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Well said. Everybody has demons. The conceit of Buffy is that the demons exist, physically, and can be punched in the face. But they're still metaphorical de
by sevensor 10y ago
Well said. Everybody has demons. The conceit of Buffy is that the demons exist, physically, and can be punched in the face. But they're still metaphorical demons. It's brilliant.
- yarrel 10y agoOne of the many reasons "Angel" didn't work. At all.
- walterbell 10y agoSeason 5 has some corporate metaphors, after the production team was no longer spread across Buffy, Angel & Dollhouse. Angel S5 is almost a standalone series.
- ellius 10y agoSeason 4 also had the "needs of the many vs. needs of the few" and "is ignorance bliss" themes going on.
- sevensor 10y agoDidn't Dollhouse air years after Angel was over? I don't recall an overlap. Do you mean Firefly?
- walterbell 10y agoI don't recall details, but the Dollhouse set was reused for the law office in Season 5 of Angel.
- waterphone 10y agoAngel ran from 1999 to 2004. Dollhouse ran from 2009 to 2010.
- dragonwriter 10y agoDollhouse production didn't start until years after Angel ended; if any set was shared, it was sets from Angel used for Dollhouse. (Or Joss had access to an actual time machine, which seems unlikely.)
- walterbell 10y agoMy mistake. Looks like both sets were designed by Stuart Blatt.
- escapologybb 10y agoThat's fighting talk where I come from, please explain why "Angel" didn't work? Smiling as I write this, not flaming
- drdeadringer 10y agoAt the time of airing of both shows, I watched only a few episodes of Buffy vs all of Angel. Angel worked for me, Buffy not so much. However, I am planning to binge on Buffy in the near future and then re-up on Angel right after. I do not guarantee I'll change or stay the same, but I am open to either.
- david-given 10y agoThis was the premise of the 1978 UK cult classic, _Monkey_, which was a low budget Chinese comic adaptation of _Journey to the West_, dubbed --- poorly --- into English with ludicrous cod-Chinese accents. The Stone Monkey, a pig man, a swamp thing, and a dragon pretending to be a horse accompany a saintly monk on a never-ending journey to India, encountering demons of the mind and then beating the crap out of them. And it is brilliant (for certain specialist definitions of the word 'brilliant').