tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41357044955169934782012-02-11T18:05:32.403-05:00A Fan Blog for Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, fictional character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and AngelMiriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.comBlogger3341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-30376796381954116442011-10-27T18:58:00.004-04:002011-10-27T19:05:14.667-04:00

I sat down last night to watch two Season 6 episodes of Supernatural that I had recorded off of TNT and was dismayed to find out that a favorite episode of mine, "Frontierland", had apparently been dropped from the rotation this time around. I was curious to see if TNT had skipped any other episodes from Season 6, and I was even more to dismayed to discover that they had also cut out "The French

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James Marsters and Charisma Carpenter The only criticism I have about last night's episode of Supernatural (7.05, "Shut Up, Dr. Phil") is that, with Buffyverse veterans Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters appearing as the husband-and-wife team of witches Maggie and Don Stark, it would have been impossible for the producers to have delivered a product that would have met my unreasonable

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In what I hope is a passing resemblance to Buffy Speak, I've been getting all #Occupation Wall Street-y over at my Wolfram & Hart Hall of Fame blog. This obviously takes time away from I Heart Wesley W-P, which I apologize profusely for.I'm also toying with the idea of setting up a Twitter account for my blogs.In the meantime, I'm mourning the hopefully temporary loss of Misha Collins as Castiel

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Keeping the Core Together.David Boreanaz and James Marsters as Battle-Hardened Angel and Spike.(Courtesy of Screencap Paradise.)I was interrupted about three-quarters of the way through "Shells" from Season 5 of Angel last weekend when the rest of my family commandeered the TV set for the Michigan-Notre Dame football game. Unfortunately, I decided not to watch the ending. Again, just like with

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(Above: Amy Acker's screen test for Angel.)As I work through my Angel DVD collection, I can never predict in advance how I'm going to react to a particular episode. Regular readers know that I've previously recorded all of the episodes from TNT, and I've obviously viewed my favorite shows a lot more often than the others.I seem to be enjoying my "least" favorite episodes a lot more than my "

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I just found out via Invictus' post at Barry Ritholtz' blog that the U.S. government will be defunding the Census Bureau's 133-year old Statistical Abstract. This is not only the first time that I've heard the news (here's the closest thing I could find to an official announcement, which was posted at the U.S. Government Printing Office site back in March 2011), this is the first time I've even

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(Image at right. If I could die and go to Heaven. Misha Collins as Castiel.) During my vacation I made a conscious decision to spend more time watching Supernatural on TNT. As I wrote in a review last year, it was very hard for me to get into the show because it's tough for an occasional viewer like me to figure out what's going on half the time. I'm not an expert of the series by any stretch

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Brief update: I've just finished Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and loved it! So I've now officially seen every episode of the series.In other news, I've had a very busy summer, and pretty soon I'll be heading out for an extremely rare 3-week road trip vacation. I hope everyone is doing well, and I'll probably see you some time before Labor Day.TTFN!

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(Right image - Mary Poppins - a childhood favorite of mine.)Jonathan V. Last's post at The Weekly Standard, "The Crash of 1993" works for me since it ties together two of my current favorite subject matters: bubble economics and comic books. The subheading is also quite informative, as it tells us that "As the great comic-book bubble showed, sometimes there's no recovery from a speculative boom".

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Amy Acker as Fred, admiring Angel's new look (image courtesy of Screencap Paradise)Hearing someone state that "Smile Time" from Season 5 of Angel is a favorite episode is kind of like watching someone curtsy in front of the Queen. After a while it has the potential to become an empty, obligatory ritual of obeisance that is almost totally devoid of meaning. Having said that, I was happily

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Patrick Shand became my Insta Hero when he posted "IDW's Angel - Reading Order" over at his Writerly Writings blog. Shand pointed out that "IDW has put out such a wealth of Angel comics in the past five years that some fans have mentioned not knowing where to start." To help us novices, he came up with ".... a suggested reading order of everything published since Joss Whedon and Brian Lynch

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I've often wondered why I'm not all that interested in the title character of Angel. I always thought it was a natural consequence of Angel having the thankless task of keeping the narrative together, not to mention how he had to be the straight guy to an endless stream of "funny guys". David Boreanaz was perfectly cast as Angel and consistently put in solid performances week in and week out. By

