tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90631413887971734962024-02-18T23:50:58.056-05:00Once More With Extreme Prejudice: Two Champions Return to L.A.Two of Angel's devoted followers return to Los Angeles - one episode at a time.Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.comBlogger293125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-19208964698085290622021-07-06T11:48:00.003-04:002021-07-06T11:48:17.114-04:00I Love You So Much I Almost Forgot to Brood<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnwGM8JPdSLPI1EKoNTMfTOq2v8sCNfeKOE1HNWqk24htthBZYgqr8HOgfFRsf96YRoktctSdhyphenhyphenZo-U3caw-hNzRbCOJUtInU3CbMzRGRriaAX59dhZR_bAZNpR_8tryIfb0OHckNmG0A/s820/20160801154325-a3c8b75e.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="820" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnwGM8JPdSLPI1EKoNTMfTOq2v8sCNfeKOE1HNWqk24htthBZYgqr8HOgfFRsf96YRoktctSdhyphenhyphenZo-U3caw-hNzRbCOJUtInU3CbMzRGRriaAX59dhZR_bAZNpR_8tryIfb0OHckNmG0A/s320/20160801154325-a3c8b75e.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Episode 3.05:
Fredless.</b> Original Airdate: 10.22.01</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />“Fred
prepares to go home to her parents—until she earns a place with the group by
figuring out the key to an attack launched by large bug demons.”<br /> <br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s
Thoughts:</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes & Cordy & Gunn & Fred are doing
inventory on swords.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Now that she’s alive again, are they going to
get back together?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah, Right. Angel is off to see Buffy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia & Wesley do a great mocking
impression of Angel & Buffy’s relationship.</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrSU5v2VD7WgXTcIuoHS4oJ6ohPqYMmEdYhWM2UJ0afYTslQroRSmHw93xDpx2a1Nq0PVoK8fmWg1N7gF7Dtb3W_iEnQXtxk9B8NoBXPa2mVzcLgfRr_YPveLLSHd5xiMH-BL3lg7AZkE/s400/Cordy+Wes.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="400" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrSU5v2VD7WgXTcIuoHS4oJ6ohPqYMmEdYhWM2UJ0afYTslQroRSmHw93xDpx2a1Nq0PVoK8fmWg1N7gF7Dtb3W_iEnQXtxk9B8NoBXPa2mVzcLgfRr_YPveLLSHd5xiMH-BL3lg7AZkE/w400-h224/Cordy+Wes.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cordy: "Gasp!"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I love you so much I almost forgot to brood.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Why don’t you both bite me.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel doesn’t want to talk about his meeting
with Buffy that we don’t see because we’re on two different networks.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel invites Fred for ice cream and no one else
for some reason?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s later and Fred exposits what we missed.
They got ice cream then saw a creature and now they’re in the
sewer. As you do.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy trips over Chekov’s decapitation machine.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And we have Fred’s parents</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And they’re both very familiar
faces. And they look like their last name would be Kent or
something.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The gang lies to Fred’s parents about what
really happened to her. Which I guess is something we do even though
there are literally monsters everywhere. It was done in Sunnydale as
well despite being on a hellmouth.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then Angel decides to bring in the
decapitated head of a demon….which Cordelia explains away as a prop in a
monster movie. Which….is good cause it looks like one.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred’s parents are confused and the gang are
hemming and hawing and it’s as awkward as you might expect.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred doesn’t want to see her parents so she’s
left.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia thinks there’s something off about
Fred's parents.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And that’s only because they’re acting fishy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aww, Lorne’s bar is still a mess from last time
and he looks kinda depressed about it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred: “Was there another massacre?” Lorne, “Just
the one.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">First stop for the gang:
Library. She’s not there.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s in the sewers. Not
there. But he is being stalked.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They all go to Lorne’s…including Fred’s parents
for some reason? If they’re trying to hide the truth from the Berkles, why
would they take them to see a demon.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Lorne is still pissed at Gunn.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We don’t get a lot of guys who wear eyeliner.
Not for long anyhow.” - wow….way to make light of murdering gay people. <span style="color: red;">[They're fine with demons, but effeminate men is one step too far! This world is stupid I want a new one. - Z]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred’s at the bus station that kinda looks like
the Hyperion. (I was right! It's the same set!)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred’s parents show up and Fred freaks out. The
idea being, I guess, that if she sees someone from her past, the past 5 years
are real, the trauma finally hitting her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You’re safe now.” - which is cue for an evil
monsterdemon to attack.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This one’s like a praying mantis type thing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn, Angel, Cordy & Wes fight. Even
Fred joins in. And then it gets smashed by a bus.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s Fred’s mom that….stole the bus(?) to smash
it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred’s parents are kinda impressed by Fred’s
current occupation.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s way too happy to have Cordy fix his
wounds.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred identifies everyone’s contribution to the
gang: Angel’s the champion, Wes is the brains, Gunn is the muscle (which…),
& Cordy’s the heart. She doesn’t know where she belongs.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She decides to go home. And knowing
what we know….maybe she shoulda kept to that decision.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They all say their goodbyes and it really looks
like they’re saying bye to the character. I can’t remember if I was tricked the
first time I saw this.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But Fred does leave with her parents.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the cab, Fred realizes something about the
demon Angel killed.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile the gang are jealous of Fred’s
relationship with her parents. We never really met Cordy’s
parents. We just heard about her dad going to prison for tax fraud
but we never officially met him. We know Wes has a bad relationship with
his controlling, hard to please dad. I don’t know if we know
anything about Gunn’s parents - just his sister. And I think
Angel had a dick dad….that he ended up eating?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I can be soothing. I can soothe your
ass off.” Cordy, what?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh shit. Lots of bug monsters now.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have to admit, the gross bug monsters are
pretty impressively made. They're not the usual biped humanoid demons we
usually see and it must have been a lot of visual effect work to achieve the
look.</span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhttsIPAEJp_YYobrWJZmxOWeW-O1MuZhBqVLRO_lcXPuZ1VQz7kDC3BSPGLeeaJlk848wc-5PFA5_FlFx905Myv0hgRigUs7eQtxQpwF9pSGoyjj6W14x_opfgug4iVV7jRCgU6fQ9BW0/s1000/Bug+Monster.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhttsIPAEJp_YYobrWJZmxOWeW-O1MuZhBqVLRO_lcXPuZ1VQz7kDC3BSPGLeeaJlk848wc-5PFA5_FlFx905Myv0hgRigUs7eQtxQpwF9pSGoyjj6W14x_opfgug4iVV7jRCgU6fQ9BW0/w400-h225/Bug+Monster.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>So Fred saves the day and decides to stay. Yay!</li></ul></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s
Thoughts:</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Omg did
you miss us? Don’t answer that.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We start
off with another fun fakeout of a sword being held to Wes’s face as he says “You
wouldn’t dare,” but it’s just Wes, Cordy, and Gunn bickering about how to
organize the weapons. Meanwhile Fred is fretting about the time, but only because
Angel’s been gone a while.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Are they
gonna get back together? Angel and the girl with the goofy name?” // “Well, *Fred*”
touche, Wes.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">AHAHAHAHHA
favorite part of the season for me: Cordy and Wes acting out the melodrama that
is Bangel. </span></li></ul></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ0R3DrL0OiSr44JcmuZ2nfryoCAKqHvVvNB4Hzo-MkzUECncX17Q4EmcJmH8QqXxWar6RzhRU4wiMR-foon-fwrPUGabr-BKnC2kLMsyoMCaLE3801v-xrzTmtKXHNfVYnr9PjtKobjU/s245/tumblr_m4k6g2gGYH1qzc22mo3_250.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="245" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ0R3DrL0OiSr44JcmuZ2nfryoCAKqHvVvNB4Hzo-MkzUECncX17Q4EmcJmH8QqXxWar6RzhRU4wiMR-foon-fwrPUGabr-BKnC2kLMsyoMCaLE3801v-xrzTmtKXHNfVYnr9PjtKobjU/w400-h238/tumblr_m4k6g2gGYH1qzc22mo3_250.gif" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then
Cordy actually says “GASP” and I die.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love this
scene so much.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And
because Buffy’s on a new network and she and Angel reunited off-screen, neither
Buffy nor Angel their respective crews what happened. Don’t worry, boo. The
fanfic writers got this. (oh and apparently Jane Espenson wrote a comic about
it?)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy: “Now
we’ll never ever know.” // Angel, off-screen and faint “That’s right!”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I really
do like the banter. I’ll even say I missed it during our two month hiatus.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred’s
spelling out the start of her arc as she babbles next to Angel in the sewer
with her giant cone of ice cream, that she doesn’t know why they keep her
around, she has nothing to offer.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He sends
her off back to the hotel while he goes to deal with whatever monster of the
week we’ve got (which she clued him onto by spotting some pretty crystals on
the sewer wall).</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Side
note: I don’t think I’d be able to eat ice cream in a sewer. The stench would
flavor anything I put in my mouth. Maybe part of being in the fang gang is some
kind inurement to noticing sewer stench? Does Angel just like smell like that
all the time because that’s how he travels in daylight? And he’s got enhance
vampire nostrils. I need to stop thinking about this.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn’s
eager for Cordy to get a vision, just to stop Wes’s nattering. No luck, but she
trips over a new invention by Fred, which gosh I wonder if it’ll be useful in
the climax of the episode.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And two
Texan strangers say “we’re sorry to barge in on your arsenal here,” and hey
Fred’s dad (spoiler) is Bullit from <i>The O.C.</i>! They’re here about their
missing daughter … FRED (oops I spoiled it two seconds ago).</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway,
Fred shows up after that revelation, sees her parents, and skedaddles up to her
room before anyone notices.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The crew
is struggling with how to explain to Fred’s parents where she’s been, because
they don’t want to clue them in to the supernaturalness of it all.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So when
Angel comes in with a trophy head from his offscreen demon fight, Cordy says it’s
a prop from a movie he’s working on and these are Fred’s very normal parents.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Ah. Fred
has parents.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred,
meanwhile, is frantically trying to clean the writing from the walls of her
dark room.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn,
meanwhile to that meanwhile, is mindblown that the P.I. the Burkles hired found Fred off an
envelope with no return address. How does our team get <i>anything</i> done?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The crew
is getting a bit suspicious now of the parents. “What is she running from?” And
the show’s playing into that, with the parents murmuring quietly to each other “We
might have to call them in sooner than we thought.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The crew
wonders where Fred’s gone. Gunn: “we could hit all the local taco stands.” See?
He knows her true passion. Meant to be.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh there’s
a quick joke about is Fred making porn, I missed that until this very watch.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne
smokes? Lorne SMOKES? But but … only evil or about-to-die characters smoke!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe it
was weed.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway,
Fred’s come calling at the smashed up Caritas to sing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ugh poor
Lorne and his smashed bar. I guess he lives there? Did we know that?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne
says Fred thought she was free, but those old monsters hunted her down. We’re
made to think that the monsters are her parents, but it’s actually her un-dealt-with
trauma of acknowledging that what happened to her in Pylea is real and part of
her existence and reality, same as her non-supernatural upbringing with her parents.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Side note:
Cordy claims she’s never ridden in a school bus … not even on a field trip?
Wasn’t she at the zoo when Xander turned into a hyena? Or the museum when the
Incan Mummy Girl woke up? D and I are both tempted to call a shenanigan but we’re not
angry enough about it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Question:
How come Angel can’t track Fred’s scent?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne’s
still mad at Gunn over the mess his ex-crew made, which is … partially fair.
Gunn knew and told no one that the crew was going off-mission. But it’s not
like Gunn himself ever lost the mission.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah, Lorne’s
actually mad at <i>all of them</i>, because they only come to him when they need
stuff, but no one’s been helping him rebuild his bar. “What about my me? My me’s
important.” but also some of this bluster is to hide that he knows
where Fred is.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred’s
waiting for a bus out of town and babbling aloud to herself but nope, they
found her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You’re
not them. You can’t be them cuz they don’t know.” And she breaks down “I was
all by myself and you weren’t there. I got lost. I got lost and they did
terrible things to me but it was just a storybook. It was just a story with monsters, not real. But if you’re here and you
see me, then it’s real and it did happen. If you see what they made of me—”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And her
parents embrace her. And everything’s fine. Except for the big insect-y demon
that jumps down from the ceiling.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel breaks
two glass doors with his body, thrown by the demon.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But never
fear, our crew is here! Gunn and Wes and Cordy join the fight. A weapon gets
slid to Fred, but she stands there. She gets one swing at the demon before it tosses
her away, and then Mr. Burkle gets in on the action.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Never
fear, y’all. Mrs. Burkle to the rescue, smashing it to purple goo with a bus.
See? Everyone’s got their valuable skills.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Burkles seem pretty chill with their new knowledge about demons and whatnot,
which is probably helping with Fred dealing with the merging of her two worlds.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s
oddly giddy to be next up for getting bandaged by Cordy. Is this part of their buddy
whatnot? Frankly he’s oddly giddy in general, but maybe it’s residual from his
happiness that Buffy’s alive? We’ve already hit the point where he wasn’t
destroyed by her death, which means Bangel is officially being put to rest by
this series, at least, making way for Cangel and whatnot.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway
Fred wants to go home. Gunn and Wes quietly agree she’ll probably be happier
there, but you can tell they’ll both miss her. Because that triangle's looming.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel,
saying goodbye in Fred’s room, asks if she’ll remember everything that’s on the
walls. “Sure, it’s a story. Once upon a time there was a girl who lived all alone in a horrible cave,
so far from home it made her chest hurt … when one day, just like in a fairy tale, a
handsome made rode up on a horse and saved her, and took her back to his
castle.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“But …the
handsome man went away again. And even tho she didn’t mean to, didn’t want to,
high up in that castle she built herself another cave, hoping he would save her again.
But you can’t save me this time, can you?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile
downstairs, Trish makes a dig at the fourth <i>Alien</i> movie, aka the one
Joss Wh*don wrote but disowned.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred comes
down to make her goodbyes. As she hugs Cordy, C whispers “Between you and me, I’m
almost a little jealous.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was
sitting here grumping that Fred has a carry-box suitcase but it’s not like she
had a rollerback with her. Headcanon that this was lying around the hotel and
they repurposed it (just like she repurposed that other box suitcase to be the maybe-a-toaster-definitely-a-demon-head-smasher device.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, as they drive away she reopens her bag and sees those crystals all over her shirt that got covered
in demon guts and has an epiphany.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The fang
gang is sitting in the office, reminiscing not just about Fred but how great
her parents were, that they’re actual loving parents, and Wes goes off a little
bit on what they aren’t, cluing us yet again into how utterly awful his dad is.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway
demon head starts going all bulgy because TIME FOR THE EGGS TO HATCH.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy professes
she’s glad Fred’s gone but when Angel says she’ll come back and visit, Cordy
gets very happily hopeful.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh hey
there’s a whole bunch of the big bug demons on the attack. Don’t worry, y’all.
