Remembering Angel - Season 5 Favorites

POSTED BY: Angeldove
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 4, 2004 18:17
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ANGELDOVE

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:55 AM

I think one of the biggest problems with Season five was due to the cancellation. Even though Joss said he was going to end it in much the way he had planned to, he did say that at the begining of the season they opened up a lot of new story lines to deal with over the next few seasons. When you do this, then get told over half-way through the season that you're canceled, the once leasurly walk to the finish line becomes a sprint, and it is no wonder that many felt the story lines to be rushed. It was evident that Spike was to consist as a mini story arc, as the first part of the season greatly involved him, and Illyria was the second mini story arc, with the Circle of the Black Thorn running as the overall story arc of the season. However, we didn't get to see as much as one would expect of the Illyria arc, and definitly not enough of this Circle arc, which was rushed into two episodes to pull it together for the finale. Personnally, I feel that if they knew the show was coming back for a 6th season, they probably would have shelved 'The Girl In Question' episode in hopes of getting Gellar to do it in the following season; if this wasn't their plan, it should have been. That ep drove me crazy knowing that Buffy wasn't going to show up, therefor no tension waiting to find out if they would see her or not, what would happen with the love triangle, etc, etc..and God save me from having to watch the very bad dancing stand-in again, ever! Even if we didn't know in advance that Sarah wasn't in the show, were we really going to fall for that? This episode was designed with the mind-set of tying up this triangle thing before cancelation to appease the fans; but in the end, it seemed exceptionally contrived and thus futile.
I enjoyed this season, and Whedon and crew did the best with what they had to work with. Although for overall story arcs I am a fan of Seasons 2 & 3 (sorry, Season 4 was just too damn long with no stand alones to lighten it up) Season 5 wins hands down for best individual episodes and mini arcs in my book. (Season 4 did have Angelus and Faith, as well as scruffy Wes, so it too had its merits)

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

SMILETIMEANGEL

Tuesday, July 6, 2004 2:38 PM

hi.

didnt sell it so ill be wearing it again for more conventions next year

HEB

Tuesday, July 6, 2004 6:18 PM

You so should have won with that costume.

Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
.................
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

QUICKSAND

Tuesday, July 6, 2004 9:55 PM

Well-written and well-plotted. We'll miss it. We'll miss Joss, too. Another 9 months and change until we get anything new from the man...

Anyone wanna give me the Angel DVD box sets for free?

KAYKATH

Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:28 AM

Origin
You're Welcome

seasons
1)4
2)2
3)3
4)1
5)5

Seasons are kinda hard. #4 handsdown favourite.

3 and 2 kinda switch back and fourth, there are more episodes I love in season 3 than season 2 but I hate the Gunn/Fred/Wes and Angel/Cordy storylines and that Cordy and Gunn seem so out of character in their reactions to Wesley at the end of the season.

Same with seasons 1 and 5, if season five didn't put Fred(who I hate) with Wesley(who I love) I'd have put it higher. Plus I didn't like the fact that half the cast disppeared at the beginning of the season so that they could showcase Spike. and it really annoyed me that they took so long to deal with the mindwipe and then didn't even follow up on it after "Origin".

GROUNDED

Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:07 AM

"Cordy and Gunn seem so out of character in their reactions to Wesley at the end of the season."

True, but in S4 *everyone* is out of character at some point.

KAYKATH

Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:49 PM

True but at least in season 4 I get an explanation for Cordy's that I can stretch back to cover all her strange behaviour. and I can fanwank that the couple of months distance between them had Gunn and Wes forgetting that they actually used to be friends, it's a bit easier to swallow for me than Gunn's total shift from one week to the next in season 3. and the hotness of scruffy Wes/Lilah overpowers a lot anyway!

I started watching Angel at "Couplet and Loyalty" in the season three reruns and went straight into season 4 while playing catch up with the other seasons so on most of the first viewing the out of characterness didn't jump out at me. I just spent the first couple of months thinking Gunn was an insecure jerk and had always been that way. The out of characterness would have bothered me a lot more if I'd seen the series in order because that's generally one of my pet peeves. Season 4 would still be my favourite though because I just love the scope and consistancy of the storytelling in that season. Love story arcs.

I'm disappointed that they didn't have Fred turn out to be some kind of evil mind control demon though...because that would have explained everyone's behaviour!

GROUNDED

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 6:17 PM

If you really analyse it, the S4 story makes little to no sense. Even if it did, I'd still never forgive the character reversal and killing of Skip :(

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