@avclub-90a5da808b7409c044aac94d490e7f0d:disqus :
I can´t seem to reply to you in the thread below, so I´ll put it here:
Whedon created Buffy when he was in his teens, so I think he was trying to write what he knew.
 As far as I know, none of those stories have ever leaked/been published. I believe she was a comic book…

It´s a good point, but from Giles´  point of view, any slayer he sends to LA to do business with Angel, have a habit of falling for him - one way or the other. That leaves Kennedy, and I would not make decisions based on her judgement.
And Giles has not trusted Angel since since the beginning of season 2 Buffy - and I…

If you want to try again with Buffy, try watching an episode from season 2/3 and then watch one from season 5/6.
In my opinion, Michael Gershman stopping as regular Director of Photography, means that the show starts to look flat and lack depth in its look.
It´s also very noticable when he occasionally comes back to…

When I came off a week of nursing night shifts, I used to just stay up untill the next evening (about 40 hours), to turn my day around. I did that about once a week for years.
When I hit about 30 hours awake, I get very sloppy, forget-to-turn-off-the-stove-sloppy. And the worst part is, that I don´t notice.

SPOILERS, SPOILERS EVERYWHERE:
I´m always late and type too slow for these recaps, but I´m giving it a go:
I always thought that Angel´s relationship with Buffy paralleled Wes and Fred´s:
Angel IMHO never really saw Buffy as a real girl, he was in love with Joan of Arc.
When he left her, I always thought, that it was…