Angel : 'Underneath'
Apr. 15th, 2004 12:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herewiss13Just a few vaguely spoilery bits.
Note: I liked it a _lot_ more than![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jennyo did. Apparently I can rationalize why the loss of Fred is different than the loss of Cordelia, Lilah, etc. I may even write on that later, but this is just to hit the nice jossian highlights before the memories blur.
There is a world of nothing but shrimp! What nice symmetry with "The World without shrimp" mentioned in "Triangle" (Buffy S5). I cracked up.
And, while we're on the subject of continuity homages, Angel quotes Fred's first words to him, which are tragically ironic at this point.
Drunk!Wesley apparently called Illyria a smurf! More cracking up.
Watching Wesley is like watching olive oil being poured. Ever so smooth, rich and warm...all while spiralling down the drain. I could watch him be crazy for quite a while, he does it so well.
And more props to Illyria. Demon!angst and nostalgia for older days. We've had a lot of riffs about how awful the human world is now, from "higher" personalities over the seasons (Glory, etc.). Illyria is the first to wax poetic about the days of yore. She paints an almost majestic picture of unrestrained evil, when Power walked the Earth freely and the earth trembled beneath it.
::sudden insight::
Right now, she's just about as lost as Fred was at the beginning of s3! Only where Fred wanted the safe, confining walls around her, Illyria can't stand them. The world had changed, or they had changed, too much to comprehend.
I will agree withjennyo on two things:
1. Lindsey better have a lot more information than that! If this is the last we see of Gunn and Lindsey doesn't start with the _major_ revelations, I'm going to be P.O.ed big-time.
2. I don't know Eve all that well, having only started watching s.5 at "You're Welcome", so maybe I'm missing something; but she and Lindsey have no chemistry. They may even have negative chemistry! That was the shallowest pining and reunion I've ever seen.
--Hamilton was awesome, though. Gorgeous suit.
Speaking of which, first Mal, then Zoe, now Jayne? Is Joss somehow trying to atone for Firefly's failure? How many more guest cameos can he squeeze into the last 5 episodes?
Hell-as-Suburbia was very nice, though the domestic scenes were more than a little repetitious and boring.
The sudden appearance of universal uzis was also great.
As was the synchronized "sun flinch". Not the first time that trick has been pulled, but it's still funny. And another nice Pylea reference too.
There is, however, such a thing as "too much slow-mo diving over furniture." How many different times did we see them do that?
Poor Lorne. It looks like incipient character development, but will they actually take it somewhere? Completely bought the platonic love thing too. No need to add _another_ crush to the pile.
Finally, in the trailers: Drusilla's going to be back! Whoo-Hoo!! Darla too, which is nice. But Drusilla is still at large and enjoyably crazy. Looks like we revisit Nerdy!Spike's poofy hairdo too, in some strange retro-flashback/dream thingie. ;-)
Oh yeah, so Connor's back too (though apparently not at the same). I am deep with non-excitement.
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...that was a lot more opinion fragments than I thought. Shrimp and Jayne were all I had going into this. ;-)
Note: I liked it a _lot_ more than
jennyo did. Apparently I can rationalize why the loss of Fred is different than the loss of Cordelia, Lilah, etc. I may even write on that later, but this is just to hit the nice jossian highlights before the memories blur.There is a world of nothing but shrimp! What nice symmetry with "The World without shrimp" mentioned in "Triangle" (Buffy S5). I cracked up.
And, while we're on the subject of continuity homages, Angel quotes Fred's first words to him, which are tragically ironic at this point.
Drunk!Wesley apparently called Illyria a smurf! More cracking up.
Watching Wesley is like watching olive oil being poured. Ever so smooth, rich and warm...all while spiralling down the drain. I could watch him be crazy for quite a while, he does it so well.
And more props to Illyria. Demon!angst and nostalgia for older days. We've had a lot of riffs about how awful the human world is now, from "higher" personalities over the seasons (Glory, etc.). Illyria is the first to wax poetic about the days of yore. She paints an almost majestic picture of unrestrained evil, when Power walked the Earth freely and the earth trembled beneath it.
::sudden insight::
Right now, she's just about as lost as Fred was at the beginning of s3! Only where Fred wanted the safe, confining walls around her, Illyria can't stand them. The world had changed, or they had changed, too much to comprehend.
I will agree with
jennyo on two things:1. Lindsey better have a lot more information than that! If this is the last we see of Gunn and Lindsey doesn't start with the _major_ revelations, I'm going to be P.O.ed big-time.
2. I don't know Eve all that well, having only started watching s.5 at "You're Welcome", so maybe I'm missing something; but she and Lindsey have no chemistry. They may even have negative chemistry! That was the shallowest pining and reunion I've ever seen.
--Hamilton was awesome, though. Gorgeous suit.
Speaking of which, first Mal, then Zoe, now Jayne? Is Joss somehow trying to atone for Firefly's failure? How many more guest cameos can he squeeze into the last 5 episodes?
Hell-as-Suburbia was very nice, though the domestic scenes were more than a little repetitious and boring.
The sudden appearance of universal uzis was also great.
As was the synchronized "sun flinch". Not the first time that trick has been pulled, but it's still funny. And another nice Pylea reference too.
There is, however, such a thing as "too much slow-mo diving over furniture." How many different times did we see them do that?
Poor Lorne. It looks like incipient character development, but will they actually take it somewhere? Completely bought the platonic love thing too. No need to add _another_ crush to the pile.
Finally, in the trailers: Drusilla's going to be back! Whoo-Hoo!! Darla too, which is nice. But Drusilla is still at large and enjoyably crazy. Looks like we revisit Nerdy!Spike's poofy hairdo too, in some strange retro-flashback/dream thingie. ;-)
Oh yeah, so Connor's back too (though apparently not at the same). I am deep with non-excitement.
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...that was a lot more opinion fragments than I thought. Shrimp and Jayne were all I had going into this. ;-)
