Well that's nice.

[lonelybrit]

I don't know entirely how to take this...

Anyway, if you like reading nice articles and such on Angel and other things TV, head over to elynross' LJ as she has loads of brilliant links.

Including one to a particular article.
If you want to read the article, go here. Basically includes comments from Joss Whedon about his thoughts on the cancellation, the finale, etc etc.

This quote just sprang out at me. Can't think why.

"You go into every season not knowing your fate, so you have to be prepared," Whedon says. "But I felt there was more to say about these characters and that ['Angel'] was cut down in its prime.... The pain of loss that I felt when the show was cancelled, I'm going to share that. Where can I twist the knife?"

- Joss Whedon.

Yay for Wesley...

Comments

[lonelybrit]

Yep, I loved my Wesley. Very much :)

And so did Angel. They'd been working together for five years. Peas in a pod and all...

[lonelybrit]

Aww. And not the word 'spooning' is starting to creep into my mind...

Along with many other images and thoughts. None of them bad. :)

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

ah good old Joss, thanks for sharing the pain, really. :)

[lonelybrit]

Yes, it's so kind of him to let us know just how much he was hurting. Thoughtful. Truly.

*sob*

[lonelybrit]

Yep, Joss certainly got a finale that will be remembered. At least in part.

And Alexis can rest assured that his last scene has literally scarred and devestated many, many fans for a very, very long time.

Good days work then. ;)

[theferretgirl.livejournal.com]

::Points up::

What they said...

::Hops back into her Denial Bubble to cry some more::

[lonelybrit]

Look at it this way. IN a very weird and twisted sense, Joss was showing us how much he loved and like Wesley. He made what he thought would be the deepest cut possible. And that was Wesley.

*sniff*

**huggles**

[eloise-bright.livejournal.com]

Weeps for our dead gay hero

By the way, Any plot ideas for the joint smutty fic we're writing? The one where he's not dead?

[lonelybrit]

You mean other than various locations for said smut?

**blushes**

I'm working on it. I certainly have idea if you want to set it post-Not Fade Away. It's kinda silly, but considering the angst recently that's not a bad thing. Blame esmerelda_t, she came up with the thought, 'It'd be like the A-Team'...

[eloise-bright.livejournal.com]

Now you make it sound like kinky Cluedo:

Angel, in the dining room, with the wooden spoon
OR
Wesley, over the leather armchair, with the leather lined handcuffs.
OR
Angel and Wes, in the bedroom, with the ostrich feather...

Dah di da dah, dah di diddle dah - or my pathetic attempt at the theme to the A team. Now I'm intrigued... care to share?

[lonelybrit]

LOL! Kinky Cluedo, I like that. I can almost imagine Gunn and Spike sighing over the mess the two boys left behind them and hazarding guesses as to what exactly caused the extreme damage to the ming vase :)

There really isn't much there. And it does somehow assume that Wes is alive. At the moment I'm just chucking justhuman and janedavitt's post NFA fics together. So the beasties are destroyed and an unwitting Wes is heading that way intent on standing by Angel's side for the last fight.

Angel meanwhile gets Illyria to whisk Gunn to hospital. She leaves him there. And he does survive.

Angel decides to go and say final goodbye to Connor. Again. He heads off alone, using the sewers because sun's rising.

No idea what happens to Spike and Illyria, maybe htey just chill and play on the Playstation.

Wes arrives at the crater and swarm of emergency crews that marks the Hyperion's old location. Decides to check nearby sewers in faint hope that Angel survived the blast.

Angel's walking along when he hears someone calling his name in the distance. Cue disblief. A little tearing up. And one very happy sappy reunion.

Team Angel decide to do what the A-Team did, try and stay under the SP's radar, go underground. After Angel's said goodbye to Connor and explained things, they wait until Gunn's healed, then break him out of hospital.

To all intents and purposes, Team Angel vanish off the face of the Earth. my guess is that Lorne would still be the closest thing they have to a link to the outside world.