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Angel as Jackie Robinson? That might be a bit of a stretch."Why We Fight" from Season 5 of Angel seems to get better with each viewing. I admit that I didn't quite know what to think the first time I saw it. I felt that the WWII submarine setting was a jarring change from the rest of the season, which is saying a lot since I'm notoriously tolerant of stand-alone episodes. However, I acknowledged

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It looks like our U.S. Centers for Disease Control is picking up where our Canadian cousins left off. I did a blog post a few years ago about how a group of Canadian students did some mathematical modeling about the speed of zombie attacks and the best ways to try to contain the outbreaks. (".... the most effective way to contain the rise of the undead is to hit hard and hit often".)The CDC

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Google's Blogger platform was down for several hours today. When it finally came back online I found that the post I was working on had reverted back to a much earlier version. I'm a little bit disheartened by what happened, so I'm not sure when I'll get around to working on the post again. So, I guess I'll see you whenever. In the meantime, I hope everyone is doing great in WesleyLand.Best

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Comic Book Resources (CBR) has posted a fantastic interview with IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall, "Ryall Takes Stock of IDW's 'Angel' Run". (Hat tip Whedonesque.) As most people are aware, after a six-year run at IDW, the Angel comics franchise will be moving over to Dark Horse, which is the publisher of the Buffy comics series.(Full disclosure: I've only read the first four volumes of Angel:

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Just Like Bogey and Bacall(Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep, 1946)CORDELIA: (nervously) Wes? Last year, when that, um, higher...whatever took over my body, did those things. Nobody's talking about it.WESLEY: What's to say? We all understand it wasn't you.CORDELIA: Do you?WESLEY: You didn't kill Lilah.CORDELIA: I know. Still... I'm sorry. I just wanted to tell you that before—

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Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase in "You're Welcome"It's hard for me to watch "You're Welcome" from Season 5 of Angel without thinking of those wonderful 100th episode celebration photos like this one at Flickr. Everyone looked so innocent and happy, as though they they had no idea the WB Network would announce the cancellation of the series just a few short weeks after the episode's

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Navi Rawat as Dana the Psycho Slayer on the loose(courtesy of Screencap Paradise) "Damage" from Season 5 of Angel was one of my least favorite episodes of the series, mostly because I found Dana the Psycho Slayer to be an extremely unsympathetic character. Still, viewing it on DVD last week marked another bittersweet moment for me since it was the last episode of the series that I had only seen

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Alexis Denisof and J. August Richards as Crockett and Tubbs(From Screencap Paradise)As I hinted at the end of my last post, I'm not quite finished with "Soul Purpose" from Season 5 of Angel. Here's a few more random thoughts about the episode.Spike, Wesley and Gunn. I love this scene on so many levels, where Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Charles Gunn confronted Spike about his new career path as an

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David Boreanaz and friend as Angel and his parasite (Courtesy of Screencap Paradise) I admit that I wasn't all that crazy about "Soul Purpose" from Season 5 of Angel the first few times I viewed it, mostly because I'm not a big fan of TV episodes that revolve around dream sequences. Thankfully, "Soul Purpose" was also setting up some important building blocks for the rest of the season.David

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(Mercedes McNab as Vampire Harmony Kendall)I had a discussion with co-workers several years ago about how hard it must be for managers to fire inept employees, particularly when they consistently show up for work on time and faithfully stay on the job until 5:00 pm or later. "Harm's Way" from Season 5 of Angel, by focusing on the lovely Harmony the Vampire, brought into sharp relief the issue

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What a nice double surprise at about the 22 second mark of the trailer for the new Mandy Moore movie Love, Wedding. Marriage! You can read more of the juicy details at MTV and at Perez Hilton's site.

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(Alexis Denisof, Alyson Hannigan and Satyana, from Celebrity Baby Scoop.) Happy 45th Birthday Alexis! Although I'm sure he'll be inundated with presents, his greatest gift of all will be enjoying a glorious day with his beautiful family.Would I be correct if I guessed that Satyana woke Alexis up at around 6:o0 am this morning just so he wouldn't miss any precious minutes of his special day?Update

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I'm horrified that I haven't published a post in almost a month. I'm busy with a project at work that just never seems to end. I haven't abandoned this blog, but I can't promise a return date either. In the meantime, best wishes to everyone, and remember to buy your loved ones some Valentine's day chocolates!

