maggie2

Oh, I agree. I use "Joss" as a shorthand for Joss or people hired by Joss who (big caveat) are able to write with the same polysemia. (Is polysemia a word? with the same multiplicity in meanings). That said, I also think AtS was more uneven that BtVS. Bottom line, though: enough layers in AtS to generate controversy about how to understaned the show or the characters; and I don't see what there is to chew on with AtF. So either Joss just made a poor hiring decision, or there was less oversight, or Joss has just accidentally created complex works all those other times and this time wasn't so lucky -- but however it happened, this just doesn't feel "Jossian" to me. Of course if we suddenly get buckets of meta showing how all this really is a rich and interesting stew, then yay. Mrs. Underhill is the best reader of Angel I know. And she does have interesting things to say about the comics. But not the same meticulous, detailed, rich stuff she can come up with for random episodes of AtS.