{"id":1484,"date":"2012-10-26T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2012-10-18T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:33:42","slug":"mark-predicts-angel-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2012\/10\/mark-predicts-angel-season-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Predicts &#8216;Angel&#8217;: Season 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh gosh, do you know how sad I am making this post, knowing I&#8217;ll never be able to properly predict\u00c2\u00a0<em>Buffy<\/em> again?\u00c2\u00a0<em>I AM TOO SAD<\/em>. So, let&#8217;s first go over my predictions for last season before I make a fool of myself.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Season 4<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angel will be rescued from the bottom of the ocean by the end of the first episode.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>SHIT YEAH 1\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wesley will not chose Angel Investigations\u00c2\u00a0<em>or<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Wolfram &amp; Hart this season, and will act entirely on his own.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Do I get half a point since this was the case for half the season? Whatever, I&#8217;m giving out points. 1.5\/2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see Lorne once.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>what. 1.5\/3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I seriously don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if Cordelia is in season four, so I say we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see her until halfway through the season.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Hey, here&#8217;s a fun thought: we don&#8217;t actually see &#8220;her&#8221; from episode 3 until the end of episode 17. I lose a million points, give or take. -1,000,000\/4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Because no one can be happy on this show, at some point, Gunn and Fred will break up, and they won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get back together.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Bah, why was I right? -1,000,000\/5. I don&#8217;t earn points for\u00c2\u00a0<em>heartbreak<\/em>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Angel will forgive Connor for what he did to him.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Well, this is nice! -999,999\/6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Angel will forgive Wesley by the season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>YAY. -999,998\/7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Justine will die.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Nope! She just disappeared. -999,999\/8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Connor will join Angel Investigations.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I mean&#8230; did this ever\u00c2\u00a0<em>technically<\/em> happen? He was sort of there, sort of not? I don&#8217;t even know. NO POINTS because of confusion. -999,999\/9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wesley will have sex with Lilah.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>AW YEAH I GET LOTS OF POINTS. 0\/10<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Linwood will die.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>FUCK YEAH. 1\/11<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gavin will die.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>SAD, BUT FUCK YEAH. 2\/12<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lilah will reign supreme because she is my amoral queen.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>UGH, SHE WAS SO FABULOUS\u00c2\u00a0<em>SHE CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD<\/em>. 1,000\/13<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Stuff?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>THAT HAPPENED! 1,001\/14<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there still a prophecy regarding the end of the world in effect? So, something will happen with that?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>HA. HAHAHAHA. HAHAHA DF;KLS DKLDF ;ak;a a;alskdfj 0\/15<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>That much was evident. There was no way I could have guessed this season<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh gosh, so, the end of season four actually makes this kind of fun. There is a lot to resolve! Here are my LAST PREDICTIONS EVER for\u00c2\u00a0<em>Angel<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think the first thing Angel will do is seek out a way to wake Cordelia up.<\/li>\n<li>We will learn in the first episode what division each main character works in or what their job is.<\/li>\n<li>That means we will find out what jaguar spirit thing said to Gunn.<\/li>\n<li>Fred will be the only character to express reservation about this arrangement.<\/li>\n<li>Connor will appear in only one episode.<\/li>\n<li>There will be no crossovers from\u00c2\u00a0<em>Buffy<\/em> because sadness \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>Wesley will discover something about a past even in the files of Wolfram &amp; Hart that will re-contextualize an episode for the audience.<\/li>\n<li>Lorne will have one episode devoted to a story about him.<\/li>\n<li>Wesley and Fred will get together.<\/li>\n<li>Gunn will be the most satisfied working at Wolfram &amp; Hart, and this will create a rift between him and the team.<\/li>\n<li>This season&#8217;s Big Bad will be Wolfram &amp; Hart.<\/li>\n<li>Yeah, so I&#8217;m guessing that this whole Wolfram &amp; Hart thing is a trick. It&#8217;s meant to get the Angel Investigations team close so they can be neutralized.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, here&#8217;s my huge prediction: the Shanshu Prophecy is real and Angel will do something by the end of this season to earn his humanity.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s the kicker: HE WILL REFUSE IT. I don&#8217;t know why, but that&#8217;s something I could see Whedon doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now, off to the last season of\u00c2\u00a0<em>Angel<\/em> and THE START OF\u00c2\u00a0<em>DOLLHOUSE<\/em>!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Links Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You can follow me on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markdoesstuff\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/markdoesstuff\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for any updates and live commentary on upcoming reviews I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing.<br \/>\n&#8211; You should read this\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/10\/hello-mark-does-stuff-community-lets-discuss-things\/\"><strong>very important post<\/strong><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0about supporting Mark Does Stuff!<br \/>\n-\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/category\/the-shoebox-project\/\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve started reading\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Shoebox Project<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0for Mark Reads<\/a>, the first fanfic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153series\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever covered! 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