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Michael Halsey as Rutherford Sirk(Courtesy of Screencap Paradise)A person could almost say that the episode "Destiny" marked the real beginning of Season 5 of Angel by dealing directly with the issue of, which Vampire With a Soul (Angel or Spike) was destined to not only play a leading role in the Apocalypse as referenced in the Shanshu Prophecy, but also regain his humanity as a reward?Who Was

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Talk about from beyond the grave! I ran across a reference to a real live (dead?) zombie situation when I read Yves Smith's post at Naked Capitalism, "Woman Deceased in 1995 Continued to Robo Sign Till at Least 2008". It appears that Wolfram & Hart isn't the only firm that keeps their employees around courtesy of their "standard perpetuity clause". (Minor clarification 1/1/2011 - the dead

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(From FaLaLaLaLa.com)Last I heard Santa was making his way over Bintulu in Malaysia, but you can keep track of his progress for yourself at the NORAD Tracks Santa website. Remember to wave when he flies over your house!Merry Christmas to all and I hope everyone has a safe and happy Holiday Season.

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I knew some of Alexis Denisof's ancestors came from Russia, but this takes researching family history to extremes.(H/t Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism).(The Denisof family has evolved quite nicely since then.)

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I've often wondered how Fred made the jump from being a history major to becoming a physics grad student as described in Season 4 of Angel's "Supersymmetry". John Horgan offers a clue in his Scientific American article, "Science Faction: Is Theoretical Physics Becoming 'Softer' Than Anthropology?"(H/T to Mark Thoma at Economist's View.)Finally, thanks to a h/t from reader Patrick at Economist's

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I'm pretty late with this, but it looks like you still have time to vote for your favorite celebrity parents of 2010 over at Celebrity Baby Scoop. As of this time, Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof have a huge lead, with well over 55% of the vote!One pet peeve I have is that these articles never seem to have a cut-off date for voting. I'm such a stickler for detail.

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(Alexis Denisof as Sandy Rivers)Great news! According to Velda Gelman's post at the Los Angeles Times Showtracker blog, on January 3, 2011, Alexis Denisof will make a return appearance as Sandy Rivers on CBS' How I Met Your Mother. Of course, his lovely wife Alyson Hannigan plays Lily Aldrin on the show.I have never seen any of Denisof's performances as Sandy Rivers, mostly because his character

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Whedonesque is currently featuring a thread based on the recent Syfy/UK blog post, "Top Five Angel Episodes". Naturally, readers are chiming in with their Top Five or So favorites. This is still kind of early in the game, but so far I'm struck by the fact that Season 5 episodes seem to be faring quite well.Here's a Top 10 list of favorite episodes that I compiled back in July 2009, plus a Top 6

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I should be watching and reviewing and Angel and Buffy episodes. Instead, I'm playing this game while I'm waiting for the gingerbread to bake. (Click here for the game.) (Object - you're WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, and you're trying to steal secrets from President Obama's laptop.)(Wikileaks: The Game, at JeuxJeuxJeux.fr). (H/T Switched, via reader Ninel).I hope everyone is having a lovely time

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What do I think of the recent announcement that Warner Brothers is going ahead with a Buffy the Vampire Slayer motion picture reboot sans Joss Whedon? My first reaction is, I think it's a horrible idea and it sucks! io9 features the official press release here.Here's what Joss Whedon had to say about the announcement ("I have strong, mixed emotions"), and this is what the Whedonesque commenters

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I've sanctimoniously stated in the past that I don't want to enable paparazzi photographers who make their livings by violating the privacy of celebrity children. However, there's been such a flurry of adorable photos of Satyana Denisof being posted online lately I knew I'd reach a breaking point sooner or later. It's hard to pick out just one source to link to, but I'm particularly fond of this

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I was delighted to find out last night that Hulu is offering one free week of their Hulu Plus programming to U.S. viewers, where all seasons of their TV shows are available for viewing. After that, it costs $7.99 per month to continue the service. As usual, we're required to enter credit card information before we sign up for the free service.My understanding is that viewers who had already been

