Angel Season Four= Best. Season. Ever.

POSTED BY: Lexan
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 05:48
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LEXAN

Friday, January 26, 2007 1:52 AM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Why was Cordy made a higher being in the first place? Why was she returned? What was the beast's purpose? Why the rain of fire? Why blot out the sun? Why kill all of wolfram and hart? What was Jasmine's goal even? Did she just enjoy worshiper snacks handy?

So much of the season had no purpose other than to look cool. That's not Joss quality work. Which is not really an insult to all his shows. If I've heard correctly he did basically give them an outline and let them run the show for season 4. Which is why it turned out so badly. He left them to take on Firefly and iirc charisma's pregnancy is what caused the rewrite midseason. So, they didn't even end up following Joss's outline. In the end we got the poor stories and disappointed fans.

Cordy was made a higher being so Jasmine could use her as an implement to give birth to herself. Jasmine's 'essence' was implanted into Cordy when she was in the 'heavenly dimension'. The Beast needed to make it seem as though the world was ending in order to make sure Evil Cordy could successfully sleep with Connor (therefore getting herself pregnant) without Angel becoming suspicious. If she had slept with him without good reason it would have been obvious she wasn't herself. The Beast killed all of Wolfram and Hart because they would be *against* Jasmine, who, though still evil, was planning world peace. She was planning on killing thousands to save billions.

I really believe this season to be the best Joss has ever done. When Firefly was cancelled prematurely, he poured all his effort into Angel (He's actually stated before that at the time Buffy had kind of lost his interest). The writers actually did follow Joss' outline without any rewrites on their part, because it was on Joss' orders that they wrote the Connor/Cordy thing into the story. Joss has also stated that, because Charisma told him about the pregnancy so far into the season, it was pretty much the only way he could go that would make sense. In the end, I say it doesn’t matter that much, because everything flowed well (to me, anyway).

PURPLEBELLY

Friday, January 26, 2007 12:18 PM

I'm curious, though not puriently, as to the (mis)timing of events. Has anyone produced timelines for TV series production against personal lives in the Whedonverse? If anyone has a fly-on-the-wall of the writers' meeting that discovered Charisma's unavailability for the action-woman role that was evolving, that would be golden.

DIETCOKE

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:01 PM

My favorite season was five. The Spike and Angel scences were just fantastic. So many great episodes, Smile Time, the one where Angel and Spike go to Rome, oh, and the one where the party for Wolfram and Heart clients goes bad was another great one.

NY/NJ/CT Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

LEXAN

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:48 AM

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Originally posted by dietcoke:
My favorite season was five. The Spike and Angel scences were just fantastic.

I really don't get why season five is so popular. I was bored to tears by the Spike and Angel scenes and thought it was terrible and cheapening to the character how Joss brought Spike onto Angel in season five. Though I like the second half of the season, I think season five was by far the worst, in that its tone was dull, its character chemistry lifeless and its scenes almost sleep-inducing at some points.

One thing I thought was really pathetic about season five was how they often ended episodes with Spike and Angel sitting/standing in silence remembering their past misdeeds. It was as though they couldn't think of a final shot to end the episodes. I thought it was pretty pitiful.

When the season was first airing, I actually stopped watching the show half way through, it was so boring and dull. It was only when I bought the DVDs and watched the season in its entirity that I decided it wasn't so bad. Even on the second watching, though, the first half of the season pretty much raised zero interest from me. I actually walked out of the room at times to do other things without pausing it.

Despite this, season five has many good points. As a season, however, it is not very strong, absorbing or well panned out.

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