Your meta are absolutely faboulous! *___* The comparison between Spike and Connor sounds so right and so original, never developed in the other meta. I'm a meta addict, somebody please stop me!
I think that the relationship between Spike and Angel is very important, crucial to Angel. As you say, Spike provides a scale, a confront. Angel needs to confront with him to grow up as a hero, or at least as a man. I really see a dynamic "big brother/little brother" in their relationship, and also a "father/son" dynamic, "negative/positive" and so on. They really are a couple, in every sense of the word.
As a Spike-fan, I was a little disappointed by his "funny-funny" characterization in the first episodes of Season 5. I really think about the executives, who wants to put in the show a comic relief with Spike. But the exploration of Angel's ambiguity with the eyes of Spike (Destiny, Damage) was simply priceless. Also, they are artists, two faces of the same coin: Spike and the cavemen (the passion, the art that became a way to express the poet's feelings, the romantic age); Angel and the astronauts (the illuminism, the art the elaborate feelings into forms of perfection) Really, stop me! This two are killing me! >O<
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The comparison between Spike and Connor sounds so right and so original, never developed in the other meta.
I'm a meta addict, somebody please stop me!
I think that the relationship between Spike and Angel is very important, crucial to Angel.
As you say, Spike provides a scale, a confront. Angel needs to confront with him to grow up as a hero, or at least as a man.
I really see a dynamic "big brother/little brother" in their relationship, and also a "father/son" dynamic, "negative/positive" and so on. They really are a couple, in every sense of the word.
As a Spike-fan, I was a little disappointed by his "funny-funny" characterization in the first episodes of Season 5. I really think about the executives, who wants to put in the show a comic relief with Spike.
But the exploration of Angel's ambiguity with the eyes of Spike (Destiny, Damage) was simply priceless.
Also, they are artists, two faces of the same coin: Spike and the cavemen (the passion, the art that became a way to express the poet's feelings, the romantic age); Angel and the astronauts (the illuminism, the art the elaborate feelings into forms of perfection)
Really, stop me!
This two are killing me! >O<