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A Senseless Entry
Since season and series finales seem to be a big thing, I think I'll recap and comment on my favorite shows.
For starters-- I cannot believe that Survivor: Marquesas beat out the series finale of X-files! Well, maybe I can, but I'm just slightly surprised. After all, X-files has been running for so long, and this episode promised to *answer some questions!* At long last! Since I'm a very retired baby X-phile, I wonder (having not watched the finale) whether the show lived up to anyone's expectations. I know several people stopped watching it because Mulder left... it's amazing how high schoolers can be attracted to a guy that's 40-something and married with children... As for Survivor, I find it rather silly. All the reality shows I have a strong dislike to, since there are idiotic parodies, shameless promotions, ridiculous imitations, and rather inane rules. I could go into details, but I already have an old entry (Reality Bites) that I inflamed all this about.
Starting my favorites list is Angel-- whose ratings for the finale weren't that great. I don't think they'll be that great if they move the time slot again either-- at least when Buffy was still on the WB, preceding Angel, there was no question as to what to watch after Buffy. But with Angel on the WB and Buffy on the UPN Network, Angel comes first-- and crossovers are practically an impossibility. Crossovers between the two star-crossed do-gooders of SoCal usually highlighted the season, but this move impacted both show's ratings, as far as I can see. Angel was rather weak this season (not just because of that) but also because Joss (Whedon, writer and creator of both BtVS and Angel) HAD to make Angel start feeling something for Cordelia.
*cough* I can understand the need to have romance for the male and female leads, but with each other? I figured this season would all be about the impossible for Angel becoming possible-- that is, having a son. Far from a normal life, he's a father now. The climatic moment of the season had to be when Connor was taken away-- and I think the season *should* have ended there. But no, they continued it, with Groo starting to doubt Cordelia's feelings for him (despite my "dislike" of Groo, I still think that he and Cordy belong together) and Connor returning all of three episodes later. Since the whole incident seemed fueled by Wesley, he is now a side character who has been "seduced by the dark side--" and quite literally too, surprisingly, after sleeping with Lilah. His British wit don't escape him even after sleeping with the enemy, and being given the chance to work for Wolfram and Hart. His skills, missing from the Angel alliance and in hiatus for anyone else, would be a valuable asset to the continuing enemy that is W&H. With Connor returned (as "Steven") to normal land, Angel is put into a sort of fatherly-defensive mode-- he hasn't had the opportunity to raise his own son, and though the boy was raised in a hell dimension as "The Destroyer," he seems okay. He gets quite used to the presence of women, which makes one wonder just what Quar-Toth is like. Justine, the evil wannabe-slayer with a thing for Holtz helps Holtz carry out one final plan of revenge against Angel, as she and Connor dump a sealed-in-all-things-impossible-to-break-through Angel into the Pacific. Oh great. What with Cordy "becoming a higher neing" (I still think she'll be a major player on the show, despite her other-worldliness), and Groo and Lorne leaving, this leaves Gunn and Fred all alone...
So, overall, we have Angel with the following Next Season Questions to Answer:
Coming up next: Buffy, Alias, Charmed, Enterprise, Felicity. Stay tuned!
For starters-- I cannot believe that Survivor: Marquesas beat out the series finale of X-files! Well, maybe I can, but I'm just slightly surprised. After all, X-files has been running for so long, and this episode promised to *answer some questions!* At long last! Since I'm a very retired baby X-phile, I wonder (having not watched the finale) whether the show lived up to anyone's expectations. I know several people stopped watching it because Mulder left... it's amazing how high schoolers can be attracted to a guy that's 40-something and married with children... As for Survivor, I find it rather silly. All the reality shows I have a strong dislike to, since there are idiotic parodies, shameless promotions, ridiculous imitations, and rather inane rules. I could go into details, but I already have an old entry (Reality Bites) that I inflamed all this about.
