What I can only describe as a turgid supernatural soap-opera

[elz]

Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hmm. There should be a play.

Things I should have remembered: don't start watching episodes from Season 4 of Angel unless you're prepared to watch the whole thing. Oh, how I love/hate this season. So many of my favorite and least favorite storylines. *sigh*

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[thelostglove]

So true. I know a lot of people didn't like the way things went, and Cordelia went from being one of my favorite characters to driving me out of my flipping mind, but seasons 3-4 of that show was some of the most invested I ever got in a arc without any fandom involvement whatsoever. I haven't gone back and rewatched the whole thing since I first saw it in, um, high school/college, but I still have journals from back then with lines from episodes copied down (including the one above, because...heh).

[elz]

I haaaaated what they did to Cordelia, and the Connor/Cordelia arc, and the Fred/Gunn/Wesley triangle (and I don't hate them any less on rewatch!). You'd think with those being about 90% of the character arcs for the season that that would be a deal killer, and yet... I don't think anything I've seen since then has made me yell "AUUUGGH, HOLY SHIT" at the screen with quite the same frequency or intensity.

Plus, the power of Scruffy!Wes compels me. And what is cracking me up on rewatch is how often the other characters stop and comment on the fact that his manpain has made him significantly more attractive.

[thelostglove]

Oh, God, I had totally repressed Connor/Cordelia (which is ridiculous, now that I think about it, because who else could that line be about?). But I wouldn't shut up about Sleep Tight for days. I really ought to get at least season three and four to see if the things I liked about them hold up as well as they do in my memory. (I have to say, though I think season five went awry on some fundamental levels, it had some episodes I absolutely love even on rewatch years after the fact.)

[(Anonymous)]

Season three was the win for Wesley, true fax. And while the triangle was painful to watch (as was Cordelia's siding with Angel), I thought it was a smart way to isolate Wesley fairly quickly. The most compelling part of the arc was watching Wesley self-destruct sooo logically. He only could have done that if there was nobody to snap him out of his overthinking death spiral.

Gun: "Was one of his directives to hire pansied-ass British guy?"
Wesley: "My ass is not pansied."