ext_8896 ([identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lettered 2005-09-02 05:23 pm (UTC)

Questions Yay!

General
-Do most fics consider the movie canon? Does Whedon consider it canon for the show?
-Can Angel (the character, not David Boreanaz) dance?

I consider the movie sort of canon. It'd have to be modified a bit to fit in with the series, but IMHO, I'd prefer to take what from it could be taken. It would have been really funny if BtVS had ended with a cut scene to Paul Reubens character still in the process of dying...

As to Angel. He can slow dance. He can adequately perform period dances, because that would have been required of him to pass as a gentleman. There are no dances less then 100 years old that he can competently perform. As opposed to Spike, who has never, in any era, ever been able to dance in any way.

Names/endearments/appellations

Angelus uses nicknames, mostly to piss people off. Using "-boy" as an insult suffix is a Joss Whedon thing, and every character does it in episodes Joss himself writes, and almost no one ever does in episodes other characters write. I don't really see Angel as much of a nick-name pet-name type of person. He's oddly proper/formal/polite that way.

Buffy, I think would use "honey" and things of that sort, but I don't think she goes for all that cutesy. She doesn't call boyfriends "daddy" and I hate fics where the BF is always calling her "baby", and she is cool with that. Maybe Angelus and VampBuffy. Pretty much nowhere else does it work for me.

The Childe thing annoys me. Won't wreck a fic, but I prefer stories to be more about interpersonal dynamics and the people than Magical Blood Bonds... My tastes...


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