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A New World (Angel)
"A New World" is episode 20 of season 3 in the television show ''Angel''. Written by Jeff Bell and directed by Tim Minear, it was originally broadcast on May 6, 2002, on the WB television network. In "A New World", Angel's son Connor returns from the demon dimension Quor'Toth. Raised by Holtz to be a feral teenage warrior, Connor seeks to kill Angel for his murderous past. Failing to do so, Connor flees from the hotel with Angel one step behind him. Lorne tracks down a sorceress to try to close the dimensional rift to Quor'Toth before other monsters emerge. Also, Wesley, living as a recluse in his apartment, gets an offer from Lilah for a job at Wolfram & Hart. Plot Connor fires stakes at Angel, but Angel dodges them. Everyone takes on a defensive position, and a fight breaks out between Angel, the Groosalugg, Gunn and Connor. Angel tries to reason with his son and end the violence, but Connor simply knocks Gunn and Groo out of the way and continues to fight with Angel. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel (1999 TV Series)
''Angel'' is an American television series, a spinoff of the supernatural drama series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. The series was created by ''Buffy''s creator, writer and director Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt. It aired on The WB from October 5, 1999, to May 19, 2004, consisting of five seasons and 110 episodes. Like ''Buffy'', it was produced by Whedon's production company, Mutant Enemy. The show details the ongoing trials of Angel, a vampire whose human soul was restored to him by a Romani curse as a punishment for the murder of one of their own. After more than a century of murder and the torture of innocents, Angel's restored soul torments him with guilt and remorse. Angel moves to Los Angeles, California, after it is clear that his doomed relationship with Buffy, the vampire slayer, cannot continue. During the majority of the show, he works as a private detective in L.A., where he and a variety of associates work to "help the helpless", restoring t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Jackson Bell
Jeffrey Jackson Bell is an American writer and producer best known for his work on television. He began his career writing for ''The X-Files'', where he stayed for three seasons, then became a writer/director/producer on ''Angel'', becoming its showrunner for the final two seasons. He served as executive producer on the pilot episode for the '' V'' remake, his first project in a 2009-10 deal with Warner Bros. Television. From 2013 until 2020, Bell served as a co-showrunner and writer of the Marvel Television series ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' Personal life Bell was born in Indiana, studied design and photography at the University of Cincinnati, then moved to California, receiving MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1990. His 20-minute MFA thesis film, ''Radio Inside,'' was adapted into a feature film of the same name starring Elisabeth Shue and William McNamara William West McNamara (born March 31, 1965) is an American film and television actor. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kenneth Muir
John Kenneth Muir (born December 3, 1969) is an American literary critic. As of 2022, he has written thirty reference books in the fields of film and television, with a particular focus on the horror and science fiction genres. Biography Born December 3, 1969, Muir began his full-time writing career in 1996, penning several books for the North Carolina-based publisher of scholarly reference books, McFarland & Company. Muir also has written monographs about SF-TV, including ''Exploring Space: 1999 (''1997), ''An Analytical Guide to Battlestar Galactica'' (1998), ''A Critical History of Dr. Who on TV'' (1999), ''A History and Critical Analysis of Blake's 7'' (1999) and ''An Analytical Guide to TV's One Step Beyond'' (2001). Muir was educated at the University of Richmond in Virginia from 1988 to 1992, where he studied for two years under renowned ''Hudson Review'' film critic, Bert Cardullo (a student of The New Republic's film critic Stanley Kauffmann). Muir also counts Paulin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inferno (Dante)
''Inferno'' (; Italian language, Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century Epic poetry, epic poem ''Divine Comedy''. It is followed by ''Purgatorio'' and ''Paradiso (Dante), Paradiso''. The ''Inferno'' describes Dante's journey through Christian views on Hell, Hell, guided by the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the ''Divine Comedy'' represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the ''Inferno'' describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Prelude to Hell Canto I The poem begins on the night of Maundy Thursday on March 24 (or April 7), 1300, shortly before the dawn of Good Friday. The narrator, Dante himself, is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Old Gang Of Mine (Angel)
