I said earlier that in the end it might’ve been better to simply have a Buffy marathon and then an Angel marathon with any crossover episodes watched during both marathons. Now I know that was the right idea. What I had forgotten was how serialized Buffy became. While not as intricately derived, with deeply layered arcs, as Angel’s are, Buffy’s storylines did begin to take on a more serialized form with many episodes picking up right off from their predecessor. So I’m here watching Angel’s dive into madness and anger and interstitially seeing plot unfold in Sunnydale. The two forms of serialization are quite different and the nuances are laid out in a post I have lying around in my drafts somewhere that will get published one of these days, so I won’t go into it here, but overlapping the two styles is fairly jarring. Add on to that that most of the time there are two completely separate stories and watching them at the same time provides nothing. Only when the rare crossover episode occurs is it worth the effort of overlapping the shows. And even then, the storyline of the other show will likely have other parts that you won’t recognize or understand in addition to the overlapping story. In the end it might not even be worth it to watch the crossovers until you watch the other show. Like I said the last time I ranted about this, I’ll probably never have the chance to do another marathon of this kind so it’s all really moot.