I was surprised and pleased by the development of a romance between Angel and Cordy and really pissed off that the production team seemed so incapable of taking it further naturally - the whole fourth season seemed to be a panic response to not knowing what to do next, or something. I quite like the idea of baby Connor and even teen sulky Connor had his moments (when acting with Angel, who totally deserved a sulky teen son and was entertaining in dealing with it) but everything to do with Cordy/Connor and her being all evil and possessed and all that stuff - blah.
I agree with you about the angelic stuff, too. It makes no sense with the canon. I loved Cordy so much in this show and from the end of season 3 onwards, they just ruined her!
I was surprised and pleased by the development of a romance between Angel and Cordy and really pissed off that the production team seemed so incapable of taking it further naturally
Yes. It was certainly a minority view among the people I knew at the time who watched the show, but -- particularly given Cordelia's development -- it felt like an opportunity for a grown-up relationship in a universe that hadn't offered many grown-up relationships to that point. And I was sad they backed away from it.
I also liked Connor. Or rather, I found Vincent Kartheiser magnetic. He has the thing that I think David Boreanaz has, of being very good at acting physically. (And he's better at delivering lines than Boreanaz, but so are most people...) You're right that he's at his best when interacting with Angel -- I'm very fond of "A New World" and "Benediction" for that reason.
I guess also in some ways they wrote themselves into a corner with the "true happiness" issue for Angel. Though really, you'd think clever and adept writing could work around it if they really wanted to.
I don't even think they needed to be that clever, to be honest -- simply emphasise that a moment of perfect happiness is going to be astonishingly rare, particularly when he has a son around. It could actually be a good metaphoric reflection of the difference between the intensity of first love and the satisfactions of a mature relationship, I think.
How does a vampire's penis get erect in the first place
Same way they manage any other movement, presumably: demonic magic.
"Tomorrow" is a very very odd episode, and a bad finale, and it's unfortunate that S4 just keeps going in that direction. There are aspects of the season that like -- I'm rather fond of the Jasmine episodes -- but there's a fannish love for Angel S4 that doesn't really click with me. Whereas S3, for all its oddnesses, I like a lot.
I really enjoyed Cordelia's character arc until it stopped so abruptly with the WTF (and the frustration and disappointment). At the time I expect I made my usual assumption about rapidly-ditched TV characters that Charisma Carpenter just asked for too much money. i.e. a production decision rather than a writing one.
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I was surprised and pleased by the development of a romance between Angel and Cordy and really pissed off that the production team seemed so incapable of taking it further naturally - the whole fourth season seemed to be a panic response to not knowing what to do next, or something. I quite like the idea of baby Connor and even teen sulky Connor had his moments (when acting with Angel, who totally deserved a sulky teen son and was entertaining in dealing with it) but everything to do with Cordy/Connor and her being all evil and possessed and all that stuff - blah.
I agree with you about the angelic stuff, too. It makes no sense with the canon. I loved Cordy so much in this show and from the end of season 3 onwards, they just ruined her!
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Yes. It was certainly a minority view among the people I knew at the time who watched the show, but -- particularly given Cordelia's development -- it felt like an opportunity for a grown-up relationship in a universe that hadn't offered many grown-up relationships to that point. And I was sad they backed away from it.
I also liked Connor. Or rather, I found Vincent Kartheiser magnetic. He has the thing that I think David Boreanaz has, of being very good at acting physically. (And he's better at delivering lines than Boreanaz, but so are most people...) You're right that he's at his best when interacting with Angel -- I'm very fond of "A New World" and "Benediction" for that reason.
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As opposed to Forever Knight, where the impotence became a rather important plot point.
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Same way they manage any other movement, presumably: demonic magic.
"Tomorrow" is a very very odd episode, and a bad finale, and it's unfortunate that S4 just keeps going in that direction. There are aspects of the season that like -- I'm rather fond of the Jasmine episodes -- but there's a fannish love for Angel S4 that doesn't really click with me. Whereas S3, for all its oddnesses, I like a lot.
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Does that make me bad?
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