Angel: Season One

[ColinP]

My review is now online. Link in sig...

As always, comments welcome.

[Jimmyboy]

While I understand that a review is just your opinion, I cant help but feel that youve overpraised the 1st series somewhat.
You make no mention of the filler episode's which keep poping up (and there's alot of 'em), and instead highlight the occasions where it works incredibly well with episode's like Sancutary.
Your review also suggests that the show started off badly and got better as it went along. My opinion (& Im not alone in thinking this) is that it started off very strong (better than Buffy that year) & became consistantly worse to a point where Faith had to be dragged in to help get things moving again.
Its not a terrible show by any means, just very inconsistent ranging from excellent to complete dullness.
There's more average episode's in Angel S1 than any other season of Buffy or Angel. The fact that there appears to be no-season arc, just a butch of episodes pretty much independant of each other doesnt help matters.
Angel seems to suffer from a lack of ideas. What starts off well soon becomes tiresome, something which could of been avoided if Angel had stuck to 12 episodes for the 1st series instead of trying to last a full 22.

[ed rooney]

Why would you stick to 12 episodes when the show has two established characters jumping from a popular show and therefore a ready made fanbase?

Also, the producers/writing team etc. were already experienced and had story lines to draw on from Buffy so it's not like they're starting from scratch.

PS - I thought Angel was OK but I'm not buying it.

[hookbeak]

I think Angel is blummin fantastic and wife has bought me it for xmas.

S1 was extremely good IMO (compare it to the first seasons of a lot of shows...), yes it was finding it's feet a little (and really soared in s2) but Angel operating at half speed is still waay better than 90% of the other shows out there.

[Jimmyboy]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ed rooney
Why would you stick to 12 episodes when the show has two established characters jumping from a popular show and therefore a ready made fanbase?

Because 2 established characters are not enough to carry a show for that amount of time. It doesnt help when these 2 characters were possibly the 2 least liked out of the scooby gang at that time.


Also, the producers/writing team etc. were already experienced and had story lines to draw on from Buffy so it's not like they're starting from scratch.

Yeah but they didnt have to come up with 22 episodes this time.
They had to come up with 44.
At the time Joss was so worried that Angel wouldnt take off (especially when ratings took a big deep just before mid-season) that he devoted nearly all his time to working on Angel, which is why some people believe Buffy Series 4 ended up so poor compared to previous seasons.