Last night, the WB succeeded in killing off the best thing it had going for them. Tonight was the series finale of Angel....
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I know Joss Whedon wanted Angel to keep fighting the good fight...but damn it! The series needed a resolution....that final showdown seemed like a cop-out to a real ending. Ok, I'm biased. I didn't want the series to end. Maybe Whedon just wanted to it to be a clean cut - a fast good-bye.....no lingering over the past and what should have been and how Buffy should have joined Angel in that last fight.
Ok - cool - Angel and co - knocked out the bad guys in the secret society.....but hell, even Buffy got a chance to end with a bang (get your mind out of the gutter now....).
Angel keeps fighting....like a video game when you keep the reset button.....I was looking forward to this episode. I wanted Angel to get redemption. I wanted to see Wolfram and Hart go down in flames....Now....Whedon ends the series with Angel swinging his sword. It's a strong ending, to go down fighting.....but as a TV viewer who ran home from work to catch this episode - it's frustrating and it's not satisfying.
well... maybe Whedon's holding out for a possible resurrection by some kind network out there - to bring his Buffy/Angel series back from TV syndication.
grr grr grr...a great series - amazing writing and the characters (Spike, Wes, Gunn, Fred/goddess....ok Lorne got on my nerves) finally fleshed out into compelling people I invested emotion and care into. I wanted to see how Wes turned out after losing Fred. I wanted to know if Spike found any peace of mind.
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talk about blue balls....
it's over.
Article comments
1 - mike hollihan
SPOILER COMMENTS:
It didn't have the big "bang" I might've wanted, but it went out with a message consistent with the show: No matter the odds or the outcome, always fight the good fight. It was very "Butch and Sundance" if you think about it.
I really loved the Illyria/Wes/Fred death scene. Remarkably touching and sweet. It also served to flesh out (as it were) Illyria's character.
The Lindsay/Lorne scene was perfect film noir. Death by betrayal; an honorable man does a horrible thing; one man forever changed and made unhappy. (Which is a recurring Joss theme, BTW.)
Loads of great one-liners, too. "Can I deny you three times?" "Well, personally I want to slay the dragon."
Maybe not perfect or even rousing, but I'm satisfied.
2 - suzyQ
I did not like the way they ended this series. I did not find the Illyria/Wes scene touching becuase it was not Fred. Illyria to me did not evolve enough to have those feelings yet, and who knows if Fred really loved West like he wanted.
And the whole Angel not with Buffy or did not find redemption, is another story!
3 - gheartoms
The ending to Angel sucked. Period. (I know I'm a little late posting, but I had to have somewhere to vent.)
4 - jaye
very....very well written episode.....brought tears from me several times...and not just tears of sadness....as to the ending....no ending would have really satisfied me cause i just didn't want the series to end....a side note.....joss cares nothing at all about killing off main characters....in any of his works....
5 - Mick
Man the ending was like mehhh.. Guess they wanted us 2 uze our imaginationz... ffffffffff...
6 - Shane
The ending overall, was amazing, though clearly nobody wanted to not see the fight happen, or no the fate of the characters.
It seems they wrote in assumption the series would be picked up with a 6th season, which unfortunately never happened.
The good news however, is that Angel has been picked up in comic book form, like buffy season 8, and it will finally tell us what happened to our heros!
i am more excited for this, than i was buffy season 8, because i felt season 7 of buffy actually had a decent finish, whereas season 5 of Angel left us in the dark, only to assume the worst, that they most likely died, but never to know for certain.
So at least we have this to look forward to. :) All i know, is i miss both Buffy and Angel as shows,more than anything.