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It pains me to say this, but I've decided that I need to take a break from I Heart Wesley W-P for an unspecified period of time. Long story short, I'm working close to full-time, I'm the personal representative of the estates of three people who've passed away over the last two years (what was I thinking when I agreed to all of this?), and Christmas will be here before I know it. My last post

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Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce,from Buffyverse Dialogue DatabaseThere are some scenes in Angel where the dialogue says it all, with "Lineage" from Season 5 providing us with at least three great examples. The first instance occurred when Eve cast Wesley's reckless endangerment of Fred within the larger context of Angel's inherent mistrust of Wesley. The second instance occurred when Angel

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(Roy Dotrice and Alexis Denisof as Roger Wyndam-Pryce and son Wesley)I've been working under the premise lately that Wesley Wyndam-Pryce from Season 5 of Angel (whom I've somewhat incorrectly dubbed the "New and Improved Wesley") was somewhat less than whole after his memories of Connor were stripped away by the mindwipe spell that Angel agreed to as a condition for accepting the Wolfram & Hart

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Numero Cinco, from Screencap ParadiseI've learned from past experience that whenever I sit down to watch a particularly satisfying episode of Angel, it's not too unusual to see Jeffrey Bell's name plastered all over the opening credits. For pure entertainment value, his "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" from Season 5 is one of my favorite shows of the entire series. It's also one of the few

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We recently had another death in the family, so obviously I won't be blogging for a while. I can't give you a return date, but I of course want to come back as soon as I can. I may or may not publish some shorter posts in the interim. If you're getting bored, feel free to poke around my site and find all of my mistakes.I'll still be checking in on a regular basis to see what's happening around

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I'm not sure how many more of these "I'll be back soon" posts I'll be able to get away with, but I'm hard at work on a post about Season 5 of Angel's "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco". I can't seem to be able to sit down and work on it for more than a few minutes at a time, but I hope I'll be able to finish it soon.Enjoy your weekends everyone!

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I again apologize for my lack of posts lately. I've hit another busy stretch, and I don't have a lot of time to devote to my blog. Things will settle down again in the near future - I'm just not sure of the exact date.Take care of yourselves everyone.

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Even though I'm still quite busy I'm still around. Tonight I saw "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" from Season 5 of Angel. Naturally, it turned into one of those episodes where I can devote about eight paragraphs of text for each two-word line of dialogue, so the review for that show will come at a later date. Fortunately, I can pound out a few impressions of the series premiere of the 2010

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I'll be pretty busy for the next few to several days again. I hope to have my next post up by the end of the week. Take care, and I hope everyone's having a good start to their week.

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(Andy Hallett as Lorne.)I was really curious to see how I'd react this time around to "Life of the Party" from Season 5 of Angel. I thought it was absolutely hilarious the first time I saw it, yet on subsequent viewings I thought it was one of the more cringe-worthy episodes of the whole series. Do you ever feel so embarrassed for a group of actors you feel like crawling under a rock to get away

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(From Buffyverse Dialogue Database.Wesley's handsome all right, but he's not the Handsome Man that Fred saved.)"Hell-Bound" from Season 5 of Angel was a crazy hodgepodge of the good and not-so-good, and was another one of those episodes where the sum of the parts didn't quite add up to the whole. Some of my favorite pieces of dialogue in the series showed up in "Hell-Bound", yet there seemed to

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(Jenny Mollen as Nina Ash)(Note: 9/17/2010 - Two minor updates added in italics in text below in the "Nina Ash" and "Here's to Good Friends" sections.)The last thing I want to do is continue on with a habit I developed several months ago of writing two to three posts for each episode of Angel as I work my way through my DVD collection. My creative muse is a strict taskmistress. Although I

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(James Marsters as Spike)Although I've said in prior posts that I wasn't too fond of early Season 5 episodes of Angel, I was pleasantly surprised to see how much I enjoyed watching "Just Rewards" this time around. I never get tired of a good old-fashioned "Angel destroys the bad guy" type of plot, which this show satisfactorily delivered when Angel took on the necromancer Magnus Hainsley.As usual

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I'd like to give a huge thanks to Simon from Whedonesque for posting a link back to my site. I feel like a red-faced homeowner who neglected to vacuum and dust, but is still pleased with all of the visitors arriving on her doorstep. My house is your house, so please feel free to poke through this site and stay awhile.I hope everyone's having a good start to their week.

