Angel S2 is the best season of any Whedon show.
I'm gonna have to go with Firefly season 1 (wow, that felt weird to type), but I still feel pretty confident that Angel S2 is right up there, and above Buffy S2, which I adore to bits.
Wesley: I stabbed you. I should apologize for that. But I'm honestly not sure how. I think it'll just be awkward. Gunn: Good call. Wesley: Okay.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 7:40:38 am PDT #1779 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Apr 05, 2011 7:42:27 am PDT #1780 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Angel S2 is the best season of any Whedon show.
Oooh, bold claim! I'd have to go with Buffy S3, or Firefly S1.
Jessica - Apr 05, 2011 7:43:56 am PDT #1781 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Okay, so is Angel S5 better than S2?
No.
Angel S2 and S4 are about on par for me, but S5 took waaaaay too long to get good.
Tom Scola - Apr 05, 2011 7:45:40 am PDT #1782 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Angel S5 had a couple of great standalone episodes, Numero Cinco and Smile Time, but the overall arc was meh.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 05, 2011 7:49:10 am PDT #1783 of 30001
"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 liked Angel Season 5 better than the previous two seasons (SO much better than Season 3!), but it doesn't hold up to what I consider to be the gold standards: Seasons 1 & 2 and Buffy Seasons 1-3.
DavidS - Apr 05, 2011 7:49:57 am PDT #1784 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It must be said that Buffy sustained a greater peak for a longer time. BtVS Seasons 2-4 are solid gold.
ION, I found this newspaper item from 1911 criticizing intercollegiate baseball:
Dr. Jordan witnessed one of the games of baseball between Stanford and the University of California recently, and became highly indignant at what he termed “systematic muckerism” as manifested by the cancous joshing of pitchers and other players
"Systematic muckerism"? I don't even know about "cancous joshing." "Canerous" maybe? "Rancorous"?
Jessica - Apr 05, 2011 7:52:14 am PDT #1785 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
BtVS Seasons 2-4 are solid gold
I don't know about that - S4 has some standouts in it, but as an arc it was pretty uneven.
Tom Scola - Apr 05, 2011 7:54:43 am PDT #1786 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Oh, yeah? Well, Dr. Jordan throws like my grandma.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 7:56:41 am PDT #1787 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Mucker is to fuck up, so I assume systematic muckerism is fucking around as a matter of course.
Don't know about cous cous or whatever that word is.
DavidS - Apr 05, 2011 7:57:56 am PDT #1788 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't know about that - S4 has some standouts in it, but as an arc it was pretty uneven.
The arc made no sense. However, I think of it as a season with paired episodes like two episodes covering Oz leaving, and the Fuffy/Baith two-parter. Plus some of the funniest episodes were that season and you also had the Gentleman. Way better than solid.