Angel Feature from FofR v3.0
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Original Date posted: Wed, 24 September 2003 08:05:53
Post: An old Angel feature I once wrote:
Angel Season 4 has finished. Well if you are American or you download it off the net it has.
My conclusion? Brilliant. Not an artistic show, far from it in fact, nothing to the standard of the movies I enjoy, but as a TV Show aimed at teens goes, it comes out pretty darn good.
I have long been a follower of the Buffy Series - following it "as I have grown". Only recently have I followed the Angel series as well (seasons 3 & 4).
Series Four Synopsis:
Angel rescued from Ocean, Cordelia comes back form above.
Lorne is saved from LA and then a big beasty demon shows up.
Angellus arrives, Faith comes along and things all get pretty messy.
That's all Im saying, I don't really like to give any spoilers.
I have just watched 4x22 Home, the last of the series. And I am rather impatiently waiting for the start of Season 5 in the autumn... which looks like it could be mighty marvelous. Series Finales can often be pretty pants (Dark Angel :cough:) and having seen 4x21 and the events that had occurred I pretty much thought, "What Now" and was sure the final episode would be a cop out. I was wrong (which is rare), the episode was great, truly showing how the characters have been developed and what lies in store for them in the future.
Angel as a whole is witty with some fantastic storylines, often not feasible, but still fantastic. Any sci-fi fan should enjoy watching this after they have gotten to know the regulars pretty well.
Angel: "How are you feeling?"
Faith: "Like I did mushrooms and got eaten by a bear."
"After three years of living in Sunnydale, fighting along side his girlfriend Buffy, Angel moves to Los Angeles to tell the tale of a vampire with a soul, seeking redemption after many years of killing innocents. Aided by a few old friends and new, Angel must continue to fight the dark forces that Los Angeles has to offer. Only then, will he be forgiven for all the pain he has caused and someday become human.
Spin the bottle (4x06) Episode Review:
Gunn: "Oh, good. Symbols on the floor. That always goes well."
I loved this episode so much that I didn't even mind that it was part two of "Tabula Rasa." I have no objection to something being done again if it's done this well. Returning all of the characters to their teenage personas was inspired. Trust Joss Whedon to think of such a thing.
It was great seeing smart-ass Cordelia back in the saddle again; couldn't we keep her this way? She must have been sixteen or younger, because Cordelia met Angel at sixteen and she didn't know him here. (Did you notice that the first thing Cordelia said when she saw Angel was "Hello, salty goodness?" That was the same thing Cordelia said when she saw Angel for the first time back on BtVS.)
It made perfect sense, Wes figuring out (erroneously) that they were being tested a la Buffy's eighteenth birthday. Alexis Denisof probably had a ball returning to his old characterization of Wesley as prissy, clumsy head boy watcher-in-training (or as Cordelia called him, "head cheese.") I just loved the accidental emergence of his concealed, um, weapons in particular.
One of my absolute favorite scenes was when Wesley was duct-taping Lorne to the lobby sofa. Gunn: "I say we cut his head off." Wesley: "Thank you very much, Marie Antoinette." Gunn: "What you call me?" Cordelia: "Hey, hey, you two wanna pause the homoerotic buddy cop session long enough to explain this? Wooden stakes? A guy with horns?"
Even Fred and Gunn were consistently delightful here, with Fred trying to score weed, talking about alien abductions and government conspiracies, and Gunn back in his first year distrustful vampire-hunter persona. (It was also touching and sad in the beginning when grown-up Gunn was talking about just being the muscle. Gunn is afraid of losing Fred to Wesley, and I'm starting to think he might be right.)
Angel's Liam was very young and uncertain, probably from before he began rebelling against his father. I thought Angel being unable to make himself speak with an Irish accent was a total hoot. That morphing scene in the bathroom where he figured out he was the vampire they were all hunting was also priceless, and I loved the fake-out with the cross. (Although I thought the way Fred ran the cross over herself like a metal detector was even funnier.)
Wesley: "As far as evil plans go, it doesn't suck."
