Comments | lilah_month: Day 27: Lilah/Wes, Lilah/Wes, Lilah/Wes!

jennyo in lilah_month

Day 27: Lilah/Wes, Lilah/Wes, Lilah/Wes!

Jun 27, 2004 13:58

*snickers* Okay, so I have a bit of a love for my favorite pairing. Sue me. They're pretty, they're smart, they have the sexy sex, and they're really pretty.

In honor of the Lilah/Wes month-ender, yours truly has a new layout (with love to katemonkey for the graphics and relentless web standards pimping) at Double Indemnity. Which is all shiny ( Read more... )

Comments 5

paratti June 27 2004, 15:15:11 UTC

The new layout is lovely:)

A Wes/Lilah tag-team of conflicted Antagonists to the titular character would have surely rocked hardcore.

But one thing that really interests me is the question why haven't more writers that are interested in the grey morally complex parts of the Jossverse written the pairing. Yep, ME made a better job of it than the parallel couple, possibly due to being more capable of writing the genders the W/L way round, Stephanie being a better actress and many other factors. But there's so much there to explore, burrow into, as there are in Lilah's character generally.

And while we've a higher ratio or good writers to not than in many other popular pairings, I'm still surprised more writers, especially women - who with Lilah get to play with a morally complex, sexually comfortable, grey, interesting character that actually is a woman, not a male that's often in the female role - don't write the character or the pairing. And I can't help wondering why.

jennyo June 27 2004, 16:20:48 UTC

*shakes head* Having just gone through the DI archive, I am surprised at the number of people who write off evil women as somehow stupid or naive. Or, more usually, Wes is like, "wow, she's the hot! Pity she's evil, and thus a h0r not worth the time it takes to come ( ... )

nolivingman June 27 2004, 18:03:38 UTC

Nice new layout. Love the movie reel graphic ( ... )

jennyo June 27 2004, 18:59:17 UTC

No, it stopped making sense to me, too, and for one big reason. The Wesley I understand, even a Wesley who fell for Fred (though I admit, a Wes who fell for Fred after "it's not always about holding hands" is really hard for me to buy), who knew that someone he cared about was rotting in Hell would have tried to find a way out for her. Not for some grand happily ever after, but because letting her rest in peace would be the right thing to do ( ... )

nolivingman June 28 2004, 06:20:14 UTC

being chained up to a wall in Hell or something? (though I agree that without the supertext, that barely plays -- she would have found a way)

Really, it does not play. She convinced Angel to join W&H, knew just the card to play to bring him in, and she gets rewarded by being sent back to punishment? She didn't cut herself some kind of deal? That makes no sense.