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Post by faithnspike on Sept 8, 2008 8:54:53 GMT -5
There have been hundreds of reoccurring characters in Buffy and Angel, which ones do you guys think were the most overused or should have served a specific purpose and than gone away.
I would say Andrew I never was a fan. I wish he would have died in the final instead of Anya (at one point this was the plan) I would have also had Jonathan be a part of the team instead of Andrew. He was someone we knew since season 2 and I cared about him a heck of a lot more than Andrew. He could have played a similar role to what Andrew did and we would have had one more tie to the early years. As the season was advertised as things coming full circle ( with sunnydale high back in the mix), it made more sense to me to have Jonathan there than a character we had known for 1 season.
Jasmine I thought this was a very poor ending to season 4 especially after we lost Cordy to the dark side and the wonderful Faith and Wes story. It just seemed the excrement died down 5 episodes to soon. The worst part is they killed Cordy off for this storyline.
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Post by jessesopher on Sept 8, 2008 12:31:06 GMT -5
Spike.
Nuff said.
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Post by erminton on Sept 8, 2008 17:30:02 GMT -5
I'm going to have to go with Drusilla. She was an important character sometimes, but she got tiring after a while. I always skip her scenes unless it's relevant to the rest of the plot.
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Post by Enisy on Sept 8, 2008 17:47:57 GMT -5
Andrew, but he was only overused because Nicholas Brendon couldn't be full-time comic relief due to some serious real-life problems. So, that's sort of understandable. One that's less understandable is the overuse of Harmony (Season 4 of Buffy, Season 5 of Buffy, Season 5 of Angel), especially since Mercedes was a pretty bad actress for more than half of that run. (I do adore her in Not Fade Away, though).
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Post by Joe on Sept 8, 2008 18:40:12 GMT -5
Spike. I would've been find if his last episode was "Lover's Walk" and he never came back.
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Post by ligeia on Sept 8, 2008 18:44:26 GMT -5
I love Harmony. The fact that she's the only character to be been from the unaired pilot to Not Fade Away makes her special, and I really like her as a vampire.
Most overused (good thread idea by the way !) :
- Clem - Darla (with her pregnancy thing, she should have been killed as the big bad of season 2) - Spike (he never should have returned since Chosen)
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Post by cheryl on Sept 8, 2008 21:35:23 GMT -5
I would have said Spike hands down until Andrew, now it's pretty much a draw.
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Post by antoniofjm on Sept 8, 2008 21:42:05 GMT -5
Spike in Angel hands down.
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Post by darkdahlia on Sept 9, 2008 0:58:57 GMT -5
wow...saying spike is like blasphemous in my book. Totally needed, though his writing was awful in season 4.
DARLA is my main pick. important: yes. annoying:hells yes
others- Amy Dru after lovers walk PROFESSOR WALSH
I loved clem btw. He was the sweetest demon ever! and its not like he was there all the time...jeez lol
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Post by eternalspikefan on Sept 9, 2008 11:55:48 GMT -5
Riley. Lol I kid Hmm I would say Andrew. He was just really annoying and I fully agree it should have been him instead of Anya that died in Chosen.
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Sept 9, 2008 12:02:15 GMT -5
Andrew.
Mostly because I hate that he stayed with Warren even after Katrina's rape-speech. That would have been a wonderful opportunity of him to come clean to Buffy and show were Warren and Jonathan was. That way, he could have run away, done some mooping and then come back in season 7 as an asset.
Or Jonathan could have turned stopped Andrew from stabbing him and joined Buffy instead. I would have liked that.
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Post by amuk on Sept 9, 2008 14:28:26 GMT -5
Andrew. Hardest recurring character to explain the recurrence of.
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Post by darkdahlia on Sept 9, 2008 14:48:06 GMT -5
I wished jonathan would've survived instead but andrew's appearances on Angel were hilarious. I think if they would've tried that with jonathan it wouldn't have worked
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Post by ded1 on Sept 9, 2008 17:28:16 GMT -5
I'd have to say Andrew and Spike. Andrew just annoyed me. As for Spike,I liked his character,but had a hard time getting past the fact that he should have been staked in season 4.
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Post by Enisy on Sept 9, 2008 17:32:21 GMT -5
But you were okay with free-range Harmony in Buffy and Angel? And free-range Dracula in Season 8 of Buffy?
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Post by jessesopher on Sept 9, 2008 18:41:18 GMT -5
But you were okay with free-range Harmony in Buffy and Angel? And free-range Dracula in Season 8 of Buffy? I agree with the guy who said that he should have been staked in S4 (or before... like Season 2...), but I don't really like Spike, as you're all aware of... But the difference is that Harmony, and Drac weren't in every episode.... they fought Buffy & Co. and then ran away when they lost. Spike was THERE... chained to Giles bathtub and yet he somehow survived getting staked. But I hate Spike anyway. So I'm a bit biased.
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Post by erminton on Sept 9, 2008 20:18:40 GMT -5
wow...saying spike is like blasphemous in my book. Totally needed, though his writing was awful in season 4. DARLA is my main pick. important: yes. annoying:hells yes others- Amy Dru after lovers walk PROFESSOR WALSH I loved clem btw. He was the sweetest demon ever! and its not like he was there all the time...jeez lol Oh yeah, Darla and Professor Walsh. Definitely up there.
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Post by magicegidius on Sept 12, 2008 4:55:34 GMT -5
Connor
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Post by ligeia on Sept 12, 2008 21:11:02 GMT -5
Connor, yeah !
I think we haven't seen enough of Pr Walsh.
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Post by Tyler Austin "tiewashere" on Sept 12, 2008 21:19:30 GMT -5
Spike sometimes. Connor always.
I feel like Anne (after taking Buffy's name) should have come back more than just in Angel after her last appearance on Buffy.
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