I help the hopeless

I like lost causes and underdogs, though not enough to actively fight for them. So, when I read an article in a Sci fi mag (maybe Dreamwatch, maybe SFX) that laid into the Pylea arc in season 2 of Angel, I considered writing a letter, but scaled down my effort to writing a blog entry about it instead.

There's a tangental question - do blogs create apathy? We feel like we've done something because we've moaned about it in a technically public forum?

But back to Pylea. The article was a regular feature called "Jumping the Quark" and it had the Pylea storyline down as one of the low points of the show, though not an actual shark-jumping moment.

Ungrateful, blind wretches. Pylea's over the rainbow reworking of the Angel mythology was inspired. The fairy tale knights in armour stuff, alice in wonderland mirror tricks, and the discombobulation of the self, wizard of oz wish (self) fulfilment with an added joy of Angel being on the equivalent of red kryptonite and being tranformed into both beauty (checking himself out in the mirror) and the beast (all green and scaley),...I just don't see how you can turn your back on all of that, unless you're a 14 year old boy who thinks it's "gay", and doesn't realise that queer metaphors are only one aspect of the superhero myth of hidden or split identities.