The third season of the television series ''Angel'', the spin-off of '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', premiered on September 24, 2001 on The WB and concluded its 22-episode season on May 20, 2002. The season aired in a new timeslot, Mondays at 9:00 pm ET. This was the first season where ''Angel'' and ''Buffy'' did not air on the same network, as ''Buffy'' had moved to the UPN network beginning with its sixth season. Cast and characters Main cast * David Boreanaz as Angel * Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase * Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce * J. August Richards as Charles Gunn * Amy Acker as Winifred "Fred" Burkle Recurring cast Crew Series creators Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt served as executive producers, while Greenwalt would serve as the series' showrunner as Whedon was running ''Buffy'' and developing his new series, '' Firefly''. Whedon wrote and directed one episode during the season; " Waiting in the Wings". Greenwalt wrote four of the seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleep Tight (Angel)
"Sleep Tight" is episode 16 of season 3 in the television show ''Angel''. Plot Wesley has been studying the prophecies regarding Angel and Connor, and his findings have left him convinced that Angel will kill his son. Angel enters Wesley's office, strangely cheerful. He pours a glass of pig's blood, and the two watch Lorne listen to a female client sing. As she does, her face suddenly twists and becomes a horrific demon face before reverting to human form. The woman, Kim, talks about the odd behavior and appearance of a band she'd been playing with. Angel continues to drink blood and draws attention with his unusual behavior. Fred and Wesley that discover Kim has just been infected by a demon and that a mystical medication can cure it. Kim tells the others about the demons and where they can be found and killed. Angel is enthusiastic about the fight, and Wesley sends a group out. Justine teaches Holtz's minions how to kill vampires. She expresses worry to Holtz about killing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Scream
The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect that has been used in a number of films and TV series, beginning in 1951 with the film ''Distant Drums''. The scream is usually used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion. The sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in ''The Charge at Feather River'', a 1953 Western in which the character gets shot in the thigh with an arrow. This was its first use following its inclusion in the Warner Bros. stock sound library, although ''The Charge at Feather River'' is the third film to use the effect. The scream is believed to be voiced by actor Sheb Wooley. History The Wilhelm scream originates from a series of sound effects recorded for the 1951 movie ''Distant Drums''. In a scene from the film, soldiers fleeing Seminole Indians are wading through a swamp in the Everglades, and one of them is bitten and dragged underwater by an alligator. The screams for that scene, and other scenes in the movie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joss Whedon
Joseph Hill Whedon (; born June 23, 1964) is an American filmmaker, composer, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions, co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series: the supernatural drama '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1997–2003) and its spinoff ''Angel'' (1999–2004), the short-lived space Western '' Firefly'' (2002), the Internet musical miniseries ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'' (2008), the science fiction drama ''Dollhouse'' (2009–2010), the Marvel Cinematic Universe series ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (2013–2020), and the science fiction drama ''The Nevers'' (2021). After beginning his career in sitcoms, Whedon wrote the poorly-received horror comedy film '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1992) – which he later adapted into the acclaimed television series of the same name – co-wrote the Pixar animated film ''Toy Story'' (1995), and wrote the science fiction horror film ''Alien Resurrect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gunn (Angel)
Charles Gunn is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series, ''Angel'' and introduced by writer Gary Campbell in the episode " War Zone". The character is portrayed by J. August Richards, and was named by Whedon after filmmaker James Gunn and actor Sean Gunn, both of whom had worked with Whedon. Gunn is introduced as the leader of a street gang which protects its neighborhood from vampires. Biography Character history Gunn was born in the Badlands, a section of inner-city Los Angeles where the police would not go, and looked after his sister, Alonna, from a very young age. Although he had a few brushes with the law, he acted as a modern day Robin Hood to keep the streets in his neighborhood safe. In his teens (although now Gunn is in his early 20s), Gunn rose through the ranks to become the leader of a group of street-fighters who protect their turf from vampires using guerrilla tactics. Possessing the mind of a military strategist and the strength ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Angel Characters
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (also spelled Wyndam-Price and Wyndham-Price) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ''Angel''. Played by Alexis Denisof, Wesley first appeared in the fourteenth episode of ''Buffy'''s third season in 1999, appearing in nine episodes before moving over to spin-off series ''Angel'' where he became a main character for all five seasons. Following ''Angel'''s final season, the character's story is continued in the 2007 canonical comic book series '' Angel: After the Fall''. Wesley is introduced as a member of the Watchers' Council — an organization which trains Slayers to fight monsters such as vampires and demon A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, ani ...s. Created as an irritating Foil (l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
