Angel Essays Collected from 2003-2009

[shadowkat]

Here's the Angel Essays collected in one place. If you want to understand how I view Angel, all the characters in Angel, and Angel the series - it's all here. ;-)
Angel Meta



Meta of Angel and ATS along with Characters in that series.
Fatals - Part I & II, Femme and Homme Fatals in Buffy and Angel the Series
Soul Metaphors in BTVS and ATS
BSMD Metaphors in ATS and BTVS
Who is Fred?
Angel and Spike - Restraining the Monster
Little Girl Lost - Fred and Cordelia
Mirrors and Self-Reflection - Angel S5, Episode Featuring Lorne and the Halloween Party - October 2003
Just Rewards Meta - Angel S5 - October 2003



Angel the Series Episode Reviews and Meta
ATS Episode Ranking Game (basically compares the first episode of each season against each other, then the second, and so on. Yes, insane, I know.) - August 2004
Meta on Soul Purpose - ATS S5 and Dreams
Meta on Damaged Souls or the episode Damage, ATS S5- 2004
Meta on You're Welcome and House Always Wins - ATS S4 and S5 -2004
Meta on Smile Time
An annotated Meta on all the literary and philosophical references in A Hole in the World
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead and Living it Up in Italy - The Girl in Question, ATS S5 meta May 2004
Ah...the Wild Bunch Rides Again - meta on Powerplay ATS S5
Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night - review of Not Fade Away - which was my best episode review of Angel and got rec'd all over the place at the time - May 2004




Angel Meta and Essays for 2009 during the great Buffy rewatch, also a bit of Angel rewatch.
Angel and that Pesky Curse - How one group of writers dealt with a pesky writing trap



Review of Angel After the Fall -issue one and analysis
Review of Angel After the Fall part II
Angel After the Fall Review - issue 3
Review of Angel After the Fall issue 4 and Buffy S8 issue 12 - Wolves at the Gate
Review of Angel After the Fall issue 5 and Buffy s8 issue 13 (I now know it's 13) - Wolves at the Gate
Critical comparison of the art and writing in the Buffy, Angel and Dresden comics
Comics vs. TV or in defense of comics as a literary medium
Review of Angel After the Fall issue 9
Review of the Buffy, Angel issue 10 and Dresden comics - the most recent Buffy S8 - issue 14 - Time of Your Life, where I start losing my faith in Whedon as a comics writer
Review of Angel After the Fall issue 11..or where I begin to wonder how long this story is going to be stretched out and I start to criticize Whedon for twisting the Buffy comics into a bridge to the Frayverse which I didn't like that much.
Review of Angel issue 12, and Buffy issue Time of Your Life Part III or issue 15 (I think) and Fray - where I realize I'm not liking the direction Whedon's taking the story and hoping I'm wrong
Review of Angel After the Fall issue 15 and a bit on Pushing Daisies, Fringe, and the Buffy comic...because I couldn't stick to one thing- 2008
Angel After the Fall - Review of the entire Brian Lynch series and second to last comic in that series.
Review of Drusilla After the Fall comic by Brian Lynch
Review of Drusilla Comic - Inside a Broken Mind
Review of Angel comic (Identity Crisis-Pat I) and Buffy S8 - Issue 29 - Cool! Guns/Let's Kiss
Reviews of Whedon's Sugarshock and Lynch's Boys & Their Toys - Part II
Review of Bill Willingham's first issue of his ill-fated Angel Comics arc
Angel:Last Angel in Hell by Brian Lynch
Spike Comic - part I - Alone Together Now, by Lynch and Urru
Angel issue 38 - Review - Can Two Walk Together Unless They Disagree?
Illyria issue 1 - Haunted - Review
Spike Comic Review and Meta on Spike/Buffy comics - too many artists and writers spoil the plot

Comments

[local-max.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting these summary pages! I've read some of these before but I'm sure there's a lot I've missed.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!