$#!@ you Joss Whedon!

[Klaus]

Eh, Angel lost it when Doyle died.

I liked the early seasons best (even post-Doyle, but pre-hotel). If only they had Amy Acker then, and kept Katherine Rhom.

 

[frandelgearslip]

Oh, do yourself a favor and buy season 5 of Angel at the same time you buy season 4. Not because of any upcoming holidays, but because you'll want to wash the bad taste of season 4 out of your mouth, and season 5 is remarkably crisp, clean, and tasty.

Funny how opinions differ. I despise season 5. It reminded me of everything that was bad about seasons 6 and 7 of Buffy. To me season 4 of Angel is the only season of Angel on par with the best of Buffy (seasons 2 and 3). In fact I hated that they added spike to the cast in season 5 since Spike was only a shell of the cool character that he had been in season 2 of Buffy.

 

[John Crichton]

Oh, do yourself a favor and buy season 5 of Angel at the same time you buy season 4. Not because of any upcoming holidays, but because you'll want to wash the bad taste of season 4 out of your mouth, and season 5 is remarkably crisp, clean, and tasty.

Wow, this may be the first time that I directly and completely disagree with you.

Season 5 was fun and had some terrific moments but I thought that S4 was the best season of Angel. The Jasmine storyline and all that went with it was riveting and well realized. S5 was a little disjointed for my liking but had classic eps littered all over the place. Maybe it's because I'm a sucker for continuing storylines that never let up but wow, I'm a little shocked that anyone would need to "wash the taste out of their mouth" because of S4 of Angel. Yow.

Season 5 had great times, especially the finale which is one of the best 40+ minutes of TV ever to air. But better than the whole of S4, even with super annoying Conner (who was easy to hate)? Nope. Not to this Jossaholic.

S4 of Angel is kin to S3 of Buffy for me.

 

[John Crichton]

Yeah, I've heard five is much better... And it has Spike which is enough to make me wade through 4 even if every single episode sucks.

You heard wrong. Spike is a more entertaining character than Conner but the overall greatness of S5 is not better than the overall greatness of S4. It's an A but not an A+. Either way, it is must watch genre-TV. We all win.

As to suspense, watching the show on DVD is awesome. You'd be amazed how tight an episode made to be shown with comercials is without comercials. When I'm used to watching the next episode as soon as I want to having to wait a day is rough though. Don't mock my pain just because yours was greater.

It's not mocking, it's just ribbing. Feel the love. And it was the good type of pain. Squishy and anticipatory not knifey and bleedy.

 

[John Crichton]

Firefly hasn't been released on DVD here yet. Serenity was just released, so it's a bit too expensive for me these days. I'll borrow a friend's, though.

But I must say, the local cover for Serenity is horrid...

Not to worry. I know you are an artsy and visual guy from your posts but it means nothing. I look at the cover for .5 seconds then stick it on the DVD shelf. It's the spine art that *really* matters.

 

[danzig138]

Season 5 was fun and had some terrific moments but I thought that S4 was the best season of Angel.

Huh. I barely remember what happened in S4 because it was so freaking boring. I didn't care about the storyline, the people involved. nothing. It just bored the crap out of me. It's strange to me that someone thinks it was the best. Weird. Season 5 was pretty crap IMO. At least for the first half to two-thirds. After that, it picked up, but I have to say, after S4/5, I wasn't terribly sad to see the show go.

The first three seasons were pretty gosh darned good though.

 

[Klaus]

Not to worry. I know you are an artsy and visual guy from your posts but it means nothing. I look at the cover for .5 seconds then stick it on the DVD shelf. It's the spine art that *really* matters.

Oh, don't worry. Joss Whedon is my master now. But the cover still sucks.

As for Angel, you're all wrong! The best seasons were 1-2. They had the Doyle (then Wesley), Cordy behaving like Cordy (and living with Ghost Dennis), that detective lady, Lindsay and Lilah (Stephanie Romanov is teh hot!) as bad guys and Angel telling Buffy to shut up and grow up (plus that "human again... for a while" episode).

After they moved to the hotel, it all went downhill.

 

[KaosDevice]

Not to worry. I know you are an artsy and visual guy from your posts but it means nothing. I look at the cover for .5 seconds then stick it on the DVD shelf. It's the spine art that *really* matters.

Oooooohhhh...yeah, looking good on the shelf next to the Firefly box set on one side and the Farscape starburst editions on the other....

 

[Mercule]

Bullet. Connor's head.

Because it can't be said enough.

Oh, and Elizabeth Rohm was great.

 

[Staffan]

After they moved to the hotel, it all went downhill.

That was the beginning of season 2.