Your meta are absolutely faboulous! *___* *beams* Thank you!
The comparison between Spike and Connor sounds so right and so original, never developed in the other meta. Ah, but there are vids! I shall hunt them down for you when I have a moment.
I'm a meta addict, somebody please stop me! Um... no can do. 95% of this LJ is meta.
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. *nods a lot* And this is why it's so fascinating. I love multi-layered relationships.
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. It mirrors Cordy in S1 - and it leads to a similar grasping of self (Cordy against the ghost in her home, Spike against the ghost at W&H). They are at a loose end, unsure who they are now.
But the exploration of Angel's ambiguity with the eyes of Spike (Destiny, Damage) was simply priceless. Mmmmmm.
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) They go together so, so well. <3
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*beams* Thank you!
The comparison between Spike and Connor sounds so right and so original, never developed in the other meta.
Ah, but there are vids! I shall hunt them down for you when I have a moment.
I'm a meta addict, somebody please stop me!
Um... no can do. 95% of this LJ is meta.
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.
*nods a lot* And this is why it's so fascinating. I love multi-layered relationships.
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.
It mirrors Cordy in S1 - and it leads to a similar grasping of self (Cordy against the ghost in her home, Spike against the ghost at W&H). They are at a loose end, unsure who they are now.
But the exploration of Angel's ambiguity with the eyes of Spike (Destiny, Damage) was simply priceless.
Mmmmmm.
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)
They go together so, so well. <3