about the prior post

or rather, going off on a tangent....

There's this great episode of Angel. Joss is really good at spending exorbitant amounts of money and staging and costuming everything to a large extent, all for about 30 seconds of film footage. There are examples of this all through Buffy and Angel. One I'm thinking of on Buffy was where Andrew, a geek guy, is reminiscing about why he and his fellow nerd friends tried to take over the world, and it was all because their leader told them they'd be living like gods and be happy--cut to the three of them hovering over a field of flowers wearing togas and singing.

Angel in its last season had two vampires with souls who had incidentally known each other for centuries, and Spike asks Angel if he was living in Rome in the fifties. Cut to a black-and-white segment filmed with Spike and various other dudes looking just like Marcello there and saying Ciao over and over. Anyway. I guess you'd have to see it to understand the full effect.