First thoughts on "Hole in the World"

[indri]

1. Am I the only person who mostly hated it with, say, the passion of at least half a dozen suns? Thought it was clunky with some excruciatingly bad dialogue and wearying sexual politics, not to mention naff direction?

2. I kept thinking that at some point we'd learn that one side-effect of whatever was afflicting Fred was that male people near her suddenly turned into brainless macho over-protective cavemen. Really, I did think this. Wesley shooting someone, Lorne hitting Eve---I was certain. But I was wrong. I forgot, for example, that Wes is, along with many positive qualities, a complete head-case.

3. The caveman and astronaut joke reminds me of the week when all my colleagues down at the lab were arguing over what is the opposite of a turtle.

4. My story, the one I've spent a year on and which has just gone through its second beta, was jossed. Not that I'm bitter.

5. The Angel/Spike snarkage is still fun, but may explain why the show has been cancelled: the anti gay rights lobby is behind it. I blame Bush and maybe Haliburton.

6. So, the only living female character on the show is now Eve. Argh.

7. See 6. Argh.

8. Why would you name your cuddly toy after Mitchell Feigenbaum? I know they just wanted to make some sort of reference to chaos theory, I'm just wondering about Fred.

Lilah would be rolling in her grave if she didn't have many better things to do.

Maybe it will grow on me. Maybe I'll grow a new head.

Bah, humbug.

Comments

[binsoup.livejournal.com]

1. I didn't exactly hate it. More like I was detached. It was very unsubtle, the jossian tricks were much too opaque to be effective.

2. The episode made me think that AtS is somekind of reversed polarised BtVS. The former testosterone-heavy, the latter estrogene-packed.

3. I'm with Spike, The caveman wins. :)

4. Waiting for your fic with bated breath.

5. During my second viewing of the episode, I caught myself fast forwarding to the A/S scenes. How pathetic is that?

6. There's still Harmony.

7. And Nina, the werewolf/Darla/Buffy clone who's having breakfast with Angel offscreen.

8. I think I get now why a lot of fans see Fred as the ultimate Mary Sue in the jossverse. See Fred, see how her brain is big enough for chaos theory, see how all the men want to date her, see how all the women gossip about her love life. Fred is dead. Goodbye, Fred. Hello, Fred-shaped blue fairy from hell.

And hello, Indri.

I'm Joss' bitch

[tesla321.livejournal.com]

But, when it comes to a television show that I've
invested in, I turn off my critical thinking. Sad,
really. However, I only get into one show at a time,
and all others are relentlessly snarked. It's because
I like to have one mindless hour. It used to be "Farscape"
and before that, "The X-Files"

You should read the comments on the TelevisionWithoutPity.com
"Angel" forum---next week's recap should be scorching. One of the
posters said that we were seeing the Faustian bargain enacted out
with all the Fang Gang; Angel's protection of Connor, Gunn into a yuppie, Fred with a science lab to play with, and now, Wesley having Fred love him: the price is being paid for everything.

Anyway, all eye-rolling at Joss' crap not withstanding, I
finally bought the Fresley, due to Alexis Denisof's weeping. Waah!
And since you know I'm a lawyer, you can appreciate how I squealed in glee when Wes shot the minion.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

one side-effect of whatever was afflicting Fred was that male people near her suddenly turned into brainless macho over-protective cavemen

This is a large part of my problem with the episode (and the series as a whole, and Joss' ridiculous claim that he's a "feminist").

I didn't hate it; right now I'm at the point where I'm just resigned to it being lame. And if I fall asleep and miss an episode.... Doesn't really matter.