Former Angel star J August Richards has come out as gay – after taking on a gay role on the drama Council of Dads. The actor, best known for his roles as Charles Gunn on Angel and Deathlok on Agents of Shield, plays Oliver, a happily married gay Black man with a daughter, in the…
Still not over what Whedon did to these women.[insp1; insp2]
This is why I’ll never like Angel as much as Buffy.
I’ll never be over what happened to Fred. I was never much of a Buffyverse person but god, her death was so sadistic and cruel and hateful and sexist, it pretty much put me off the whole thing from then on. (I watched Angel first, then Buffy after that.) I know she came back eventually in the comics, and I’m rather glad about that, but still. Livid.
Also! ANYA! What the hell. I’m furious about that one as well.
So this summer I watched Angel. You all want to hear my thoughts, don’t you? :p
I love Series one-middle of three the best, I think. I loved the Pylea episodes (am I right that they’re not that liked?) and all the monster-of-the-week episodes. I prefer that to when TV shows do an ongoing story, I think.
Favourite characters are, in order of appearance: Cordelia, Wesley, Lorne and Fred, all but one of whom are dead by the end of the series. Cordelia was a great character up until series four and then she was written out in an infuriating way; Wesley is a great example of how TV shows should do character development, and Lorne is just awesome. I was really sad when I found out Andy Hallet, the actor who played him, died recently. (He was way too young, too. Thirty-three.)
Fred’s death I did not like. Possibly because the idea of having your soul eaten is pure unleaded Nightmare Fuel for me. (See also: Harry Potter’s Dementors.) I liked her and her death seemed almost pointlessly cruel in a way: having a happy character who’d already survived so much die in agony in front of her new boyfriend. I know that’s what Joss Whedon does best, but…it’s like if, halfway through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermione had been Kissed by a Dementor and replaced by an admittedly cool new character and she wasn’t coming back ever. Sigh. Hated that, really, and I hope that the story that continues in the comics (which I haven’t actually read, but want to) eventually have Wesley and Fred meeting in the afterlife, because they were my favourite Angel couple. (Also Angel/Cordelia. They were awesome together.)
I hated Connor until season five when he got awesome.
Of all the secondary characters, I liked Kate, and was a bit disappointed when she stopped being in it.
It’s a real pity the show got canceled. This happens a lot with Joss Whedon shows and I’m not sure why…
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