I sure am starting to like Angel

POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Sunday, February 15, 2004 16:30
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SUCCATASH

Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:28 AM

I'm not a big Buffy or Angel fan but I managed to catch most of both show's last season and I started getting into it.

I wasn't so sure about this season's Angel with the lawyer story, but I must say the recent episode ("Damage", Episode #511) with the escaped psycho girl (who seemed an awful lot like River) was a great episode.

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Can't believe Spike got his hands cut off.

I really like the tension between Angel and Spike and

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seeing Andrew again and all the Slayers.

Great episode, what did you think?

11THHOUR

Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:18 AM

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I wasn't so sure about this season's Angel with the lawyer story, but I must say the recent episode ("Damage", Episode #511) with the escaped psycho girl (who seemed an awful lot like River) was a great episode.

Great episode, what did you think?

I also noticed the resemblance between the girl and River. Although the girl was more like River cubed, and not nearly as cuddly...

As far as the first spoiler you mentioned... I actually kinda saw that coming. It was hard core creepy and for most folks, you don't come back from that too well. But I figured that they'd come up with a way to remedy the situation. Still, hell yeah, gasp-a-rama...

Angel seems to tread into the shadows much more than Buffy did. Tonight's ep was an exploration into the cycle of evil. A jaunty romp all about the giving and receiving thereof...

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I always wondered what would happen if "The Chosen One" powers got bestowed upon a very unbalanced girl. Faith the Vampire Slayer was an expample that there doesn't seem to be a very good screening process on who gets the super powers and psychic dreams.

My Angel viewing had become somewhat sporadic for a while. The stories were becoming a little too much like soap opera. (All the romantic entanglements and partner switching was dreary for me.) However, I've been watching Angel steadily all this season and really getting back into it. The show has a new vitality, and has found both the fun... and the dark. I have a theory that with the ending of Buffy, and the cruel, untimely yanking of Firefly, that a great deal of righteous energy is being concentrated into Angel. The show has been reinvigorated and it shows.

I'm lovin' it.

11thHour

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DRAKON

Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:18 PM

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seeing Andrew again and all the Slayers.

Great episode, what did you think?

I wanted to kill their "guest star". Sorry, but ain't forgiven him for what he did last year. To his best friend none the less. I kept hoping an anvil would drop out of the sky on top of him.

"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"

STILLSHINY

Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:37 PM

I am all there with you. I never watched wither Buffy or Angel. OK I really tried to get into both. But now with this season, I'm freaking hooked. I'm trying to read all the epp summary's for Buffy & the transcripts for Angel just cuz I gotta have all the backstory. I love the whole Angel and Spike element. Which one was truly the monster, and which was the victim? My wife thought the LOTR references we're funny too. and she pointed out the riverisms as well.
On the "I thought of Firefly today" post I mentioned the River Slayer idea.

“Firefly is the source of probably more joy & pain than anything I’ve done.” - Joss

KASUO

Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:19 PM

The psycho girl kinda reminded me of a Reaver with that little bit of blood on her face and wild behavior.

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"Let's moon 'em!"

STILLSHINY

Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:12 PM

Kind of a River-Reaver-Slayer!

Oh please stop me.

“Firefly is the source of probably more joy & pain than anything I’ve done.” - Joss

HJERMSTED

Thursday, January 29, 2004 6:40 PM

Fantastic episode!

Anytime a new character is introduced AND the Buffyverse mythology is advanced/expanded interesting possibilities are inherent.

And Team Whedon nailed this one.

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The build up in the institution was brutal and engaging. The big reveal as to Dana's nature would have come as a pleasant surprise if I hadn't already read about her online. It'd be fun to see this character again. She definitely made bad Faith seem well-adjusted.

Hearing about what was happening with the Buffy characters was a hoot especially coming from Andrew's interesting perspective.

I find it difficult to accept that Rupert Giles would tolerate a ninny like Andrew enough to make him a Watcher-in-training... but times are tough for the Council, I s'pose. Xander perhaps would have been the better choice for such a position, but the comic/strangeness possibilities are greater when Andrew is in the story.

The Spike/Angel definitions of good/evil contrasts are becoming more interesting. I do believe these two should have bonded by now already, tho. The hissy fits are becoming less interesting than the possibilities of these two becoming genuine brothers-in-arms/drinking buddies. Let's see where Team Whedon takes these two but maybe it's time to send up a warning flare signifying concern over how much longer this squabbling will go on?

The battle lines between the Council and the Angel run W&H have been drawn! Exciting! Wouldn't it be strange if the new Council were the Big 'Bad' this season? (or the Big Good in this case)

Great episode! The third one to REALLY impress me this season (the halloween ep, and 'Harm's Way' are the others if you care to know)

mattro

KURUKAMI

Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:21 PM

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I wanted to kill their "guest star". Sorry, but ain't forgiven him for what he did last year. To his best friend none the less. I kept hoping an anvil would drop out of the sky on top of him.

Ah, but you forget... "the Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded." And, well, Andrew's probably about as weak-minded as they come. The First just kind of pushed him towards the murder through trickery and psychological pressure.

Additionally, if you were Giles and you didn't entirely trust Wolfram & Hart, who would you send as an emissary? Someone important, or someone less capable but arguably expendable?

History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it merely shouts "Weren't you listening the first time?!?" and lets fly with a club.

STEVE580

Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:33 PM

These newer episodes of Angel are arguably some of my favorites. I loved how in this one, there were three differant sides of 'good'. The elevator scene was hilarious! I thought it was cool they sent Andrew; when Angel said Giles sent someone, I was affraid it'd be Buffy, Willow, or Xander, who I hope never to see on Angel again, unless it's something super important, like a series finalle. I was a bit upset to hear that the original buffy gang was all scattered about the world; I kinda figured they were all together, gathering the slayers. It is cool that they're the most powerful force in the world, though - all those slayers, surely, no one can challenge them.

Since seeing the Buffy series finalle, I was waiting for Angel to run into a Slayer, and thought it rather odd that he hadn't. This episode was awesome.
-Steve

DRAKON

Friday, January 30, 2004 10:36 AM

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Ah, but you forget... "the Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded." And, well, Andrew's probably about as weak-minded as they come. The First just kind of pushed him towards the murder through trickery and psychological pressure.

He may have been pushed, but it was still his choice to do it. And I don't care how weak minded he may be, it don't excuse it or redeem him in my eyes. I want to see that sniviling little crapweasle suffer terribly.

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Additionally, if you were Giles and you didn't entirely trust Wolfram & Hart, who would you send as an emissary? Someone important, or someone less capable but arguably expendable?

Now there is a good point. If W&H are bad guys, well the potential is lost anyway to them, and they lose Andrew as well. If not, and he can complete the mission, all the well and better. Either way, its a win win for the Buffsters.

"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"

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