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Am I the only person who likes Eve in Season 5 of Angel? Anyway, I love shake-ups and format changes in genre shows; the shift to dodgy war melodrama in Deep Space Nine, the retroactive continuity of Dawn’s introduction in Buffy — it’s all good. Angel‘s return to monster-of-the-week-isms is a welcome respite from all the overwrought arc intracacies of previous years. Just like as I’d fantasised years ago with Deadly (my imaginary TV show), dumb studio pressure has magically aligned with real dramatic needs, and resulted in something that’s strangely punchy, and all the more subtly unsettling for it. And Harmony is brilliant.

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Speaking of the garden of Eden, I just discovered that most brilliantly dodgy piece of opportunism: the BLOGPSOT caper. This has been around for a while, but I’ve only just discovered it; Hon mistyped his blog’s URL in his comment below, and it leads to this — some whacko Christians have bought the blogpsot.com domain.