Fred’s here. “I’m here! I’m late.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Who’s helping
me here?” // Fred: “I am.” She sets off her suitcase invention contraption, which
smashes the non-papier mache head, releases a bunch of roaches (yuck), and that
sends the big bug demons out. They were here for the kids.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">See? Fred
figured it out with science, deduction, and wacky invention! She said Angel was
the Champion, Wes is the brains, Gunn's the muscle*, Cordy's the heart, and “just a stunning revelation of my true path
is all,” she knows she belongs here too.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">* (I know D already highlighted this but NO GUNN IS HISTORICALLY A GOOD LEADER WITH GOOD JUDGEMENT AND I HATE THAT THEY'RE HIMBO-ING HIM BECAUSE IT FEELS VERY POINTEDLY CONNECTED TO HIS BLACKNESS TO REDUCE HIM TO JUST THE MUSCLE)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m going
to headcanon RIGHT NOW, for me and anyone else who needs it, that Fred visits
her parents a lot, or they visit her, because this is not allowed to be the
last time they see her alive. They’re like the only good parents in the Angelverse
and I want their child to have good quality time with them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway,
they stick around a bit and help the crew repaint Fred’s room to cover up the writing,
to hide the fairy tale version of the story, and generally to bond because let’s
face it, they could all use some quality
time with good parents.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Listen it’s
been a long year of missing my family. I got to see my mom in May, and I get to
see my other parents and my sister later this month, and I just want everyone
to have that good good bonding time with caregivers who love them too.</span></li></ul></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b><b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Favorite
Lines:</b></div></b><b><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Daniel
& Zelda: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcSlim9H-aS1ibQG32ZSUZW7nYcl6TLe222E3HYpTJcfMgutz0EUq2Ydh6xAdv-UCOtaiEfAtSfdTMX546R0N3HEls1MkMU5l4pproz5pYcB66aVKQ6UQezLI-7wCMuTD_Wzx2rNsWefU/s245/tumblr_m4k6g2gGYH1qzc22mo4_250.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="245" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcSlim9H-aS1ibQG32ZSUZW7nYcl6TLe222E3HYpTJcfMgutz0EUq2Ydh6xAdv-UCOtaiEfAtSfdTMX546R0N3HEls1MkMU5l4pproz5pYcB66aVKQ6UQezLI-7wCMuTD_Wzx2rNsWefU/w400-h238/tumblr_m4k6g2gGYH1qzc22mo4_250.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /></b><br /><b><o:p></o:p></b><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Arc/Continuity:</b></div></b><b><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>First
Appearance:</b> Roger Burkle, Trish Burkle<br /><b>Recurring:</b> Lorne<br /><b>Generally
Known TV Face: </b>Gary Grubbs, Jennifer Griffin<br /><b>Lorne’s
Nicknames:</b> Big Palooka (Angel)<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Cordy’s
Nicknames: </b>Mr. and Mrs. Bickerson (Gunn and Wes)<br /><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Angel!
In! History!</b></div></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel watches golf, specifically, the '63 Bob Hope
Desert Classic (whatever that is), when Nicklaus took on Gary Player.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas Song List</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Row, Row,
Row Your Boat”</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Stats:</b></div></b><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Cordelia’s
Hair – honey-brown with highlights, pinstraight bob<br />Dead
Humans – 0<br />Dead
Undeads – 2<br />Dead
Flashbacks – 0<br />Dead
Lawyers – 0<br />Cordelia
Has a Vision – 0<br />
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br />Lawyered
Ex Machina – 0<br />Evil
Reveal – 0<br />Unevil
Reveal – 2 (the Burkles aren’t evil)<br />Shenanigans
Called – 0<br />Apocalypse
Called – 0<br />Prophecy
Called – 0<br /><span style="line-height: 107%;">Champion Called – 1</span></span></div>Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-13804404039021938152021-05-04T11:46:00.000-04:002021-05-04T11:46:08.194-04:00Does Angel Even Exist?<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtSqkI-aWw1YGmZbWzXkstj3Mjnk7yeZ8iv2vJKnpxQupfn3QtotgJyKFGcAm_rn-s-n0kIntwA-Dte1b4MK39_ARmx-SQ_OFc7FWI7P_UpTC_nCJWRJzR8kMPnCawZWWV62OPIbd9T-G/s1024/Cordelia+surrounded+by+fuckboys.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtSqkI-aWw1YGmZbWzXkstj3Mjnk7yeZ8iv2vJKnpxQupfn3QtotgJyKFGcAm_rn-s-n0kIntwA-Dte1b4MK39_ARmx-SQ_OFc7FWI7P_UpTC_nCJWRJzR8kMPnCawZWWV62OPIbd9T-G/w400-h225/Cordelia+surrounded+by+fuckboys.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 3.04: Carpe Noctem.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 10.15.01<br /><br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“An old man uses an ancient incantation to switch bodies with Angel.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fred quietly Freds her way into the lobby and startles Cordy and Wes. Gunn, not startled: “Hey Fred.” It is sweet, the way the writers are slowly seeding in their connection.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fred’s romanticizing imagining what deep novels Angel’s reading upstairs, which they undermine with him being excited about a Charlton Heston double feature, but <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>-era Angel spent a lot of time reading poetry next to giant fireplaces so like … it’s not like he never cultivated that vibe.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, let’s cut to the Monster of the Week, as some thick-necked stud is in bed with two women. But then he flinches in pain, incants some kind of spell, some essence lifts out of him, and he melts into a pile of rubbery skin suit. Fun.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve noticed for the S3 credits they’ve removed Wesley flailing weapons, all slapsticky. I miss that.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I can’t tell you how much I have no desire to watch a Charlton Heston double feature.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, Cordy’s advising Angel that Fred’s in full crush mode on him and he needs to assert some emotional boundaries before she falls deeper.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh hey another joke about Angel being a eunuch, along with some re-exposition about his curse, I guess for any new viewers who might be confused about subsequent happenings in this episode.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel and Wes get excited about the case of the week. Cordy doesn’t like that 1, Angel’s deflecting his conversation with Fred and 2, they haven’t been hired for this and will therefore be doing it pro bono.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gavin Park must feel so left out at W&H. One of the few employees without the initials LM. Anyway Lilah banter banters about Gavin wanting to go after Angel as lawyer ex machina style as he can, which after Lindsay’s repeated failures to either take out or control Angel, is a legit approach I suppose. But also even with Daniel Dae Kim being all Daniel Dae Kim-y, I don’t care at all about Gavin Park.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clue #1: all the dead studs (the one we saw was but the latest in a string of deaths) were members of the same gym.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clue #2: someone in the retirement community across the street from the gym is watching, Jimmy Stewart-style.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I guess Angel can enter the retirement community without invitation, but not so much individual rooms. So Rance Howard, aka Ron Howard’s dad, invites him in. He’s got a very harmless “aw shucks” energy. DON’T FALL FOR IT, ANGEL.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel recognizes a magic whatsit on the shelf. But before he can detective much more, Rance Howard incants some incantation, which Angel scoffs at til the energy/body swap.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah, an excuse for David Boreanaz to step outside of his comfort zone by being super sleezy for an entire episode. </span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EDM8wY2szRY1qLY3hsKcQstjL7lrsVBqjWGRxq0GAB7hEglVMfK8wTkmjiO239hXlUb8RcyvcGXr-RafvbiuH4cWz813XYHxUuymOT_Ccnd_nqw8_ekadqBh5qGhjwW3_jjdniQzUl5d/s500/jim+halpert.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EDM8wY2szRY1qLY3hsKcQstjL7lrsVBqjWGRxq0GAB7hEglVMfK8wTkmjiO239hXlUb8RcyvcGXr-RafvbiuH4cWz813XYHxUuymOT_Ccnd_nqw8_ekadqBh5qGhjwW3_jjdniQzUl5d/s320/jim+halpert.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Anyway Sleezel sleezes at Cordy as he slowly figures out the Hyperion isn’t a hotel but their office. He’s also bummed when he thinks there’s a possible romance with a “Fred,” because nothing’s more fun that casual homophobia combined with ha-ha-isn’t-it-funny-to-imply-Angel-is-gay.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">This episode makes me tired. I think it’s supposed to be quirky fun?</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel Roscoe calls the Hyperion, but bad luck for him, only Sleezel is there to take the call.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Oh hey Ryan the nurse looks familiar. Cuz he’s Joe the Bartender from </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Grey’s Anatomy</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">! (and a million other things, including an episode of </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Buffy</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">)</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel Roscoe is still giving off that “aw shucks” energy because it’s clearly Rance Howard’s actual energy and the reason he was hired. But it’s a bit rough because he doesn’t seem at all like Angel (nor did it seem like he was anything like the energy we’re seeing from Sleezel or the stud who died earlier). So while it’s cool they have Famous Old Man, I don’t actually think he has the range. And you know it hurts me to say DB’s showing more range than literally anyone else.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">I’m talking about this more than I should because ugh to the scene where Sleezel tries to break up with Wes, all freaked out about being touched by another man.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">And oh look casual racism as he assumes Gunn, bringing breakfast, is a delivery man, and tucks cash into his pocket.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">And in more grossness, Gunn and Wes are arguing over who gets to interview the escorts, and I can’t wait til we get to an episode this season that isn’t rife with “thanks, I hate it” energy. I know it’ll happen eventually.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Oh no. Fred’s come downstairs, so get ready for more trauma, Fred.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Marcus Roscoe’s “pick up line” is just “Have I ever told you you’re a very beautiful woman?” No wonder he picks studs to bodyswap. That line is way too inert to work.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">And now Lilah’s here, to do Angel a “favor,” which is actually just her sabotaging all of Gavin’s plans to lawyer ex machina Angel with fines and forms.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Sleezel uses that stupid line on Lilah and offers her a drink.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel Roscoe pulls a fire alarm and tries to escape the nursing home but oops his very very old heart is having a wee attack.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Sleezel makes the moves on Lilah, she’s confused but then shrugs and gets into it, clearing the desk for some hardcore grappling. So Fred gets her trauma, but leaves before Sleezel vamps out and bites Lilah.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">“Sorry, I just … felt like the thing to do.” She breaks free, amscrays, and Sleezel realizes his forehead’s all lumpy and his teeth are all sharp and his reflection is all not.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Which means this body might not disintegrate like the other studs he’s taken over.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Cordy enters with a “joke” shaming sex workers and I remain tired. She finds a weeping Fred in the elevator. Ugh poor Fred. She’s so sad.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Sleezel goes to a random bar, on the prowl for someone else’s neck to suck.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">It’s lucky he’s so bad at being a vamp. He’s bitten two women without killing them. He’s now discovered his super strength and is enjoying it a bit too much.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The team thinks Angel might be Angelus again (helpfully telling Fred about the alter ego). But Wes notices that Sleezel was reading up on vampires, and connects it to the other studs acting out of character leading up to their melts. Lucky our team is wily and wise.</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Aaaaaaaaand Sleezel shows up at the nursing home, posing as Marcus Roscoe’s kid. I guess he’s here to kill off Old Man Body permanently, since he’s figuring he can stay in Angel’s body forever. In light of the earlier point about Angel not being able to enter individual residence rooms, wouldn’t it be smarter for Angel Roscoe to hide in one of them instead of a rec room?</span></span></span></li><li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Wow, I just saw Sleezel’s shirt in the light. It’s satiny and has a tux ruffle front. Why … does Angel even own that?</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> <span style="color: red;">[</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">It pairs well with his rubber pants - D]</span></span></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxBNh2eSHajjwcmOTEGWZyqshF53lur2Lu4VHKo1CjiL-Sn9QOZJnoqEYEfYXum80Ue6hk7szhLACBSWb0RYUEhu6gn87HzOEHDmPerlm3poG-uOGH03sQgMGxNv7_NH3ZbPpTHXMLE4M/s400/sleezel+shirt.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="400" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxBNh2eSHajjwcmOTEGWZyqshF53lur2Lu4VHKo1CjiL-Sn9QOZJnoqEYEfYXum80Ue6hk7szhLACBSWb0RYUEhu6gn87HzOEHDmPerlm3poG-uOGH03sQgMGxNv7_NH3ZbPpTHXMLE4M/w400-h228/sleezel+shirt.gif" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table></li></ul></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Something nice and cathartic about Sleezel being taken down, less by Gunn and Wes, much more by Fred and Cordy wailing on him with blunt instruments. A+.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They do the switcheroo back, Angel smashes the conjuring stone that allowed the switcherooing, and Angel delivers a pretty crappy takedown line: “I’ll tell you why you have a weak heart, Marcus: you never use it.” GROAN, EYE ROLL.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh I just realized this shot of the team walking out is the new action shot. In that tux ruffle shirt. Le sigh.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel finally has The Talk with Fred, but Fred already got the rundown from Cordy. Fred: “She said you’d probably just screw it up.” // Angel: “She did, did she? She’s probably right.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh man, I forgot this ep ended with Willow calling to let the LA team know Buffy’s less dead than she used to be. Angel runs to get the phone and Fred, alone in the courtyard, quietly asks, “Buffy?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Which syncs us up with the end of <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>’s fourth episode, “Flooded,” where Buffy and Angel agreed to meet in some middle non-filmable location. <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>’s next episode opens with her returning from that meet up. This is all because this was the season <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i> moved to UPN while <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i> stayed on the WB, long before the two networks combined to be the CW, and crossovers (not to mention synchronizing timelines against random hiatuses) became increasingly difficult for either series to manage. This fun factoid brought to you by Zelda! In! History! because I remember that whole rigamarole.</span></span></li></ul></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #201f1e;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">At the hotel, everyone is bored.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent; color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #201f1e;">Cordy is reading magazines; Gunn is playing a Gameboy!</span></span></li></ul></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_GRLUG5-aSbIIWna6ij1V66yLpDlYwP2dy0gn8usDdeRL2neA38caO0oeVcoNbmzqYMPZKGJso0Jjwz69hIbG1ON_8aRVUvKk6sieeqQHcTQ7IVnqp5zbvx_kZo9qJ_B5idPgKjcw3-tA/s1024/Gameboy.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_GRLUG5-aSbIIWna6ij1V66yLpDlYwP2dy0gn8usDdeRL2neA38caO0oeVcoNbmzqYMPZKGJso0Jjwz69hIbG1ON_8aRVUvKk6sieeqQHcTQ7IVnqp5zbvx_kZo9qJ_B5idPgKjcw3-tA/w400-h225/Gameboy.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #201f1e;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">I don’t know why Fred’s crush on Angel annoys me, but it does.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel’s excited about a Charlton Heston double feature.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile, somewhere else, some guy has just finished having sex with two women. Okay. It’s gonna be one of those episodes.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“It’s good to be young,” he says, so the supernatural loving audience knows exactly what that means.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Something happens where he knows the evening is over, he recites latin…and then….he melts? Or his skin falls off leaving nothing underneath? I dunno.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s kinda gross.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile Fred is telling Wesley all about her “date” with Angel like Wes is her girlfriend or something.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordy tries to warn Angel to talk to Fred about her feelings.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">She’s also on about Angel being a eunuch because he can’t have sex.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Which – after all this time, they still don't understand that "perfect bliss" ≠ "orgasm."</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The gang reads about what happened in the hotel room and decide to investigate.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wolfram & Hart: Lilah & Gavin Park.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She’s still making fun of him for trying to stick it to Angel with building violations.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The Fang Gang find more similar murders.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">All young, physically fit men, from the same gym.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Everyone gets their assignments except for Fred. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Somehow Cordy & Angel get into the gym without a membership card.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Across the street is a retirement home. Angel notices someone with binoculars.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> How conveeeenieennt. I mean, if it'll move the plot along, I'm ok with it.<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">He goes to investigate while Cordelia interviews the physically fit men.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">He finds the dude.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He recognizes some of the old urns.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">BODY SWAP EPISODE!!!</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6SSMg8O8ZKZt_WKsYfgcIsLJzxwlS893YB7T_0eZupSihY_Fd2TKgyfofMFvGTO4xquMrVSWdDLeU5rZTqSVcXGeYHLmXKb8ZGeqjXugpCMAIArwNlrT4ALlocWz9Cydmrr_-CJr3bpBD/s745/BodySwap.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="745" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6SSMg8O8ZKZt_WKsYfgcIsLJzxwlS893YB7T_0eZupSihY_Fd2TKgyfofMFvGTO4xquMrVSWdDLeU5rZTqSVcXGeYHLmXKb8ZGeqjXugpCMAIArwNlrT4ALlocWz9Cydmrr_-CJr3bpBD/w400-h215/BodySwap.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">"I wish I could </span><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">switch</span><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> places with her for just one day!"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The old man is now in Angel’s body.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel is passed out in the old man’s body.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oldman Angel is very pervy. And he pervs on Cordelia and it’s gross.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s all cutesy and weird and pervy and not much of substance happens.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s a fluff episode that you absorb and sorta enjoy while waiting for the plot to get back to where it was.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s certainly nothing like the Buffy Faith swap episode.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">But here Angel just acts like evil pervy Angel and the old man doesn’t act like David B at all. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He just seems confused.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then the gay jokes. Which aren’t bad for this time period. Old man Angel thinks Fred is a boy and then thinks Wesley is Fred and oy, I can’t even go into it.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s awkward and stupid and I want it to end.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Ah, but he finds out Fred is a woman and hopefully this ends.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Racist old man assumes Gunn is the delivery guy.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Old man Angel faux pas eating.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">The rest</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">kinda let it go pretty easily.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Gunn & Wesley both want to interview hookers. Ok?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">I wonder if Angel feels different being in the body of a human.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">For one, he can be in direct sunlight.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> Unfortunately, it's never explored because </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">he just can't get out of the damn retirement home.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Old Man Angel finally meets Fred and flirts heavily which, of course, is going to totally toy with Fred’s emotions.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Enter Lilah. Old Man Angel pervs once more!