Angel Season 3

[indri]

I've been watching early Angel Season 3 for the first time (I read the transcripts years ago). It's really the epitome of the show, isn't it? The gang's all there. I'm watching it, knowing how it ends, and it breaks my heart.

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[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

For the characters themselves, it certainly is. For Angel, in fact, it's probably the most nearly perfect imperfect happiness he's ever attained (or, given what happened afterward, is ever likely to attain.) Considered purely as drama, though, I have to rate the arc that started in mid-to-late-three and ran through all of season four as my artistic favorite; it's harrowing, of course, but -- for my taste, anyhow -- wonderfully done.

(And it's not completely because the late-three/four arc features Scruffy!Bitter!Wesley, who fits right into the leather jacket of one of my favorite character types, the Dangerous Scholar.)

[caira.livejournal.com]

(I read the transcripts years ago)

Ah, the good old days. When I read about someone watching their latest perfectly-illegal BitTorrented new eps of Who/Heroes/whatever I feel like shaking my cane at them . . .

[debxena.livejournal.com]

Oh, I miss Angel S3 ... it's probably time for me to re-watch it. So twisted and fucked up and bittersweet :)

[indri]

Angel looks so happy through much of Fredless, which is the one I've just watched. He gets all excited about having his stab wounds cleaned.

I'm very fond of the Season Two Darla arc, particularly Reunion, but I've yet to watch the Holtz/Connor saga. I need to order Season 4 from Amazon.

I look forward to meeting the Dangerous Scholar incarnation as Wesley. It was the Dangerous Scholar aspects of Giles hat first drew me strongly to the show, aprt from the whole small-woman-hits-things premise.

[indri]

I've watched a few dodgy-bootlegs posted from the US and Japan in my time too. I don't regret that we live in easier times now.

[indri]

And I love Lilah.