Angel 5.22 "Not Fade Away"

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My favorite review of this, our last episode, is by teutonicboytoy.

This was the perfect ending to the show, a layered, tear-enducing ending. The deaths made a brutal and moving kind of sense. And the end really is the beginning of many further possibilities, and many fan fiction imaginings.

Also, there are some really good points in ShadowKat's last Angel review: http://www.voy.com/14567/10061.html.

My bunnyohare wants to believe that Andrew saw Angel and Spike had finally shed their allegiance to Wolfram & Hart, and that therefore a huge group of slayers was waiting around the corner to help them.

There are so many things we, as fans, could hypothesize here, which is exactly why the episode ended so perfectly.

Lorne really surprised me, and Wesley and Ilyria made me cry so hard. Even Eve and Harmony made me cry.

Spike was noble and poetic, and in that hood carrying the baby, he appeared quite heroic.

Adam Baldwin as Hamilton made me think of Caleb.

Angel quipping while fighting made me so happy inside. "Can you pick out the one word there you probably shouldn't have said?" Perfect.

Gunn seemed as heroic as anyone, and Chantarelle/Lily/Anne seemed fully realized and grown up.

Joss, can I just ask, why does everyone have to get a horrible painful stomach wound? Faith, Wes, Gunn. Ya love to make the characters and fans suffer. Wicked decent of ya. ;-)

Amy Acker's tears seemed entirely real. Whoever said she should win an Emmy, amen. I know, it'll never actually happen. :-(

Prophecies can be wrong, and Angel could still Shanshu, and so could Spike, and ironically, it doesn't really matter.

The CGI on the fist-through-head was spectacular, counter-balanced almost immediately by the very badly done falling of the pillars in the W&H building. They blew all their effects budget on the head scene.

Buffy, Willow, Tara and Xander cannot have been more surprised than Lindsey at the incursion of a firearm into this fantastical world. Holy shit.

Connor was perfectly used in just the right scenes, and the father-son affection made me weep again. People are right to say that the "I know you are my father" thing didn't completely need saying, but it was still moving and wouldn't have been so moving without actually saying it.

Connor is finally whole, healed, lacking in bitterness. He doesn't think too much about Holtz and Justine anymore. It's like a dream (and so must much of the recent past seem to Wesley).

Slashy lines galore, a knowing prezzie from writers to fans. Kickass.

I am forgetting to say so many things, but I am so weary of being sad about the end being here, so that is all.

Please don't look at the pile of tear-filled tissues, people.

I eagerly await the Buffy Season Six DVDs to assuage the pain.

Comments

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

I'm not much with the brevity when I'm writing as I'm watching.

Nonetheless you are incredibly eloquent.

I was also thinking that the thing you and others said about the Alley being in City Of and now makes "the end is the beginning" quite obvious.