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Bless Buffy Season Eight, because it's success led to this. But at the same time, there's slight cursing, because the end of Angel Season 5 was just, that, good.
I can confess that I'm a Whedonite. God, take a look at my rambling within the Serenity thread to see it. But I was always more of an Angel fan than a Buffy, or, later, Firefly, fan, for one simple, yet shallow, reason. With Buffy and Firefly, I came in after the event had started, and had to spend time looking for my seat in the darkness, whereas with Angel, I was prepared, and came in on the ground floor. (The UK ground floor, I grant you, heavily cut by Channel 4 and bounced around the shedules, but still, I Was There At The Start sort of thing. I told you it was shallow.)
So, with Angel, I followed the show from inception to destruction. Everyone has their quirks, I guess.
And when it finished, even if it was before it's time or just at the right time, it was still... I don't know, cut off, as if there was a lot more story behind what was going on. Which, obviously, there was, but the conclusion was still good enough to tie off the stump.
What I'm eventually getting at is that, having read #1-3 of After the Fall, I'm left with the most mixed of mixed feelings. After all, it's a joy to see the characters back - and in Official Canon, apparently - but a the same time, the story's always going to be a difficult sell.
Not that it's a bad story. As punishment for Angel's daring to inconvenience the Senior Partners, they have sent the whole of LA to hell, and cut it off from the rest of the world, trapping those in, in, and those out, out. Not that the Out matters yet, of course. Angel is trying to help the humans stuck inside, but Demon Lords have risen and carved the city up into their own personal fiefdoms, and Team Angel are now an extremely motley crew, not to mention the re-appearance of Gwen, Nina, and Connor.
I don't want to spoil how the other regulars are involved - and I can't remember how to do those flashy spoiler tags, so, hey - but they're all there, in their own different ways - and some much more different than others.
The art, however, veers from impressive to oddly annoying; IGN pretty much has it when they "believed Urru is talented when he "lets loose" creating demons, but less impressive when it comes to matching characters to their respective actors."
So, is anyone else out there following this? Or am I a lone voice in the darkness? |
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