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(David Boreanaz' Angel finds that it's lonely at the top.)Even Joss Whedon seemed somewhat bored in his DVD commentary as he described the basic standalone story line of Angel's Season 5 premiere episode "Conviction". The quick synopsis is, Angel and his gang moved into the LA offices of evil law firm Wolfram & Hart and felt compelled to defend a particularly odious man who was threatening to

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I'm busy working on my not-quite-a-review of the Angel Season 5 premiere episode "Conviction". It's taking me a long time to complete my post since this episode gave us an extremely detailed road map for almost all of Season 5! I'm not sure when I'll be done, but I just wanted to let you know that I'm getting closer to a real return date to my blog.Best wishes to everyone out there.Miriam

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Life unexpectedly got a lot more hectic for me lately, so I can't promise when and how often I'll be posting over the next few weeks. I will be back, though.Take care, everyone.

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I'm still not sure if I'm going to review each and every episode of Season 5 of Angel. Similar to past seasons, there were parts of Season 5 that I've already written about quite extensively, (for example, the Wes/Illyria story arc, and the unfortunate group-think mentality of Angel Investigations), while there are other aspects I barely touched on. I probably won't know how often I'll post until

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(Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan)I was pleased to discover that the Angel Season 4 DVD special feature "Malice in Wonderland: Wolfram & Hart" contained quite a bit of commentary about Wesley and Lilah's relationship. One of the major themes presented to us seemed to be that we're all crazy hodgepodges of both Good and Evil, and it's up to each of us to make personal choices on how we maintain

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The Angel Season 4 DVD special feature, "Malice in Wonderland: Wolfram & Hart" has a lot of wonderful things to say about Wesley and Lilah's relationship. I'm having trouble deciding how I want to structure my post about the commentary, but rest assured I'm working on it and hope to have it published within the next few days.Update 8/26/10: Tick, tock, better add a few more days until I post

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(David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel as Special Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance Brennan, on "Bones") My TV viewing is pretty much hit and miss since I work such crazy hours. My M.O. is to sit down when I have some time to kill, turn on the TV and see what's on. When I spot certain shows, I usually put down the remote and start watching.Bones. I didn't care for Bones at first, but once I

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I intended to take a little mini-break between Seasons 4 and 5 of Angel, but I forgot about all of the special features that I need to watch on the last DVD for Season 4. I'll post reviews if I find anything interesting.What's really catching my eyes are the official announcements that the Angel comics series is moving from IDW Publishing back to Dark Horse Comics in late 2011. (I understand Dark

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It just doesn't seem possible that an episode like "Home" from Season 4 of Angel could be jam-packed with so many excellent scenes. What's even more amazing is how the episode was able to maintain a unified theme even though many of the scenes were so different from each other in tempo and style. For example, "Home" started out with Lilah Morgan's hysterically funny return to the Hyperion Hotel,

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Things have been pretty hectic at work lately, so I'm not sure when I'll be publishing my next post about the Season 4 finale of Angel, "Home". I'll just vaguely say I'll do it some time this weekend.Then, before I start doing my Season 5 sort-of-reviews, I want to do a post about some of the other TV shows I'm watching as well as publish a Season 5 overview.When I started watching Angel on DVD's

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I apologize for making my "Lilah Lives On" post temporarily disappear. I've been having trouble with the Blogger platform lately in that when I make a minor edit or two, a whole bunch of weird HTML code pops into my post from out of nowhere and does everything from change the font to making my text completely disappear from my post. My code is horribly corrupted so I'm not sure how long it'll be

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(Stephanie Romanov as Lilah).There's a lot going on in the Season 4 finale of Angel, "Home". I have a lot of territory to cover thanks to writer/director Tim Minear's wonderful DVD audio commentary. Today I'll focus on Wesley and Lilah, and in my next post I'll catch up on the rest of the action."Home" featured the very last pairing of Wes and Lilah. I've already written about this episode in "

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One more episode that I've seen too many times is "Peace Out" from Season 4 of Angel. Although it's a favorite of mine, "Peace Out" started losing its dramatic impact after about the second viewing. As a result, I feel that I'm not giving this episode the full attention that it deserves.I still value "Peace Out" for its many fine qualities. It's such a pivotal episode, I find myself turning to it

