vid request...

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"A & B Song" by Tom McRae is *so* meant for an Angel vs. Spike video (as A and B, respectively). The song is practically begging for it. [lyrics]

Yeah, I recced a Farscape vid to this song a few days ago. I just realized that it's even better for Spike and Angel. Because every song ever written is about Spike.

Anyone want to volunteer?

Comments

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I wasn't thinking in terms of where the characters are at exactly this moment, but more overall, more general characterizations.

Angel seems to have this sense of purpose (or need for a sense of purpose), either in himself or convinced into him by the people around him-- be the good guy, the champion. "A sys he's glad to be here" just smacks of Angel to me.

Spike doesn't have that sense of purpose outside of loving either Buffy or Dru, and he embodies all the reckless freedom-loving joi de vive that the character B embodies in the song.

"A's got a girl for each season" Spike would be A.

Disagree there. I'd say Angel certainly goes through women much faster than Spike does, on the shows, and gets interested more casually than Spike (whose only non- gigantic relationship was with Harmony, and she barely qualified as "casual girlfriend," he treated her so bad)--- meaning Electric Girl, Werewolf Girl, the cop lady from the early AtS episodes and probably some others that I don't know about because I didn't watch the show. I also think "mail order bride" sounds more Spikeish because "bride" has the connotation of commitment that Spike is so enammoured of; it also has a 'second-hand' sort of sound to it, and Spike's always sounding second hand. And the element of surprise in discovering who your "bride"-- otherwise lifelong love-- will be. And Spike's already said that Buffy is it for him, and of course he was surprised to fall in love with her. And there's the whole thing with mail-order brides taking a long to get to you, and it certainly took a long time before Buffy came to him (as she did at the end of BTVS.) And you know, I've spent way more time on this Spuffy part than I thought to. I just kept getting hit with the reasons.

"A knows he's headed for salvation"

In this case I would say this applies to AtS season 5, but with the additional comment that Angel thinks it's his and he's already heading there (though of course he doubts it too--- the show and Angel himself seems to change it's mind a lot about this, one minute saying "it's all bull" and the next minute reading the prophecy and hiding it from Spike and not telling everyone that Spike applies just as much as him), even though Spike wants it more. I think Spike doesn't "know" now like he did at the last burning minutes of Season 7--he only knows that he wants it and thinks he has a right to fight for it.