"Welcome to the Hellmouth" / "Bring on The Night"

[red_satin_doll]

"You're standing at the mouth of Hell. And it's about to open up." *

***
"I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared.
I'm standing on the mouth of Hell and it's going to swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me." **

* Joss Whedon
** Marti Noxon & Douglas Petrie

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Riley strikes me as the kind of dude who's life was military. Probably he went to an academy.

Oh that never occurred to me. Makes sense though.

I do think that Riley and Angel are actually quite similar but I don't think that's an odd opinion? they share a certain patronizing attitude "there there silly girl you don't know your own mind" etc. I do see Riley as a plot device more than a character in a lot of ways tbh.

There's more "How's Riley deal with this" rather than how Buffy deals with it.

I don't remember thinking that in S4 so much but in S5 it was almost unbearable to me, from the first time they started with shots of Riley with puppy dog eyes - poor widdle boy, Buffy didn't read your mind, blah blah - and that honestly pissed me off pretty quickly because I could tell exactly what the writers WANTED me to think, but I wasn't buying.

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're very similar.

and that honestly pissed me off pretty quickly because I could tell exactly what the writers WANTED me to think, but I wasn't buying.

Oh, yeah. That's the rub. We *are* supposed to think he got the short end of the stick, to which, the writers can stick it.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

We *are* supposed to think he got the short end of the stick, to which, the writers can stick it.

Can I help you hold the stick? :)