Watching TV on the computer
Oh, and I finally finished Angel. Other than the last episode and the puppet episode (”Look at the wee little puppet-man”), S5 was a major disappointment compared to S4. I was also irritated when Wesley’s thing for Fred was supposed to be attractive instead of creepy.[1] Sure, Wesley was my favourite character — he was incredibly well-developed and consistent and interesting — but he was also a creep and sort of an asshole. Who was punished all out of proportion to his sins, but I guess it’s one of those things: sometimes a mistake turns out terribly badly through stupid bad luck, and your extra punishment compared to people who all make the same mistakes is just chance.
I cannot decide whether or not I liked the ambiguous ending. I didn’t dislike it. I liked a lot of it. But sometimes I want more resolution. I thought how they dealt with Lorne was excellent, though. And the ambiguous ending (well, I sort of hope it was ambiguous, but it wasn’t, really) was appropriate for the show, which tried to deal with moral ambiguity in a very overt way, using Gunn especially as the foil. Anyways, I am not going to overblog this, because I haven’t entirely decided what I think of the entire show.
[1] This was a fairly regular happening, really. See, eg, Riley. And possibly the entire Buffy/Spike relationship.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:12 am
I don’t totally remember how Angel ended or my reactions anymore (as I watched it when it was on tv originally), but I hated Riley. He seemed so overly paternalistic and just pathetic near the end. I wanted to say, “This is why we grad students sign pledges we won’t date our students!!!” And I liked early Spike/Buffy flirtations/repulsions - but when they got together, I felt icky.
June 28th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
It ended with the gang all heading off to war and about to die.
I also hated Riley, but it is complicated, because I dated someone around then who put us sort of in that position (or at least the part where he loved me more than I him), and since he was mostly a nice guy (though a bit a Nice Guy), it was hard to separate out the Riley is an asshole from ex is not an asshole.
But Riley was always too paternalistic, and he was creepy near the end, but at least he was supposed to be creepy near the end, when at the beginning, we weren’t supposed to think he was paternalistic, we were supposed to think he was sweet.
And Buffy/Spike, yeah, ugh.
Hey, I started watching Veronica Mars, on your recommendation. So far, much fun.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
Yay! I’m gad you like Veronica.