It’s taken me a while to get back on track with this show, but now I’m finally ready for season 3. And boy, I really am ready. For this was one hell of a season finale.
Can’t wait till I’ve got my hands on season 3.
“Prepare to jump. But we will be back.”
Posts filed in A Praise Chorus
“A Praise Chorus” is, probably amongst other things, a title of a song by the American Emo band Jimmy Eat World. I use it here to tag posts where I praise stuff. I thought that’d be obvious, really…
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Babylon 5, season 2
Season two of “Babylon 5” opened with something of an outrage, as they replaced one of the main characters. At first this annoyed me, even though I didn’t think I liked the replaced character much, and the replacement seemed even duller than the original one. However, as time progressed, I realised that both replaced and [...]
Babylon 5 — Season 1
I finished the first season of Babylon 5 last Friday, and so thought I’d try to jot down a few words about it. I’ve done my best to avoid any spoilers, and I like to think that there’s not many of them, and that the few that are, are so vague that they’re hardly spoilers [...]
Trainspotting
“Trainspotting” is a movie with many deeply disturbing scenes. Its theme is drug abuse and the consequences this has on a person’s life. It’s set in what must be the ugliest parts of Edinburgh, a city I’ve never heard praised for its beauty. There’s truly meaningless, accidental death; HIV; overdoses; the nastiest toilet in Scotland; [...]
Lord of War
You know, I suspect I might be an easily awed person. Either that, or I am extremely good at selecting books, comics, TV shows, movies and what have you, which awes me. Because just in the last month or so, I’ve been moonstruck by some cultural product so often, that I should have become a [...]
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It — AS5×22 Not Fade Away
That’s it. The end. And what an end it was.
By the time Angel said, “Well, personally, I’ve always wanted to slay a dragon,” I was sobbing — half laughing with joy, half crying from grief. Where the ending of “Chosen” just left me with a general feeling of relief and joy, where the only things [...]
The Plot Thickens — AS5×21 Power Play
If I’m not mistaken, ”power play” is a hockey term, and describes the situation when one team has one of its players in the penalty box, meaning that the other team has the benefit of having one player more on the field. Or ice. Or whatever it’s called. Thus, it is a fitting title for [...]
There Really IS, You Know — AS5×15 A Hole In The World
First of all, I have to admit that I feel ashamed. This has the simple reason that I haven’t cried like this since the second time I watched Tara’s death, in spite of all the great emotional episodes I’ve watched since. But naturally, I have an excuse, and that is that barring perhaps NFA, there’s [...]
The Grumpiest Little Puppet In The Whole Wide World — AS5×14 Smile Time
Where to begin?
I think, that I might actually beging with the best part of the episode, which is spite of the hilarity of the Angel plot is the very last scene, and the preceeding scenes which lead up to this one. Because this, this is where what I have been waiting for since the end [...]
… And The Infinite Sadness — AS5×12 You’re Welcome
This is almost too much. Every single one of the four Angelsodes (doesn’t sound as good as “Buffysodes”, does it? ) I’ve watched tonight, have been fucking masterpieces. They’ve been thrilling, they’ve been emotional, they’ve been funny — everything the best of Whedonverse episodes always are.
This one falls into that wonderful category by merit, of [...]
I Need To Have My Head Checked — AS5×11 Damage
Oh man, oh man, oh man! this was some awesome stuff!
Yet another episode I remembered as mediocre at best, but proved to be indescribably beautiful in all its uncomfortable glory. First of the great parts was the Spike theme. How he initially in the episode said to Angel that he didn’t see the [...]
Ugly Gray Tie Man — AS5×10 Soul Purpose
If I’m not mistaken, this was David Boreanaz’ debut as a director. And what a debut; if “Harm’s Way” can be likened to “The Zeppo”, then “Soul Purpose” is much like “Primeval” — or what it was the final episode of “Buffy”’s season four was called. Or rather, that’s what it reminded me of, and [...]
A Girl’s World — AS5×9 Harm’s Way
I remember back in the days, when I didn’t like Harmony. I thought she was a whiny, empty-headed goose with about as much grip on reality as an average Norwegian teenager. However, I have seen the error of my ways. Because Harmony? She totally rocks.
Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that my earlier conceptions of [...]
XIII: The Day of the Black Sun
Earlier this week, as I was procrastinating by watching one of my room mates play the Game Cube game “XIII”, I suddenly remembered how much I loved the parts of this comic that I read in the Norwegian “Agent X9″ about a decade ago. Naturally, this cauased me to run to my room, log [...]
“Well, then, maybe if it’s someone you care fo-” — AS5×7 Lineage
Oh man, this has got to be one of the two or three best episodes of “Angel”.
First of all, it’s directly painful to watch, because you have so much sympathy for Wesley. He tries incredibly hard to make his dad proud of him, and he hardly gets anything but scorn in return. He is also [...]
The Day Of The Ohmygodsrichardgereandbrucewillisand- therestofthemoronsshouldbekilled
Ah, ’tis been a long day. I stayed in bed ’till 11, and intended to get through breakfast in a jiffy, so that I wouldn’t have to use more time than necessary on cleaning the appartement. However, one of my “room mates” (more like “appartement sharer”, really, but that’s stricktly speaking not a word; it’s [...]
Creepy! — AS5×4 Hell Bound
Wow. This was awesome. It had all the stuff I love, and also some of the stuff I’m not really that keen on, but can appreciate if it’s not too much of it.
First of all, this was an impressively tightly executed episode. None of the scenes felt redundant, none of them were ones I wished [...]
Blade Runner
(Norwegian.)
“Los Angles, 2019.” Thus begins what I would describe as one of the best famous sci-fi movies of all time. Dystopic, philosophical, thrilling — “Blade Runner” (director’s cut) is all that, and more.
“Los Angeles, 2019.” Four androids of the mark Nexus 6, or Replicants, perfect imitations of humans but for a four-year life span as [...]
Studio 60
I just watched the last couple of episodes of this ingenious show, and I can’t help but grow more and more fond of it.
Jack seems more and more like a moderate version of Cox, they give Masi Oki a “cameo” as himself, and they have some of the best dialogue I’ve seen this side of [...]
Beach Boys and Angel; Or, When I Knew Something Was Wrong — AS4×19 The Magic Bullet
Not that I hadn’t already figured that out, but you get the picture. Like Jeffrey Bell (writer, first-time director, and co-executive producer) said in the commentaries, this is the most un-Angelic Angel episode opening ever. I mean, The Beach Boys singing “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”? If your warning lamps didn’t light up before this, [...]
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