S5 had the misfortune of following the exquisite perfection of Home with a string of pretty weak "Let's explain why Spike is on this show" reboot-ish eps. But it eventually got going and ended strong. Lots of nice mini-arcs.
Kaylee: Captain seem a little funny to you at breakfast this morning? Wash: Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one.
'Heart Of Gold'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
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.
Jessica - Jun 23, 2015 5:04:02 pm PDT #9980 of 10457
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
P.M. Marc - Jun 23, 2015 6:34:46 pm PDT #9981 of 10457
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think the high point for me was 5x18.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 24, 2015 4:49:29 am PDT #9982 of 10457
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I named a laptop after Illyria.
I named my first car (a blue used Honda Civic) Illyria because while it was somewhat diminished from what it had been, it was more potent than it looked.
I've dubbed my Sport Outback the Tardis because it feels bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside. Not blue though. Oh well.
Polgara - Jun 24, 2015 10:59:39 am PDT #9983 of 10457
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Just started watching season one of Angel with a friend who's never seen it (we just finished our two-year Buffy journey two weeks ago). Three eps in and she hates it, and I can't say as I blame her. It doesn't really get good until Wes and Gunn join. I'm thinking of skipping ahead before she gives up for good.
Also, season five rocked, season four is dead to me, and season three is half ok, half watch-through-my fingers awful. Season two, of course, rocks the hardest.
Connie Neil - Jun 24, 2015 11:02:34 am PDT #9984 of 10457
brillig
Angel has the evolution of Bad Ass Wesley. All other arguments are invalid.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 24, 2015 12:15:56 pm PDT #9985 of 10457
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I actually preferred the Angel - Cordelia - Doyle dynamic to what came later, even if some of the individual episodes weren't that great. And "Rm w/a Vu" is still my Platonic Ideal Angel episode.
bennett - Jun 24, 2015 12:50:23 pm PDT #9986 of 10457
Wes asking help from the Burger Loa is pretty much my fave. Forever and ever.
Connie Neil - Jun 24, 2015 1:07:00 pm PDT #9987 of 10457
brillig
Prim and proper Wes shooting the bad guy in that underground fighting episode makes me happy. But "I'll take away your bucket" has its charm. As does "It's not always walks in the rain" or whatever that line was.
-t - Jun 24, 2015 1:30:18 pm PDT #9988 of 10457
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"It's not always about holding hands" is how I remember it.
Jesse - Jun 25, 2015 6:21:23 am PDT #9989 of 10457
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The first season of Angel, I often clicked away in the middle -- I forget what else was on, but yeah. And then I drifted away at the end. I have never seen the puppet episode! I should (re)watch.