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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 15 2011, 06:53 PM (266 Views) | |
| Benevolance | Nov 15 2011, 06:53 PM Post #1 |
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We finished the series yesterday. On the whole, it was very entertaining. When we picked up the series I hadn't planned on watching; it was something for Jenn to watch while nursing. But Joss' snappy dialogue drew me in. Season 2 and Season 3 were easily the best. It lost focus a bit once they switched to college. The dialogue wasn't as sharp, the material grew more teen-drama, and the loss of Seth Green then Anthony Stewart Head seriously weakened the cast. The 7th season came back fairly strong, re-introducing the character of Giles into the regular line up. It felt like some of the Buffy/Spike stuff was intended to be Buffy/Angel stuff. But since Angel had spun off a few seasons earlier, they wrote in a new vampire with a soul that was Buffy's love interest to die. Still, I feel that was a good trade, as James Marsten delivered a much snappier and interesting vampire than the brooding Twilight-esque Angel. And the finale was solid. The fact that the final enemy was originally a footnote in a Season 3 episode was pretty awesome. Nathan Fillion was a fantastic BBEG right-hand-man. And the series genuinely ended, which is a nice and novel feature in television. |
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| Andrul | Nov 15 2011, 10:22 PM Post #2 |
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Heh, it's been so long I don't even remember the finale. I do have the impression that it was better than the Angel finale where the whole world is effectively destroyed. |
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| Kishi | Nov 16 2011, 12:43 AM Post #3 |
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I haven't finished the precise calculations yet, but I can tell you that Andrul is roughly eighteen different types of wrong. The Angel finale was freaking fantastic. |
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| Benevolance | Nov 16 2011, 06:07 PM Post #4 |
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I don't think we're likely to nab the Angel series. The whole brooding vampire schtick does nothing for me, and I thought Angel was one of the weakest characters in the series. My favorite character - aside from Oz, because Seth Green is too cool for school - was Anya. She had carte blanche to say anything. And given the absurdity of the events, what she had to say almost always made sense while being wholly inappropriate. I mean, lines like this were simply priceless:
I also thought she was the best singer of the Buffy crew. And I'm not saying that simply because she performed her number in a red bra and panties. I also loved the fact that her fear of bunnies was a recurring joke. Despite it being a rather silly thing, Joss made it a well constructed and entirely plausible phobia. Edited by Benevolance, Nov 16 2011, 06:18 PM.
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| Kishi | Nov 16 2011, 06:22 PM Post #5 |
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Angel started off pretty poorly, but it definitely got better as it went along. They took three of the weaker characters from Buffy (Angel, Cordelia, and later on Wesley) and did a really good job developing them into something more interesting. I thought the last season was really good, better than any season of Buffy, in my mind. It's the only season that we own of either show. On the other hand, the first season of Angel does at least have this scene, where Spike shows up in LA to mock Angel... Edited by Kishi, Nov 16 2011, 06:23 PM.
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| Benevolance | Nov 16 2011, 06:32 PM Post #6 |
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Bwa ha ha! That is a hilarious scene. |
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| Andrul | Nov 17 2011, 10:46 PM Post #7 |
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See, I always felt that Angel ran about 3 seasons too long. The writers were dredging the barrel of bad ideas by the end. The whole Cordelia dies, but then comes back to seduce Angel's son, but it's not really Cordelia after all because she really is dead theme was a yawner. |
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| lgm | Nov 17 2011, 11:10 PM Post #8 |
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I'm not liking all this vampire screwing and reproduction. I'm so vamphobic. Let's apply fantasy scientific method also known as Internet Proof! 1. Vampires are undead 2. Undead explicitly implies a non-living (aka "dead") form. 3. Non-living, "dead", forms do not perform functions necessary for life. 4. Vampirism is closer to a virus due to spreading condition through blood transfusion 5. If any of the above are true, a vampire's testicles do not function and a woman cannot be impregnated by a vampire 6. ??? 7. Edward Cullen and Angel must die so my head stops exploding. edit: this is when someone tells me Angel's kid was born before he became a vamp because I only saw 5 minutes of 2 episodes from the first season. Otherwise, shoot me. Edited by lgm, Nov 17 2011, 11:12 PM.
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| Andrul | Nov 18 2011, 09:46 PM Post #9 |
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Nope. I forget the exact details but what little I remember went something like this: Angel had a soul so somehow knocked up his vampire turned human turned vampire again girlfriend who turned to ash when the baby was ready to be born because her undead body wasn't equipped to support life. Why this fact didn't destroy her before the baby had the ability to survive outside the womb escapes me. Or did she stake herself because the baby couldn't be born? I really don't remember. Or care. |
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| lgm | Nov 21 2011, 02:24 PM Post #10 |
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I think I have too good of an ally in Andrul. Like if I changed my mind he would cut my throat ally. |
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| Andrul | Nov 21 2011, 08:48 PM Post #11 |
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See? Sometimes wisdom does grow with age. |
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