I'm currently not watching Angel, but I've been intrigued to notice the way the trailers for both shows are being shown on Sky One. There's a definite suggestion of a kind of joint story line, with each show facing a different incarnation of the same Big Bad. This seems unlikely as they now belong to different networks, but how much are they paying any sort of service to the fact that they share a world?
Buffy, as far as I can tell, is just pretending Angel* doesn't exist, apart from increasingly-rare references to old relationships. Presumably Angel is doing the same, but if the Buffy Big Bad is really a global nasty, as the Buffy writers are telling us, it would be nice if the writers of Angel could bring it in somewhere, too.
I was going to write something about maybe the viewers will just have to believe that the worlds have diverged, but then I remembered that Faith is apparently going to appear in both shows at the end of the current season. I'll be interested to see how they deal with that.
* Damn them for having the names of the shows the same as the names of the lead characters. I mean the show in each case here, and am trying to enforce on myself a convention of using italics when I mean the show.
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Buffy & Angel
Date: 2003-03-10 03:43 am (UTC)Buffy, as far as I can tell, is just pretending Angel* doesn't exist, apart from increasingly-rare references to old relationships. Presumably Angel is doing the same, but if the Buffy Big Bad is really a global nasty, as the Buffy writers are telling us, it would be nice if the writers of Angel could bring it in somewhere, too.
I was going to write something about maybe the viewers will just have to believe that the worlds have diverged, but then I remembered that Faith is apparently going to appear in both shows at the end of the current season. I'll be interested to see how they deal with that.
* Damn them for having the names of the shows the same as the names of the lead characters. I mean the show in each case here, and am trying to enforce on myself a convention of using italics when I mean the show.