Angel finale

[ciphergoth]

My god did that suck! The "cliffhanger" of "what will become of Angel" is no cliffhanger at all; if the gang can't get it together, Wolfram and Hart certainly can and will locate him by magical means and rescue him. Cordelia would not choose such a plot-handy meeting place, and Conor could not have known that she would in time to sort out getting a boat. Cordelia would not have chosen as she did.

And so much time was wasted - compared to the all-action finish that Buffy always gives us, I found myself saying "this doesn't feel like a season finale. This feels like a filler episode".

DisapPOINTed!

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[barking-watcher.livejournal.com]

I'd already read a spoilers site run down of what was going to happen but had still planned to watch this episode if I could have got a tape from someone, but I don't think I'll bother now if it's that lame. Thanks for the warning.

[stgpcm.livejournal.com]

more like a bad show final (DS9?) than a series final - with a tiny let out clause if somebody does come up with funding...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

The let-out clause is huge. The circumstances Angel finds himself in don't really give me cause for concern for his long-term welfare - someone will find him by magic, and release him, and he'll be fine, just bored and tired and hungry...

[booklectica]

I reacted quite differently to that, probably because of my being-buried-alive phobia. In fact I was scared it would give me nightmares, but it didn't.

As always, my attitude to the episode was purely emotional and as if they were real people, so I didn't think 'good' or 'bad' about it. I just felt incredibly, incredibly sorry for Wesley and angry on his behalf; glad that Fred and Gunn were together; sad that Lorne was leaving (and hoping they actually release his album); sad about Cordelia (but then she and Angel wouldn't have had much of a future what with the no-happiness rule); and mixed about Connor (ok, growing up in a hell dimension probably warps your mind, but burying your own father alive, eek).

As you can see, I'm not exactly much of a critical judge about these things. :)

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

My take was so wildly different from Paul's (and similar to yours) that I've put it in my journal.

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=adjectivemarcus&itemid=124418