Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King news item on a website dedicated to Buffy and Angel? Yes, and there is a very good reason for it. The news of the Oscar sweep up gives fans hope. Here is an article courtesy of Save Angel:
As you've likely heard, the crowned Best Movie of the Year is "The Return of the King." With 11 Academy Awards on the mantle, it goes down as the most successful "genre" film every produced. Peter Jackson credits the success of his epic fantasy to the greatness of Tolkien's themes: "forgiveness, courage, faith, friendship" — are "themes that go straight to the heart," Jackson said.
What does this mean for you? Simply this: which other production deals with the same ideals, the same expansive stories, in the same oeuvre every week?
I'm not talking about "Apprentice of the Big, Fat, Obnoxious Survivor" reality show.
In the vast wasteland of television, there is only one: ANGEL.
The success of the Rings trilogy shows that there is no lack of audience for stories which touch on those very human issues, told within a fantastical framework. Both ANGEL and Lord of the Rings deal with real human experiences of life and death, good and evil, love and loss. As with the current plot-line, we can be moved by the suffering of a character we've grown close to, like Winifred Burkle, in a way that no mere "unscripted" program can touch us. We learn from such supposedly frivolous tales what it means to be better people.
Yes, ANGEL has magic and demons and things that go bump in the night. Such wonders give the storytellers an amazing versatility to speak of grand themes no reality based series can delve into. "Serious" people may somehow find it unbelievable or distasteful that we fans of ANGEL would go to such great lengths to save a mere television show. But take heart in the the lesson of the Lord of the Rings: "I think the fact that we had goblins and trolls and wizards and everything else made it hard for people to take it seriously," Peter Jackson said backstage after his wins. "I appreciate that the Academy and voters tonight have seen through all that."
So when anyone asks why you're so worked up about a silly TV series, you can say, "Because it's not just about one show; it's about standing up for an ideal I believe in."
And that's something to be proud of.
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