Fred ,'Life of the Party'
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
S5 was my least-loved season of Angel, but I still miss the show.
If S5 had ended with 5x18, it would probably be my second fav season. I just thought the Big Bad Arc was really quite incredibly lame, and that the last episode was a bunch of interesting moments that didn't add up to more than an eyeroll.
I have strong opinions on very silly things, I know.
How about if it ended with Wesley not pulling the trigger in time in 5x19 because it was Fred's face he was looking into?
What Plei said. The first 3/4s of S5 had some amazing shows. The remaining ones felt thrown together and unfocused, even if they had some good moments.
How about if it ended with Wesley not pulling the trigger in time in 5x19 because it was Fred's face he was looking into?
Nah. I think 5x18 ended it on a perfectly fine note.
Though your ending still works better than the real one. Dragon, my big white ass.
I think I cut the end of the season a lot of slack because I knew it was ending. I mean, the last scene of the last ep was just...silly. No way they're walking away from that.
In all, it seemed like a decent Big Bad that should have been planned better, and given more time to develop. The execution of it was definitely haphazard. But I still like the idea of taking on the Senior Partners, even if the way it shook out was not very satisfying.
I think season 4 of Angel is the best thing that ever came out of Mutant Enemy. But I like serials.
And it's been established that I don't care so much about characters. I never saw consistent weirdness with how Cordelia was written. Sometimes, sure, but they were all acting like crazy people sometimes. Intellectually, I understand what bothered people about her, but it usually didn't occur to me when I was watching the show.
I much prefered Spike on Angel to S7 Buffy Spike- I only liked that one when he was crazy, and during Lies My Parents Told Me, Which I think would be nice to watch with the crazy slayer Angel episode.
I think season 4 of Angel is the best thing that ever came out of Mutant Enemy. But I like serials.
Whee! I love S4. Because I, too, like serials. And they kept pulling the rug out from under me. Like, ooh, Satan is the Big Bad! Except, whoa, they already killed him. Oh, Cordy's the Big Bad! Except, whoa, Jasmine. Oh, Jasmine's lost her powers and they're going to spend forever fighting her! Except, whoa, Connor punched through her head. Cripes, people. Be predictable now and then, it's comforting.
I think season 4 of Angel is the best thing that ever came out of Mutant Enemy.
Word.
I found the first third of S5 immensely annoying, mostly due to the awkwardness of having Spike around, and spending so much time dealing with his souledness/incorporeality/etc.
The end of the season, as asspully and handwavy as it was, was at least asspully and handwavy in a way that felt like AtS.
I thought the post about being "emotionally traumatized by Spuffy" overstated its case quite a bit, but I can see what the writer was getting at, especially in re: the show's "women who like bad boys suffer" thing. However, I think she's misunderstanding the cause of Spife/Buffy people moving to slash. I think it's more about some people needing to support "edgy" relationships than it is about "OH NOES I cannot trust the show ennymore!!!1".
Edit: I'm leaving in the accidental typo, and I shall call him Spife forevermore.