Because I love Angel far too much, and am an incorrigible optimist....

[elisi]

You might have worked out that I am looking forward to 'Angel: After the Fall'... what you didn't know is that I (and a few kind souls that I talked into joining me in my madness), decided to set up a community dedicated to all things AtS S6: angel6_atf. Basically I'm hoping that it can be the one-stop place for all things relating to the new comics. But for that to happen we need people to join, and then share everything they find/create!

Oh and you could of course also pimp! Pretty please?

(I promise that now I will concentrate on part two of 'AYW + One' - when I get some spare time that is...)

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[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Plus, Wes is dead. Dead!

Come on, like that's stopped anyone before. They just need to "forget" that and make up some story about how... um... let's say Eve... was actually hiding outside and teleported Wes away at the last second, and...

...what, me bitter?

I'm with you on the wariness re: s6. The end of NFA is such a strong statement, it's going to be *very* hard to come up with a wannabe canon to continue that...

[elisi]

Come on, like that's stopped anyone before.
At least Joss is unlikely to forget that Wesley actually *died*!

I'm with you on the wariness re: s6.
My optimism comes from two places: 1) The show was *cancelled* and there was supposed to be a season 6! [*hates Fox*] and 2) Lynch is a total fanboy and will hopefully respect the characters we love. Both of which should - if all goes well - add up to a story that's as good as the fic out there. And I adore post-NFA fic.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

At least Joss is unlikely to forget that Wesley actually *died*!

That's exactly what I said about Warren.

The show was *cancelled* and there was supposed to be a season 6!

True, but the last 5 episodes were written *after* they knew they were getting cancelled and that there wouldn't be a s6. NFA was intended as a final statement.

[elisi]

True, but the last 5 episodes were written *after* they knew they were getting cancelled and that there wouldn't be a s6. NFA was intended as a final statement.
Ah - but the ending was decided from very early on. They had to wrap things up v. swiftly, but NFA would not have been significantly different (except for Wesley staying alive) - and as it happened it also turned out to be the perfect ending:

FURY: The really cool thing about Season 6, we knew how Season 5 was going to end very early on and we knew what it was going to launch into with Season 6, which was a post-apocalyptic show [and] which I thought was going to be great. It was going to be Angel in The Road Warrior, which I thought would be awesome. In the ruined city of LA or out in the desert or something, it was just going to be kind of a really cool, different, show.

[...]

JOZIC: I thought the ending was brilliant, although I know a few people who didn't care for the lack of a tidy resolution. What are your thoughts on the finale?

FURY: Again, we had planned this very early on. The basic idea was to discover who the architects of the apocalypse were and then were going to do this Godfather-like massacre where all of our characters were going to go killing each of them, and the last beat of the episode would be Angel and whoever was left of his crew about to launch into the apocalypse. You know, "Let's go, let's move…whatever."

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.

Huge long-ass interview here!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

That's fascinating. I hadn't seen that. I stand corrected. Thanks!

[elisi]

My pleasure. And - it is one reason I am allowing myself to be excited. Also everything Lynch has written so far has made me squee. How he'll handle an epic story is of course the question, but I have high hopes. (I had very low hopes for S8, and Joss managed to disappoint. Lynch better be bringing it!)