Post by dazz on Jan 22, 2019 15:52:27 GMT
Have to wonder had she told them earlier, how that may have altered the show, like how long did she hide it from them? presumably she would only be able to hide it for a few weeks to a couple of months before she began showing, depending on how far along she was when she found out, but you never know how/when that was in the process, like had she told them asap could Joss have decided fuck it we'll postpone the storyline till S5 we can have Cordy as a higher power guiding Angel through the series so we don't need to worry about her being pregnant, which if they did that just what would the big bad have been?
Personally I was never the biggest Cordy fan but I hated her performance in S4 specifically her being evil I just thought was god fucking awful all around, so I doubt I would have liked it even if Joss got to do it entirely as he wanted but yah never know.
I grew disenchanted with Cordelia about midway through season 3, mainly when they started pushing the crap of her and Angel falling in love. I hated that story; and if there's one good thing to come out of the cluster fuck of season 4, it's that it put the kibosh on that.
Plus, it didn't make a ton of sense for Cordelia to need to become part demon in order to stem the pain caused by the visions, since Doyle was part demon and they were painful for him. I mean, it stands to reason that it was part of Jasmine's plot to take her over, etc., but seeing how, when they introduced the idea, they had planned to go in a different direction, it doesn't make sense. And they made what it meant for her to be "part demon" nonsensical and her powers completely inconsistent and arbitrary.
The visions being painless and her ability to purge the energy of the hell dimension made sense atleast, her floating however didn't going back into the visions however I think could have if they did it more, but every power should have had a purpose, like the visions being painless is a way for Cordy to be protected not just from them but the effects if they ever needed to be used rather fast, such as Cordy has a vision of them being attacked and moments later it happens, if Cordy is still reeling from the vision it doesn't help anything to get it, her purging the energy allows her to assert a control and bond with Connor which Jasmine relied on, her being able to go back into the visions would have made sense if she used it more especially in events that were required to allow her ascension and such, but all that also only works if Cordy when she ascends then descends gets bodyjacked and that was the plan all along, if Cordy just goes bad the why she got all these powers is kind of odd.
With Joss's issue with Charisma in S4 now in my head do you think that's partly why he had Skip shit talk Cordy a little bit, in S3 she was a champion and respected for her willingness to die to further the mission and such, in S4 when Angel confronts him about Cordy/Jasmine he mocks the idea she was a champion iirc, do you think this may have had a little to do with Joss being pissed at her? As if Jasmine wasn't always the plan was what S3 Skip said intended to be true?
I find it interesting how certain scenes or dialogue can be interpreted different whne you know more of the behind the scenes, I said this before but I swear Dean calling Sam gassy in the ghost sickness ep of Supernatural was either Jensen having fun or the writers being meta about Jared and his ill timed farts, though I didn't find the one in Legends a few eps back all that clever, referencing the shows real expense issues doesn't make sense in regards to the team as it's stated in the show early on Gideon fabricates their food, clothes and what not, so how does the government get the bill, and who was paying for them for the previous 2 seasons in show?