Then it would be like the A-Team's blurby thing at the beginning... 'If ever you're in trouble, and know where to call...' Da di-da DAH!!...

See. The A-Team :)

And of course, whilst they're hiding, there is plentiful opportunity for Wes and Angel to make up for lost time. i.e. wackiness ensues.

It's my denial bubble and I like it!

[lonelybrit]

Ooh, and like Ez said over at ASSB. Gunn would be the pilot guy. Very cool. :)

[eloise-bright.livejournal.com]

Tis a nice bubble and I like it.

However - it does assume that Wesley is somehow alive.

Yes. Ahem. slightly problematic. I like Justhuman's Lilah save personally. Sending the boy off to help the love of his life.

My idea makes this seem canon. It's basically Angel and Wesley(Hopkirk) deceased. They go back to being a detective agency. With Wes as a ghost. Not sure how the smut would work, but we'd do our best. And I'd set it in England. Actually it would end up being incredibly angsty. And maybe their clients would be ghosts as well as people. There would be father angst...

Who plays Mr T? I'm intrigued.

[lonelybrit]

I like Justhuman's Lilah save personally. Sending the boy off to help the love of his life.

Yep, when I think up of post-NFA scenario's, I'm always using justhuman's fic as the sounding board, so to speak. I find it the most believable, it has an appropriately bitter price, and it ends nice and open-like.

Hmm. The Mr T character. I don't know. I'd need to brush up on the characters actually in the A team, but for the moment my money would be on Illyria. Don't know why. :)

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

It has to be Ilyria, who else could pull of " I pity the fool" and "I aint getting on that play sucka!"

[lonelybrit]

LOL!

I pity the fool...

Yes, that is so Illyria's line. Plus, if she's being 'brought up' by Gunn and Spike, odds are she will pick up some interesting turns of phrase!

[eloise-bright.livejournal.com]

OOOH, haven't heard this one before - lovely way to get rid of the Fred obsess. And you've got that lovely Wes absence after Lineage - where did he go and what was he doing? After all, he came back looking all clean shaven and happy and stepfordy.

You really should think about writing this. It's a wonderful idea.

[lonelybrit]

Heh, that would be an interesting idea. Also a little angsty for the poor robot. One must wonder if he knew he was the fake, or did he really believe himself to be Wesley. In any case, he obviously did love Fred, bless his poor little cyborg heart...

[lonelybrit]

Ack. Just thought of one major problem though.

'Origin.'

You'd need to find a way for an absentee Wes to also get those memories back, because whilst they hurt him, they did make him 'Wesley'. No doubt about it.

[lonelybrit]

The Cordy or Lilah idea could work...

I suppose you could go for the old favourite. Say that the spell only held as long as Vail and the others were alive and/or in power. So when Vail died, *all* the real memories went crashing back into the people affected.

Connor would be fine, he already knows.

Gunn... Might explain why he was distracted long enough to get that nasty wound.

And maybe in England, Wes woke up with a start as he remembered everything for himself.

[lonelybrit]

*hugs* Yep, denial is a very nice thing today :)

So, off you go. Go write this bunny!

[foreverwes.livejournal.com]

I love all these theories... *sniff*, it's making things a little better ;-)

[lonelybrit]

Oh, don't worry. They'll just keep on coming. Denial Bubble is a rapidly expanding new universe, the possibilities are endless!

*hugs*

[dodyskin.livejournal.com]

Operation denial is go. Mostly I've been reading post Chosen Faith/Wesfic darling_effect . Been writing Batshit!Office!Wes just to keep my spirits up.

[lonelybrit]

Hmm, she's done more then? I've read one of hers in which Wes and Faith go to a restaurant, and... *cough*... stuff happens in the bathroom. But I haven't seen her other stuff...

Fascinating...

[dodyskin.livejournal.com]

Oh, check out the memories section, there's three or four little connected pieces. I very much like them.

[skroberts]

::MEEP::

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Whedon is still evil. ;)

[lonelybrit]

True. But that's what makes this verse so fun... :)