Lorne: "Do we fight snakes?" Angel: "Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons."
Post: An old Angel feature I once wrote:
Angel Season 4 has finished. Well if you are American or you download it off the net it has.
My conclusion? Brilliant. Not an artistic show, far from it in fact, nothing to the standard of the movies I enjoy, but as a TV Show aimed at teens goes, it comes out pretty darn good.
I have long been a follower of the Buffy Series - following it "as I have grown". Only recently have I followed the Angel series as well (seasons 3 & 4).
Series Four Synopsis:
Angel rescued from Ocean, Cordelia comes back form above.
Lorne is saved from LA and then a big beasty demon shows up.
Angellus arrives, Faith comes along and things all get pretty messy.
That's all Im saying, I don't really like to give any spoilers.
I have just watched 4x22 Home, the last of the series. And I am rather impatiently waiting for the start of Season 5 in the autumn... which looks like it could be mighty marvelous. Series Finales can often be pretty pants (Dark Angel :cough:) and having seen 4x21 and the events that had occurred I pretty much thought, "What Now" and was sure the final episode would be a cop out. I was wrong (which is rare), the episode was great, truly showing how the characters have been developed and what lies in store for them in the future.
Angel as a whole is witty with some fantastic storylines, often not feasible, but still fantastic. Any sci-fi fan should enjoy watching this after they have gotten to know the regulars pretty well.
Angel: "How are you feeling?"
Faith: "Like I did mushrooms and got eaten by a bear."
"After three years of living in Sunnydale, fighting along side his girlfriend Buffy, Angel moves to Los Angeles to tell the tale of a vampire with a soul, seeking redemption after many years of killing innocents. Aided by a few old friends and new, Angel must continue to fight the dark forces that Los Angeles has to offer. Only then, will he be forgiven for all the pain he has caused and someday become human.
Spin the bottle (4x06) Episode Review:
Gunn: "Oh, good. Symbols on the floor. That always goes well."
I loved this episode so much that I didn't even mind that it was part two of "Tabula Rasa." I have no objection to something being done again if it's done this well. Returning all of the characters to their teenage personas was inspired. Trust Joss Whedon to think of such a thing.
It was great seeing smart-ass Cordelia back in the saddle again; couldn't we keep her this way? She must have been sixteen or younger, because Cordelia met Angel at sixteen and she didn't know him here. (Did you notice that the first thing Cordelia said when she saw Angel was "Hello, salty goodness?" That was the same thing Cordelia said when she saw Angel for the first time back on BtVS.)
It made perfect sense, Wes figuring out (erroneously) that they were being tested a la Buffy's eighteenth birthday. Alexis Denisof probably had a ball returning to his old characterization of Wesley as prissy, clumsy head boy watcher-in-training (or as Cordelia called him, "head cheese.") I just loved the accidental emergence of his concealed, um, weapons in particular.
One of my absolute favorite scenes was when Wesley was duct-taping Lorne to the lobby sofa. Gunn: "I say we cut his head off." Wesley: "Thank you very much, Marie Antoinette." Gunn: "What you call me?" Cordelia: "Hey, hey, you two wanna pause the homoerotic buddy cop session long enough to explain this? Wooden stakes? A guy with horns?"
Even Fred and Gunn were consistently delightful here, with Fred trying to score weed, talking about alien abductions and government conspiracies, and Gunn back in his first year distrustful vampire-hunter persona. (It was also touching and sad in the beginning when grown-up Gunn was talking about just being the muscle. Gunn is afraid of losing Fred to Wesley, and I'm starting to think he might be right.)
Angel's Liam was very young and uncertain, probably from before he began rebelling against his father. I thought Angel being unable to make himself speak with an Irish accent was a total hoot. That morphing scene in the bathroom where he figured out he was the vampire they were all hunting was also priceless, and I loved the fake-out with the cross. (Although I thought the way Fred ran the cross over herself like a metal detector was even funnier.)
Wesley: "As far as evil plans go, it doesn't suck."
Lorne: "Do we fight snakes?" Angel: "Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons."
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