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The Toronto Star's Rob Salem, Entertainment Critic, analyses the state of ATS in its fifth season.
Angel, a series spinoff (from Buffy The Vampire Slayer) that did succeed, against all odds, celebrates that fact, and its recent, fifth-season rejuvenation, with a thematically pivotal 100th episode that also brings back an absent friend, resolving once and for all the final fate of
Time to talk vampires, demons and lawyers, and the unlikely fifth-season beyond-the-grave resurrection of Angel, this week celebrating its centennial episode "” the magic number required for five-night-a-week "strip" syndication, in other words, residual money, the Big Ka-Ching.
The show has benefited greatly this year from the focused attentions of its creator, Joss Whedon, who, with the conclusion of the originating Buffy and Fox's unconscionable cancellation of his visionary sci-fi series, Firefly, is now devoting his full attention to Angel, transferring the action to a law firm of the living dead and adding that fan-favourite Buffy biter, James Marsters' Spike, to the already eclectic mix.
I mean, is there another writer on the planet who could come up with a line like, "The dead nuns we can deal with, but the firm's out $10 million in bail costs ..."? Or another show even remotely capable of accommodating it?
"I do feel there's a new energy this year," Whedon acknowledges. "You know, just coming off with kind of a new paradigm, the idea of putting them in the heart of evil and making it look really nice ... obviously, bringing in James and shaking up the cast a little bit ... having the mission statement of making the show accessible to people who haven't seen it before really kept us on out toes."
"I'm having fun kind of going back to the original Spike," allows Marsters, "which is really kind of a weird thing to say, because the character got a soul, which would have made me think I'd be going in a whole new direction. But I am enjoying not being `whipped' anymore''.
"And so I can go back to, you know, what the character kind of did originally, which is go up to the lead of the series and say, `Hey, you're going to die. You're a fool,' and just be the grit in the wheel that way''.
"I'm enjoying myself and this cast like never before ... and I think that's showing in the work, too."
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Buffy spinoff Angel continues to thrive
Buffy spinoff Angel continues to thrive
Angel, a series spinoff (from Buffy The Vampire Slayer) that did succeed, against all odds, celebrates that fact, and its recent, fifth-season rejuvenation, with a thematically pivotal 100th episode that also brings back an absent friend, resolving once and for all the final fate of
Charisma Carpenter's comatose Cordelia Chase.
Time to talk vampires, demons and lawyers, and the unlikely fifth-season beyond-the-grave resurrection of Angel, this week celebrating its centennial episode "” the magic number required for five-night-a-week "strip" syndication, in other words, residual money, the Big Ka-Ching.
The show has benefited greatly this year from the focused attentions of its creator, Joss Whedon, who, with the conclusion of the originating Buffy and Fox's unconscionable cancellation of his visionary sci-fi series, Firefly, is now devoting his full attention to Angel, transferring the action to a law firm of the living dead and adding that fan-favourite Buffy biter, James Marsters' Spike, to the already eclectic mix.
I mean, is there another writer on the planet who could come up with a line like, "The dead nuns we can deal with, but the firm's out $10 million in bail costs ..."? Or another show even remotely capable of accommodating it?
"I do feel there's a new energy this year," Whedon acknowledges. "You know, just coming off with kind of a new paradigm, the idea of putting them in the heart of evil and making it look really nice ... obviously, bringing in James and shaking up the cast a little bit ... having the mission statement of making the show accessible to people who haven't seen it before really kept us on out toes."
"I'm having fun kind of going back to the original Spike," allows Marsters, "which is really kind of a weird thing to say, because the character got a soul, which would have made me think I'd be going in a whole new direction. But I am enjoying not being `whipped' anymore''.
"And so I can go back to, you know, what the character kind of did originally, which is go up to the lead of the series and say, `Hey, you're going to die. You're a fool,' and just be the grit in the wheel that way''.
"I'm enjoying myself and this cast like never before ... and I think that's showing in the work, too."
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