Has there been a reason given for this, I thought it was a fairly popular series? What season is Alias in now?
Third season ends tomorrow. The fourth season begins in January to allow for an uninterrupted 22-episode run.
Angel: Miss me? Lilah: Only in the sense of…no.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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Polter-Cow - May 22, 2004 12:51:04 pm PDT #1369 of 3531
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kristen - May 22, 2004 12:54:08 pm PDT #1370 of 3531
Plus it'll take JJ that long to figure a way out from whatever asspull he ends the season with this year.
§ ita § - May 22, 2004 12:57:54 pm PDT #1371 of 3531
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NYPD Blue is doing the same thing, as is something else I forget. Starting late, and going through with no repeats or large gaps (NYPD Blue's slot was re-run free this season too -- Line Of Fire ran when NYPD Blue didn't, until it was cancelled).
The fall season is becoming fuzzier and fuzzier -- see the success of the summer show (har) The OC, which went on to finish when all its brethren did, which meant it ran 27 episodes instead of 22.
-t - May 22, 2004 1:02:41 pm PDT #1372 of 3531
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think 24 is doing the start in January thing, also.
Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2004 1:47:04 pm PDT #1373 of 3531
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oooh, this thread has turned into spicy brain land, what with Cindy and Micole and Consuela!
However, much as I do adore Micole's spicy brains, I have to at least point out that
And we see Angel's own peculiar combination of self-righteousness/moral blindness enacted in violence on Lindsey
this isn't quite the whole story, given that the scroll Lindsey was going to burn was the only way to save Cordelia from spending the rest of her life bombarded with insanity-and-pain-inflicting visions. Plus, Lindsey basically told Angel "thanks for the second chance, but fuck that, I want the big prize instead, sucker". Lindsey absolutely got what he deserved in TO SHANSU..., and any grudges he held about his hand should have been directed at the mirror or Holland.
sj - May 22, 2004 2:43:33 pm PDT #1374 of 3531
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Third season ends tomorrow. The fourth season begins in January to allow for an uninterrupted 22-episode run.
Thanks.
sumi - May 22, 2004 2:47:56 pm PDT #1375 of 3531
Art Crawl!!!
I think that they were talking about having a 20 episode season next year. Not sure where I heard that!
Maysa - May 22, 2004 3:57:41 pm PDT #1376 of 3531
Oooh, this thread has turned into spicy brain land, what with Cindy and Micole and Consuela!
Wrod.
arby - May 22, 2004 6:01:22 pm PDT #1377 of 3531
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
Great posts, spicy brains! I've been racing to catch up with the thread ever since the finale. But first:
So it really is a vigorous wank.
I am 12. Ha ha ha ha ha!
Also, having just rewatched "Salvage" (Wes getting Faith out of jail to smack Connor around bring back Angelus, evil!preggers!Cordy fucking with Connor's head, Angelus being strangely unconvincing, etc.) I had completely forgotten the "Disco" part of BRDS. I laughed like a loon when I read that. (The whole reason I TiVoed Salvage was because I thought it was the episode where Willow re-souls Angel, the last 10 minutes of which got preempted in original broadcast due to the start of the war in Iraq, so I never saw the Fred/Willow flirtage.
ETA - But I wasn't sorry I watched, the Wes & Lilah (dead Lilah talking to him while he tried to cut off her head) scenes were so great. Plus Faith=Hot.)
ANYhoo, back to the finale. I loved it. So many lovely bits I did not see coming. Lindsey's rage at being killed by a flunky (which is why it made perfect sense to me that Angel would have Lorne do it, because he knew it would piss Lindsey off the most - especially after seeing Salvage again, wherein Angelus kills the BRDS, and the BF said that he never bought that, and I replied, "Angelus doesn't like being bossed around, ESPECIALLY by someone who's not even at the top of the ladder" - so Angel knows exactly how that feels).
And Wes - oh my poor suffering Wes - broke me. It's breaking me now just to remember it. I was a little annoyed that the BF made me keep watching - if I was alone I would have stopped the TiVo and cried for a while, because it hurt so good. Loved the ending.
Have been working on a theory about Firefly's cancellation and how that affected the Buffy/Angelverse - I almost have it, need to ruminate a bit more to make my thoughts somewhat coherent.
Caterpillar Drive - May 22, 2004 6:44:45 pm PDT #1378 of 3531
Tonight, I am the Law.
"Have been working on a theory about Firefly's cancellation and how that affected the Buffy/Angelverse - I almost have it, need to ruminate a bit more to make my thoughts somewhat coherent."
I would love to read it, arby. I hadn't even thought of that sort of connection, perhaps I should have.
So what happens to Mutant Enemy given the way writers are moving on to other things? Perhaps I missed this in other explanations.