"Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsmtsm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>A reminder: These threads think I'm melodramatic?
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> ANGEL
> Season Three, Episode 5: "Fredless"
> Writer: Mere Smith
> Director: Marita Grabiak
>
> It's
> great to have Fred along for the mostly-long haul, and the show on re-
> watching feels much more complete with her in the ensemble. Extra
> credit for the monster and its offspring at the end, one of the better
> uses of what could have easily been a messy and over-wrought
> analogy.
> Rating: Good
Doesn't quite make it to Good for me, but it is very, very close. It's my
40th favourite AtS episode, 4th best in season 3 (last year was 41st and
3rd). But it is fun and in retrospect looks good set against much of what
is
to follow.
> Season Three, Episode 6: "Billy"
> Writers: Tim Minear and Jeffery Bell
> Director: David Grossman
>
> Rating: Good
I haven't watched it this time through, so the fact that it falls a few
places - to 103rd best in AtS, 20th best in season 3, from 100th and 19th
last year, merely reflects movement in the episodes around it.
> Season Three, Episode 7: "Offspring"
> Writer: David Greenwalt
> Director: Turi Meyer
>
> Rating: Decent
I haven't watched it this time, and in fact its ranking is unchanged since
last year - 92nd best in AtS, 18th best in season 3.
> Season Three, Episode 8: "Quickening"
> Writer: Jeffrey Bell
> Director: Skip Schoolnik
>
> Still only in the Good range, and I don't have anything particularly
> insightful to say about it, but my opinion of this one has changed.
> It's a really tight episode, taut where the similarly setup-heavy
> "Offspring" was limp, and I didn't properly appreciate it last time.
> It's chaotic in a medium-scale way that doesn't overwhelm, but that
> makes the time fly by. Neither Holtz nor Sahjahn are new characters,
> but this is their chance to make an impression now that the audience
> knows that they'll be handling Big Ambiguously Bad duties, and they
> don't disappoint; until they get better defined, the fact that they
> have each other for contrast is a benefit. Meanwhile there's an
> entertaining mishmash of minor villains and employees throwing their
> hats into the ring as the hour of birth gets closer and both the
> characters and the viewer can become increasingly convinced that the
> twenty-first century is when everything changes...
> Rating: Good
Only Decent for me. And in fact it has fallen a little since last year. It
is my 82nd favourite AtS episode, 13th best in season 3 (last year was
79th
and 12th). It would be lower still but for the valuable job it does in
setting up Lullaby, but it has some moments of its own - like the W&H
psychic who gets to show off his skills just a little too late.
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Apteryx
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