Puppe Mann!

After finishing an anime called Basilisk, I started watching Angel on my computer again. For the uninitiated, Angel is a spinoff show of Buffy featuring many of the same characters who appeared there, led by Angel, the vampire with a soul whose love with Buffy was doomed. Like its mother show, Angel is characterised by extremely witty and funny dialogues, interesting storylines and characters to-die-for. It's darker and gloomier in its overall outlook though.

I watched the first four seasons of Angel on Star World in my four years of engineering. The fifth I missed because I was in WIMWI. So I bought that season on DVD in Cologne and currently watch the show in German with English subtitles :)

Joss Whedon has created another gem in the form of this show. The fifth (and final) season has been brilliant, the overall story arc moving slowly, but almost every episode featuring one or another idiosyncrasy. The episode I saw on Sunday ("Why We Fight") featured Angel (who is a 240 years old) being forced by the US government to help them in the Second World War by bringing back a U-Boat. The flashback scenes in Buffyverse are, almost without exception, visual treats. Also, learning more about the pasts of various characters is always delightful. The episode I saw today ("Smile-Time") depicted Angel being turned into a puppet (or Puppe in German). Puppet Angel is hilarious! His fight with Spike is too funny! So is the scene when Fred calls him cute and starts petting him :) Best of all though is the shot where the team walks along the corridors in slowmo, against a background of stern music - a fairly typical sequence, except that Angel is a puppet here!!! Expected, but still too funny!

The girl in the photo above is Fred, played by Amy Acker. Like Melissa Theuriau, she deserves a photo of her own on my blog :)


Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy, and is very, very pretty, should be featured here too. She will soon be :)