Angel 1:01

[white avenger]

I just started watching this season again, and I noticed something that I never had before. In the first episode, Angel does a voice over, like the old "Mike Hammer" tv series and a lot of the old classic detective/cop movies did. It was sort of a nice touch for me, since I always loved those old movies.

Now the question: Would you liked to have had the voice over continue, or did you just never notice and couldn't care one way or the other?

[Angel's vision]

I expected one for Season Two opening then gave up cos then I realised that was just to introduce him, and the reason why he is in L.A.
I think once was enough, actually too much voiceover ruins the mood, the other time was "redefinition" which was again the right moment to do so. I wouldn't have been averse to more if the story required it later on, and it would of been good to of had it in S5 at various stages of his journey into loosing his passion for the mission anyway that speach was awsome! and funny!

[Cangel]

You mean like on Desperate Housewives (where Mary-Alice always narrates over the beginning and the end)? I don't know if I had liked it too much, with Angel it's always less words can be more.

[tearsong]

I liked it in the beginning... I think randomly it would be fine especially with crossover eps....

[thegifting]

It's awesome when you consider the way Angel started, as a series.

-The beautiful woman for a secretary (Cordy)
-Most common setting is night (perfect for a vampire)
-The detective has a drinking problem (Alcoholic detectives have to stay away from their liquid poison of choice, just as Angel must refrain from his liquid drug of choice, human blood)
-The detective has an undeniable lure with women, a bad history with them, and does his best not to get caught up with them anymore (poor Angel)

I love all that stuff, too.

To answer you question, though, I do have one complaint-

THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A VOICE OVER IN NOT FADE AWAY. The show's writers are of the greatest calibur (David Fury is a demigod to me), but those bastards really dropped the ball on that one. It starts with a voice over, and ends with one. I love "Let's go to work", but something right before that, perhaps... I mean, it would have had such a monolithic feel for superfans like us.

[white avenger]

It's awesome when you consider the way Angel started, as a series.

-The beautiful woman for a secretary (Cordy)
-Most common setting is night (perfect for a vampire)
-The detective has a drinking problem (Alcoholic detectives have to stay away from their liquid poison of choice, just as Angel must refrain from his liquid drug of choice, human blood)
-The detective has an undeniable lure with women, a bad history with them, and does his best not to get caught up with them anymore (poor Angel)

I love all that stuff, too.

To answer you question, though, I do have one complaint-

THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A VOICE OVER IN NOT FADE AWAY. The show's writers are of the greatest calibur (David Fury is a demigod to me), but those bastards really dropped the ball on that one. It starts with a voice over, and ends with one. I love "Let's go to work", but something right before that, perhaps... I mean, it would have had such a monolithic feel for superfans like us.



I'd never thought of a voice over for "Don't Fade Away," but, yeah, done right, so that it didn't detract from the action, it could have been a real enhancement.

[lemst6]

I agree, I thought that too at first, but after watching 1:01 again a few times, I realized that the voice over wasn't so much a voice over at all since he really was just telling the guy sitting beside him at the bar his story.