elisi | I think Mark might just have redeemed himself...

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I think Mark might just have redeemed himself...

- Angel: SHUT THE FUCK UP. I am so irritated by you and your constant need for melodrama. First, you don’t want Buffy around. Then you want to help her. Then you don’t want to live. And now you won’t stick around to say goodbye because it’ll be “too painful.” Maybe it’s so painful because you won’t make up your goddamn mind. Can you even imagine the pain you are causing Buffy with this whole back-and-forth routine? No? SO STOP IT.

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- Oh, of course Angel is going to Brood in the fog and smoke before disappearing. Angel was never truly worried about saying goodbye. He just needed to brood one last time.

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Um... the show does nothing BUT send it up. OK, so it also panders to his melodrama a LOT, but from The Zeppo onwards the writers never miss an opportunity to poke fun at B/A or Angel himself. Don't have time to go into a lot of details, but off the top of my head:

'Billowy Coat King of Pain'

'What was the highlight out *our* relationship? When you broke up with me or when I killed you?'

'He wears lifts you know'

'I signalled her with my eyes'

And the whole scene in... Oh what's it called, where Cordy and Wesley act out Buffy & Angel's story...

TONS of stuff. Including, like, ALL of S5 of AtS when Spike's around, snarking.

I meant Angel's tendency to want to have it both ways. No! We cannot be! ... Are you my girl?

Bangel melodrama (the unforced variety) is mocked frequently by both shows and DC, but the sort of seedy Dru-esque vibe of it, I don't think was ever really addressed outside of the oblique stuff in TGIQ.