"Cavemen vs. Astronaut" Feels...

[fenderlove]

I'm seriously being very nostalgic about Spike and Angel at the moment. God, it amazes me how I still love my Spangel-y ship. I saw this awesome GIF set of the Cavemen vs. Astronaut scene, and I almost started crying.

To this day, this remains one of the funniest scenes I have ever watched. Over a century of a relationship is so succinctly culminated into a simple concept— cavemen vs. astronauts. Spike, a vampire of instinct and reaction, knows that the cavemen would win, but there’s a part of him that needs the cavemen to win. Uppercrust, genteel “evolved” society offered nothing to William Pratt; it made him the subject of ridicule, but becoming a vampire allowed him to give into his baser self and his primal urges and ultimately led him to something he views as greater than what he was. In the same vein, Angel needs the astronauts to win. He needs to know that his constant struggle against what he was (both as Liam and Angelus) is going to bring him to a better place, going to let him win, be the man that he wants to be. That’s why they are better together than apart, but it’s also why they will always be at loggerheads with one another. They bring out the best and worst in each other because they literally are the best and worst of each other.

… But the cavemen always win.

(x-posted to my Tumblr.)

Comments

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Oh god I loved that scene do much, and miss them too. :(

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Ooo... really well done! Almost like watching the scene again (and funny how easily the voices popped into my head for that one). Man, I miss that show.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I love your take on that scene.


Gabrielle

[fangstress.livejournal.com]

Neat take. :-) I kinda also see them as Apollo/Dionysus-- reason/ecstasy. The thing is, they are, at their base levels, mirrors of each other: Angelus/Liam, is closer to Dionysus and Spike/William is the poet; the intellectual, hence Apollo.

And, yeah-- I love that scene, too. I always wanted to see where their relationship would have gone; there were a whole lot of slashy bits in there.

[lynnalso.livejournal.com]

mmmm genteel not gentile, unless you meant non Jewish..

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I meant genteel, but the society William would have been keeping probably would have been mostly gentiles in Victorian-y times.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Aw man! I miss this show to! :P I've been a huge fan of Spike since I really got into the Buffy series :) Joss is made of win for character development! I'm glad he brought Spike back after his glorious death in Buffy to be a pain in Angel's rear *giggle* Of course I drew it the other way around ;)