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lilah remembers the last time they were together – when she really hurt Cordelia.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She buries the hatchet by fixing his building legal stuff.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel finally has a plan to escape but his dumb old body has a heart attack.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Old Man Angel and Lilah make out. Fred, disappointingly catches them.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then he vamp faces without realizing it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And finally realizes he’s in a vamp body.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Which? Ya know what?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I’m gonna <b>SHENANIGAN</b></span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">that.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s been at least a day. Two?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">This guy’s whole deal is that he wants to be a hot young stud’s body.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">No way he wouldn’t have looked in the mirror before now.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile, Old man Angel is in his rubber pants...picks up a woman.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He realizes he has super strength, bites the woman and the beats up her boyfriend and his friends.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">So Wes figures out that we’re in a Freaky Friday situation (More like 18 again?) & then Cordelia puts two and two together about the retirement facility.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Old man Angel comes to see Angel-In-Old-Man.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then the team shows up and beat Angel with bats.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They bodyswitch back and destroy the stone.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And fluff episode over.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Almost.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Ugh, we gotta deal with this awkwardness: </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel finally has the talk with Fred.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then Cordelia rushes out to tell Angel that Buffy’s alive.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Alive!</span></span></li></ul><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crossfire!:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Old Man Angel:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUG6SiYPk8Z4ipv4M4Qs8eccpW4WsrP8cvJMJF-X8X_b1AcvVfT3AVFlM7F3qfXIUYu9rRQ7lVLxwemhG8LA8V10-rj170gRi0xc5L35z7Kl58STJSC3VOUxjq-EdX4hb1EY8dkc3U44Xh/s400/sleezel+shirt.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUG6SiYPk8Z4ipv4M4Qs8eccpW4WsrP8cvJMJF-X8X_b1AcvVfT3AVFlM7F3qfXIUYu9rRQ7lVLxwemhG8LA8V10-rj170gRi0xc5L35z7Kl58STJSC3VOUxjq-EdX4hb1EY8dkc3U44Xh/s320/sleezel+shirt.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #201f1e; font-weight: 700;">Daniel: </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Why is Angel hitting his tit?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #201f1e;"><b>Zelda:</b> I think it's meant to be his itty bitty unstakeable heart</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #201f1e;"><b>Daniel: </b>His itty bitty titty unsteakable heart</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #201f1e;"><b>Zelda:</b> -itty?</span></div><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “She’s got the big puppy love. I mean, who wouldn’t? You’re handsome and brave and heroic [Angel smiles sweetly], emotionally stunted, erratic, prone to turning evil, and let’s face it, a eunuch [Angel’s face falls]” – Cordelia<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Angel, Willow's on the Phone. Buffy's alive! She's alive!" - Cordelia<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lilah Morgan, Gavin Park<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Already Famous Person:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Rance Howard<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Paul Benjamin, Paul Logan, Steven W. Bailey<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Steven W. Bailey (Cave Demon on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>, Ryan on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel! In! History!</span></b></div></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel thinks pilates is like tae bo.</span></div></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stats:</span></b></div></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – clipped up with flyaway strands; honey highlights<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 0 <br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 1 (Lilah bringing the forms to the Hyperion)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 0<br /></span><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Champion Called – 0</span></span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-31102998419738189002021-04-13T11:43:00.006-04:002021-04-13T11:43:41.026-04:00Mmmm, Angel<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Episode 3.03: That Old Gang of Mine.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Original Airdate: 10.08.01<br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AmMn8FBsqFOqhKtTgYUjBRH9V4pk5jycK-gBcmeZ8HzDbbsVDPZu5p1LojAWd7iKeQ1-Onx59HZxvMzGvhQOylVO-IA5qp0LWnJNAFwkkUmjFNvhHzeClWl2dmztDY8n5FCD59S3KaA/s600/angel303-gunnangelphoto.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AmMn8FBsqFOqhKtTgYUjBRH9V4pk5jycK-gBcmeZ8HzDbbsVDPZu5p1LojAWd7iKeQ1-Onx59HZxvMzGvhQOylVO-IA5qp0LWnJNAFwkkUmjFNvhHzeClWl2dmztDY8n5FCD59S3KaA/s320/angel303-gunnangelphoto.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Gunn’s loyalties are torn between his current
demon-hunting associates and his old gang, which now kills demons for fun
instead of defense.”<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh hey, it’s another Gunn episode about his past
gang life…</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel is apologizing to someone and we don’t
know who because the focus is just on him. But oh hey, it’s
Merl. And Angel’s not even being sincere. He’s
reading. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordy, Gunn, Wesley & Lorne are watching</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I hardly think it’s fair to blame it on the
writing.” Hah, Cordelia wrote Angel’s apology.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then Angel goads Merl to punch him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But of course Caritas bans demon violence. THIS
WILL BE IMPORTANT LATER WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn drops Merl home to his sewers.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Merl is murdered. We don’t see
who the assailant is, but they seem demony by their shadow and the
growling. But they’re not. Spoilers.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When we come back from the credits, Gunn
nightmares of the time he killed his vampire sister.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn’s apartment is very straight fratboy. He
has a poster of a motorcycle so.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyJPlHZlpSlrvQdaVPc2L-BrsCdSpBvVJCZyf96f4Q6ShoQbcjTis6mRGRgxf4pxsYYblmmoHFGnXdleW40csr8uOXWWKWenTV6fKH3RlXwalvzNfVNk_MVPJOIno3OeK84zTUeaWNL2I/s1024/Gunns+Aparment.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyJPlHZlpSlrvQdaVPc2L-BrsCdSpBvVJCZyf96f4Q6ShoQbcjTis6mRGRgxf4pxsYYblmmoHFGnXdleW40csr8uOXWWKWenTV6fKH3RlXwalvzNfVNk_MVPJOIno3OeK84zTUeaWNL2I/w400-h225/Gunns+Aparment.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I kinda love that he has a Baskin Robbins container on his nightstand though.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel has found Merl dead.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn doesn’t understand why they’re
investigating Merl’s death.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now Angel’s defending Merl as though he were a
‘good demon’. Didn’t stop all the pummeling and torture. He’s being
pissy at Gunn, but that’s just because of his own guilt.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile Gunn visits his old haunt.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Newguy Gio has words with Gunn. He
has a problem with Gunn working with a vampire.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">IS ANGEL WEARING RUBBER PANTS?</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9yeS4sLr5CDUwxJPimrIJju0h2W3rwzg2O9Wqpgzf4SvjXG_BfKdb1BwZXy5x0Zxycz3UineSEPiiE3c5o29A7xMFZM2j1nq_bUyZ1ko7h3Tt1etPSqejVzFLF8UCXhpqSB5feWbd2PI/s1024/Angel+Rubber+Pants.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9yeS4sLr5CDUwxJPimrIJju0h2W3rwzg2O9Wqpgzf4SvjXG_BfKdb1BwZXy5x0Zxycz3UineSEPiiE3c5o29A7xMFZM2j1nq_bUyZ1ko7h3Tt1etPSqejVzFLF8UCXhpqSB5feWbd2PI/w400-h225/Angel+Rubber+Pants.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel is worried about Fred. He wants
Cordelia to help her. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>But Cordelia and Fred are the only two women in
a show…so they can’t possibly get along… <span style="color: red;">[SIIIIIIIGHS IN FEMALE. – Z]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lol, Cordelia made a Merl enemy list and Angel
is at the top of it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh sure, I went dark and killed
Merl.” There are some things vampires with a soul shouldn’t joke
about.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rondell questions why Gunn was/is so absent from
their lives. But we know all this. It started with his
sister. We’re just retreading all the things we know.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile Angel and Wes break down a door to
another “enemy of Merl’s”. But oops, they’re dead
too. There’s lots of yellow demon blood spewed all over the
apartment.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the sewers, we see a big ugly demon slurping
down the equivalent of a big gulp. ™. Except it’s called a Big Chug.</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpEffJpK4SHI-BkDH8ynKLrU6K1Ot7vP6J_2_It2ppte10vzD3ZVKuo6JkMt4OLcLa4zGzNT6Ez2Hc4Wf9zMuSaOEh3UpsMalI-Z0-g1TPdy7j3hm7mx8p-1VuLEMDClCjFK6vX_2Ywg/s1024/Big+Chug.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpEffJpK4SHI-BkDH8ynKLrU6K1Ot7vP6J_2_It2ppte10vzD3ZVKuo6JkMt4OLcLa4zGzNT6Ez2Hc4Wf9zMuSaOEh3UpsMalI-Z0-g1TPdy7j3hm7mx8p-1VuLEMDClCjFK6vX_2Ywg/w400-h225/Big+Chug.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he seems harmless – and Gunn’s old crew are
the culprits. They kill him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>"Charles, things aren't always so simple as
- going out and slaying the big, bad ugly. There are in this world shades of
gray…" See <a href="https://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-evolution-of-demon-morality-in.html" style="color: black;" target="_blank">Zelda’s brilliant essay on this</a>. <span style="color: red;">[Aw, shucks. – Z]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wesley says that 4 out of 6 of the victims were
non-violent species of demon. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn finds a clue and pockets it. He
goes to Rondell telling him that there’s a rogue on the crew.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rondell informs him that there’s no rogue – the
crew was all there. A demon’s a demon, according to Rondell.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn is starting to come over to Wesley’s line
of thinking. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordelia & Fred meet “outside” in the
courtyard – but the echoes make it sound like they’re on…a studio set.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordelia “Angel wants you to get
out.” That’s not what she meant. Then…why did she say it
like that? I hate those ‘misunderstandings’ because there’s no way
Cordelia didn’t know how that sounded…even though the writing is telling us she
didn’t. It’s a dumb pointless contrived forced laugh of a
misunderstanding.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway Cordelia decides to take Fred out on the
town.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn comes back to the hotel. You could tell
he’s debating whether to tell Angel what he found out.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel describes the killings as “fun” – as he
would know.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So Cordelia decides to take Fred to a demon
bar? </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Fred creaks out “Crazy”.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wesley is there as well. Gunn comes
to see him but Lorne reads him, first. He sees that Gunn is
conflicted. I guess he doesn’t always need a song.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then boom. Shootout at
Caritas. There’s a flaw in this protection spell. It only
stops demons from inflicting violence. Not humans.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gio leads a full on assault with machine
guns. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They call out Gunn.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of the guys holds Lorne at gunpoint.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wesley figures out that they’re the ones that
killed Merl and the others. He also realizes Gunn knew.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wes reminds Rondell that the last time he was
shot and wounded, it was an attempt to help him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They want Cordy to bring back Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel sends Cordy to the three sisters who put
the protection on Caritas in the first place. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Back at Caritas, Gio sings and Lorne reads
him. He realizes why he left Miami. “She trusted you.” We don’t know
the full story, though.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another demon tries to make it towards the exit.
The pandemonium lets Gunn wrestle the shotgun from Gio.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ugh, I really don’t like that they’re demonizing
Gunn’s entire crew instead of just this guy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And now…Gio is accusing Gunn of wanting to sleep
with his…sister? WTF?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“When he did his pleasure killing, he had no
soul. You can make no such claim.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile Cordelia meets with the three floating
Furys. Every time she mentions Angel’s name, they chorus “mmm,
Angel” and it’s kinda hilarious. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gio, Gunn, Angel, Wesley – they’re all trash
talking and I keep tuning out.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fred volunteers to kill Angel but of course it’s
a trick.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A big flash indicates that the protection spell
has been lifted.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of the seemingly harmless demons turns into
a giant praying mantis and bites Gio’s head off. So there’s
that. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then we just cut to everyone being all
cool? </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Wes threatens Gunn, telling him that if he
ever keeps an important secret like that, he’ll fire him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Angel and Gunn are cool, I guess? Or not? Or
they’ll get there? Fine.</span></span></li></ul><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></o:p></span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigh. Preemptive sigh.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh right, we start with Angel delivering a “heartfelt”
apology and his actions sound like an apology to Darla but we know all about
the show’s bait and switches: he’s apologizes to Merl, who immediately calls
him out on reading his apology off a notecard. But see, I couldn’t tell that it
was supposed to sound insincere because DB doesn’t paint well in the sincerely
regretful color already.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKeM6OpM1qZGeRhT_0Ncl8qRwCk-x7AIii1PlmhXHbIc162ONDFkh1toom3SlJ4fOcbBg4UPcxUJ7PKnO1svQJIGKs8N3XVRdDN2atdvKVXNof0v2jATEt3D-M3h7EytsRB2J8f0iRhuo/s245/angel+made+some+notes.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="245" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKeM6OpM1qZGeRhT_0Ncl8qRwCk-x7AIii1PlmhXHbIc162ONDFkh1toom3SlJ4fOcbBg4UPcxUJ7PKnO1svQJIGKs8N3XVRdDN2atdvKVXNof0v2jATEt3D-M3h7EytsRB2J8f0iRhuo/w400-h225/angel+made+some+notes.gif" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">me too, bb. me too</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aw man, Merl needed therapy for the shitty way
Angel treated him. Angel offers him a free revenge shot, but of course Caritas
has a spell preventing any demon violence so that doesn’t work.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Merl, not accepting the apology and severing
ties, fucks off to his sewer home … where he is promptly and permanently
slaughtered by an unseen force. RIP Merl.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aw, Gunn’s grief for his sister still haunts him
(when it’s convenient for the plot). He’s got nightmares about night he staked Alonna.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honestly I have to question Angel’s detectivey
skills. He relied on a demon snitch to do the dirty work, or an inside source
with the police. Does he actually … ever … detective? Beyond smelling blood
sometimes? When investigating the carnage at Merl’s the next day all he’s got
is “So far, we’ve ruled out suicide.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, Gunn’s confused why they’re
investigating Merl’s death. “I mean, he was what he was, right? … Somebody
killed a demon. Hello, we do that every day.” Yes good plan, let’s put some
light bigotry in the mouth of the one Black principal. I get that it’s flavored
from his memory-nightmare, but come on, writers.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And yep, at this point in the series, where we’ve
met enough non-evil demons, it <i>is</i> bigotry to just regard demons being murdered
as something negligible. This isn’t the <i>Buffy</i> world anymore, where the
lines are cleaner.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway, Gunn goes to visit … you guessed it …
that old gang of his. All new faces for us, except Rondell, who was pivotal in
Gunn’s end-of-season arc last season.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gio, the new loudmouth of the crew, draws an
even harder line against demons than Gunn does, because of course. More Black
characters spouting the bigotry.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Back at the Hyperion, we continue to worry about
Fred’s residual agoraphobia from her five years of torment on Pylea.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordy: “It’s not that I don’t like her, it’s
just – I don’t get her.” Reminds me a bit of the Scoobies not “getting” Tara in
“Family.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*snort* Angel’s at the top of the Enemies of
Merl list that Cordy made. She also points out that half the names on the list
weren’t Merl’s enemies until Angel made him snitch on them. It is looking more
and more like, even inadvertently, Angel’s responsible. Except that we who know
the future know it was Gunn’s old crew.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway, Rondell points out that Gunn started
withdrawing once his sister died, which, FAIR. But the two of them seem to make
peace, recognizing how many people are alive by the work Gunn did, the fight he
inspired. What we’ll see is that the mission got twisted in his absence, which …
ain’t that always the way of it?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We cut to a big slimy but sweetly harmless demon
slurping a soft drink in the sewer, then beset and slaughtered by the crew, the
scene ending with a closeup of Gio with a crossbow.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn shows up at another slaughter scene, asks
again why they’re continuing to investigate demon deaths. Wes tries to speak to
him gently of the shades of grey (no longer that Rogue Demon Hunter). G: “So we
find this demon-killing machine, what then? We gonna stop it? Or thank it?” //
W: “I don’t know.” That’s part of the grey shade here.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Whatever’s responsible for these attacks isn’t
making any distinctions [of morality]. It’s just killing. Randomly.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But Gunn hides an evidence bag with a bit of a
weapon he recognizes as being from his crew. He goes back to Rondell with the evidence,
telling him to call Gio in. But Rondell tells him Gio’s not a rogue. They
killed it because it was a demon, regardless of any of its actions. Again with
the SIIIIIIIGH of the narrative this Very White writers room is building about
a crew of mostly Black members. Does that make Gunn “one of the good ones?” “Not
like the others?” Excuse me, I need to rage blackout for a second.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordy’s brilliant idea to get Fred out on the
world is to make her sing karaoke … maybe not the best idea for someone clearly
so traumatically afraid of being noticed, but hey any excuse to use a set we
still have and are about to destroy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn, conflicted, is back at the Hyperion, not
yet sure if he wants to tell Angel Investigations that he knows who’s behind
the attacks. Angel, meanwhile, is seeing a pattern in the attacks: it’s not
random, and whoever’s doing it is having fun.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aw Fred chose to sing “Crazy” at Caritas. Poor
thing. Gunn spares one fond smile when he sees her, then goes to the bar to
avoid the others … and gets read by Lorne, even without singing.</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi85hdzz1hLa_qWF8NL_mYfyH77CbA_d1pyXF9l96ru7j315WTwJXdHA6In7-TjdUyo7WqbUaGnHySkum_ooeT4KCbkyc1798Qw7OJZcI3qcUE3oJ5a8fmGJqKBnXoV3ar9iXVrcNv_c4s/s500/tumblr_lo2vljoPWy1qlpubfo1_500.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="500" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi85hdzz1hLa_qWF8NL_mYfyH77CbA_d1pyXF9l96ru7j315WTwJXdHA6In7-TjdUyo7WqbUaGnHySkum_ooeT4KCbkyc1798Qw7OJZcI3qcUE3oJ5a8fmGJqKBnXoV3ar9iXVrcNv_c4s/w400-h186/tumblr_lo2vljoPWy1qlpubfo1_500.gif" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And fuck. Before Gunn can come clean, we have
FUCKING MACHINE GUNFIRE all throughout Caritas, taking out demons left and
right. That anti-violence spell applies only to demons.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I really wish none of this was happening. I
really wish the writers weren’t putting the weapons for a mass shooting in the hands
of a marginalized group. I wish I wish I wish.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I bet the writers thought they were soooooo
clever, putting all this bigotry in the mouths of Black characters. “See guys?”
