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Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?

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billytea - May 19, 2004 4:56:02 am PDT #419 of 3531

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I don't really feel much right now, courtesy of my exam. Mostly my reaction to all the season finales is "ok, now I can get more study done on Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday etc". Except the Frasier finale gave me a new tagline.

Sometimes, I'm callous and strange.

Lilty Cash - May 19, 2004 4:57:01 am PDT #420 of 3531

"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."

This is abrupt and unpleasant.

This. I haven't had time to prepare. I may feel the loss of the Scoobies more in the long run, but I was annoyed with the speechifying of S7, and I had lots of time to prepare. BTVS is still my favorite show in the history of the universe, but the loss of Angel hurts more. I'm not ready.

Fred Pete - May 19, 2004 5:00:28 am PDT #421 of 3531

Ann, that's a ferret.

Am I the only one feeling more of a sense of loss for Angel than for Buffy? Mainly because the final season of the former has been so much better than the latter.

Also no, "We still have Angel."

sumi - May 19, 2004 5:01:24 am PDT #422 of 3531

Art Crawl!!!

Exactly.

Jessica - May 19, 2004 5:02:36 am PDT #423 of 3531

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Angel was always more my show than Buffy was, so this hurts much more. I don't miss Buffy, but I will miss Angel.

-t - May 19, 2004 5:08:49 am PDT #424 of 3531

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Tag away Vortex.

I am arguing with myself over whether I have time to watch the last 11 hours of Angel today. I think the rational part of the brain is winning. Damn it.

Narrator - May 19, 2004 5:11:03 am PDT #425 of 3531

The evil is this way?

"Buffy" was ready to go. Seven seasons is a lot, and although parts of Season 7 were good, it had too much Potentials for me. [Plus, the whole is Giles dead and being imprersonated by The First ("No, let's just tweak the fans) -- left me feeling snarky.] But "Angel" had at least one more season in it. It smartly kept the focus on the core group (although it did add Spike), who had a lot more stories to tell.

Jeff Mejia - May 19, 2004 5:27:26 am PDT #426 of 3531

"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

In the nostalgic vein, here are a few statistics that I've cobbled togehter:

For the entire Buffyverse

12 seasons
254 hours of episodes
20 different lineups in the title sequences
21 different actors in the title sequences
22 different title sequences

That breaks down this way

Buffy

7 seasons
144 hours
12 different lineups in the title sequence featuring combinations of 12 different actors
13 different title sequences

Angel

5 seasons
110 hours
8 different lineups in the title sequence featuring combinations of 12 different actors
5 seasons
110 hours of episodes
8 different casts in the tltle sequence
10 different actors in the title sequence
10 different title sequences

[EtFC]

UTTAD - May 19, 2004 5:29:16 am PDT #427 of 3531

Strawberry disappointment.

le sigh

brenda m - May 19, 2004 5:31:25 am PDT #428 of 3531

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Buffy felt more finished to me; they'd told their story. With Angel, I feel like there's so much more to learn about who these people are, so the loss is greater.

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