Archive for the 'Angel' Category

Angel #2.3: First Impressions

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

This episode was mainly about some story where Gunn and Cordelia try to get Angel’s car back. It was mostly about Gunn and Cordelia, as Angel and Wesley spend most the episode trying to catch up to where Gunn and Cordelia are. So that was a nice twist. Didn’t learn too much [...]

Angel #2.2: Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

This was a quite interesting episode, suspenseful. It goes back to the 1950s, where Angel was living in a creepily-wallpapered hotel, alone and brooding. He somewhat spontaneously helps a lady from her angry boyfriend. Angel’s first help? I think so. His instincts for helping aren’t honed yet though, and the [...]

Angel #2.1: Judgment

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Whoever designed the Angel DVD’s called this episode “Judgement” which is spelled wrong, and Wiki uses the correct spelling as the name. That’s about all of the excitement in this episode. Angel kills some demon, who was apparently a good guy and protecting some pregnant lady (badly, I guess). So Angel has [...]

Angel #1.22: To Shansu In LA

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Finally! An overall story arc may be in place for the show! The scroll that Wesley was translating ended up serving many purposes. As a cliffhanger, it was used by Wolfram & Hart to raise a demon… which was cliffhanger revealed to be Darla! Cool! But also the text on [...]

Angel #1.21: Blind Date

Friday, June 26th, 2009

This episode set up a lot about Wolfram & Hart, finally. The one attorney, Lindsay, discovers that a blind assassin who he is defending is going to kill some children. He goes and tells Angel who stops it. Bernard from Lost, a partner at W&H, is upset at Lindsay’s betrayal of the [...]

Angel #1.20: War Zone

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

“War Zone” was pretty well-written and interesting as a standalone episode. Not sure if it added much to any greater Angel story, though there was a hint at the end that it might have. It starts in a rich software billionaire’s party (Michael Bolton from Office Space), who hires Angel to protect him [...]

Angel #1.19: Sanctuary

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Woo that was an action-packed episode. Rogue Slayer Faith is still there, and Rogue Vampire Angel is trying to help save her soul. She murdered someone on an episode of Buffy, and ran away… to show up on Angel. Rogue Watcher Wesley is approached by the Council of Watchers, who want Faith [...]

Angel #1.18: Five By Five

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Wow I wasn’t expecting Faith to show up! That was cool. This episode had a ton of stories going on, all kind of entwined, which definitely made it one of the better stories. Using more than 3 characters = good. First, Faith shows up, and does her thing (sexy dancing and [...]

Angel #1.17: Eternity

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

This episode began as a somewhat soap-y story about a Hollywood actress, who Angel saves from a stalker. All sorts of Hollywood stereotypes come in to play and it ends up her sleazy manager created the stalker to create buzz. Meh, I’m not a fan of shows that play on Hollywood stereotypes like [...]

Angel #1.16: The Ring

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

“The Ring” was an interesting episode, in it seemed to be a metaphor for quite a few things all at once. Metaphorical stories are the norm in the Buffyverse, but it seemed like this had a lot. Basically Angel got captured by some guy, who ran an underground demon fighting ring, keeping captured [...]