How interesting

[darcydodo]

I just watched the AtS season 1 episode "She," and girlwithjournal is wrong about it. There are, in fact, two parts very worth watching. Yes, of course the dancing is one, Angel is absolutely hilarious, as is Wesley. But the other is Angel's description of the Manet painting. And then the very interesting idea that Baudelaire and Angel might have had a fling; one can see the possibilities of Angel sleeping with and torturing Baudelaire in such a fashion that Le Vampire was produced:

Toi qui, comme un coup de couteau,
Dans mon coeur plantif es entrée;
Toi qui, forte comme un troupeau
De démons, vins, folle et parée,

De mon esprit humilié
Faire ton lit et ton domaine;
— Infâme à qui je suis lié
Comme le forçat à la chaîne,

Comme au jeu le joueur têtu,
Comme à la bouteille l'ivrogne,
Comme aux vermines la charogne,
— Maudite, maudite sois-tu!

J'ai prié le glaive rapide
De conquérir ma liberté
Et j'ai dit au poison perfide
De secourir ma lâcheté.

Hélas! le poison et le glaive
M'ont pris en dédain et m'ont dit:
«Tu n'es pas digne qu'on t'enlève
A ton esclavage maudit,

Imbécile! — de son empire
Si nos efforts te délivraient,
Tes baisers ressusciteraient
Le cadavre de ton vampire!»


"Oh, and Baudelaire was actually a little taller and a lot drunker than he's depicted here." -Angel, "She"

Comments

[emidala.livejournal.com]

Baudelaire. *faints*

[(Anonymous)]

Very cool poem. (We didn't get to read a lot of Baudelaire at school, for fear of corrupting our innocent minds.) Two comments:

a) têtu is, of course, the word I failed to remember yesterday. I'm glad it turned up, or I'd have been worrying about it.

b) People have been finding vampires sexy since long before Buffy was invented. Hence the Angel / Baudelaire thing is somewhat silly. But hey.

- R

[darcydodo]

a) têtu is, of course, the word I failed to remember yesterday.

There are several words you forgot yesterday. But I looked it up. :)

b) People have been finding vampires sexy since long before Buffy was invented. Hence the Angel / Baudelaire thing is somewhat silly.

Well, err... no duh. The point is that the slight smirk on Angel's face implies that it was he. Blatantly I know that in real life it wasn't, 'cause obviously BtVS and AtS are fiction....

[(Anonymous)]

There are several words you forgot yesterday
I did? What else did I forget? Is there a better word for lock than fermer à clé?

obviously BtVS and AtS are fiction
Yes, I've been trying to point that out to you for some time now. But my point wasn't, hey, Angel wasn't really involved with Baudelaire, because I agree that would be no duh. My point was that the justification for slashing them on the grounds of that flimsy textual evidence was kinda strained.

-R

[darcydodo]

Is there a better word for lock

The appropriate word, it turns out, would have been verrouiller.

My point was that the justification for slashing them on the grounds of that flimsy textual evidence was kinda strained.

Ooh, isn't it using 'slash' in an appropriate grammatical context! :) Anyway, the way Angel's speech plays out, it's fairly clear that he was referring to himself. IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

Gh, I did so suggest verouiller. I only didn't suggest it straight off because you hadn't given me any context at that point. So I don't think I can be accused of forgetting it.

I'm ignoring your second comment because you're just being pointlessly sarcastic. Hmph.

- R

[darcydodo]

I did so suggest verouiller

You did?

I'm ignoring your second comment because you're just being pointlessly sarcastic.

I so was not. The sarky bit was only to tease you about the appropriate use of 'slash'. The Angel comment was perfectly serious. So nuh.

[girlwithjournal.livejournal.com]

Okay, that part was funny, too. But mostly the episode sucked, right? I mean major, major suckage. Yeah?

[darcydodo]

Well, it seemed more like a Star Trek episode than an AtS episode, I'll confess. A lot more like. So in terms of the AtS/BtVS genre and presentation, yes, it sucked. If you'd simply replaced the AtS characters with the characters from Next Gen or Voyager or something, it'd be fine....