The final season of Angel kicks off with "Conviction", where Angel and the crew are running the LA branch of Wolfram & Hart. Each member settles into their new role differently. Angel feels weird being the head boss and having a tactical team try to follow him around and take over his work. Fred enjoys the lab but feels a bit overwhelmed. Wesley seems fine with it all and hires Harmony to be Angel's secretary. Lorne loved the celebrities that WR&H represent. And Gunn undergoes an odd surgery that makes him knowledgeable of the law so that he can be of better help to the gang.
A former client threatens Angel's new regime. He's planted a bomb somewhere unknown and says he'll release it if WR&H don't win him his court case. They learn it's a bioweapon that this man has inserted into his son. The tactical team heads to the school to eliminate the threat but Angel beats them there and starts a fight with his own employees. He kills the leader of the group whose resistant to WR&H's new moral compass. Gunn gets the case thrown out with his new knowledge. At the end of the episode, an amulet releases Spike into Angel's office.
Wow, this season opener is not what I expected! It's like I'm watching an entirely new show. Everything is so much brighter, all the actor's appearances are more attractive, the plot is wildly different. It's like we got a brand new reset.
The premise that the gang is taking over their archenemy's law firm is a lot to swallow but I'm going to give it a chance. It seems like a fun space to play in, even if it does come entirely out of left field. It's almost like Joss decided he wanted to make a courtroom drama for a season. Yes it's odd but the premiere at least was enjoyable.
The lighting feels like the complete opposite of the dark and moody backdrop of the rundown hotel that the majority of the past few seasons have taken place in. WR&H is bright and shiny. And that opening tracking shot is absolutely gorgeous and really well done.
It seems like the writers had no idea what they should do with Gunn so they decided to just make him a law expert overnight. Pretty hilarious. Everyone else had some kind of transferrable skill to the law office except him... Well now he does.
Bringing Spike in this early after his "death" in Buffy makes that series finale seem a bit more meaningless and lowers the stakes for me. I enjoy his presence but I think I could have done without him showing up on Angel, at least this early after his demise.
Connor and Cordy look to have been effectively written off of the show. I'm sure they'll guest appearance near this end of this season but we seem to have moved on from that weird plot thread. Also, the writers seem to have forgotten that Gunn and Fred we're madly in love with each other like half a season ago. Despite the fact that they are broken up, they get along fine and don't even talk about it... Odd.
And also: what in the world happened to Gwen?
A former client threatens Angel's new regime. He's planted a bomb somewhere unknown and says he'll release it if WR&H don't win him his court case. They learn it's a bioweapon that this man has inserted into his son. The tactical team heads to the school to eliminate the threat but Angel beats them there and starts a fight with his own employees. He kills the leader of the group whose resistant to WR&H's new moral compass. Gunn gets the case thrown out with his new knowledge. At the end of the episode, an amulet releases Spike into Angel's office.
Wow, this season opener is not what I expected! It's like I'm watching an entirely new show. Everything is so much brighter, all the actor's appearances are more attractive, the plot is wildly different. It's like we got a brand new reset.
The premise that the gang is taking over their archenemy's law firm is a lot to swallow but I'm going to give it a chance. It seems like a fun space to play in, even if it does come entirely out of left field. It's almost like Joss decided he wanted to make a courtroom drama for a season. Yes it's odd but the premiere at least was enjoyable.
The lighting feels like the complete opposite of the dark and moody backdrop of the rundown hotel that the majority of the past few seasons have taken place in. WR&H is bright and shiny. And that opening tracking shot is absolutely gorgeous and really well done.
It seems like the writers had no idea what they should do with Gunn so they decided to just make him a law expert overnight. Pretty hilarious. Everyone else had some kind of transferrable skill to the law office except him... Well now he does.
Bringing Spike in this early after his "death" in Buffy makes that series finale seem a bit more meaningless and lowers the stakes for me. I enjoy his presence but I think I could have done without him showing up on Angel, at least this early after his demise.
Connor and Cordy look to have been effectively written off of the show. I'm sure they'll guest appearance near this end of this season but we seem to have moved on from that weird plot thread. Also, the writers seem to have forgotten that Gunn and Fred we're madly in love with each other like half a season ago. Despite the fact that they are broken up, they get along fine and don't even talk about it... Odd.
And also: what in the world happened to Gwen?