I think Mark might just have redeemed himself...

[elisi]

- 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.

[...]

- 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.

Will get to comments at SOME POINT, promise. Life: /o\ (Good busy, not bad busy. But - SO BUSY!)

Comments

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

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.

[elisi]

I meant Angel's tendency to want to have it both ways. No! We cannot be! ... Are you my girl?
Oh I see. Well, he's Angel. ;)