Angel - Season Five

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The last... but still the best!, 2008-12-29
After almost five years I'm still sad the show ended. Why!? Because of a season like 5. Sure, David was not getting any younger, but two more season would have been great. Yep. Spike is back to torment peaches! That is the best definition to this season. Angel is confronted with the fact that he is not one of kind anymore. Also, Angel learns that perfect moments of happiness are in fact very rare (just like in the real life) and that he should give a shot in a relationship, even if with a woman he did not love. Here again he succumbs powerfully to raw human feelings, this time jealousy. It is a season driven by the fact he wants to be better than Spike. To protect his son, he... again... forgot the free will of his friends, trapping them not only in lies, since some memories were erased (I Will Remember much???), but also in the very place they did not want to be for four seasons, worst... they fought against it. Can you picture Buffy working for The First!? It had bad... bad... consequences on all of them, mainly in poor Fred. In this season, Fred found her way in the world... and in our heart, just to be removed out of it... in favor of Illyria. Back in Buffy I could never pick Oz or Tara for Willow... I still can't. Here I can't pick Fred or Illyria, both were sooooooooooo cool! Amy Acker did a wonderful job... it was nice to see her reverting back and forth between these two characters. What was Smile Time???? The funnier episode of all Bangelverse "You are a blood puppet?"). Cordelia made a guest star appearing, but I've always had doubts about it. Cordy gave a message to Angel to direct him to the war against WH... for me... a bad move! LA went to hell!!!! For some reason, I think Cordy would never do such a thing... direct her friends to certain death! But than at February 14 2004, we knew we would not live to know that... Angel would not live to tell the tale! Overall, a great season with a great ending... at least... after the fall!

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Angel not the same as other 4 seasons, 2008-12-14
As always, David Boreanaz and his supporting cast do an amazing job. However, this season was not the greatest. I thought they would be able to do much better things with Spike than what they did- why couldn't they do the same amazing job they did with him in Buffy? There's something off with Angel himself- he changes too much and there's no flow of character development like there was in the other four seasons. You could also tell they tried too hard to have light in this season- literal light, like sun rays. But Angel doesn't belong in the light; they tried to take the show places it doesn't belong, and they didn't really succeed. All in all though, it's great show.

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If you're a Buffy fan, don't bother (in my opinion), 2008-12-14
I am a huge fan of the Buffy series. I started watching Angel only because I knew the two shows were linked. I can't believe how they ended this show though. My entire purpose for watching was the thought that it would end with Buffy and Angel being together (or even Buffy and Spike... kill Angel off for all I care... once he got his own show, he wasn't the same Angel from the Buffy series. They ruined that too). I don't see why they even brought up the point of Angel having the possibility of getting his soul back, just to throw it away at the end. I think it's unfair to fans who stuck with the show (which for the most part, in my opinion, was really crappy compared to Buffy) till the end. To kill off everyone at the end? I mean... seriously?! I feel this entire series was a waste of my money. Angel and CORDELIA?! Her, of all people? Give me a break. The only good thing about the show was the characters that came from Buffy (Spike, Willow, Drusilla, Wes, etc.).... and Fred. But they killed her too. I don't see how any fan of Buffy could possibly enjoy this show at all.

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positive, 2008-10-05
This item came quickly and in good shape. It wasn't the actual "slim set" that I thought it was.

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Awesome!, 2008-09-06
*SPOILERS BELOW* br / br /And here I thought Angel had gotten as good as it can get! But no, I was gladly proven wrong. Season 5 was amazing. The addition of Spike to the cast was a brilliant move and I just wish he played a bigger role. (Also, still waiting to find out if he got Shanshu or not!) Smile Time was the best episode of the entire series, IMO, funniest, sweetest, most perfect thing ever. [Course, then we all had to get our hearts broken by the next episode...] I really need to get the comic continuation, cause I'm dying to find out what happens next!