really, in addition to kristen, no one should bother to read this.
1: people who watch angel and don’t want the end of the series to be hinted at to them.
2: people who don’t watch angel, buffy, or give a fuck about joss whedon.
dear joss whedon (letter #2, letter #1),
i wanted to say that sometimes you amaze me. there have been times on angel where you present something so against all tv ethics that it’s just completely, startlingly beautiful. this can be seen in that episode third season where darla stabs herself with a stake and dusts away to leave the squalling infant connor. that image will haunt me forever.
equally haunting is last week’s episode where the demon that killed fred and took over her body, shoves a stake thru spike’s heart, her hand or some sort of wicked blade into wesley, kills lorn dismissively, takes an ax and chops off angel’s head as he leaps to jump on her so his dust is in motion as it dissipates as motes in the air. considering that you’ve already killed off cordelia and fred (the only females of worth on the show), all that is left is a man’s man world, and now you’re going to kill what’s left. fitting tribute to the end of the show, really.
now sure, the deaths were taken back as an aberration in illyria’s (demon who wears fred’s body) time-line and angel saves the day in the end, but we know at this point that all you’re doing is foreshadowing the end of the series. half the cast who have been dying all season will die again for real. if not more. in buffy’s last season you killed one person. anya. in angel, you’ve already killed the heart and the second heart, what are you looking to rip from us next? souls? MY heart stops again as i watch my memory play spike and angel dusting. is this a punishment for being canceled? is this really the best you could do? bring. it. on.
love,
michele
I read the letter you wrote, I think you would make a good TV critic.
Just so you know I fall into the 2nd catagory.