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"Sacrifice" from Season 4 of Angel is one of those cathartic episodes that allowed fans to vicariously release of a lot of pent up energy after being subjected to the almost unceasing doom and gloom of the Beast/Beastmaster/Angelus story arc. I was right up there with the rest of the Angel Investigations team in their car chases and demon hunting expeditions. There were a few clunky moments, but

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(J. August Richards and Alexis Denisof as Charles Gunn and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce)I enjoyed Season 4 of Angel's "The Magic Bullet" more than "Happy Shiny People" simply because the main characters were one-by-one reverting back to their usual selves after they awakened from Jasmine's spell. In the previous episode "Shiny Happy People", the Angel Investigations team was spiraling downward, first as

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(Gina Torres as Jasmine)For whatever reason, I'm more interested in the events leading up to the Jasmine arc in Season 4 of Angel than the Jasmine arc itself. It's not that I disliked the core 4 episodes in question ("Shiny Happy People", "The Magic Bullet", "Sacrifice" and "Peace Out"). On the contrary, I found on first viewing that these shows were a welcome respite from the unceasingly dreary

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Alexis Denisof and David Boreanaz as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and AngelIn my last post, "Shepherding Us in the Right Direction", I discussed a lot of the larger themes from Season 4 of Angel's "Inside Out", like, the nature of Jasmine/Cordelia, how much The Powers That Be controlled things, and whether Connor was born Evil. In this post I'll catch up with some of the more minor issues.Angel, Wesley

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(Photo: Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia/Jasmine)"Inside Out" from Season 4 of Angel was one of the least entertaining episodes for me to watch as a couch-potato viewer (again, mostly because of the whole Connor/Cordy/Jasmine soap opera). Ironically, "Inside Out" turned out to be arguably the most crucial episode of the entire series, since it revealed that many of the events going back to the very

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I'm currently working on a series of posts regarding the episode "Inside Out" from Season 4 of Angel. Since this particular episode touches on almost all of the major events that happened throughout the first 4 seasons of Angel, I can't really grind these posts out overnight. My tentative plan is to start out with a post featuring questions and (possible) answers touching on some of the major

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What I found maddening about the whole Gwen Raiden arc in Angel was that it appeared to consist of a giant build-up that went absolutely nowhere. Alexa Davalos made a huge impact on the entire series with her wonderful portrayal of the Electric Freak/Thief Gwen. However, what the audience needed was one more appearance by her that might have finally explained why Gwen was introduced to the series

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When I recently compared Fred in my post "Orpheus Ascending" to a 2nd grader who liked to hold hands with her little girlfriends, I honestly didn't have this piece of dialogue in mind from the next episode "Players" where Wesley gently chided Fred, "It's not always about holding hands." As I watched more of "Players" it began to dawn on me that there was a lot of hand-holding going on (

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(Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof as Wesley and Willow in Season 4 of Angel's "Orpheus")In my last post, "Orpheus Ascending", I touched on the idea that Wesley seemed to be reaching for Willow in Season 4 of Angel's "Orpheus" to help lead him out of the darkness. I just want to develop that concept (or push the obvious) a little bit further here.I had written:Besides the humor of Wesley's

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Season 4 of Angel's "Orpheus" had always been a bit of a disappointment for me, mostly because it marked an abrupt ending to the wonderfully nuanced Wesley/Faith relationship. A few other problems I initially had were: how I failed to be drawn into the internal Angel/Angelus struggle; I had mixed feelings about that strange "Willow" character (note: I had not seen any episodes of Buffy the first

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Although Season 4 of Angel's "Release" gave me a lot of material in the form of Wesley and Faith's Watcher and Slayer relationship (see my prior post), there was also a lot going on with the other characters.Sophomore Slump. In Season 3, rookie Fred Burkle was used to being petted and cosseted as the genius Golden Girl who could do no wrong. Reality took root in Season 4 when she started being

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(I'm doing a series of posts about the sizzling relationship between Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Faith in Season 4 of Angel. My previous posts are here, here and here. In this post I'll be concentrating on the episode "Release", where Wesley and Faith continued their pursuit of Angelus.)The opening sequence in "Release" is one of the most challenging scenes in the entire series for me to get a grip

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I'd rather be blogging, but I'm currently neck-deep in probate and estate details. Since I'm still around quite a bit, please feel free to ask questions or otherwise put in your 2 cents worth in my comments sections.I hope my Northern Hemisphere readers are enjoying their summers, and I hope my Southern Hemisphere readers are likewise having good times.Best Wishes,Miriam

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We've had a death in the family recently, so posting will probably be quite light here until things settle down a bit. Take care, and best wishes to everyone out there.

