"Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsmtsm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>A reminder: If these threads ain't dead, I'm gonna kill them.
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> Season Four, Episode 2: "Ground State"
> Writer: Mere Smith
> Director: Michael Grossman
>
> The final entrant in the series' big run of Good-to-Excellent
> episodes, and few will accuse it of being on the same level as the
> others. Electro-Gwen has never really worked for me as a character,
> especially given how erratically she drops in and out of the show.
My sense is that she was provisional as a long-term guest character, but
was
dropped because Angel was starting to look like a superhero team ala
"Justice League of America". They certainly invested a few bucks in the
set
for her apartment and her back-story.
As
> another example of the ever-popular heist show, GS entertains even
> when it doesn't wow. Also as with so many other Buffyverse entries,
> what helps elevate it above a simple lightweight episode is the way it
> makes time for its characters. Here I'm thinking of the impromptu art
> competition that sets up Fred cracking under pressure later, and
> definitely of the "strangely intimate" (Chris's term) discussion
> between Angel and Lilah. Also, of the several Wesley/Lilah *** scenes
> in ATS, the one in this episode is the hottest.
> Rating: Good
>
I have to say first, I loved "Angel" but I'm not nearly the connisseur
that
you are. Also, I never took it seriously -- inconsitancies like Angel's
heart starting to beat from Gwen's shock just don't bother me at all.
This was one of my favorite episodes. I can still remember watching it on
its original television episode. The shot of Gwen walking into the bar
almost dropped me to the floor. They took so much time to set up the
scene,
with the long back-story in the introduction.
I loved the character -- the lipstick before the job, the "how old are
you,
seven?" quote, Angel's heart coming to life and the big kiss, etc. The
whole episode was full of fun -- Fred and Angel's drawings, "Large and in
charge", her calling Gunn "Denzel", and on and on.
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