{"id":1933,"date":"2013-02-07T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:08:41","slug":"mark-re-watches-angel-reunion-lullaby-and-mark-watches-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/02\/mark-re-watches-angel-reunion-lullaby-and-mark-watches-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Re-Watches ‘Angel’: Reunion \/ Lullaby AND Mark Watches ‘Bones’!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an extra special commission post for the lovely Nora (she is 7lovelyangel in the comments!), who is celebrating her DAY OF BIRTH! Nora has supported me for a while, and I’m pretty sure she’s holding the record for most commissions from a single person. HONESTLY. (Ryan and Devon are very close behind!) I wanted to do something special for her, so first of all: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORA!<\/p>\n

Now, onto the THREE videos for her:<\/p>\n

“Reunion”<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n“Lullaby”<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59115831\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n“Pilot”<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59115830\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It’s been fun doing commissions out of order because of things like this. Watching “Reunion” and then “Lullaby” gave me such a great slice of this period of\u00c2\u00a0Angel.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>We’ve got ~dark~ Angel being all broody and bad-decision-y, and then he goes to the super protective father who wants to protect Darla and Connor.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I love Darla so much, and it’s why I wish she was around more in the later seasons. I mean, I’m not a big fan of mystical pregnancy in sci-fi and fantasy, so there’s that, but LOOK AT ALL THE STUFF IN “LULLABY” THAT TOTALLY HINTED AT A POSSIBLE ANGEL\/DARLA RELATIONSHIP. Granted, that would have been a logistical nightmare. Darla would have lost her ~feelings~ and humanity once she gave birth to Connor, so all of her brilliantly acted lines on the top of that hotel were temporary. That wasn’t who she would be post-birth.\u00c2\u00a0Still<\/em>. Could you imagine??? Vampire parents!!! I mean, if\u00c2\u00a0Buffy<\/em> could have Spike be “good” without a soul, couldn’t they have tried the same thing with Darla?<\/li>\n<li>I’m being irrational, and I should probably just write fanfic about what would happen if Darla survived. Oh god, I have no time to write fanfic, WHO AM I KIDDING.<\/li>\n<li>Also, I’m way more into Cordelia\/Angel anyway, so I am at least glad that there was some of that. I WANTED MORE, but that is another story for another day.<\/li>\n<li>During the video of “Reunion,” I spoke of how the end of that episode is like the “Passion” of this show. It’s the moment where you realize just how far\u00c2\u00a0Angel<\/em> can go and what it can tell stories about. Like, shit, it’s such a huge, memorable moment for the character of\u00c2\u00a0Angel<\/em>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI also got the chance to watch the pilot of Bones<\/i>, a show I’d never seen. I apologize in advance if you watch the video for it because every time Booth speaks, I just yell\u00c2\u00a0Angel<\/em> references at him. I COULDN’T HELP IT. It would take me so long to see him as a different character! Like, I spent\u00c2\u00a0eight seasons\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>with the character of Angel, so it’ll take time to get used to Booth.<\/p>\nThat being said, I AM ALL HERE FOR TEMPERANCE AND ANGELA. Like, they are 99.9999999% of the reason I want to watch more of this show. They are fascinating characters, the actresses who play them are really talented, and I LOVE THEIR FRIENDSHIP. And this is all from just one episode! Oh my god, I wish Angela was my best friend. She would try to get me out of my house and be social instead of writing all day\u00c2\u00a0WHERE IS MY ANGELA<\/em>.<\/p>\nPlus, I’m kind of a sucker for procedurals. I’ve seen like ten seasons of\u00c2\u00a0Law & Order<\/em> and the first nine seasons of\u00c2\u00a0Law & Order: Special Victims Unit<\/em>, and\u00c2\u00a0The X-Files<\/em> was a twist on the genre, and I liked the first three seasons of House<\/i>, and\u00c2\u00a0The Wire<\/em> is like a brilliant deconstruction of the whole genre. SO YEAH. THIS IS KIND OF MY THING. I hope to find time to\u00c2\u00a0actually<\/em> watch more of this on my own, because I enjoyed this!<\/p>\nAnyway, I hope you enjoy these videos. Again, Happy Birthday, Nora!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is an extra special commission post for the lovely Nora (she is 7lovelyangel in the comments!), who is celebrating her DAY OF BIRTH! 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