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OK! Magazine currently has Pretty Little Liars plastered all over the place as background images and featured advertisements in their story about the Denisof family's latest trip to the beach in Malibu. To refresh your memories, Alexis Denisof filmed the pilot for Pretty Little Liars and was replaced by Chad Lowe for the regular series run.

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Things are all of a sudden quite hectic around here, so I'm not sure when I'll get another blog post up. The next few days? The next few weeks? In the meantime, be sure to cheer for your favorite World Cup soccer/football team.Take care everyone.

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Lo and behold, my main Google page is back to normal, showing something close to the nice clean interface I've loved for the last 10 years. About the only difference that I've noticed compared to how the page appeared 24 hours ago is a link in the lower left corner that allows you to "Change background image".I had a hard time decompressing this morning after I got home from work, so I dragged

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Update 12:49 PM So far, my best advice is to change your home page to http://www.google.com/m/classic. Feel free to poke around the rest of my post for other helpful hints.(Original Post)Here are a few links to sites that give suggestions on how to try to get rid of the annoying Google background images. As far as I can tell, we'll be subject to the revolving door of background images for a total

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I'm getting a bit tired of being thwarted by Google this past week every time I sit down to work on my regular posts. I've been a (relatively) lifelong supporter of Google and I consider their search engine to be by far the best one around. I was one of the first adopters of the Google search engine and was using it when no one else had even heard of it.So why has Google been trying to torture me

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There have been all sorts of problems with Google/Blogger since last night. This is the first that I've been able to sign in to actually do anything with my posts today. I'm just seeing if this will publish.Update: Still suffering from sporadic Blogger outages.Update 2: Testing.

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My post about Wesley and Faith's relationship in Season 4 of Angel's "Release" is not as easy to write about as I had hoped. My main challenge is that I'm suffering from a classic "head versus heart" dilemma. Do I write about the messages that I believe the Mutant Enemy production company was trying to get across? Or do I write about what I am personally perceiving and understanding about this

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I've been working on a series of posts (here and here) where I'm trying to figure out what made Faith and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce such an explosive pairing in Season 4 of Angel. It took me about a year to finally see all of their earlier appearances in Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Season 1 of Angel. Although there is a natural progression to their relationship, I always felt I was missing

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This was supposed to be a post about Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Faith in Season 4 of Angel's, "Salvage". However, Lilah Morgan showed that she wasn't quite done with us yet, as proved by this macabre yet extremely moving "Wesley chopping off her head" scene.I've already written quite a bit about that scene, where Wesley was working through his own feelings about his relationship with Lilah and his

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I did a post fairly recently called "Wesley and His Women" where I gave somewhat short shrift to Wesley Wyndam-Pryce's relationship with Faith in Angel. My excuse was that I hadn't yet written what I thought were any definitive pieces about Wes and Faith, and I didn't want to leave my best stuff buried in a post that covered a lot of other territory. As usual, my main problem is that I've already

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As I'm watching my Angel DVD's, I've somehow stumbled into doing recaps/reviews for every single episode of Season 4. This is somewhat startling because this is my least favorite season of the entire series. I thought I'd get through the entire season with about a half-dozen posts and put my full concentration onto Season 5. However, I haven't seen a lot of these Season 4 episodes in about a year

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Wes and Lilah at the Hyperion HotelI've probably seen "Calvary" from Season 4 of Angel one too many times. I could tell that my mind wasn't totally into it while I was watching it yesterday since I was spending more time trying to confirm some of my earlier ideas rather than being on the lookout for things I might have missed before. Nonetheless, "Calvary" was another great episode that

Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-3820857276261542562010-05-21T09:56:00.010-04:002010-05-21T10:53:20.802-04:00

I accidently hit the "publish" button for a post I was working on rather than "Save". So if my draft showed up anyone's feeds, my apologies for the confusion. In the meantime, I hope to publish my finished version of my review of Angel's Season 4's "Calvary" some time later today or tomorrow.

Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-11187836695569934652010-05-20T22:40:00.003-04:002010-05-20T23:11:20.614-04:00

The first time I saw "Soulless" from Season 4 of Angel, I didn't appreciate how everyone was in a really bad place at the time they brought back Angelus courtesy of the extraction of Angel's soul in "Awakening". Angel was jealous that Cordelia had slept with Connor; Angel, although mad at Connor (for obvious reasons), was not making any headway in his attempts to reconcile with his son; and

Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-61500284168712262572010-05-19T17:58:00.003-04:002010-05-20T05:24:21.026-04:00

I had written in a previous post from last June that:Season 4's "Awakening" was absolutely heartbreaking. As I told my husband, I'm not sure if it's a favorite or least favorite episode of mine. I was really fooled and drawn into it the first time I saw it, and I was absolutely crushed to find out that all of the wonderful things that were happening was just part of a dream sequence that Angel

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"Long Day's Journey" from Season 4 of Angel is yet another episode where the creators seemed to be marking off items from a checklist that they had assembled at the beginning of the season. It reminded me in spirit of "Slouching Toward Bethlehem", which was another pure story arc episode. However, "Long Day's Journey" seemed a bit more routine, had a lot of clunky dialogue, and just overall

Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-55122951676301841612010-05-17T20:04:00.002-04:002010-05-17T20:08:08.453-04:00

As I explained at the bottom of my last post, "Habeas Corpses" marks my informal ending to the "good" part of Season 4 of Angel, probably because it was Stephanie Romanov's last appearance as Lilah for a while. While there will be plenty of good highlights over the remainder of Season 4, I fully expect my DVD viewing of the series to be somewhat like a couch potato's death march until Season 5

Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-73557314055571968232010-05-16T14:09:00.006-04:002010-05-16T14:24:19.256-04:00

Wesley at the Hyperion,after encountering The BeastLast year I included Season 4 of Angel's "Habeas Corpses" in my "Top 10 Favorite Angel Episodes" list. I cited some magnificent scenes that appear in this show, such as, Wesley's breakup with Lilah, Connor's appearance at Wolfram & Hart, Wesley's rescue of Lilah from The Beast, and the rescue of Connor from both The Beast and the Wolfram & Hart

Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-53367231835193648122010-05-15T12:47:00.013-04:002010-05-15T23:54:11.736-04:00

Wesley takes on The Beast, with guns blazing,courtesy of FanPop."Apocalypse, Nowish", from Season 4 of Angel, is another example of a good story arc episode since it's jam-packed with excitement from beginning to end. It also helps that the story line advances quite a bit throughout the episode. I also loved how each of those strange, seemingly isolated events culminated in one of the best fight

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Alexis Denisof and Joss Whedon, presumably on the set for"Spin the Bottle"I noticed that Joss Whedon and Alexis Denisof seemed like two peas in a pod (in the nice sense) when I listened to their DVD commentary for Angel's Season 4's "Spin the Bottle". There were times that I felt I was actually eavesdropping on two close friends who were happily reminiscing about old times. Their commentary

Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-35883953310341033432010-05-10T18:01:00.009-04:002010-05-11T12:21:54.930-04:00

"Supersymmetry" is turning into Season 4's version of Season 3's "That Old Gang of Mine", in that it's a minor episode that I surprisingly can't seem to stop blogging about. My other recent "Supersymmetry" posts are here and here.I had mentioned in my last post that both Angel and Wesley seemed quite sympathetic to Fred's desire to take revenge on Professor Seidel, who was the man who had sent

Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257954354227856493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135704495516993478.post-48352172866218377202010-05-06T13:21:00.001-04:002010-05-06T13:33:35.743-04:00

I'm my last post, "Supersymmetry Hodgepodge", I left out the meat-and-potatoes discussion as to whether Charles Gunn was justified in killing Professor Seidel, the physics instructor who had cast Winifred Burkle into the Pylea hell-dimension six years earlier.When I first saw Angel last year, I'd get irritated at how the Vampire With a Soul Angel and the other characters would dither back and

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