It turns out that Buffy S7 and Angel S5, while both final seasons for their respective series, are not the same thing. This dawned on me in the middle of Firefly. The resulting exclamation startled my visitors, to say the least. I am very sorry for causing confusion and extra work.
Hee. Right after I checked Costco's site I wondered if maybe it was a last season mix-up because my brain suddenly did the same thing. No worries at all.
I think the way they did it just felt very rushed --- like the writers thought, gee, we have to wrap the show up, and we haven't established this Sooper Sekrit Villain Cabal yet, let's just toss 'em in there anyhow.
The one saving grace for me was that they were all players that Angel & Co. had been introduced to earlier in the season via their work at Wolfram & Hart.
It felt very very rushed to me, but then the show was ending... I just did a little mental hand-waving about the whole SSVC being so easily destroyed.
We are, in fact, getting Season 5 dvds
before
Region 2 is -- the only time for either Buffy or Angel that this has happened, I think.
Lost
leapt on Angel writers as soon as the cancellation was known.
Good to see the Ultimate Drew abuse keeping up"
"It's cool," Abrams says, "that the 'Lost' writers' building is right across the way from the 'Alias' one. I'll be looking for Fury, and Fury will be in Bell's office, talking about an episode of 'Lost' or 'Alias.' I'll go over and be at 'Lost,' and Drew Goddard wrote an episode of 'Lost,' so Drew will be over there -- crying, I think."
"He's a very weepy man," Bell says.
"He's tall and weepy," Abrams says.
"Evidently," Bell says, "it's not easy being tall and handsome. There's a lot of weeping going on."
"I would know," Abrams says, "being as tall as I am and good-looking."
I love the idea of Abrams poaching Mutant Enemy for talent as soon as the axe fell. "Hey little boy, would you like a piece of candystorywriting responsibility on an angsty genre-crossing drama airing on network TV? With an obsessed internet-savvy fanbase?"
The lost storyline I mourn most is the robotic Watchers that led to Wes shooting "Dad." Who were they? What were they doing? How is Wes' Dad involved?
Curse you, WB. Curse you.
OK, I'm rewatching "To Shanshu in L.A." (it's been a loooong while since I watched it last) because I was talking about it earlier elsewhere, and Wesley looks absolutely *scrumptious* in it. He's all angsted out about the prophecy, with furrowed brows and 5 o'clock shadows and hair sticking up and looking damn near S3-worthy
scruffy.
I had no idea. Yumm.
Yes, he was yummy. It just serves to point out how good an actor he is with clumsy, geeky S1 Wesley. You'd think he was made for an interminable run in The Importance of Being Earnest. And then he comes on with the scruff and the shadow and the angst and the rrrowrrr.
Why do I have the feeling that AD is probably closer to geek-Wesley?
I love the idea of Abrams poaching Mutant Enemy for talent as soon as the axe fell.
He probably just had to say, "Hey, you want to continue to write for the HoYayest show on TV? Come on over to Lost!"
