The Animal Family*, BtVS, life lesson
Feb. 9th, 2004 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oiranExciting day at the vet's office. My dog is officially fat! And I'm adopting a pair of "orphan" parakeets. Which means I'll be spamming you with photos of every single pet sooner rather than later. This will bring us up to five birds and proves I do have a maternal instinct, although it's not stimulated at all by my own species.
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So we're watching S5 Buffy, and...fuck: more Riley. He's nice. He loves Buffy. He's stubborn and has a bit of a temper, but nothing relationship-damaging. He looks like Howdy Doody (with really nice arms), but that's not necessarily terrible. Still, I hate him. I feel bad about it, but I keep hoping he'll DIE, DIE, DIE. I know enough about the future of the show and upcoming relationships that I'm aware he will vacate the boyfriend position eventually, but it can't be soon enough for me. Riley is making me gleefully anticipate proof of the adage "nice guys finish last." Why does this character vex and annoy me so? Well, I do have some theories, but I'm resisting letting Riley take over my brain even temporarily. I resent his very existence. When Riley episodes were airing, did people mostly love or hate him? FWIW, Mr. Glove hates him, too.
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Life lesson: Pride goeth before a fall. Sprinkle hubris on top. And impatience...aaaaand a little more. Ignore for awhile, then serve cold.
I am of the opinion that more things should "goeth," rather than just "go." It's jauntier, somehow.
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*the title of a book by Randall Jarrell, which I read as a child and continue to hold onto as an example of perfection on a number of fronts
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So we're watching S5 Buffy, and...fuck: more Riley. He's nice. He loves Buffy. He's stubborn and has a bit of a temper, but nothing relationship-damaging. He looks like Howdy Doody (with really nice arms), but that's not necessarily terrible. Still, I hate him. I feel bad about it, but I keep hoping he'll DIE, DIE, DIE. I know enough about the future of the show and upcoming relationships that I'm aware he will vacate the boyfriend position eventually, but it can't be soon enough for me. Riley is making me gleefully anticipate proof of the adage "nice guys finish last." Why does this character vex and annoy me so? Well, I do have some theories, but I'm resisting letting Riley take over my brain even temporarily. I resent his very existence. When Riley episodes were airing, did people mostly love or hate him? FWIW, Mr. Glove hates him, too.
~~~
Life lesson: Pride goeth before a fall. Sprinkle hubris on top. And impatience...aaaaand a little more. Ignore for awhile, then serve cold.
I am of the opinion that more things should "goeth," rather than just "go." It's jauntier, somehow.
~~~
*the title of a book by Randall Jarrell, which I read as a child and continue to hold onto as an example of perfection on a number of fronts
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Date: 2004-02-09 09:45 pm (UTC)Doyle was only on Angel. He is a half-demon with an Irish accent(gotta love that Jossverse love of accents *g*) whom the Powers That Be send visions of people in need of help. In the first episode they tell him to seek out Angel and get him to help fight the evil he sees. Hence the whole Angel Investigations thing. Doyle is funny, laid-back and chatty where Angel is shut off from the world, but he carries around a lot of self-loathing because of his demon side, which didn't manifest itself till he was twenty-one, and the way he handled that. He used to be a third grade teacher, married to a woman he loved, but by the time the show starts he has no job, his wife has left him, and he's drowning in gambling debts. He drinks too much, hits on Cordelia, talks dreamily about Angel in his leather coat and finally dies a hero's death. And he's pretty much adorable. *g*
Gratuitous linkage:
Some Doyle pics:
http://www.haelen.org/cleocalliope/CastPics/Doyle/Doyle7.gif
http://www.haelen.org/cleocalliope/CastPics/Doyle/Glenn.jpg
http://www.haelen.org/cleocalliope/CastPics/Doyle/Doyle1.jpg
And my fic Till the Moon Has Left the Sky which was rather popular when new, though I think I've come a way as a writer since then:
http://www.haelen.org/cleocalliope/BAfanfic/TillTheMoon_Isagel.html