This episode basically redeemed this very underwhelming season. It’s a solid A finale imo.

Yeah, The Box is terrific. Definitely my pick as well. In 2nd place would be HalloVeen. S5 is easily the show’s best.

All of the heist episodes are some of the most creative, gloriously ridiculous, joke-packed comedy episodes in recent memory.

Oh I love that too. Just not sure how well it translates to live action. Which is my whole issue with this, really.

Pretty sure Watanabe feels the same.

Even then, I think the dialogue might have to be re-worked. The gloriously OTT dialogue works so much better for me in Japanese.

His thin characterization might be a problem if he was ever the actual focus, but he’s not. He’s only in 5 episodes, and none of them are about him specifically. Jupiter Jazz is more about Gren. The Real Folk Blues and Ballad of Fallen Angels are about Spike confronting his past.

We don’t need to empathize with Palpatine. Similarly, I don’t think we need to know that much about Vicious.

I like that the show leaves things up to interpretation.

Sympathy for the Devil is fucking awesome.

There’s also the fact that Cicada is just an atrocious villain no matter how many episodes he’d appear in.

S3 of Angel is fine, but it’s overstuffed with filler and far less thematically rich than S2.

It’s so bloody underrated, too. The AV Club’s articles about Angel all most claim that the vastly inferior Season 3 is when Angel found its feet. Just...no. Season 3 is fine, and the Tim Minear episodes are mostly great (plus Waiting in the Wings) but it’s so much less interesting taken as a whole.

Totally underrated season.

Yep, for me, although the series mostly goes belly-up after Resurrection Ship, Exodus Part 2 is one of my favorite hours of television.

It’s the exact same thing that happened to the Emissary crap on DS9. At least there, it was only a part of a larger whole. Beware mystical nonsense written by Ron Moore.

Skyfall is great (Spyfall, the Doctor Who S12 premiere, is awful). Definitely on that very short list with Goldeneye.

Yep, they are. Because experience worked out so well last time.

Not much deep Star Wars lore, I just prefer Vader the pathetic, child-murdering bully who fantasizes about killing his boss than the indomitable force of nature Vader.

Derry Girls gang.