they say. “We flipped your expectations!”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This entire episode is one long Thanks, I Hate
It.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wes, realizing the crew is responsible for the
demon deaths, looks at Gunn’s ashamed face and understands: “You knew.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn to Rondell: “You lost the mission, bro …
this is not what we’re about.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wes reminds Rondell, who’s got a gun trained on
him, that his last serious injury was incurred when he was helping Rondell in <a href="https://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2020/11/walking-while-black.html" target="_blank">“The Thin Dead Line”</a><b> </b></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn: “We used to face death because we had to.
Now you’re chasing it down, man, for the fun of it. That ain’t right.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They allow Cordy to leave to go fetch Angel. Can’t
she just … call him?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This is a bad plan and I’ll tell you why: it’s
their plan!”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel sends Cordy to talk to the three Furies to
lift the Caritas spell so that Angel can fight off the crew.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile Gio’s singing Buffy and Spike’s first
dance song, “Wind Beneath My Wings” while they wait for Angel to arrive.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile to that meanwhile, Gunn’s figured out
the plan: they’re gonna make him kill Angel, to prove what side he’s on.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gio shoots the karaoke machine. Joy-killing
asshole.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lorne, meanwhile, read Gio while he sang. Apparently
he fled from Miami for some unspecified betrayal. “Right up until the end, she
trusted you. Did you know that?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gio taunts Gunn that he wants to be “one of
them,” the demons. Foreshadowing for the comics? (no, but we can pretend)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He’s basically now flipping the language, saying
Gunn is friendly with the demons, hoping they’ll “let him in,” and now it’s an
allegory for a Black man being accepted by white society? Is that what’s
happening? Like? IS THAT WHAT THE WRITERS ARE DOING IN THE SAME SCENE AS
EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING HERE.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn, in a rage, shoots one of the demons, the
one identified as a baby-eater. I guess to make us semi-okay with it? He’s violating
the sanctuary but he’s killing one of the confirmed evil demons?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Y’all, I don’t even know. This is all so ugh.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel tells Gunn to make a choice, walking forward
calmly in vamp face.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Cordy visits the levitating Furies who keep
going “mmmm Angel,” so I guess they have past sexytimes with him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Back at Caritas, Gunn drops the stake. “You think
I won’t kill him because he’s my friend? That ain’t why. Truth is he can never
be my friend. It’s on account of what he is. Not his fault really. Just the way
it worked out … It’s about the mission, bro. He’s got it. You don’t.” An
interesting line in the sand to draw, but whatever, everything in this episode
is trash.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gio’s now decided that a “monster-lover” is no
better than a monster, so any sympathizers will die too. Very cool and not at
all fascist mentality.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Who wants to live?” And Fred slowly stands up. “I’m
sorry, I just—I don’t wanna die.” Gio hands her the crossbow with a smirk.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel: “It’s okay. I understand.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But she spins to Gio “Although I thought I might
just shoot you in the throat instead.” Then starts babbling about the science
of bloodloss.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel tries to calmly ask her to point it back
at him. He doesn’t want her to kill a human. And just in time, as they grab the
weapon back from her, the spell is lifted, and the fight begins. Gio gets
beheaded and then the demon what ate his head is blasted. Uh. Problem solved? I
don’t even.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wes: “It’s never easy, the pull of divided
loyalties. Whatever choice we do end up making we feel as though we’ve betrayed
someone.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But then after giving empathy, he warns Gunn
that if he withholds information again that could endanger the team, he’s
fired. Which is a nice bit of preemptive hypocrisy for Wes and what <i>he</i>
does later this season. Though the divided loyalties is also a presager for his
actions.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn, to Angel, says he doesn’t mean what he
said in there, that he was stalling. “No, you meant all of it, but that’s okay.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s especially ugly for the writers to put
these words, “I can’t help the way I feel, man, that’s just the way it is,”
used to excuse bigotry, into the mouth of a Black man and – we know now, twenty
years later – a gay man (the actor, not the character).</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Gunn is left alone on the street. His old
crew is gone, his new team is also heading home. Alone, he walks out of frame.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hey, fuck this episode?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Okay fine you know I get it, the morally grey area of demons in LA is something we need to keep dealing with and discussing on this series, and it makes sense that this would be an especially dicey conversation for Gunn, given his history. I just really really hate that they chose to couch this conflict the way it did, putting all the problematic stuff in the mouths of the marginalized characters, so they can be lectured by the white characters. It's a fucked up way to handle what should have been a good and interesting continuing exploration.</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></o:p></span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></span></div>Daniel:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “When he did his pleasure-killing, he had no soul. You can make
no such claim.” – Wes<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zelda:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Nothing. No thank you.<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></o:p></span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></span></div>First Appearance:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The Three Furies<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Recurring:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Lorne, Rondell, Merl<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Khalil Kain<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Caritas Song List</span></b></div></o:p></span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span>“Crazy”</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span>“Wind Beneath My Wings”</span></div></span><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Stats:</span></b></div></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div>Cordelia’s Hair – mid-length bob, honey-brown
color<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead Humans – 1<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead Undeads – 14<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordelia Has a Vision – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Disappointing Reveal – 1 (that old gang of Gunn’s)<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shenanigans Called – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prophecy Called – 0<br /></span><span>Champion Called – 0</span></span></div>
Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-860633271447781472021-03-23T11:48:00.000-04:002021-03-23T11:48:07.914-04:00Forking With Gunn<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbN_nFxRrm1ejvyg1hDGyKifNgoyZbHrvkx0akp3U8q5Itm1-8mVn5A7srcCeq5EBBFLGSBwXu9F8p_P_itqdtYG0n49X0HYtNedGaCvPCj7VvxljqVm1TqSDiWkIeFJSfIE8x-0XiPrQ7/s1024/Flaming+Cube.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbN_nFxRrm1ejvyg1hDGyKifNgoyZbHrvkx0akp3U8q5Itm1-8mVn5A7srcCeq5EBBFLGSBwXu9F8p_P_itqdtYG0n49X0HYtNedGaCvPCj7VvxljqVm1TqSDiWkIeFJSfIE8x-0XiPrQ7/w400-h225/Flaming+Cube.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 3.02: That Vision Thing.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 10.01.01<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Lilah coerces Angel to help her secure the release of a prisoner the Powers That Be have locked in a fiery prison.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We open with Wes and Gunn handling Cordy with kid gloves, worrying about how she’s handling the after-effects of her visions. Meanwhile, Fred’s downstairs with them eating Chinese takeout, but camped out under a table.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oops I misread that—they’re worried about her because she hasn’t had a vision in a while. Also Wes and Gunn helpfully exposit to Fred (and the audience, because new season and the show’s not out on DVD yet) about how the visions work.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hey y’all it’s Gavin Park again. Cordy starts schmoozing him and his expensive loafers until Wes identifies him as a W&H suit. When he spies Fred he says simply “New player?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*snort* he’s filing a bunch of citations against the hotel. Gavin, love, this is not how you lawyer ex machina. Well, maybe it’s how <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">you</i> lawyer ex machina, but it’s not impressive, just annoying.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy’s finally gotten a vision, but fuuuuuuuuck she’s got slices across her stomach from the five-clawed beast of her vision. That’s just … super unfair? Like, come on, Powers That Be. If you’re really all that powerful you wouldn’t do shit like this to a white hat. She doesn’t need stigmata to prove her heroism. She’s already proven that, over and over, without the extra punishment.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeez, she’s got extra slices across her back. And on her shoulder. This is bullshit.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel’s intuited enough that he knows Cordelia is suffering more than she’s letting on, but I have to ask why he doesn’t smell the blood from her wounds when he’s literal inches away and has enhance vampire nostrils.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn, tired of chauffeuring them to the wrong herbalist shops, says “Next time we’re hitting the last place first,” and I love him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh hey. This one’s the right place, I guess. They know on sight that Angel is a vampire.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh also they’re the clawed beasts. This was so obviously made in the wake of <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon</i>’s popularity. They’re all flying martial artsy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We don’t even kill them, we just take the coin from their unconscious bodies and leave.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And over at W&H, Gavin’s a transfer into Special Projects from Real Estate, which explains why his first sally at Angel Investigations after the attempt to buy the building is building code violations.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy’s eyebrows look extra archy this season. Are they archier? Is it just me?</span></span></li></ul></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #201f1e; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibA24ZTu-ADSlp_zUUEXqWwwqi-HF-a2Ed077yh_uU1fz75TkaGF2o7sfEqF5FCpSl-k7m6fl263JOcCO7dXIXDk7jbpC64ReOjw-tKR7ztI8ghE26MgrPKoy2C_x8hHoI0ZerauH9wOPZ/s701/Extra+Archy.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="701" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibA24ZTu-ADSlp_zUUEXqWwwqi-HF-a2Ed077yh_uU1fz75TkaGF2o7sfEqF5FCpSl-k7m6fl263JOcCO7dXIXDk7jbpC64ReOjw-tKR7ztI8ghE26MgrPKoy2C_x8hHoI0ZerauH9wOPZ/s320/Extra+Archy.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Archier?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fred compares Cordy to Lassie, because she’s the mission messenger, but Cordy’s not wild about the dog comparison. Hey she can bond with Willow, reliable dog geyser person!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Damn, a second vision. And this one comes with boils she can’t hide from the gang, as they’re all over her face. She’s taken her hair down to hide as much of it as she can.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She’s also now incredibly hoarse, in a way that doesn’t sound faked, so I’m wondering if Charisma was really sick and they were like “use it!”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This must be a mistake. The Powers wouldn’t do this to me on purpose. I mean, I’m a part of their team. Why would anybody do this on purpose?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fred suggests asking the Powers what’s up. Why didn’t Angel think of this earlier? He used to speak to them in S1 … though I guess they got mildly slaughtered in the S1 finale...</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They don’t want to leave Cordy alone while she’s suffering but I say she’s got Phantom Dennis, he’s got access to the landline. He can call them. Sure he can’t speak, but he do something.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The show’s already planting seeds for Gunn and Fred’s romance.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the flirting is interrupted when they find a fumigator gassing up the hotel lobby. Slash planting surveillance for Gavin. (spoilers, spoilers, my notes are full of spoilers this week)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aw Wes called in Lorne to come help. They’re hoping he can use his connection to help track a message back to the PtB.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy’s resistant to help because she doesn’t want to lose the visions. “I wouldn’t be able to help you anymore. You wouldn’t need me.” Angel: “That’s not why I need you.” I’m fine, I just have a few feelings.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hey y’all Lilah’s got Kal Penn in a Fez working for her. Last time we saw him in the Buffyverse he was a cavebro! But this version of him levitates, removes the fez, and reveals an exposed and pulsating brain. And he seems to be sending more torturous visions to Cordy, scorching her skin and sending her into convulsions, as Lorne is thrown back against the wall by the force of it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So here’s my question: are Lilah and Kal Penn in a Fez also causing the intense physical torture, or did they send only that vision? Is this a combination of the Powers being shitty and W&H being even shittier?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy’s breaking down. “I’m scared all the time. I mean, look at me. What could be so important that the Powers would do this? I don’t understand.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh, the show’s here to answer my questions. Thanks show! Lorne’s figured out that they’re not coming from the Powers. So the coin and the key they’ve collected … they’re pieces Lilah needed him to fetch for her evil plot of the week.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t really believe that recruiting Angel was the only way for Lilah to retrieve Billy (spoilers) from his demon prison, so this is probably still a piece of W&H’s long goal of turning Angel, making him undertake missions he knows aren’t for the good. Either he burns with guilt (win for them) or it numbs him to doing bad things and he keeps doing bad things (win for them). Keep moving the line until there is no line, right?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway Wes confirms that the demons they fought to get the key and the coin were on the side of good, so it’s lucky we didn’t kill them after all!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oooh the key and coin combine to form a spinny top that opens the portal. I dig it. Nice design.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope they return them to their rightful owners after this.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also Angel lost all his weapons when he went through the portal. Whoopsy. “Sure. Cuz it’d be too easy if I could actually defend myself.” I mean. You are a vampire, my dude. “At least I got the key,” he says helpfully in case the viewers are unobservant.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh right, it’s Skip! Skip of the Confusing Arc of Whose Side Are You On (Spoilers!)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s fun, because he looks so otherworldly creepy and then his conversational style is so informal and unmenacing. And his name is Skip (named after one of the series’ director/producers, Skip Schoolnick)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You’re a vampire, right? How come it smells like you work for the Powers That Be?” See, he can smell stuff. Get with it, Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They’re both casually talking about the fact that they’re on the same side and yet it’s fighty time, and I think it’s supposed to be reminiscent of Dread Pirate Westley and Inigo Montoya.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aaaaaaand Billy’s fire prison stops being fire and prisony once Skip is knocked out. Oooh is this a deathless episode? That’s cool.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s vision side effects fade when Kal Penn in a Fez removes the mojo, and Billy is handed over to Lilah and the suits.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have to ask, knowing the future and all, did none of our team touch Billy during this? Someone had to bind his wrists with rope. And the car isn’t that roomy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oop, we’ve got one dead body after all. Angel launches a rebar like a knight’s lance, impaling Kal Penn in his squishy exposed brain.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel threatens to kill Lilah if she comes after Cordelia again. For some reason, I thought this happened at the end of S1, when they were bombarding her with nonstop visions. Oh well, time is a flat circle.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy, though grateful to no longer be as tortured: “What if that guy you freed is someone or something that’s truly terrible? Wolfram & Hart won this time and it’s all my fault.” // “It’s not about winning, Cordelia, it’s about what’s at stake. And in this particular scenario you were way more important than winning.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel pulls a Scarlett O’Hara, saying they’ll deal with the consequences when they happen. So of course we segue cut to pregnant Darla still looking to get rid of her impossible fetus.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So in the comments for the episode where <a href=" https://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2020/09/hunk-of-hero-sandwich.html" target="_blank">Angel tried to save Darla</a> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;"> Travis pointed out that because Angel won a life through the trials but it couldn’t be used to save Darla, the Powers gifted them with the impossible baby. I can’t remember if they officially acknowledge that in canon, but I really love that read, and it makes me okay with the macguffiny stuff behind this plot arc.