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Summary: Are you game?
Review: An interesting variety of episodes. I wish there had been more flashbacks and the lack of Darla played by the truly talented Julie Benz is redeemed in season 2, 3, and 4. Doyle will be missed, bless Glenn Quinn. This season contains classic Cordy before she matures into a coma and lovable and silly Wesley. This is the season to see Angel when he was still fighting the good fight with real honor - his cocky ego devours everyone and everything beginning in season two. The Faith and Darla episodes are the reasons to buy season one. To Shanshu in L.A. is a winner for bringing Darla out of the flashbacks and into the flesh!
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Summary: really good
Review: This is a really good show the only thing it lacks is well......Buffy(and maybe a few of her puns too), the reason so many fell for angel in the buffy series. this is the only reason i dont like this show as much as buffy. they took him out of buffy and put him in his own show-might i also metion without puns.
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Summary: Beginning of a Great Series
Review: Angel Season One starts as a spinoff of the highly successful show Buffy. Angel takes the main character (Angel) and another Buffy alumn (Cordy) and adds Doyle (half human-half demon with a connection to the powers that be) and creates a series that is larger than life. Angel's quest is redemption for the sins of his past. A very powerful message. The stories for this season where very one-shot episodes where the story would be resolve by the end of the show. This mechanism seems as though the creative team was still unsure of the status of Angel and wanted to make sure if cancelled, the characters could return to Buffy without any strings attached. However, by the end of the season, threads and themes flowed through multiple episodes. The biggest change at the season mid-way point is the loss of Doyle (infighting between the two actors). The episode of his death was one of the strongest episode; it reflects the repemdtion of one soul while another fights for another. The injection of another Buffy alumn, Wes would lead to a very great and very deep character. At first, however, he was meant as comical relief. He was a little stiff at first but his character became more then just 1-D character from his days on Buffy. The constant battles between Cordy & Wes are some of the highlights of the show. By the end, the character of Gunn was introduced which lead to the final episode, which set up the series for a second season. I would recommand this seasons to any television addict like myself. The creative team crafted a great run interweaving comedy & drama and leaves the viewer with the feeling that maybe in this world there are something bigger than ourselves and maybe there is something worth fighting for.
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Summary: Glenn Quinn
Review: The first season was wonderful, which is why I'm giving the set 4 stars. But the late Glenn Quinn was not mentioned, interviewed, or in any way acknowleged in the set, which was released before his untimely death. Other actors who played more minor parts in the Buffyverse were accorded more curtesy than that. Not only was he not ever brought back but his character's death was not even spoked about. Jenny Calander's death was spoken about in the second season Buffy DVD. I know that it has been said that it was Doyle's death was planned from the beginning, but I feel that the character and the audience have been treated shabbily. I hope he is remembered on the aniversary of his death on December 3.
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Summary: The Season That Defied All the Odds
Review: Many people consider this Angel's weakest season sense it had a couple Buffy crossovers. It's not that they dislike Buffy, but they just prefered if the show could move on it's own. Well I disagree for one reason, despite the Buffy crossovers this is the one season that Angel had it's own pattern. Unlike the Buffy series where there's always five to seven main characters this show started off with only three, making it easier to develop the characters. Also there's no major villian that Angel has to face. In Buffy all she does is live in a small town and just waits for something to happen for her to stop, but killing the enemy is her main priority not helping people. Angel looks for trouble and considers helping people his top priority. He thinks twice before he makes a kill unlike Buffy who will kill whoever out of anger. Sadly this pattern of the show followed didn't last long. Slowly the show evolved into a Buffy plot pattern. Angel started to bend his morals and act foolish when people such as Darla and Connor come into his life. Plus the writers for some reason just had to add a new character in per season. Most of them weren't really good characters to make it worse. Most recently the writers used a main villian plot line in season four. Don't get me wrong, I love Buffy, but now that both shows are so much alike the only difference is one stars a girl and the other stars a guy which just isn't fun. This is the one and only season of Angel I think deserves five stars. We have three good familiar characters, Angel, Cordelia and Wesley. Doyle was an excellent character, but sadly his character was short lived. What's even worse is that poor Glenn Quinn has passed on. Cordelia is humorous and enjoyable in this season unlike later where her whole persona is screwed up. The bottom line is if you don't like Buffy odds are you're not going to like this. If you haven't seen this series yet I suggest you check it out on TNT first. There's no point wasting your time and money on a whole set if you don't like it.
