30 Days of Angel - Day Twenty-Four

[samsom]

Anne Steele.

When I first saw her on AtS, I was seriously confused because I felt like I should have known her. She had this familiar strength, and yet I didn’t make the connection until I rewatched Anne. I seriously loved how she seemed to take on Buffy’s strength just by taking her name. I would have loved to have seen the evolution of that strength, from broken little Chanterelle and lost little Lily to this awesome woman who was all business, determined, strong-willed, pragmatic as fuck, etc. How she met Gunn. How she began running the shelter. Etc. Anne had a story, beginning in Buffy, continuing in Angel, and her last line in NFA perfectly spotlighted the entire message of both shows. Keep fighting. Anne did. I’d have liked to have seen more of it.

Honorable mention goes to David Nabbitt. He could have been AtS' answer to Andrew Wells (true story, at work a file with the name Tucker comes up a lot and every single time, to myself, I mutter "Tucker's brother. Oh.") except way less annoying.

Comments

[anythingbutgrey.livejournal.com]

i liked anne, but whenever she was around i have this tendency to panic and think she'll mention buffy and angel has this buffy addiction problem and i honestly wonder sometimes what will trigger him? appropriate use of trigger is appropriate?

so i have complicated feelings on anne. but she was super cool. also, dedicated to her mission. i love soldier narratives.

[samsom.livejournal.com]

When I first saw her again, after I realized who she was, I kept expecting it to be mentioned, the Buffy connection, but she and Angel never did, thank God. She served a different function and that was to be probably the first blonde on Angel's show that didn't need saving.

Because she'd already saved herself. I love that.