</span></span></li></ul><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></b><br /><div style="color: #201f1e; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wes & Gunn are talking over Chinese food.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">They’re discussing how to handle Cordelia.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Fred is also there, eating Chinese food, under a table.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Now I want Chinese Food. </span><span style="color: red;">[Dude, me too. - Z]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Speaking of Chinese food.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Why do TV show characters always eat Chinese food out of the box?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Does no one put it on a plate?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Putting the Chicken or whatever over the Rice?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Man, I really want Chinese Food.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia doesn’t want the gang to fuss over her visions. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She’s fine!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Sure, you are, Cordelia.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And Gavin Park is back. I'm glad he wasn't a one-hit wonder. He's looking handsome as</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">ever in expensive suit and loafers.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuivV9-Yws_FB6IAbFmep1IUHRd1RNZ-DNiBta-7FuO3Q4RFpwFLIVw1SHUDNmR2WNVklGbsAVVhHIIDGIdmGS3-R2GKhRSICsGrjDt6RT0IY6t20JxpXS_n9nFlTgE7f-wU_cRBljG4N/s549/Gavin+Park.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuivV9-Yws_FB6IAbFmep1IUHRd1RNZ-DNiBta-7FuO3Q4RFpwFLIVw1SHUDNmR2WNVklGbsAVVhHIIDGIdmGS3-R2GKhRSICsGrjDt6RT0IY6t20JxpXS_n9nFlTgE7f-wU_cRBljG4N/s320/Gavin+Park.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">He’s there to let them know there are 57 citations with the Hotel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia has another ferocious vision.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oh shit.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">This vision physically attacked her like Freddy Krueger.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She’s got 5 slices across her abs.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Fred’s starting to help with the research. She’s also being weirdly flirty with Angel.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s a bit cringe.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia also has claw marks on her back and shoulder and I’m not sure why she doesn’t want to share this info with the rest of the crew when they could help.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“I’ve asked Fred to take you home”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Does she…drive? Even if she acquired a car in the last few months which I very seriously doubt.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wesley: “One of the unwritten laws of being a dick.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He clarifies that he means detective or gumshoe. But then Gunn is all: “You use the word dick again and we’re gonna have a problem.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">What?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Why? I want to be offended if this homophobic in a way I don’t realize but I don't think it is?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Does he just not like using the word dick? What?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I don’t.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">What strange dialogue.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wes Angel and Gunn get to the Chinese herbal shop and the old couple who run it turn out to be demons who fight them.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> Fun!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile at Wolfram & Hart, Lilah has bangs.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Gavin informs Lilah that he’s working on something regarding Angel Investigations & would like her on his team.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile Cordy is trying to get rid of Fred.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Again, how did she take her home?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Eh, whatever.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Fred wants to know what it’s like to have a vision. Cordelia wants her to go.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then Fred compares her to Lassie. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">But before Cordy can get rid of Fred, she has another lethal vision.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">This time she passes out and grows…boils?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Interestingly in the next scene, presumably filmed later, Cordy’s voice is very hoarse like Charisma came down with a cold or something.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Good timing.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Either that or Charisma is good at making her voice sound hoarse.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel goes searching for the key in Cordelia’s vision & ends up fighting the boil demon.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wes stays with Cordelia & Gunn walks Fred home…where there are exterminators. Oh! I guess Fred walked...Cordelia to her apartment? Does she live that close to the hotel? Anyway, Gunn flirts with Fred but it's very blink and you'd miss it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wes invites Lorne over to help to trace the visions.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordy doesn’t want to lose the visions because she doesn’t think she’ll be able to help Angel without them.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">So Lorne does a mind meld with Cordelia.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: red;">[Um, </span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">™</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - Spock]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey, it’s Kal Penn!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He’s doing some sort of floaty thing and his brain lifting out of his body and it’s gross.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia is having her third vision of the episode (are these things connected?) – and she gets literally burned.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So yeah, these two things are connected.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s Lilah who’s causing this – not the powers that be.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia thinks bad things are happening because she’s a bad person.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And it’s very heart-breaking.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne figures out that the visions aren’t from the powers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They figure it out pretty quickly – that this is due to Wolfram & Hart, specifically Lilah Morgan.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She wants Angel to free a guy who is imprisoned. In exchange, she'll stop sending lethal visions to Cordy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes prepares Angel for his mission but wants to accompany him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel says he needs Wes to stay there.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The objects Angel has collected from Cordy’s vision creates a top that opens a portal (because of course it does.)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Once Angel goes through, his weapons are left behind. Almost like the Terminator portal…. unlike the Terminator portal, his clothes stay on.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel sees the guy imprisoned.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It feels like some hell dimension with the prisoner literally burning in a cube for all eternity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yikes.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And this demon with a lot of weird armor – there’s like a set of teeth on his shoulder.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The make-up and costume is incredibly impressive. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li></ul></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiphyphenhyphenQSlJTPbj082VtUSu1_o5U_g2IrvTsoaRFslXUL5r-ummwZtVdzHz9mft3fkT4dha1UBWdsFZ2UF8rMRd6r8Yqe9kzDM2UDb0e5jd7hp_nRLjZ9jvHaTgWhbj0senlx9BLIB7Tps-kD/s562/Skip.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="492" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiphyphenhyphenQSlJTPbj082VtUSu1_o5U_g2IrvTsoaRFslXUL5r-ummwZtVdzHz9mft3fkT4dha1UBWdsFZ2UF8rMRd6r8Yqe9kzDM2UDb0e5jd7hp_nRLjZ9jvHaTgWhbj0senlx9BLIB7Tps-kD/s320/Skip.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where did those teeth come from??</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But the best part?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His name is Skip.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he talks like he’s from California.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Love Skip.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time for the grand fight.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel pushes Skip toward the flaming cube but then saves him weirdly?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then knocks him out? Okay.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then the flaming cube disappears and the guy that Angel is supposed to be saving is just…a bit sooty I guess?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Angel meets Lilah at what I’m assuming is the place James Dean drag raced at in Rebel Without a Cause? Maybe?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They get Fred on the phone to make sure the spell is reversed.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kal Penn does his creepy brain thing and the boils disappear from Cordy’s face.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It worked.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So who is this guy?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So evil that he was tortured by burning forever.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Angel kills Kal Penn so that it never happens again – essentially saying, “don’t fuck with Cordelia.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next day Cordelia is feeling perky and very thankful.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It’s not about winning, Cordelia.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s what’s at stake. And in this particular scenario, you’re way more important than winning.” I love that attitude.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s fantastic, And very sweet. Angel says it so matter-a-factly.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile in the Yoro Mountains:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Darla seeks a shaman. He knows exactly what she is.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She is seeking answers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He does a blood spell. But he says he can’t help.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then Darla: “Time to go visit Daddy.”</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda & Daniel:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “It’s not about winning, Cordelia, it’s about what’s at stake. And in this particular scenario you were way more important than winning.” – Angel</span><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Appearance:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Skip, Billy Blim</span><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lorne, Lilah Morgan, Darla, Gavin Park, Phantom Dennis</span><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Future Famous Person:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Kal Penn</span><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Frank Salsedo, David Denman</span><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Justin Shilton (Billy Blim in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Munroe in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>), Kal Penn (Young Man in Fez in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Hunt in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>)</span><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorne’s Nicknames:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> His Royal Badness (Angel), Princess (Cordy)</span><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stats:</span></b></div><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – low ponytail, down to hide the boils, two low pigtails</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 1</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 3</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 2 (the two groups that Angel fought to get the key and the coin)</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 0</span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.26px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Champion Called – 1</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;"> </span></span></div><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></p>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-46138484132363310292021-03-09T11:51:00.005-05:002021-03-09T11:51:36.225-05:00The B Word Was the Love of His Life<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black;">Episode 3.01: Heartthrob.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Original Airdate: 9.24.01</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnKbYukwRnnr_n6mJ0pPZWW1QXUS9yPoCXIoQed5Q1mOxjKUPJfocAJJM4fX__dBkNIEEzZ4pKtic0iS3DOwWKnEp7tpZ6C5VUBv-YeaL2EhWaG0rVlFgdT_ya30jQw_cX5mzYEdxMFs/s400/heartthrob1.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnKbYukwRnnr_n6mJ0pPZWW1QXUS9yPoCXIoQed5Q1mOxjKUPJfocAJJM4fX__dBkNIEEzZ4pKtic0iS3DOwWKnEp7tpZ6C5VUBv-YeaL2EhWaG0rVlFgdT_ya30jQw_cX5mzYEdxMFs/s320/heartthrob1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span>“As Angel mourns Buffy’s death, he battles a
lovelorn vampire seeking revenge for the death of his beloved, who was killed
by Angel.”<br /><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</b></div></o:p></span><span style="color: black;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And we’re back! I remember watching this episode the
first time almost completely forgetting who Fred was.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">But here she is. Sneaking around the Hyperion.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordy, Wes & Gunn are coming back from beating a bunch of
demon worshippers.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Wes has my pandemic hair.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVfP3-iLD6hKx6wcPXXwAZOF2E-B7g5VyymzIJs7_dq2JIL650kvovC8eJV65qEm0EEHQZHmESuhgvh_8txpMy7Z3Q_pLO0NEJrL5lOEnphkvo6cACzR3oEUIR5HTrHblGB53cOd-88o/s1024/Wes+Hair.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVfP3-iLD6hKx6wcPXXwAZOF2E-B7g5VyymzIJs7_dq2JIL650kvovC8eJV65qEm0EEHQZHmESuhgvh_8txpMy7Z3Q_pLO0NEJrL5lOEnphkvo6cACzR3oEUIR5HTrHblGB53cOd-88o/w400-h225/Wes+Hair.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Oh shit, he does. - Z</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">We’re exposited that Angel has been away for three
months. And Fred’s just been hiding out.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“The B Word was the love of his life” – We're discussing Buffy's
death at the end of last season.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">So it’s also exposited that Angel is with a bunch of
monks. We assume he’s praying and getting spiritual – but no, he’s
fighting demon monks all bloody.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And Amy Acker joins the cast full time.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Something we learn about Wes & Gunn: They can fight demons but
they don’t like rats.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And Angel comes home – and everyone is happy to see
him. And he brings gifts!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Wes, as he receives his knife gift: “Oh, I can’t wait to kill
something with it!’</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordy has been leaving Fred Tacos. A nice throwback to last
season.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile, Fred is crazily writing on the walls. Her whole room is
covered.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Interesting that Angel can’t go into Fred’s room without being
invited. I guess she technically lives there – but what qualifies
that? She doesn’t pay for her room. She’s been there for
three months. How long before it’s someone’s home and not just that
she’s staying there. Is a room in a hotel a home, but a room in
someone else’s house not? Like if you rent a room in someone’s
house, can a vampire go into the house but not the room? Also,
technically Angel leases the hotel – so doesn't everything in it belong to him?
<span style="color: red;">[Also does that mean he shouldn’t have been able to enter Gunn’s crew’s
quarters? If they were living there? – Z]<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“Nothing to be scared of; you’re safe here in the hotel.” Cue
Cordelia screaming.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">She’s having a really super bad vision. Bunch of vamps.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“Watch out for the blonde! She’s the worst!”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">They all leave. Cordelia’s still in insane pain.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ok back to my home inviting discussion: Angel was able to
come into the dorm room uninvited – but that’s because the inhabitants are
dead, maybe? There are two hostages but maybe they didn’t live in that
room. Who knows?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angel to the rescue. He leaps on the car. Big
fight. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Before killing the blonde, Angel tears off her necklace which is
obviously important. Right before she dies, she lets out a feeble, “Angelus?” She
knows him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordelia, home now, is still suffering from her vision.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Dennis, the ever-helpful ghost, lowers the lights and runs a
bath. I need a ghost.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ok Loofa-ing her back might be a bit much. She seems to
have a verrrryy close relationship with Dennis.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">1767 – Marseilles – we’re in our flashback now.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Darla is here! Yay! And the Blonde vampire
that Angel killed earlier…with a beau we’ve just met. (Elisabeth & James,
we find out later.)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">They’re worried about Holtz, a vampire killer; a name we heard
briefly last season.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">It’s not said if Angel sired either of these two. We know that
Angel sired more than just Drusilla. It'd be interesting to see how many
of Angel's sires come out of the woodwork.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The male vampire, James, gets himself into a spot of
trouble. We finally meet Holtz. And then Angel cuts off the story.