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Summary: MASTERPIECE
Review: ANGLES FIRST SEASON IS JUST TOO GOOD FOR WORDS ITS DARK GOTHIC VIOLINT AND BROODNG THE FIRST EPISODE IS EPIC I MUST ADMIT ITS BETTER THAN BUFFYS FIRST EPISODE GREAT EPISODES IN HERE THE 3RD EPISODE HAS A GUEST APPEARERNCE BY SPIKE AND OZ THE 8TH IS A TEARJERKER BUFFY RETURNS AND ANGLE TURNS HUMAN THE ENDINGS TOO SAD FOR WORDS ANBD DOYLE IS A GREAT CHARACTER I WAS SO SAD WHJEN THEY KILLED HIMM OFF IN LIKE EPISODE 12 OR 13 FAITHS APPEARENCE BY THE LOVELY ELIZA DUSKU MADE THE SEASON A WINNER ALSO YOU HATE HER & LOVE HER
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Summary: Good TV
Review: ANGEL, the spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is an excellent television show. Angel, the vampire with a soul, arrives in LA after leaving Buffy in Sunnydale at the end of season three. Soon upon his arrival, he is greeted by Doyle, a half-demon/half-human individual who has the power of seeing from the PTB (Powers That Be). Cordelia shows up, attempting to become an actress, but she knows that Angel really needs her help with his business. While the series gets started slowly, the arrival of Spike and Oz in the third episode is an EXCELLENT one. Spike's diagloue to Angel's conversation with a client is hilarious. The next great episode is the one with Buffy herself, "I Will Remember You." This episode is both wonderful and sad. After the loss of Doyle (he passes his gift onto Cordelia), Wesley, the watcher, arrives. It is after this, as many have mentioned, that the show began to gel. Probably because the three main actors had worked together on Buffy. The arrival of Faith in LA also lends to two very good episodes. Whether you are a fan of Buffy or not, Angel stands on its own as a show worth watching. Darker than Buffy, Angel does have its moments of laughter. (Angel jumps into the wrong car chasing after someone.) Definitey worth space on your shelf.
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Summary: Network TV is a wasteland.
Review: This is fairly typical network TV programing. Hire a writer named Joss Wheaton (who can neither write or direct), create a show with a Hunk in the part who can not act. Add some cheesy production values, and you have a 45 minute show that was created solely to fill in airtime between ever longer commercials. It sounds like the Internet.
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Summary: not a review of the season but of the show.
Review: First off, I am a buffy fan. Sometimes a closet buffy fan, but still a buffy fan. That is the only reason why I watched the first few episodes of Angel. As a guy I didn't really think there would be the same enjoyment of the show as it was buffyless and willowless and faithless and... you get the picture. But really the thing that stands out for me that connects these shows and what drew me to the original in the first place, is the language. The way the writers use language always leads me to laughing when I least expect it. Another thing I like is this thing they do on both shows which reasons that most things are not that complicated. Example? Buffy fights this evil demon [ yeah some aren't evil, that is why that isn't a redundant line ]; a demon that uses its eyes to hypnotize you or whatever. How does buffy fight this unbelievable foe? she just throws a big shovel into its eyes and the whole hypnotism thing goes to #@%. Duh! How hard was that? This terrible demonic power [ an evil power of course ] is acquired by a woman with this glove that when she puts it on she is invinsible, how can we stop her? Get the glove off! Duh! What else would you do?Things like that make me slap my forehead when I watch the show. And both shows have that. It's an amusing element that remains intact with the crossover to Angel from Buffy. And Cordelia is there so she can of course verbally simplify years of plot development in seconds so even people who didn't watch buffy can just go ' oh is that what happened '
Joss Whedon and the other writers have this great ability to write one liners and clever comments that can carry plots which might be less than top rate when they show up. Angel is a pretty near perfect spin-off from what I've seen. Not quite as enjoyable as the first three seasons of buffy that I've seen but, as close as anything can get to it. Same humor/action only Angel is giving the action and most of the main characters supply the humor. And yeah David Boreanaz can carry a show as the main character, but without his sidekicks to be a straight man to, it would probably get old-but since they're there-no problem. Also Buffy characters other than Angel and Cordelia do show up and that is a big help to getting use to the rythm of the new show. The best appearance from Buffy has to go to Spike. The most entertaining bad guy ever! One of the few things that I've seen from Angel so far that have given me a coughing fit laughing is the little dubbing job Spike does for Angel and a woman he has just saved as he watches from a rooftop. As funny as any Buffy moment even. That is worth the price of the dvd set itself... If you're rich that is. Otherwise it is atleast worth the time you spend watching it if you are dirt poor. And worth about 10 dollars if you are middle-class. It's a free appraisal anyway so if it's not totally accurate than excuse me.
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Summary: Angel - The Series and The Actor are both Terrific.
Review: I bought this DVD after only watching Season 4. I could not believe how much I liked Season 1. I could not get through the episodes fast enough. Of course, when I was done so fast, I was disapointed I did not have more to watch. What made me like Season 1 better than Season 4 (my only reference at the time), is the character development. Season 4 had great action, but it seems like it was always about saving the world and beating the ultimate bad guy. With Season 1, it spent a lot of time just in Angel's office and the main characters just getting to know each other and building strong bonds. All the characters in Angel are very likeable. Each episode was a good individual story with the characters growing closer every week. David Borenaz(spelling?) is just a great actor. He can be the ultimate scary villian and the best hero/champion character. Get this DVD, you will not be disapointed.
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