elisi | Went down memory lane, and had a small light bulb moment.

rm finished watching Angel (she has a post here) and it made me go look up this quote from our favourite Fury... I bolded the parts that suddenly stood out:

FURY: ...the last beat of the episode would be Angel and whoever was left of his crew about to launch into the apocalypse. My thought on that is, that's the perfect way to end the show. The point of Buffy was always girl power and showing that power. The point of Angel was always that the fight never ends. He'll always fight. It's an eternity of fighting. You can't ever win but the fight is worth fighting. That was a perfect 'going out' scene - you know, the Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid sort of we're going up against impossible odds and probably die? That's the perfect way to end the series, and anybody who says otherwise is dumb.

The whole point of Twilight is that the world ends. The fight stops (/is no longer worth fighting). It goes against the very purpose of Angel, and I don't think there's a single character who is a worse fit for that role.

FURY: Unlike Buffy who ended up with her three friends and were able to end in that way, in Angel's case, everybody that he's ever been close to dies, which is really Angel's story - that he will always outlive the people he cares about. He has gone on and on, he has seen people he loves die, which is another reason that he and Buffy realized they couldn't be together. [...] But the fact that he was side-by-side with Spike was kind of a wonderful turnaround in the mythology of the series.
Interviewer: There's Butch and Sundance right there.

Spike & Angel = Butch & Sundance. Spike is the one that Angel gets to keep, not someone he resents the hell out of and wants to kill! Although considering that Twangel is high on glow juice the whole time during s8, none their interactions really count...

Anyway, I just wanted to put this down for my own sake. Not interested in discussing it (nor do I want to waste time doing so), so I'm afraid I'll disable comments. Almost flocked this, but heck, it's not like anyone doesn't know how I feel. *shrugs* Figure I'm entitled to my opinion.