To be continued.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">BTW, Cordy’s hair looks amazing. (But it kinda always
does?) This particular look suits her well though.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile James, in full on early 2000s look is grieving for
Elisabeth. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">James throws his fellow vamp into the sun and he immediately
bursts into flames. The sun/bursting into flames thing is SO INCONSISTANT AND
ANNOYS ME SO MUCH. Like, Spike NEVER immediately bursts into
flames. Or if he does, it's like his arm for a minute while someone
throws a blanket over him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordy is trying to console Angel about Buffy – but he thinks she’s
talking about Elisabeth which kinda says something.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">It’s interesting that they never say Buffy’s name.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">We return to the flashback and Angel’s …Irish accent. Angel
is all sassy and gets punched by Holtz.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Holtz and his men try to fight Angel and James but they get away.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ok, James visits this doctor who is….sloughing? It’s
like this weird alien thing on his face? I’m not sure what it’s supposed to do.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">James wants “the cure” from him. He goes into surgery.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Hey, it’s Lorne! He’s singing: I left my heart in San
Francisco.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">It seems to be old people night and there’s this adorable old
demon:</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMD7ZFBbq45w4NDkO6Ud_3qJQ-huyGdxwx28dx2bn3m2IIXdtGt-2Bax-p0NU2SiJ5nDw8y0axOn-lMnN3sVGxGl8-BwkVM0EUQYfWCSXF5F5O2Ggtt7zbuJnvFN9VCAi9fNiKXxJ7Tmc/s1024/Old+Demon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMD7ZFBbq45w4NDkO6Ud_3qJQ-huyGdxwx28dx2bn3m2IIXdtGt-2Bax-p0NU2SiJ5nDw8y0axOn-lMnN3sVGxGl8-BwkVM0EUQYfWCSXF5F5O2Ggtt7zbuJnvFN9VCAi9fNiKXxJ7Tmc/w400-h225/Old+Demon.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Merl is back. Gunn & Wes are seeking some
information. They’re looking for James.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And in a nice parallel, James surprises Angel & Cordy at the
cellar door the way Angel startled Cordy earlier in the episode.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And Fred takes this moment to come out of her room.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Fight! Cordy tries to help but with all the weapons at
her disposal, she throws a fire extinguisher.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Then she gets a stake but accidently throws it to James instead of
Angel. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Anyway, Angel stakes James but it doesn’t take. He also
throws James out into the sun. Samesies. It’s like he’s
wearing that ring of angora or something. Ring of
Amarra? </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">They escape to the tunnels. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh! Cordelia brings up the ring of Amelia. She thinks
like I do!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh, the early 2000s cell phones!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Wes tells Cordelia about the operation that James
underwent. Apparently, it makes him invincible but once it wears
off, he dies. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">LA subways. Oh, that’s a thing.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“It happened about three months ago. We try not to say
her name too much.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">James doesn’t believe that Angel loved Buffy because he’s not
committing suicide…I guess? Like way to have a very narrow and
mentally damaging idea of love, James.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Anyway, James’ time is up. He dusts.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordelia finally says Buffy’s name.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“I’m okay.” “Then what’s the problem?” “That I’m okay. That
losing Buffy didn’t kill me.” I mean what is grief, if not...</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Yikes. “Nester demons” like to nest in the walls in
peoples' homes. That sounds frightening.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile in Nicaragua, we finally see Darla – in the modern times
– at a bar. She gets info on a shaman. The guy who gave
her the information relentlessly hits on her, so she kills him. And
then boom – we see her very pregnant belly.</span></span></li></ul><b><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</b></div></o:p></span></b><span style="color: black;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And here we go. Buffy’s dead (or is she?), a
twitchy Fred is in the hotel, and Gunn, Cordy, and Wes continue to fight the good
fight.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">They’re a bit concerned about Fred’s hibernation
and … maybe they should get her some therapy? Just a thought? She’s got massive
PTSD from five years in Pylea and their attitude seems to be pretty shruggy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Apparently Angel’s at a spiritual retreat in Sri
Lanka … that involves a lot of fighty fight.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Man, the show’s writers need to stop with the
big group slaughters. It makes it so hard to keep up with our body count.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Aw Angel came back. The group greets him very
sweetly, many hugs and warm smiles. Also Angel was wearing white at the monk
retreat and now he’s wearing a light colored jacket and he’s already starting the
season with a different energy from last season.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angel brought the gang sweet personal gifts …
anything for Fred?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Woof, Fred’s turned her hotel room into a new cave,
the walls covered in writing.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">First vision of the season! And Cordy’s writhing
on the floor and screaming, shit.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The blonde vampire in Cordy’s vision has a
distinct large heart-shaped locket.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Damn, more dead bodies. Come on, show. We’re only
two human bloggers.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ooh and when Angel stakes that blonde vamp,
ripping off her locket as he does so, she says in surprise “Angelus?” before
she ashes.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Poor Cordelia, recovering at home from her
vision, taking what looks like prescription pain medication. Dennis prepares
her bath, looking after her. But it’s a short-lived quiet when her phone rings.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Flashback to Marseilles! Angelus and Darla and
two random in-love vamps. Is this before or after Spike and Dru? I am very bad
(read: lazy) at putting the flashbacks in chronological order in my head. I
guess they tried picking up a second couple more than once. Also we’re
name-dropping Holtz as someone hunting them still.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">This is after Darla left Angelus to die in the
barn, but they’re both twisty enough that it doesn’t seem to be a sticking point.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ah, we see James lift the locket from a shop for
Future Dead Blonde Vamp Elisabeth.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">I wonder if they intended James to be English
and then he just couldn’t do the accent? He calls the soldiers “bloody frogs”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh here’s Holtz. Hi Holtz.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh, for once, the flashback was Angel actually
telling the story to the gang, and not just adding thematic color to whatever’s
happening now.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And then we cut to Present James, learning that
Elisabeth is dead and watching her car get towed. One vamp survived the fight
to tell the story but now it’s time for James to rage-kill him by tossing him
into sunlight. And since he’s not a series regular vamp, he bursts into full
flames immediately and dies.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile Cordy’s worried that Angel’s still not
processing Buffy’s death. “She was the love of your life and she died. And you
weren’t there when it happened. You couldn’t help her fight. You couldn’t save
her. You couldn’t die with her.” It’s a good point. The Pylea arc was very
smart timing because it wouldn’t make sense for Angel to miss that fight otherwise.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Holtz has Angelus and James surrounded and it
appears Angelus and Darla killed his whole family. So yeah, I can see him
holding a grudge.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angelus, hearkening back to Darla’s move of
leaving him to die in the barn, tells Holtz that Darla and Elisabeth are down at
the docks. James punches him in a fury but maybe this was the plan all along,
because it’s enough of a mess that they’re able to escape on a horse, even with
a few arrows in Angelus (don’t worry, he has the tiniest heart of all vampires)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And back in the present, James goes to some kind
of Demon Doc, asking for “the cure” and I have a lot of questions. I know this
is some kind of heart removal thing, so that he can go after Angel without
being killed, but he’s not Davy Jones and this should really super kill him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Anyway LORNE IS HERE and he’s singing in a
nicely fixed up Caritas. He has such a lovely voice.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh Merl is here too. Remember Merl? He’s here to
give Wes and Gunn some intel on James, but refuses to give them anything if
Angel’s around, which, legit.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angel wants Cordy to go hide at home and she
thinks that makes her a sitting duck for a hostage situation.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Aw damn, Fred finally emerges from her room
while Angel grapples with James. “Go back to your room and stay there!” // “Okay
then.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Whoops, Cordy tries to toss a stake to Angel,
but James intercepts it and almost stakes Angel. But Angel gets the stake back,
stakes James and … James does not ash. Again I ask if the heart is vital to a
vamp’s survival, it doesn’t make a lot of sense that he’s still a functional
vamp. Also he’s not catching on fire. Did they like implant the Ring of Amara?
Is that what’s actually happening?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh, Cordy has the same thought I did. “Did the
Amara people make cufflinks or belt buckles?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ah, so the invincible “cure” has a time limit.
James still plans to die, to not live without Elisabeth, he just wants to take
Angel with him. Okay fine magic magic whatever I won’t call a shenanigan on the
heart thing, but I do still think it’s silly.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Also pretty sure we saw James’s reflection in
the subway windows.</span></span></li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyF3dUbayNBomDXa5FZR21IUXSmjeSuKUYlIGFBKvj7cRWlgZl0q6PvGAP5u7B02sz2wAtlSR_34ZnLBSkhCb4X8pzTQpiL92Sm_ENlNIJ3TolG-Ctp1sNh662iAfZekFGR7hGcLw8tXc/s500/tumblr_lr3u5a5aBC1qb82v1o1_500.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="500" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyF3dUbayNBomDXa5FZR21IUXSmjeSuKUYlIGFBKvj7cRWlgZl0q6PvGAP5u7B02sz2wAtlSR_34ZnLBSkhCb4X8pzTQpiL92Sm_ENlNIJ3TolG-Ctp1sNh662iAfZekFGR7hGcLw8tXc/w400-h160/tumblr_lr3u5a5aBC1qb82v1o1_500.gif" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yup.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“Well this is a new twist in an old snake.” Um?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">James wants to kill the woman Angel loves but …
she’s dead.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“You loved someone with all your heart … No you
didn’t. … Because once she died or some bastard killed her, it would have
killed everything in you.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“This your idea of love, James? It’s not real
unless it kills you?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“You think you won … just because you’re still
alive? I lived. You just existed.” And with that, James ashes.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">It turns out what’s actually bothering Angel is
that losing Buffy didn’t kill him. That he’s still okay. And … woof. I get
this. Surviving the unsurvivable is fodder for so much guilt. But it’s also
super not good for you. It’s not healthy. I get the guilt, believe me,
sometimes I get angry at my ability to survive the unsurvivable too. But the
alternative? To be destroyed by grief? I don’t think that should be held up as
a romantic ideal. After all, what were Buffy’s parting words to Dawn? They
weren’t about everything stopping once she died. They were about continuing to
live. To be. Life has to mean something for death to mean anything.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And Cordy gives us another classic line. “You
think?” “I’m Cordelia. I don’t think. I know. Okay?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And the episode ends—or does it?—on a very Angel
moment: Keep to the mission, keep on fighting. It never ends, but we keep
going.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">But hey that’s not the end after all because we’ve
got a Darla chaser scene! She’s in a bar in Nicaragua, looking a bit
strung out, and vamps out to kill the man hitting on her. No one else seems to
notice. And then hey she stands up from the bar and she is SUPER DUPER
PREGNANT.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Welcome to Season Three y’all.</span></span></li></ul><b><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Lines:</b></div></o:p></span></b><b><span style="color: black;">Daniel:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Angel: “I am okay.” Cordelia: “Then what’s the problem?” Angel: “That
I’m okay. That losing Buffy didn’t kill me.”<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black;">Zelda:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> “I’m Cordelia. I don’t think. I know. Okay?” – Cordelia<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Arc/Continuity:</b></div></o:p></span></b><b><span style="color: black;">First Appearance:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Daniel Holtz<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Darla, Lorne, Merl, Phantom Dennis, Angel’s “Irish” “Accent”<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Ron Melendez, Kate Norby, Keith Szarabajka, Dalila
Ali Rajah, Sam Littlefield, Christian Svensson, Bob Morrisey<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black;">Whedonverse Hat Trick: </span></b><span style="color: black;">Bob Fimiani (second role on <i>Angel</i>; Elder
Gommen on <i>Firefly</i>, Mr. Ward on <i>Buffy</i>)<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Angel! In! History!</b></div></o:p></span></b><span style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1767, Angelus and Darla were in Marseilles,
still being pursued by Holtz, and in the company of obnoxiously-in-love James
and Elisabeth. By the time they left Marseilles, James and Elisabeth had split
off from them.</span></div></span><span style="color: black;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas Song List</b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”</span></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p> </o:p></b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Stats:</b></div></b><span style="color: black;">Cordelia’s Hair – honey brown, grown out a bit
from last season to just above shoulder-length<br /></span>Dead
Humans – 1 (+ an ambiguous # of partygoers)<br /> <span style="color: black;">Dead Undeads – 5 (+ an ambiguous # of demon monks)<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 1<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
Wesley Prat-falls – 0 <br /></span><span style="color: black;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Pregnant Reveal – 1 (GASP!)<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Shenanigans Called – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black;">Prophecy Called – 0<br /></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Champion Called – 0</span></span></div>
Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-78780040411088430952021-02-23T12:18:00.001-05:002021-02-23T12:18:46.504-05:00You Think We Might Make It, Season Two?<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Series Stats:<br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dead Humans - 67+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3lVmZUwQj9XgIoG_n9R6r99tPLRmtlxWPc7GJzqCcy19F4ORzeoNoi7Fu8za9wYzKIQ3i1UWOmNS6D9o6Umgafj_OWlrnkiLRz6ZRlCApk1BcOAdwegghXFIjXJzzESaqhotOxuIuns/s500/tumblr_mp9ew8a47E1snibueo1_500.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="500" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3lVmZUwQj9XgIoG_n9R6r99tPLRmtlxWPc7GJzqCcy19F4ORzeoNoi7Fu8za9wYzKIQ3i1UWOmNS6D9o6Umgafj_OWlrnkiLRz6ZRlCApk1BcOAdwegghXFIjXJzzESaqhotOxuIuns/w320-h219/tumblr_mp9ew8a47E1snibueo1_500.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Dead Undeads - 115+</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dead Flashbacks - 26 (+)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Alterna-Dead Humans - 2</div><div style="text-align: left;">Alterna-Dead Undeads - 1</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dead Lawyers - 16</div><div style="text-align: left;">Doyle Has a Vision - 7</div><div style="text-align: left;">Cordelia Has a Vision - 21</div><div style="text-align: left;">Wesley Prat-Falls - 9</div><div style="text-align: left;">Lawyered Ex Machina - 9</div><div style="text-align: left;">Evil Reveal - 13</div><div style="text-align: left;">Unevil Reveal - 11</div><div style="text-align: left;">Shenanigans Called - 26</div><div style="text-align: left;">Apocalypse Called - 4</div><div style="text-align: left;">Prophecy Called - 7</div><div style="text-align: left;">Champion Called - 4</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Season Two Stats (including comparison to previous season):</b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Dead Humans: 40+ (+13)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dead Undeads: 53+ (-9)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dead Flashbacks: 9+ (-8/?)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Alterna-Dead Humans: 0 (-2)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Alterna-Dead Undeads: 0 (-1)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dead Lawyers: 15 (+15)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Doyle Has a Vision: 0 (-9)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Cordelia Has a Vision: 14 (+7)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Wesley Prat-Falls: 2 (-5)</div><div style="text-align: left;">(Angel Prat-Falls: 1)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Lawyered Ex Machina: 1 (-7)</div><div style="text-align: left;">(Evil Handed Ex Machina: 1)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Evil Reveal: 4 (-5)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Unevil Reveal: 4 (-3)</div><div style="text-align: left;">(Eyeroll Reveal: 1)</div><div style="text-align: left;">(Duh Reveal: 1)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Shenanigans Called: 15 (+5)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Apocalypse Called: 3 (+2)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Prophecy Called: 4 (+1)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Champion Called: 4 (+40</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Additional Stats</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>New Recurring Characters:</b> <b>25</b> (The Host (Lorne), Caritas, the Hyperion, Angel's love for Manilow, Gunn's hubcap axe, Drusilla, Virginia Bryce, Anne Steele, Nathan Reed, Rondell, George, Francine Sharp, Stephanie Sharp, Skilosh Demon, Harmony Kendall, Willow Rosenberg, Fred Burkle, Landok, Gavin Park, Silas, Constable Narwek, Priest #1, Lorne's Mom, Groosalugg, Rebel Leader)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Future Famous Person:</b> <b>2 </b>(Justina Machado, Daniel Dae Kim)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Already/Past Famous Person: 1 (</b>Tony Todd)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Generally Known TV Face: 51 (</b>Brett Rickaby, J.P. Manoux, Tony Amendola, Christopher Babers, Edwin Hodge, Angel Parker, Ray Campbell, Gareth Williams, David Meunier (as David J. Miller), Stewart Skelton, Cheryl White, Rich Hutchman, Brigid Brannagh, Todd Susman, Saul Stein, Michael Yama, Patrick Kilpatrick, W. Earl Brown, Dwayne Barnes, Tom Kiesche, Jim Piddock, Evan Arnold, Nicolas Surovy, Jamie McShane, Gerry Becker, Mark Rolston, Darby Stanchfield, Matt Champagne, Mike Hagerty, Victoria Kelleher, Eric Lange, Norma Michaels, Cory Hadrict, Kyle Davis, Darris Love, Leah Pipes, Thomas Kopache, Pat Healy, Rebecca Avery, Michael Dempsey, Kavita Patil, Pete Gardner, Stephanie Nash, Brody Hutzler, Susan Blommaert, Persia White, William Newman, Tom McCleistser, Mark Lutz, Adoni Maropis, Lee Reherman)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Generally Known Face: 1</b> (Art LaFleur)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Buffy Crossover: 8</b> (Faith, Drusilla, The Master, Spike, Romani Man, Anne Steele, Harmony Kendall, Willow Rosenberg)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Whedonverse Hat Trick: 25 (</b>Rob Boltin, Keith Campbell, Edward James Gage, David Meunier (as David J. Miller), Drew Wicks, Stewart Skelton, Michael Nagy, Jim Piddock, Joel Stoffer, Jamie McShane, Jason Padgett, Brendan Wayne, Eric Lange, Norma Michaels, Jarrod Crawford, Darris Love, David Fury, Adam Weiner, Kavita Patil, Stephanie Nash, Amy Acker, Persia White, Jackson Bolt, Joss Whedon, Whitney Dylan)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Angel's Alias: 4 (</b>Police Detective, Jay-Don fanboy, Jay-Don, Leonard Taubman from the Taubman Foundation)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Cordelia's Alias: 3</b> (Lawyer, "Angel," Darla's sister)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Darla's Alias: 1 (</b>DeEtta Kramer)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Wesley's Alias: 1 (</b>Angel)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Gunn's Alias: 1 (</b>Lester)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Lorne's Nicknames: 19 (</b>Mr. Tall, Dark and Rockin', Curt Jurgens in <i>The Enemy Below</i>, Angelito, Hunk of Hero Sandwich, Mr. Get-to-the-point-y-pants, Angel Face, Goliath, F. Scott, Angelcakes (x2), My Lamb, Sparky, My Little Cacophany, Pilgrim, Sugar, Lorne, Golden Spawn, Copernicus, Pudding, Hans Christian Tarantino)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Cordy's Nicknames: 3</b> (Mr. I-don't-take-orders-now-where-do-I-stick-my-axe, Ass-pansy, Mr. Big Mojo Guy)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Lilah's Nicknames: 1</b> (Napoleon)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Merl's Nicknames: 1</b> (Fluffy)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Lindsey's Nicknames: 1 (</b>Mr. Save-a-Soul)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The body count is getting significantly harder to track, thanks to a few slaughters and battles. We're counting as best we can, but you'll notice each one now has a + next to it, to indicate that the body count may be higher but we have no real way to calculate. Meanwhile in visions, it looks like Cordy's vision count has doubled, but if you take into account that she acquired that vision thing midway through season one, the total this season of 14 is equal to last season's. Our shenanigan count is way up, and we expect that trend to continue. We've also introduced a Champion count because ... that's a thing now.