Angel Reviews
May. 18th, 2004 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyBelated reviews of episodes sixteen, seventeen and eighteen. All include spoilers.
Shells is really the second part of A Hole in the World, but the Angel writers were never into calling episodes "Part 1" and "Part 2". I found it a rather grim piece overall. Fred gone. Permanently it seems. Alongside loads of depression from all and sundry and there was yet another reminder that Buffy and the Scoobies Do Not Trust Angel Any More.
It was good to see Amy Acker take on the role of Illyria (Twelfth Night anyone?) and make a decent job of it. I also liked her new "time-warping" powers as they were an innovation from a team that previously tended to produce harder and harder bad guys each season. Nice to see Eve not looking smug for once. Also the team in general managed to portray dejected and heart-broken beautifully... but we've seen that before. The final scenes were obviously the counterpart to the start of A Hole in the World, just a gentle reminder of where Fred came from.
Overall I got the impression that the Angel team had now received the "End of Angel" news and were starting to wrap up properly. This feeling becomes even more pronounced in the next couple of episodes.
And in Underneath - Welcome back Lindsey! Although was I the only one to feel that his sudden retrieval was only brought in 'cos the series was about to end? No matter. Any episode involving Christian Kane is always a good one. Plus I liked the new title sequence, although I don't regard Harmony as a plus.
The Senior Partners "holding cell" was downright creepy and Gunn's chosen penance even more so. The replacement liaison was rather Terminator-esque, which cut down somewhat on his own "creepy" factor. Eve's existence and the possibility that she might have some answers to the Senior Partners locked into her brain was a nice touch, I hope that they capitalise on it later.
However I found the ending a bit off. To claim that the "apocalypse" had already begun was all very well - but where was the evidence? Oh, and when will Lorne get more than two sentences in an episode?
Connor's back in Origin and he's likable! I never liked him originally, but seeing him here I wished he was going to turn up again sometime (OK, I don't know for certain, but my guess is not). In fact it was very like Riley's return in As You Were for me.
I really enjoyed the episode. A bit of explanation and background to the reality shift made in Home was welcome as was the concluding of the prophecy where Connor kills Sahjhan (I never liked Sahjhan or Holtz). Also, finally the gang get their memories back (I assume this goes for all of them). Plus all the scenes between Connor and Angel were great.
Finally - I thought Connor remembered. Anyone disagree?
Shells is really the second part of A Hole in the World, but the Angel writers were never into calling episodes "Part 1" and "Part 2". I found it a rather grim piece overall. Fred gone. Permanently it seems. Alongside loads of depression from all and sundry and there was yet another reminder that Buffy and the Scoobies Do Not Trust Angel Any More.
It was good to see Amy Acker take on the role of Illyria (Twelfth Night anyone?) and make a decent job of it. I also liked her new "time-warping" powers as they were an innovation from a team that previously tended to produce harder and harder bad guys each season. Nice to see Eve not looking smug for once. Also the team in general managed to portray dejected and heart-broken beautifully... but we've seen that before. The final scenes were obviously the counterpart to the start of A Hole in the World, just a gentle reminder of where Fred came from.
Overall I got the impression that the Angel team had now received the "End of Angel" news and were starting to wrap up properly. This feeling becomes even more pronounced in the next couple of episodes.
And in Underneath - Welcome back Lindsey! Although was I the only one to feel that his sudden retrieval was only brought in 'cos the series was about to end? No matter. Any episode involving Christian Kane is always a good one. Plus I liked the new title sequence, although I don't regard Harmony as a plus.
The Senior Partners "holding cell" was downright creepy and Gunn's chosen penance even more so. The replacement liaison was rather Terminator-esque, which cut down somewhat on his own "creepy" factor. Eve's existence and the possibility that she might have some answers to the Senior Partners locked into her brain was a nice touch, I hope that they capitalise on it later.
However I found the ending a bit off. To claim that the "apocalypse" had already begun was all very well - but where was the evidence? Oh, and when will Lorne get more than two sentences in an episode?
Connor's back in Origin and he's likable! I never liked him originally, but seeing him here I wished he was going to turn up again sometime (OK, I don't know for certain, but my guess is not). In fact it was very like Riley's return in As You Were for me.
I really enjoyed the episode. A bit of explanation and background to the reality shift made in Home was welcome as was the concluding of the prophecy where Connor kills Sahjhan (I never liked Sahjhan or Holtz). Also, finally the gang get their memories back (I assume this goes for all of them). Plus all the scenes between Connor and Angel were great.
Finally - I thought Connor remembered. Anyone disagree?
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Date: 2004-05-18 01:13 pm (UTC)Sorry it won't be able to be there before tonight's episode. :)
S'OK. I don't think there's any sensible way of seeing it before tonight's. Maybe I'll have to go read the recaps in advance...