RANDOM QUOTAGE: 

(Some Spoilers Ahoy)
 

On the Ho!Yay front- 

Buffy:"You have no ideahow hard it is to lie to everyone you love about who you're sleeping with." 
Tara:"Sweetie, I'm a fag.  I've been there." 
-Cut from "Dead Things"

Meanwhile, curious Angel aficionados are begging us to answer a burning question: Is the Host gay? "It's supposed to be ambiguous," Hallett grins. "The Host has a lot of love for everybody. They don't go out and tell you, but the Host does call Angel 'Sweetie' and 'Cupcake' and all sorts of wild little pet names..."
-Andy Hallet Interview 
 

On the Spuffy front-

"We've been getting so much feedback from fans," says Noxon. "They see
Spike as a hero now. I've said to you and other people that the
relationship is basically something we thought would reflect the kinds
of relationships you choose when you're choosing the wrong person." 

"People have been very upset about that. They're like, 'He's not the
wrong person. He's all redeemed.' Part of what needs to happen at this
point is to show that redemption is possible for Spike, but he's not
redeemed now, and their relationship is really based on things that are
not healthy." 

Asked about showing Buffy -- who is supposed to be the hero of the
story, and a moral person -- inflicting pain out of anger on someone who
is not fighting back, Noxon says, "This will probably inflame fans of a
different opinion, but my only answer to it is that this relationship
isn't bringing out the best in either of them. Maybe it's bringing out
the better in him in some ways, but it's not bringing out the best in
her." 

"This is bringing out a desperation in her, and she's going to have to
deal with that. Long-term, there are definitely repercussions to what's
happened." 
-YAMI (Yet Another Marti Interview) TV News Daily
 

On the Angel!smut front-

Boy, does it suck to be Angel, the toothsome title hero of the WB's Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff. He's growing hotter every week for she-demon sidekick Cordelia, but if he ever achieves true happiness — ahem, horizontally — an age-old gypsy curse will transform him instantly from a haloed hero back into a soulless villain... or will it? 

Although, in the undead do-gooder's days on his estranged sister show, his birthday hook-up with then-girlfriend Buffy returned him to his wicked ways, such a metamorphosis won't necessarily occur every time he hits the sheets. Rather, executive producer David Greenwalt reveals that only a perfect union precipitates Angel's about-face. "That's why [after a walk on the dark side last season] he [slept with fanged former flame] Darla and woke up... good again. It brought him back to reality." 

Adds David Boreanaz, who plays the libidinous creature of the night: "Who is to say that if a consummation happens [between Angel and Cordy] that it really is true happiness? I mean, we don't know until we're there in the moment, right?" 

Absolutely. And, even if the Angel Investigations colleagues never make a love connection that lasts past sunrise, Greenwalt is determined to see them hang a Do Not Disturb sign on his coffin at least once. "I've been dying to do the scene," he admits, "where Angel turns to a woman and says, 'You know, I can't know perfect happiness, but that doesn't mean you can't.'" 
-TVGuide.com 

To which Cali Flower adds: "Oh, there's still a perfect happiness clause? I thought that dissapeared. Along with the writer's minds."

Heh.
 

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