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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1194417" data-attributes="member: 115">I could go on a whole rant on how ratings and test audiences have destroyed television.  I'd rather just point out HBO's series, because to my knowledge HBO uses a very minimal amount of ratings data.  And while they're not all perfect, most of them are better than a lot of jreck on cable or the major networks.  1) I'm beginning to agree.  I was already worried the writers would start to make Spike dominate the show.  But I thought Worf was a pretty good addition to DS9, once they figured out how to use him.  I don't think the Angel team has done that yet.  More depressingly, if anyone watched the series Invisible Man on Sci-Fi, the forced addition of a character screwed up the chemistry so badly on the show it got cancelled. 2) Again, I concur. 3) Here's where I disagree.  Gunn always had the cockiness, even when it was just a front to mask his feelings of ineffectiveness last season.  These feelings were not unfounded.  He really didn't have any place in the old group, except as the normal guy amongst above average guys.  Sort of like Xander in Buffy, from what I could tell.  Except Gunn didn't have a bunch of good lines. 4) I think the fact that Wesley is completely over everything that's happened is an issue in and of itself.  I hope they follow through with this.  On the other hand, Wesley was a rebound for Fred, and he probably knew it.  No sense in dwelling on it.  I imagine that Gunn and Wesley don't have the friendship they had before, but they had to work together, and they did.  I think that helped mend some of the rift between the two.</blockquote>

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