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This is a much tougher call for me than Buffy. There are things I seriously love/hate about each season.

Season 1 gets better the more I watch it and it's just plain 'ol nostalgic love for me. When it was fresh and simple. *sigh*

Season 2 had such a fabulous storyline and the Dark Angel (non-Angelus) was just

Season 3 - loved 3/4 of it. Hated the eps with the crying baby and HATED the whole everyone-against-Wesley thing because I just didn't get it.

Season 4 - loved the fast pace - it just FLEW by. One of the coolest eps ever for me: The Magic Bullet and of course there's Spin The Bottle which was so fabulous. But I hated the idea of Jasmine's manipulation of everything. Her as a big bad wasn't a problem - I just didn't like the idea that nothing had been due to their own choices.

Season 5 - some really great individual stories and some serious funny and I LOVE Spike as a character but I really felt like they push everyone to the side for him. Wesley took the back burner and I'm a big Wesley fan. And Angel kind of takes a backseat to Spike which just isn't okay for me since Angel is the main character. Mostly, I felt sad. It just felt so different. I did love Harmony. Then the ending....just ripped my heart up and stomped it into a million tiny bits. I've actually never been able to watch it again because it hurt so much.

So, which do I choose? I think for pure nostalgic love, I have to go with 1.

For me, Season 4. Season 4 was actually the reason why I even decided to watch Angel again. The whole Connor thing was a big plus for me. Just so much Angst! I know a lot of people hated Connor, but I thought he was such a great addition to the show. The season finale broke my heart!

I saw Angel back when it was first on TV for Season 1 and then after that I only watched a few eps from time to time.

I decided one day that I wanted to see all of the Angel seasons so I bought them all. I'm in love with this show and I really can't believe I gave up on it before.

It was definately harder to get into wasn't it? When I first watched season 1 I thought it wasn't that great but like I mentioned, the more I watched it, the more I appreciate it. *da da dada da* "I'm a vampire!"
I liked Connor and I have always felt he is the most under-appreciated character in the verse. He didn't get on my nerves the way Dawn did because I think I felt that his attitude was justified. The kid had had such a horrible freakin life. I would have loved for them to explore his character more - he had all the vampire strengths but none of their weaknesses (a la Blade). It was just kind of forgotten about which is strange - it could have been fascinating.
(season 4 also had that extremely hot first kiss between Wes & Fred )

Aww Crystal your poor broken heart at NFA - to be honest it was a year before I could bring myself to watch the entire episode again and it still leaves me distraught. I remember just ripping scenes for a break your heart Wesley/Fred vid and just weeping over the timeline trying to edit the final scenes. *sniffs*

What a saddo I am.

As for favourite season - that's very difficult because they are all so different and it really does depend what I have seen lately. I did adore the Darla/Drusilla evil Angel arc in S2 - I didn't have Sky and I had to wait for the second half of the boxset to be released. Bloody awesome.

Yes. I've gotta make myself re-watch it one day, it's just hard to psych yourself up to do so when you know something will make you so sad, ya know?

I feel I was very lucky to discover the verse late and watch them all chronologically on dvd.

CrystalSC wrote:I liked Connor and I have always felt he is the most under-appreciated character in the verse. He didn't get on my nerves the way Dawn did because I think I felt that his attitude was justified. The kid had had such a horrible freakin life. I would have loved for them to explore his character more - he had all the vampire strengths but none of their weaknesses (a la Blade). It was just kind of forgotten about which is strange - it could have been fascinating.

Hooray, someone else who likes Conner's character!

I loved the third season. My favorites in this season were baby Conner, Fred, and Cordelia. I loved when Wesley stole Conner and Angel went crazy on him in the hospital. The episode where Cordy becomes a demon is by far one of my favorite episodes of the series. I just love Fred and her character was great in this season where she was all geeky and nuts at first. The episodes with pregnant Darla and when Conner is born were great.

I didn't like the first season simply because it had the whole Law and Order with vampires mixed in feel to it. I didn't like Kate at ALL.
Season two was really good in my opinion. I enjoyed it, especially Cordelia as a princess and the episode That Vision Thing.
I loved season four until Jasmine rolled around. Then I hated it.
I did not like season five at all. They killed off Fred (bring her back!), they killed Cordy, they worked at the enemies place, Gunn was a completely new person when I thought he was great as he was, the whole ''make everyone forget about Conner' thing bothered me, and as much as I like Spike's character, I didn't like that he was in the season.

I totally get where you're coming from for season 5. It was too much too soon. It felt so different it was sad. I didn't care for the forgetting of Conner either.

Now, don't get me wrong, I didn't like the way Conner was brought about...vampire immaculate conception....but once grown-up Con was there, I liked him. Personally, I was not icked by the whole Conner/Cordy thing because I didn't feel any connection between baby Conner and grown-up Conner nor with Cordy as a motherly figure. Perhaps that is because I watched the series rapidly on dvd and didn't have those long tv breaks.

I just couldn't stand the everyone-against-Wes thing in late season 3/early season 4. I mean, he was trying to do a good thing and he had taken a bullet for Gunn, saved Cordy and Angel's lives on several occasions. It was just strange to me that Cordy wouldn't have even had a smidgen of sympathy towards Cordy. The writer's completely abandoned her friendship with Wes which I felt had a strong start and then they just let fizzle away. It was one of my favorite dynamics of the show so I was quite sad about it. Overall, I think I just felt that it was bad writing because it was such obvious manipulation - they really wanted to be able to strongly connect Cordy w/ Angel and create the little love triangle (Groo/Cordy/Angel) and they wanted to create friction between Gunn & Fred.

I didn't like Kate either in season 1. That's too bad because I like the actress and think she's a stunning beauty. But I think they made some bad mistakes with her. 1. she was too serious and 2. she was too blonde and connected to Angel which was too much for BAngel shippers to take that early after the big split. But for the most part, I'm able to "overlook" Kate. Most of the time when I remember season 1, I don't even think of her.

Oh, I get your dislike of the whole hating Wes thing in season three. I mean, I get Angel hating him. I would, if I was him, but everyone else? It seems Cordelia should have been some sort of mediator in that situation, but when she came back on, the whole thing seemed kind of pushed aside. I think if the show would have been longer and the writers had more time to work with, that whole storyline could have been a LOT better. I think they just tried to cram too much in at one time and it didn’t work.

One question – when season four rolled around and Wes knew who it was that put Angel in the ocean, how did he know? I’ve only seen the finale of season three twice and it was a bit ago. Was he around at the time it happened and saw it and I just completely missed that? Which is entirely possible – I can be a flake sometimes. A big part of the first episode of season four for me was finding out HOW he knew what happened and I still don’t get that.

I'm glad someone else thought Cordy's dismissal was odd. I don't think she would have done that at all.

You know, I cannot recall how Wes knew. I'll have to rewatch the season 3 finale and season 4 opener again to see.

I do have to mention my other season 3 pet peeve and that's Cordy's hair when she comes back on the show after Conner was gone. What was that??? She was SO pretty and then someone made that choice of 'let's go blonde and short as possible!'.