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Angel! In! History!</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In 1952 Angel combed his hair with a side part, lived in the Hyperion Hotel, smoked, and tried to mind his own cynical business.</li><li>Angel prays to forget several fashion trends he's lived through.</li><li>Flashback!Angel had Flashback!kinkysex with Flashback!Darla while the Romani girl was tied up in the room, forced to watch.</li><li>Angel is 247. He was with Darla for 150 years. And he has a thing for convents.</li><li>Darla picked out Drusilla for Angelus. He murdered her entire family, pursued her to a convent, murdered everyone there, and then had sex with Darla in her lap. She didn't take it well.</li><li>He staked Darla 3.5 years ago.</li><li>There are a few hells. Angel's been to one of them.</li><li>It took Angel a century of soul-having but soul-not-wanting to start his redemption arc. During the Boxer Rebellion (when Spike murdered his first Slayer), Angel was souled but trying to get Darla back. It didn't work out.</li><li>In 1765 Darla and Angelus were on the run from Holtz in France (Spike and Dru presumably not yet part of the gang), though Angelus wants to go to Romania next (le gasp!). And when he was in Italy he wanted to go to France. Also Darla leaves him in a burning barn to face the horde alone, but promising to meet him in Vienna if he survives.</li><li>In the 1920s Angel was in Juarez in Mexico and got into a 3.5 hour fight with Boone over "a senorita." It ended when the sun came out.</li><li>"Back in the 50s, we all thought life was gonna be like <i>The Jetsons</i> by now."</li><li>Also Angel is old enough to think $1 is a good tip on a whole bunch of delivery food.</li><li>Angel is so old he remembers when a few bob would get you a good meal, a bottle, and a tavern wench. Also he was a fan of <i>Bonanza</i>.</li><li>Angel remembers being imprisoned in the Tower of London: "Wasn't that bad."</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Darla! In! History!</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In 1609 Darla was a sex worker dying in the Virginia colony, and was turned by the Master.</li><li>After siring Angelus, she brought him to meet the Master in 1760, but then left the Master's Order of Aurelius to go on Angelus adventures.</li><li>In 1880 London the group picked up Spike.</li><li>In 1898 she tried to bargain with the Romani tribe to remove Angelus's soul.</li><li>In 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion she tried to reconcile with Angel, but ultimately rejected him.</li><li>We don't know when she returned to serve the Master, but it was sometime after this.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Caritas Song List:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">"I Will Survive"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"I'm So Excited"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Sexual Healing"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Mandy"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Achy Breaky Heart"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Send in the Clowns"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Tears of a Clown"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Get Here (If You Can)"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Everybody Have Fun Tonight"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"I Got You, Babe"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Ill Wind"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Lady Marmalade"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"We are the Champions"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Bye Bye Love"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"All By Myself"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Reunited"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"The Way We Were"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"LA Song"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Superstition"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Caritas on Tour Song List</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Star Spangled Banner"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Greensleeves"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Stop! In the Name of Love"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Zelda's Thoughts:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Two weeks ago, this would be a very different post. Honestly, two years ago this would be a very different post. Although I'm grateful Daniel and I managed to find a way to continue the blog, even if we're no longer watching together under the same roof, 2020 has been a sufficient clusterfluff for all of us that I'm having a lot of trouble even holding the season in my head. It was only through going back through the stats that I remembered this season contained <i>so much Darla</i> because right now it all feels so long ago. Heck, even Beige Angel feels long ago. Basically anything before Pylea. Anything before the truth about the toxic culture perpetuated by Whedon on his sets came out. Let's see what I can remember ... S2 is in general a lot stronger shape than S1, because they're getting a better sense of who the characters are, as well as fleshing it out beyond just the "core" three of S1. Gunn is here, and while he's not perfectly written (a white writers room writing for a Black character will do that to ya), he is still a lovely addition with a nuanced performance by J. August Richards. Lindsey and Lilah also get a lot more to do, and both actors are clearly relishing the chance to play more colors. Cordelia's arc feels grounded and honest, showing her conflicting desires to be part of the larger mission and her waning desire to be a respected actor. But we see a lot more of her willingly taking on the hero mantle, during the Beige Angel arc especially, and then in Pylea, as she refused to let Groo lift the visions from her. Darla of course had an amazing arc, brilliantly performed by Julie Benz--such a gift to the series. Angel ... well he had some stuff. I dunno. The Beige Angel arc is so blah to me, the Obsessed Angel arc was making me all kinds of uncomfortable (remember when he was sniffing Cordy's hair for no damn reason?), and it feels like once he had his epiphany (which, don't get me wrong, is a great thesis statement for the whole series) he sort of factory-reset his personality: heroic, comically petty and vain, with that zest of self-hatred. Other good things: this season introduced us to Lorne, and I love him so so much. He and Caritas are such a gift of flavor (and music) to the series, and a great way of really establishing a flavor to <i>Angel</i> that is entirely separate from <i>Buffy</i>. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm not sure what moving forward is going to look like for us. I'm not sure if I'll be able to stomach the Cordelia pregnancy storyline in two seasons, knowing how awful it was for Charisma Carpenter to survive any of that. I'm also not that kicked on getting into the Holtz of it all next season, even if we'll also be getting more greatness from Julie Benz as Darla. If I remember correctly, things are about to get all gnarled up in every direction. I guess we'll see how we do.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-16541778147592694292021-02-15T17:02:00.011-05:002021-02-16T11:51:27.661-05:00Enchiladas Out of Tree Bark<p></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 2.22: There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 5.22.01<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHxOh6ZDYxvUHUpy9gWf-509kbV8Nzh4uiDVqus8oRx3Xg2hY0EXTlNC1ECDRXYFgB21EoxrNI20pCKBfnaRRApHBtQL6w4us0ItS4OCTkGPe1kj-UV-PNizqeEUIxQ1MXqFNZc6fMwBv/s792/Cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="792" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHxOh6ZDYxvUHUpy9gWf-509kbV8Nzh4uiDVqus8oRx3Xg2hY0EXTlNC1ECDRXYFgB21EoxrNI20pCKBfnaRRApHBtQL6w4us0ItS4OCTkGPe1kj-UV-PNizqeEUIxQ1MXqFNZc6fMwBv/s320/Cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Wesley and Gunn storm the Pylean castle while Angle fights the Groosalugg.”</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><blockquote><h1 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Like many of you, we’ve been struggling this past week. While we already knew some degree of Joss Whedon’s general dirtbag-ness, we didn’t yet understand how horrifying or widespread his abusive and cruel behavior was, nor how deeply it poisoned the sets of the shows we love so much, deeply harming the actors, writers, stunt coordinators, and crew members. We believe Charisma Carpenter and Amber Benson and Michelle Trachtenberg. We believe Jose Molina. We believe Ray Fisher. We support these survivors and we are infuriated by Whedon’s behavior. We’ve been wrestling with how to move forward, having no wish to continue to support his projects. </span>But we also think <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i> and <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i> don’t just belong to him. <span style="font-weight: normal;">These stories belong to the rest of the writers and actors and artists involved with the shows, and they belong to the fans. They belong to us. We want to continue to honor their work, and what these shows have meant to us. </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: normal;">Buffy</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> changed both our lives and remains deeply important to us. But fuck Joss Whedon. </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1></blockquote><blockquote><h1 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">– <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda and Daniel</span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9mTKUmlJV7bg_CkaIF6kS-PVbn0j227mi2XPdEKqzAH4Yp-XmM7ktBFbIgTziYw7vCNVhH-ysy0V8PBXxW1Vx0aYmxNcwYMVWB74a9ucQT9Qb8KUPQEeQIrAfyyV7ukK-6f0ojR0adPA/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img data-original-height="786" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9mTKUmlJV7bg_CkaIF6kS-PVbn0j227mi2XPdEKqzAH4Yp-XmM7ktBFbIgTziYw7vCNVhH-ysy0V8PBXxW1Vx0aYmxNcwYMVWB74a9ucQT9Qb8KUPQEeQIrAfyyV7ukK-6f0ojR0adPA/w260-h320/image.png" width="260" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#WeStandWithCharismaCarpenter</span></td></tr></tbody></table></h1></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><h1 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></h1><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finale time!</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We pick up where we left off, with Cordy’s sobbing over Lorne’s severed head. “You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t do anything. I don’t like it here anymore. I just wanna go home.” // Lorne’s severed head: “Oh honey, I’m right there with ya.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s some awkward greenscreen action but I’m so glad Lorne is still alive. He tells Cordelia he’ll be fine until they mutilate his body, so they need to go rescue that stat.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey remember how this whole arc started with Cordy getting debased and objectified on a commercial set, and how part of the point was probably the showrunners saying “hey this is toxic behavior that we would never do,” and now we know the truth? Yeah that’s all I can think about when I see her in her “empowered” princess bikini.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this world vampires are called van-tals.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“He brings hope to the cows, for if one can be free, hope arises that <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">all</i> can be free.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey it turns out they can explode the heads of anyone wearing the slave collars.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn and Wes are about to be executed. Gunn: “I got a plan.” // Wes: “Oh, thank god! What is it?” // G: “We die horribly and painfully, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">you</i> go to hell, and I spend eternity in the arms of Baby Jesus.” // W: “Oh.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But before that can happen, the rebels are beset by evil oppressor knights. Gunn “I’ve really had about enough of this world.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So so far this episode can be summed up with:</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFroY1H3nqeOt2EsI1fqumThl1ooPc4Yn_1mRqxX5PJMsCqeJNiy7k2NRZv3FfOIBne_AumntzVQGoPnYpMTs4BAAz20lGxwSyRB8tTVVONdnNERDFK1rirSbLsp0_H9CPkDGwXyNLy_N/s540/the-one-where-eleanor-was-a-monk.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="540" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFroY1H3nqeOt2EsI1fqumThl1ooPc4Yn_1mRqxX5PJMsCqeJNiy7k2NRZv3FfOIBne_AumntzVQGoPnYpMTs4BAAz20lGxwSyRB8tTVVONdnNERDFK1rirSbLsp0_H9CPkDGwXyNLy_N/w400-h155/the-one-where-eleanor-was-a-monk.gif" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, back at the cave, Fred is making the Pylean version of oatmeal, Angel’s all sore and groany.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And he’s still upset about how extreme his pylean vampire self is. Fred: “We all got our demons.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred loves tacos and misses them and I hear ya, Fred. “I been trying to make enchiladas out of tree bark.” Aw cuz she’s from Texas.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey, Fred’s smart science self rears to explain that the portal opening words aren’t words. “They’re consonant representations of a mathematical transfiguration formula.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fuuuuuuck the evil oppressor knights found the cave and I legit jumped and gasped when they grabbed Fred.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel’s afraid to change and so he can’t properly fight them. Luckily they miss his heart, the tiniest heart a vampire has ever had, and Fred knocks him out with a big rock </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">[I can’t wait to tell my friends. They don’t have a rock this big. – Fred]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway the rebels like Wes and Gunn now because they fought against the oppressor knights.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes is ready to forgive and let them off the hook, and Gunn gives Wes major side-eye and heyyyyyyyy real world resonance. </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5WOaQHOXANw0MZ8BRYsyonYUgeG1_dcx5cauZ5JE3jf_WQLMWXfhw37uRxMNaoQrvz_cwdvpB9MdHK2p-K6w1OzTgUfFgHGdiO9o_2bQqMy3fBLYZ_Q9dHVoN3w138kEqTCol58F4Pf4/s245/gunn+side+eye.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="245" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5WOaQHOXANw0MZ8BRYsyonYUgeG1_dcx5cauZ5JE3jf_WQLMWXfhw37uRxMNaoQrvz_cwdvpB9MdHK2p-K6w1OzTgUfFgHGdiO9o_2bQqMy3fBLYZ_Q9dHVoN3w138kEqTCol58F4Pf4/w400-h225/gunn+side+eye.gif" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Gunn reminds us that he’s way smarter than the rest of the gang ever gives him credit for, and realizes they should join forces with the Rebels.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred doesn’t want Angel to go try to rescue his friends, reminding him he doesn’t want them to see the beast version of him. But he looks at her and quietly says “But my friends are in trouble” and sometimes I do love him.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy and Lorne are confused because they see a mutilated, chopped up body in Lorne’s suit … but he’s still alive. “Since when do I have five toes?”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Awwww Groo, he saved Lorne’s body. I love him too.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back to the rebels, Wes uses his research brain and knowledge of battle tactics to advise them to use guerilla warfare, rather than a frontal attack.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rebel: “Hail to our new leader!”// Wes: “Why do people keep putting me in charge of things?” // Gunn: “I have no idea.” Because, Wes, your arc for these episodes is reinforcing your leadership skillz, pay attention.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Groo says he’s not a real champion because he only fights who he’s told to fight. Cordelia: “Nonsense, you’re way worthy.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, we’re finally told that the Com-shuk would pass Cordelia’s visions to Groo, but she’s not willing to subsume her power and gift, to give it over to a man. “You are pure human. You are not meant to carry such a burden.” // “Maybe not, but I’m not ready to give them up either. They’re a part of who I am now, they’re an honor.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oops a vision where she sees Groo fighting a demon … that is totally Van-tal Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn, looking at Wes’s plan. “I wouldn’t split up my crew this much if I was leading this charge.” // Wes: “I’m leading this charge.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ooh Angel and Fred found the rebel camp!</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes tries to cede generalship to Angel, which is surprising, since he’s in charge back in LA. Angel turns it down though, worried about his control, and apologizes to a stoic Gunn.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lol this camp is the least covert camp ever. Landok finds them, and he’s carrying Lorne’s head.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A: “He was.” // G: “Yeah.” // W: “Hmm.” // Lorne’s head: “That’s it?” Then all the guys jump back while Fred is still cutely staying in frame to peer at Lorne. </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_y3Ti25-SklCfuz4lyFAGQgUy8WAaDIjEL1ndcrsQ0urMwunAiZDjaEgcvo4qhIjmuSDocDAbo6A7RCrsOhEYKFMnDNrbpcVWCpWmFhXEOm3Z-gxBxwFfdOxLzOSRw17yYCod7_vRFqsU/s500/lorne+basket.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="500" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_y3Ti25-SklCfuz4lyFAGQgUy8WAaDIjEL1ndcrsQ0urMwunAiZDjaEgcvo4qhIjmuSDocDAbo6A7RCrsOhEYKFMnDNrbpcVWCpWmFhXEOm3Z-gxBxwFfdOxLzOSRw17yYCod7_vRFqsU/w400-h196/lorne+basket.gif" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn’s beef with Wes is that the plan will certainly lead to death. Wes, with a similar general energy to Buffy ca. S7, “You try not to get anybody killed, you wind up getting everybody killed.” Maybe it’s what Gunn needs to hear to begin to forgive himself for George’s death.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes, still being a good leader, tells Angel what he needs to hear too. “We know you. We know you’re man with a demon inside, not the other way around.” When Gunn asks him if he really thinks Angel will come back from this, “I need him to think it.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, with Fred’s help, has lit the three-pronged challenge torch for Groo.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also this is all a diversion so the rebels can break into the castle. They said that earlier but I was paying attention to other stuff.