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UPDATED: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 17:37
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EST120

Monday, January 24, 2005 5:45 PM

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Originally posted by amyel:
So it just made sense to me. I don't think there would be another way to do it when it's from inside's Angel's head. Angel is such a huge dork, I think that it was very accurate in depicting what Angel would think was a perfect day.

probably the most tangible manifestation of angel's dorkiness is his dancing from season 1. HI-larious.

GROUNDED

Monday, January 24, 2005 10:45 PM

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Originally posted by amyel:
So it just made sense to me. I don't think there would be another way to do it when it's from inside's Angel's head. Angel is such a huge dork, I think that it was very accurate in depicting what Angel would think was a perfect day.

But he's supposed to believe it's real, therefore it should play out as realistically as possible.

AMYEL

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:27 AM

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Originally posted by Grounded:
he's supposed to believe it's real, therefore it should play out as realistically as possible.

He had to think of a perfect day. And by definition a perfect day is impossible to achieve anyways. Part of the spell could have been to make him think it was real, so I really believed that Angel believed. And if his fantasy was a hokey Indiana Jones-wannabe... well, that's just Angel being himself.

GROUNDED

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by amyel:
He had to think of a perfect day. And by definition a perfect day is impossible to achieve anyways. Part of the spell could have been to make him think it was real, so I really believed that Angel believed. And if his fantasy was a hokey Indiana Jones-wannabe... well, that's just Angel being himself.

That's just a poor excuse for writing a bad story. Fair enough if you think that's how Angel thinks (personally I don't) but you can have lameness without it totally swallowing up the show and eclipsing the episode.

CAPTAINCDC

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:56 PM

Cordy was talking about her breasts. Do you really think that her saying something like that about her body is that out of character? I don't. I think that part of it was believable to Angel because it was something that he could totally imagine Cordy saying.

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason!

IDEFIX

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:37 PM

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Originally posted by Grounded:
That's just a poor excuse for writing a bad story. Fair enough if you think that's how Angel thinks (personally I don't) but you can have lameness without it totally swallowing up the show and eclipsing the episode.

maybe that's just because some of us think Angel isn't the brightest crayon in the box and other's don't. I like my Angel kinda dumb and not really of this world. and this EP is just perfect in that regard. the story Angel comes up with to make everything all right and himself perfectly happy is cheesy and lame and stupid and it fits perfectly with my view of Angels mind and how it works. just look at the trip to Pylea, that's loads of dumb or let's say simple Angel and I loved that as well.

but they aren't completely consistent with Angel and his mind over all of the 8 seasons he's been around. he's switched from stupid to smart and some things in between so often it's hard to keep track. so every opinion has it's EPs to back it up. kinda like Buffy, she's pretty inconsistently smart as well.

whereas we all know that Willow and Fred and Wes and Giles are smart as hell. and Gunn and Lorne and Xander and Anya are more the streetwise types with not so much of the book-learning smarts. they have other qualities and it's ok that way. but with Angel and Buffy you never know for sure and that's a bit confusing.

Idefix

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