I could be stuffing envelopes but I have to do that tomorrow as well, so instead, comments!
I don't share a number of these opinions but I love the way you state them. Just when I've shot my mouth off and am feeling all "blehmehyuck" I read something like this and remember there really are shades and different ways to look at it. I mean, you're right - I thought the Cordy/Angel almost as parent scenes in Provider and Offspring are adorable. And I do like the relationship between Cordy and Angel in a number of these episodes. I do buy that Angel felt for her.
I think I bail on the ship, in a sense, in Waiting In The Wings because of the scene with Fred and Cordelia where Cordelia is downplaying Angel's possible attraction because Cordelia isn't good enough for him. "The world's champion wants me? Ha," which seems so unlike Cordelia. In Birthday she's so confident her astral self is an exact copy of herself, she's always been the girl who acts as she thinks and suddenly she feels inferior to Angel? It struck a bad note with me.
I really like your theory about Cordelia in s4 - the idea that she was driving longer than may have been assumed. After all, Jasmine wasn't physically there until the conception, maybe that was what needed for full control to happen. Though I want to blame the Jasmine influence for her offer of sex to Connor, period, since he seems so far from her type. OTOH, close quarters and trust built up.
And I'm sooooooo sooooooooo with you on unpopular opinions of BtVS 1 and 2. Nearly word for word.
(Have also friended you, after two fascinating entries in the space of a week or so!)
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I don't share a number of these opinions but I love the way you state them. Just when I've shot my mouth off and am feeling all "blehmehyuck" I read something like this and remember there really are shades and different ways to look at it. I mean, you're right - I thought the Cordy/Angel almost as parent scenes in Provider and Offspring are adorable. And I do like the relationship between Cordy and Angel in a number of these episodes. I do buy that Angel felt for her.
I think I bail on the ship, in a sense, in Waiting In The Wings because of the scene with Fred and Cordelia where Cordelia is downplaying Angel's possible attraction because Cordelia isn't good enough for him. "The world's champion wants me? Ha," which seems so unlike Cordelia. In Birthday she's so confident her astral self is an exact copy of herself, she's always been the girl who acts as she thinks and suddenly she feels inferior to Angel? It struck a bad note with me.
I really like your theory about Cordelia in s4 - the idea that she was driving longer than may have been assumed. After all, Jasmine wasn't physically there until the conception, maybe that was what needed for full control to happen. Though I want to blame the Jasmine influence for her offer of sex to Connor, period, since he seems so far from her type. OTOH, close quarters and trust built up.
And I'm sooooooo sooooooooo with you on unpopular opinions of BtVS 1 and 2. Nearly word for word.
(Have also friended you, after two fascinating entries in the space of a week or so!)