Just finished watching Angel Season 3.

[shadowscast]

Another DVD binge with my husband has brought me to the end of Angel's season 3, and I want to let some reactions fly. (Just quickly, and then I'll get back to writing!) Oh, and obviously if you reply to this post, I don't want any spoilers past Season 3!

First of all, the very final images: Angel descending into the deep ocean in his coffin, intercut with Cordy ascending into heaven on a white beam of white. Wow to the visuals.

And then, wow to the surprise! I've been reading fanfics and fan sites all week, and I've already read the transcripts of Buffy up to the end, so I've been plenty spoiled for a lot of things. I knew before Conner was even conceived that he would be, and how he'd be born, and that Wesley would somehow cause him to disappear and come back 16 years old and hating Angel. I didn't know any more details than that, so I was pretty pleased with all the twists and turns. (My God, did Holtz ever blindside me. I totally fell for his story. I thought love had conquered all. That man is cold.)

But wow. Cordelia. That is big time, and I'm so amazed and pleased that I managed not to be spoiled for it! And I'm so impressed with the way her character has grown since season 1 of Buffy - to the extent that I can actually believe in her being chosen for this ascension.

I really wonder what, if any, role she'll have in the next season.

I felt so bad for Fred and Gunn at the very end - "Where is everyone?" They're so alone. But hey, at least they have each other, which is more than anyone else can say.

I hate how everyone treated Wesley. They treated him like he did the worst thing anyone ever did. Worse than Angel locking Dru and Darla in with all the lawyers. (OK, that was pretty satisfying, but it was wrong! wrong! wrong!) He was trying to fucking save Conner, and protect Angel, and yeah he shouldn't have acted alone without the team (but where have we heard that refrain before? Oh yeah, like all the time, in reference to everybody), and yeah it went horribly wrong, but damn people. What happened to your love and loyalty?

Hm. Well, that was fun. Back to the writing. Spike and Xander in London, yay!

Comments

[dearg.livejournal.com]

This was my favourite season.
I have recently seen Season 4, which of course I just gobbled down in a couple of sittings. I think by the time Season 4 started, Joss was spreading himself to thinly among his various shows and the writing started to deteriorate somewhat.

agreed

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

There is one point when Gunn says he feels like he's been in some turgid soap opera - it seems a shame that the authours realised this, but didn't prevent it....
Hi, by the way, I'm also new to this LJ thing. Haven't had much time to post lately as I've been at Fusion (Buffy/Firefly convention), but I'll be posting some stuff about it in the next couple of days, if you're interested.

Re: agreed

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Cool, I've never been to a real con. They sound like fun, though.

Re: agreed

[dearg.livejournal.com]

I'll check it out.

Thanks

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

I know I'll gobble up Season 4 too as soon as I have the chance.

With Buffy, I adored the even the bits that kind of sucked... so I expect I'll be just as easy with Angel. :)

[flurblewig.livejournal.com]

I *adored* Season 4 - you've got some fine treats coming up :-)

Friending you - new S/X writers are definitely of the good! Really looking forward to the London story :-)

(I live just outside London, btw - if you need anything, just yell)

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Hey, maybe you can help me with a few little specific London questions? They're incidental details that I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly from when I (briefly) lived in London.

1) Can you buy tokens to use on the buses?

2) Is peanut butter tucked away in the foreign-foods section of the big grocery stores?

3) Are the terms "underground" and "tube" used basically interchangeably, and without capitalization?

[flurblewig.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service!

1) Yes.
2) Nope. It's usually in the section where you find stuff like jam, honey, chocolate spread & Marmite.
3) Yes, they're interchangeable. Capitalisation varies, but I'd say it probably is used more often than not (but only the word itself, not the definite article) - so 'the Tube' or 'the Underground'.

Hope that helps!

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

travel

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

You can get a London travelcard, with various zones, ie. the cheapest are just for the central part, (1 zone card) and the most expensive (4-zone I think) gets you travel to the outer parts of London - you can get one day, or one week, or one month cards if I remember rightly. They don't have your name on them, so you can give them to someone else if you've finished with them, or if you can't afford one and its later in the day, you can hang around at the station exits and scrounge a card off someone who's finished their travelling for the day - I can see Spike doing that if he's not up for jumping the barriers or pinching one. Some stations there's no-one on duty at certain times of hte day, so you could potentially travel for nothing if you knew which stations were unmanned and when.

additional info

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

In the more central parts of London, you can pretty much rely on it taking about 2 minutes between stations, unless there is a "person on the track" or some such! The travelcards work for tubes AND buses.

Re: additional info

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the additional info! :)