Angel Beats!

Yui version of OP was interesting (I think Yui is gonna be my fav character), OP even compensed for lack of Iwasawa. The ED for episode 3 did the same too right?

Baseball antics, Otonashi and Hinata looking for ppl for the team, some Hinata character build, past revealed etc. The people they got for the team...lol

Matsushita lol.. for a big guy, he sure can run, while eating too XP.

Oh, Angel in baseball outfit....cute >.<

Oh yea TK hit a home run, still not enough, needs more TK

Hinata and Yui, so hilarious together they kinda remind me of a reverse Kyou and Sunohara. Look at the ED, they're both hilarious.

Complete and utter nonsense. After an episode like episode three, I expected a much better follow-up. I expect the writer to pull off something better than the nonsense that occurred in this episode. I may be unjustified in my anger, however, as I will express later in this review.
Allow me to get this out of the way: I was expecting this episode to have a moment of heartwarming, like the last episode did and was largely successful at. It built pathos considerably well, and I felt that the writer very well projected Iwasawa's pain and relief unto the audience. That being said, allow me to continue my review, using categories that I believe are vital for a tearjerker story, as the writer has declared it to be.

OP & ED
I thought this was a brilliant move, and I likely should have expected the lack of resolution in this episode simply based upon the fashion in which the OP was molded. Very whimsical and made me smile.
The ED was also well done, as you may notice the changes in the character's positions as well as the noticeable absence of Iwasawa (she wasn't in the 3rd ED either).

Tone
Again, I should have expected the lack of clear resolution simply by the fact that the episode put on a very light tone from the get-go.

Build up for the main object
Unlike Iwasawa's past and Yurippe's past, this wasn't handled so well. I felt it simply glanced over the subject matter of Hinata's past, which I suppose should have been another indicative of the ending for this episode. However, the moment when Hinata realizes that he really wants to move on is completely and utterly shattered by the moment that follows, leading me to neither laugh nor smile. It simply killed any sympathy that had been built for Hinata during the course of the episode.

Character Development
Close to none. The only thing made clear is that Hinata really feels that he would be happy to have moved on.

Accompanying Score
Not worth mentioning, as scores are best done in situations which require audience's reaction. This is simply an episode largely focused on comedy, and thus requires less a serious tune than a light-weight tune. Of course, the music playing in the ONE serious scene, in which Hinata is about to catch the ball, fit the emotion perfectly.

Connection in terms of series
I am so disappointed in this episode. It felt that the loss of Iwasawa was simply thrown out the window in order to provide a loli space to be boisterous.

Overall
This episode was not worth the wait that it held. I can understand that the writer might believe that a moment of funny to be necessary to counter balance the impact of the last episode. I can also understand that he might feel Hinata's character worthy of more elaboration in the following episodes. However, that is no excuse to make an episode that served almost no other than to contribute Hinata's cause into the pot of woes held by the characters. Now, I understand VERY much the necessity of having the audience identify with each character on an emotional level before dropping the heartshatterbomb, and this is probably the writer's plan (just look at Clannad). However, the main point is this: The episode, I felt, was lackluster and should have been placed and reformatted to fit elsewhere, somewhere further away from Iwasawa's passing on.

Looking at Hinata's case, I can only think of three possible deaths that he had:
1. Dying of a freak accident.
2. Drug overuse (as this was highly implied in the episode's flashback)
3. Suicide from depression, whether after taking drugs or not.
1 seems unlikely, as rarely will characters have Deus Ex Machina placed on events that are in a story meant to make you cry. There is always foreshadowing before, as the foreshadowing presents an outlet for viewers to create a train of thought that pertains to sympathy in their minds. Normally, this takes the form of "I should have realized this before, there were so many hints", or "that event was so sad." Take for example, Clannad's massive foreshadowing with Nagisa's lines. Another example is the foreshadowing present regarding the numbers on the main character's arm in The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. These are plot devices, and therefore must be played correctly. That leads me to assume either possibilities 2 or 3. 2 would be my most likely guess.
However, if one looks at all three cases of Yurippe, Iwasawa, and Hinata, there seems to be a general cause of "I don't want to live anymore. There is no point." However, Yurippe herself states that no one has committed suicide. I am willing to believe that, but it so happens that when characters deal in absolutes, a single infraction will lead to the entire subversion of the claim. I believe that the chance that each person actually committed suicide is a possibility.

got it by a truck

Iwasawa's past and how that fight between her parents just plainly ruined her singing life... sigh and I just started to think she was an awesome character too, and wanted to hear more songs from her T_T

I so thought that Hinata was gonna disappear near the end of ep4, but luckily Yui stopped him from catching that ball, which most likely would have led him to disappear afterwards.

Also only guy along with Yurippe, to survive the descent to Guild