Thank you from me too. Your Buffy/Angel reviews are the only regular AV Club feature that I've read religiously from beginning to end. (Even when I've been too busy/lazy/both to comment.) I've enjoyed them tremendously, and I'm really looking forward to Firefly.

Thank you from me too. Your Buffy/Angel reviews are the only regular AV Club feature that I've read religiously from beginning to end. (Even when I've been too busy/lazy/both to comment.) I've enjoyed them tremendously, and I'm really looking forward to Firefly.

I'd say an asshole is a guy who's obnoxious for no good reason. Fussell was very bad-tempered, but at least eighty or ninety percent of his targets deserved it. And even where he was wrong about his targets, he was sincerely wrong, not just doing it for self-centered reasons. Thus, not an asshole in my book.

I'd say an asshole is a guy who's obnoxious for no good reason. Fussell was very bad-tempered, but at least eighty or ninety percent of his targets deserved it. And even where he was wrong about his targets, he was sincerely wrong, not just doing it for self-centered reasons. Thus, not an asshole in my book.

I'll be glad to no longer have to choose between the Buffy/Angel reviews and the weekly scramble to finish everything I should have been getting done over the previous five days at work.

I'll be glad to no longer have to choose between the Buffy/Angel reviews and the weekly scramble to finish everything I should have been getting done over the previous five days at work.

I think the show was deliberately mocking the stereotypes that other, lazier TV shows and movies have developed about Italy. (Hopefully I'm not giving it too much credit.)

I think the show was deliberately mocking the stereotypes that other, lazier TV shows and movies have developed about Italy. (Hopefully I'm not giving it too much credit.)

Eh, I don't think it was unfair to mock Angel and Spike for their Buffy hangups. Both guys have been sort of putting Buffy out of their minds *without* ever actually resolving their feelings for her. So in my book those feelings are still legitimate subjects for humor. Even somewhat mean-spirited humor. Now, if the…

Eh, I don't think it was unfair to mock Angel and Spike for their Buffy hangups. Both guys have been sort of putting Buffy out of their minds *without* ever actually resolving their feelings for her. So in my book those feelings are still legitimate subjects for humor. Even somewhat mean-spirited humor. Now, if the…

Actually, based on a decent amateur-level knowledge of human anatomy, I'd say you're wrong there. You could procreate with your mouth full.

What makes you think we ever plan to stop?

@avclub-15d496c747570c7e50bdcd422bee5576:disqus Good point about Giles and Xander and their history of lying to Angel. Another thing (not a new one, but one I just remembered) is that sending Andrew emphasizes the distance between Angel and Buffy now. Andrew is clearly no one's "best man," and he's also one of the…

Well, @avclub-884c4beddd8c98bb3b016bdfcc1bcdf8:disqus , I'm sure we'll never agree. But I still think that if you polled Spike fans (present company excepted) about why they love him, "I love the way he subverts the cliché of the cool tough guy" would probably be fairly low on the list.

Harmony was actually wearing a shirt with a unicorn on it way back in The Harvest. Not that I think they actually planned her unicorn thing way back then — just more fun trivia.

I wouldn't say so. Sure he fucked up a lot, and sometimes we saw his vulnerable side. But through it all, he was still always the swaggering macho tough guy with the cool leather jacket, always the guy with the sneer and the clever insult that no one else had a comeback to, always just the bestest fighter and the…

I don't hate Spike, but he's definitely not in my top 5 characters, maybe not in my top 10 either. He's rarely the character I sympathize with. And generally I like him most when I haven't encountered any rabid Spike fans in a while.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus The "like" button isn't strong enough to really express how much I appreciate and agree with your views about the Buffy-Xander relationship.

@avclub-dbdec92c1a47832b13fc9f11e75ca600:disqus Like with @avclub-dc10fce584f2cdf09d6690e0f2883227:disqus , I agree with you that Spike had these various "human" characteristics like romantic love with Dru,  bonding with humans who were nice to him, etc. Just not a human sense of right and wrong. If you guys are…

@avclub-dc10fce584f2cdf09d6690e0f2883227:disqus Oh, I agree that Spike retained lots of human feelings and qualities. I'm speaking specifically about a human sense of right and wrong. Spike honestly loved Dru, but that didn't mean he saw anything wrong with torturing, raping and killing humans. This is a guy who's…