware, a vampire.

You are Anya

Which forgotten animated heroine are you?
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Entertaining partially because, ooh look, Anya but also because I quite like Anastasia.