Starting my favorites list is Angel-- whose ratings for the finale weren't that great. I don't think they'll be that great if they move the time slot again either-- at least when Buffy was still on the WB, preceding Angel, there was no question as to what to watch after Buffy. But with Angel on the WB and Buffy on the UPN Network, Angel comes first-- and crossovers are practically an impossibility. Crossovers between the two star-crossed do-gooders of SoCal usually highlighted the season, but this move impacted both show's ratings, as far as I can see. Angel was rather weak this season (not just because of that) but also because Joss (Whedon, writer and creator of both BtVS and Angel) HAD to make Angel start feeling something for Cordelia.
*cough* I can understand the need to have romance for the male and female leads, but with each other? I figured this season would all be about the impossible for Angel becoming possible-- that is, having a son. Far from a normal life, he's a father now. The climatic moment of the season had to be when Connor was taken away-- and I think the season *should* have ended there. But no, they continued it, with Groo starting to doubt Cordelia's feelings for him (despite my "dislike" of Groo, I still think that he and Cordy belong together) and Connor returning all of three episodes later. Since the whole incident seemed fueled by Wesley, he is now a side character who has been "seduced by the dark side--" and quite literally too, surprisingly, after sleeping with Lilah. His British wit don't escape him even after sleeping with the enemy, and being given the chance to work for Wolfram and Hart. His skills, missing from the Angel alliance and in hiatus for anyone else, would be a valuable asset to the continuing enemy that is W&H. With Connor returned (as "Steven") to normal land, Angel is put into a sort of fatherly-defensive mode-- he hasn't had the opportunity to raise his own son, and though the boy was raised in a hell dimension as "The Destroyer," he seems okay. He gets quite used to the presence of women, which makes one wonder just what Quar-Toth is like. Justine, the evil wannabe-slayer with a thing for Holtz helps Holtz carry out one final plan of revenge against Angel, as she and Connor dump a sealed-in-all-things-impossible-to-break-through Angel into the Pacific. Oh great. What with Cordy "becoming a higher neing" (I still think she'll be a major player on the show, despite her other-worldliness), and Groo and Lorne leaving, this leaves Gunn and Fred all alone...
So, overall, we have Angel with the following Next Season Questions to Answer:
- What happens to Angel? He doesn't need to breathe, but he can't break out of steel binding, a two-ton metal box, sealed with blowtorches-- especially considering he'd be some 400 feet underwater, with all the pressures of Earth on him. Since he lives forever (or would assuming he doesn't die of starvation of blood) he'd just be sitting down at the bottom of the ocean forever...
- Where does Cordy go, exactly, and will she ever come back? She doesn't refuse "The Powers That Be" (and hey, weren't they killed?) so she goes up... in an ironically "angelic" way. Where to, what for, or the extent of her powers is still unknown. Will Angel know how she feels about him? Another unknown.
- Where does Groo go? They can just kick him off the show, but still, he's a deposed champion from another dimension-- doesn't easily blend in. Maybe he'll go to Sunnydale? The Hellmouth seems to be lacking in male leads lately...
- Will we ever see Lorne again? We know he's disliked by Connor, but since "the kid" is pretty twisted by Justine, it's unlikely he'd just return to the hotel anyway.
- Wesley, Lilah, and the Wolf, Ram, and Hart reference in the other dimension. We don't know WHAT is going on is Wesley's mind, and between using him to help out in dire need, avoiding his name when around Angel, and wondering what the heck this former Watcher is up to, it's kinda odd that the secondary male lead is so... brushed aside. It's certainly plausible that Angel is still pissed, but since his anger at Holtz calmed, maybe the same can be true for Wes, who was misled by a prophecy that wasn't true? As for Lilah... yeah. ^^;; Petty rivalry with Garrett will no doubt continue, even as she keeps on dropping hints to Wes to join the evil Galactic Empire that is W&H. I think we'll be seeing more of the Other Dimension as well, since the reference to Wolfram and Hart was never explained.
- And finally-- what about Faith? ^^ She's still in jail, but since Buffy died, did she receive powers? Speaking of Buffy's death (and leading into Buffy, anyway) was another slayer awakened in the three month period of her death? Or did Faith just receive a jolt of power-- which was/n't taken away, with the return of the Slayer?
Coming up next: Buffy, Alias, Charmed, Enterprise, Felicity. Stay tuned!