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Groo puts his bare palm over the flame of the challenge torch and it looks badass but also his fingers look swollen because they’re covered in protective gel shhhhhh no one say anything anyway Angel and Groo fighty fight.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Silas backhands Cordy and can we kill him already?</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also it turns out his device can kill all the humans in one blow? That’s incredibly genocidal of him.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Groo is wailing on Angel, convinced Angel will super-rape Cordy. And now, Angel van-trals out.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As Silas villain-speeches at Wes, Cordy … slices his head off. A+</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Van Angel manages to not kill Groo. He turns back to his human face. “We’re not gonna do this. We’re gonna find another way. I’m not an animal.” And then Cordy jumps in to stop them, saying she loves Groo (which Angel momentarily misunderstands as her saying she loves Angel, and that arc has begun). “She loves me too right? As a friend and co-worker. Maybe love’s too strong a term.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne makes a … sort-of peace with his mom. Sort of. He tries but then his mom is the absolute worst so maybe just fuck that noise? Also his mom uses the South’s complaint, “Who’s supposed to do our [free] labor now that your cow-friend has freed the slaves?” and just wow the trash of it all.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne’s actual peace is “I had to come back here to find out I didn’t have to come back here. I hate it here.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy, before she leaves town, makes a new constitution with slavery and religious persecution outlawed (no polyester?), and then she smashes the human-killing device.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes, armed with the portal books, is ready to take everybody home.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They leave Groo in charge, with Gunn explaining to him what Reconstruction is (in a bit of awkward Have-the-Black-guy-explain-it-ness) “Sayin’ people are free don’t make ‘em free. You got races that hate each other, you got some folks getting work they don’t want, others losing the little they had. You’re looking at social confusion, economic depression, and probably some riots. Good luck.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As Cordy kisses Groo goodbye, only Fred looks on unabashed. Ugh, she’s so cute.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Woot! Back at Caritas! … in the car. Oh man. Poor Caritas.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And as we all troop back to the Hyperion, tired but satisfied, Angel rushes forward to open the doors with a “There’s no place like …”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But Willow is there. Sitting on the couch. Eyes overflowing. Waiting for them.</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It’s Buffy.”</span></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It still kills me.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We start where we left off.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cordelia is staring at poor Lorne’s head on a plate, John the Baptist style.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia is really upset crying for poor Lorne.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfaycyoYEuP0vyLYUrpm51fik3X6pR_6TaXr8urGwDnascpZF_KXnSie1O1nyVM6HsujlQqrUps87sO6c4T4R9kkXNzgNCs2RUH5P331B_382ZutVjM4snVD2Wz2dfUgy8nZXzER8mGjv/s745/Lorne+Head.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="745" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfaycyoYEuP0vyLYUrpm51fik3X6pR_6TaXr8urGwDnascpZF_KXnSie1O1nyVM6HsujlQqrUps87sO6c4T4R9kkXNzgNCs2RUH5P331B_382ZutVjM4snVD2Wz2dfUgy8nZXzER8mGjv/s320/Lorne+Head.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia comes to a realization in that as awful as Earth is, she just wants to go home.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then Lorne’s decapitated head starts talking and Cordelia gives the longest scream & it’s brilliant.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apparently Lorne’s people can continue to live headless until their body is….mutilated. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">What mutilated means is unclear.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like does he just need to be stabbed?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or does he need to be completely torn apart?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This would definitely help in battle if Lorne were a fighter.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The red demon priests talk to a new race of demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Green guys. They seem like a hunter race.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Silas makes a “cow’s” head explode, Battle Royale style.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Wes & Gunn are about to be beheaded when the hunter demons arrive and shoot an arrow into the executioner.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn & Wes use the boards around their necks as weapons which is pretty cool.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred is continuing to take care of Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apparently Angel was having night terrors.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy calling her servant Geraldo because she can’t remember her name. I’m getting Eleanor Shellstrop vibes.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred & Angel talk portals but they’re interrupted by some hunters.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel fights hard not to change even tho it’ll make him fight better.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The villagers talk to Wes & Gunn about Cordelia’s Groosalugg prophesy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The villagers finally let them go since they fought with each other.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn wants to protect the villagers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- he’s still feeling guilty about letting his friend die a few episodes ago and I’m glad they didn’t just forget about that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s something that drives Gunn.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel realizes Lorne’s been “killed” and he needs to go save Cordelia.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fred wants him to stay.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia, dressed in her servant's clothes, sneaks into the dungeon carrying Lorne’s head in a bucket.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aww, Groo helped Cordelia by switching Lorne’s body with another so that he wouldn’t be mutilated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He also transported his real body to his family’s house.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Wes explains the plan to the villagers and they make him their leader.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Why do people continue to put me in charge of things?” “I have no idea” – Wes/Gunn</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia gives Groo a pep talk.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Meanwhile Groo tells Cordelia the 2<span class="s1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> part of the prophesy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Apparently once they….err...cum-shuk….the visions will be passed over to Groo.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then of course Cordy has a vision.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Sh</span>e sees Groo fighting with this bluish demon which we of course know is Angel – but Cordy doesn’t.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She hasn’t seen Angel like that yet.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel & Fred find Wes & Gunn, and Fred meets her two future boyfriends.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel expresses shame in what he did.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He also tells them that Fred is the key to getting them home. And then Fred talks a lot of weird nonsense science/math stuff not that no one else understands.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Landok<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>arrives with Lorne’s head.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The plan is for Angel to kill Groo.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel tells them that he can’t do that without his demon coming out and that it’s 10 times worse than it is in his world.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The red demons want Cordy and Groo to screw in front of them so that's a thing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Angel comes into the village with a speech to challenge the Groo.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia doesn’t recognize Angel’s voice but knows due to her vision that Groo can’t fight anyone right now.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">While Angel gets ready to fight, Wes, Gunn & the villagers stand by and get ready to storm the castle.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They start with the guards at the gate.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This guy, he doesn’t feel pain?” “Oh he feels it, he just overcomes all things – <i>good luck!</i>”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Groo & Angel start to fight. Angel hasn’t turned yet and he’s getting his ass whooped. Unfortunately Cordelia is not there to see/stop it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia is the only member of the gang who hasn’t met Fred.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So far, this episode has not passed the Bechdel test – but I mean, what episode has?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy tries to stop the fight by pleading with Silas but he knocks her down threatening all the “cows” in the land.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then Angel turns but he seems more in control than he was the other day and finally<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>starts kicking Groo’s butt.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then Cordy chops Silas’s head off.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>YAY. Cordy saves the day!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But then Wes tells Cordy that the beast that Groo fights is actually Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“What part of me being noble didn’t get through to you?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I love him!” says Cordy and for a moment Angel thinks she means him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway all is well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lorne has his head put back on his body.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel encourages Lorne to make things right with his mom.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But then he realizes that….it’s okay to cut yourself from toxic family members.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne makes the realization that he doesn’t belong in Pylea. He belongs in LA with all the other people who don't belong. Aww.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy frees the slaves & destroys the object that will make their heads explode…It'd be awkward if that actually set it off.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn succinctly explains that freeing slaves doesn’t mean racism is over.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the crew finally goes home.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s nice that they rescued Fred and all but I wonder if the other humans in Pylea were from Earth as well…Did they have the option to come back?</span></li></ul></span><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIXXgs07h0PtwLAseynTUJqcKwEIsle2rkJXrE7kzrd5874oeu4JRm9ReW19hRhLZPUtY6bbzUtgxmYmQFfMUV5VkzmJtqXQcibR-DaWc3r5z_wzwBWktDBXuEuSryY2eKErWXSXHQliVJ/s995/Car+Portal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="995" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIXXgs07h0PtwLAseynTUJqcKwEIsle2rkJXrE7kzrd5874oeu4JRm9ReW19hRhLZPUtY6bbzUtgxmYmQFfMUV5VkzmJtqXQcibR-DaWc3r5z_wzwBWktDBXuEuSryY2eKErWXSXHQliVJ/w400-h229/Car+Portal.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And here’s Willow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To deliver the news that Buffy’s dead.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel knows it before she even says anything. And I get all teary eyed. <span style="color: red;">[You, me, and all of us. - Z]</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Lines:</span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You know where I belong? L.A. You know why? <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nobody</i> belongs there. It’s the perfect place for guys like us.” – Lorne</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel: </span></span></b><span style="background-color: transparent;">“This guy, he doesn’t feel pain?” “Oh he feels it, he just overcomes all things – </span><i style="background-color: transparent;">good luck!</i><span style="background-color: transparent;">” Angel/Fred</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arc/Continuity:</span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lorne, Fred, Landok, Groosalugg, Silas, Lorne’s Mom, Rebel Leader, Rebel #1, Priest #1, Willow Rosenberg</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lee Reherman</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Buffy Crossover:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Willow Rosenberg</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whedonverse Hat Trick: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jamie McShane (second of two roles on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Man on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Firefly</i>), Whitney Dylan (Lysette on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>, Server-Marelda on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>)</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas on Tour Song List</span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stats:</span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s Hair – still tiaraed (can you blame her?)</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Humans – 4+</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Undeads – 9+</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Flashbacks – 0</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Lawyers – 0</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 1<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Wesley Prat-falls – 0 </span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evil Reveal – 0</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unevil Reveal – 0</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shenanigans Called – 0</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apocalypse Called – 0</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Champion Called – 1</span></span></p>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-40129428623498040542021-02-09T11:43:00.001-05:002021-02-09T11:43:48.388-05:00Free the Slaves and Outlaw Polyester<div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Episode 2.21:
Through the Looking Glass.</b> Original
Airdate: 5.15.01<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgW1YEFJ-l1SRfao51QpsyPhQ6a1n83C5-HWDph1U4ErD9FZN-ZrHV3D6T05gspDfUPLnaLTg8NHaQq-LQJM83q3fjtfLAbZScLnwMzdX6GYOTXZP-d6izwOXoUm3rAyTHVQFjb0uACWU/s398/1047418_orig.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgW1YEFJ-l1SRfao51QpsyPhQ6a1n83C5-HWDph1U4ErD9FZN-ZrHV3D6T05gspDfUPLnaLTg8NHaQq-LQJM83q3fjtfLAbZScLnwMzdX6GYOTXZP-d6izwOXoUm3rAyTHVQFjb0uACWU/s320/1047418_orig.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Cordelia meets the
Groosalugg while Wesley, Gunn and Angel get a good look at the beast that lives
within Angel.”<br /><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Daniel’s
Thoughts:</b></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We begin where we left off. Our four guys are captured
– but oops, Cordy is Queen!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her…clothes? I’m not sure if you can call them clothes, but they
sure are shiny.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Off with their heads,” Cordelia jokes as quirky music plays so we
know she’s joking.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia excuses the guards. The gang races for the
food.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy called! Lorne explains: Cursed one, pure sight,
messiah. Blah blah blah.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now a plan to get back. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, meanwhile, is staring at himself in the mirror. And he
can’t believe his hair.</span></li></ul></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrjkH0j_zXPU1txyQ1KD1iJNRZ7_Pm-FBvq0JC45kHhLff9_ODE6JewkTKNnvYRGAxXWuGHGGJvgBUT_QxKwFCZel6M2-JZ_Q5Bs80AsUXpXwtCKiqIOlKNuIsZvaihs4oSVoTnFPPz90/s276/Angel+Mirror.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="245" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrjkH0j_zXPU1txyQ1KD1iJNRZ7_Pm-FBvq0JC45kHhLff9_ODE6JewkTKNnvYRGAxXWuGHGGJvgBUT_QxKwFCZel6M2-JZ_Q5Bs80AsUXpXwtCKiqIOlKNuIsZvaihs4oSVoTnFPPz90/w355-h400/Angel+Mirror.gif" width="355" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The red demons plan and conspire. There will be
something called the com-shuk…which the princess (we call her queen) may not
survive</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Lorne goes to visit his family and introduces his
“roommate” Angel. Wait, I might be mixing things up.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne’s mom has a beard. So that’s funny.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne’s cousin recognizes Angel as a warrior. In my
continued made-up story in my head, Lorne’s family is accepting of his
“roommate”.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ooh…Wesley finds a book with a Hart on the cover. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The holy books are split into three – I wonder what the other two
covers will be.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Wes finally puts it together. The other two covers
are a WOLF & a RAM.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">A lot of make-up work here which is impressive. Fish people and
Deathwok clan demons. Must have taken a lot of work with all these
extras.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne is annoyed that his family is treating his “roommate”
(continuing the narrative) – better then him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The red demon priests tell Cordelia that the Groosalugg is on his
way.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The com-shuk is a mating ritual, which duh. Listen to its name.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It’s been a really long time since I’ve had a good com-shuk”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred has been captured and they want Angel to cut off her head.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But Fred won’t die today. Maybe in a few spoilers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We need a distraction! Lorne! Sing your
heart out!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are horses…in this dimension. Horses in every
dimension! Angel rescues Fred and steals one.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Cordy tries to escape with Wes & Gunn…through the
sewers. But Cordy gets caught before she can escape.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Handsome man…saved me from the
monsters. Bye!” </span></li></ul></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nAuXW5K-_hWS60_ScJqYp6m2oAouA5Q6vtP7GYZdSX-v54jl6ihhLYAdiR3Y1MIs4u0CHfj3LlR6fdGE6n3ybS3SOt4K0YgFx-rC_-5fTHi9KRlD_j6So6WKMA_V_b_6mHIWxQKaz88/s245/tumblr_lzvzq1nW2e1qds29uo4_250.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="245" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nAuXW5K-_hWS60_ScJqYp6m2oAouA5Q6vtP7GYZdSX-v54jl6ihhLYAdiR3Y1MIs4u0CHfj3LlR6fdGE6n3ybS3SOt4K0YgFx-rC_-5fTHi9KRlD_j6So6WKMA_V_b_6mHIWxQKaz88/w400-h266/tumblr_lzvzq1nW2e1qds29uo4_250.gif" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">That’s our Fred.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We find where Fred’s been staying – in a cave.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel realizes that Fred was the one who disappeared from the
library in Cordy’s vision.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Cordy? She’s fine. They made her princess.” “Really?
Oh. When I got here they didn’t do
that. Well. That’s nice for her.” Every single
moment of Fred’s line delivered wonderfully.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So the Groosalugg appears. And he’s kinda hot in a
‘cover of a fantasy novel’ kinda way.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s time for Angel to fight. He goes to vamp face but
since we’re in another dimension, his vamp face is a bit…different….all green
and thorny and he doesn’t seem to be able to control himself much either.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Groosalugg talks about his cursed looks/deformities. So it’s
like that <i>Twilight Zone</i> episode where the hot people are ugly and the
ugly people are hot.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Guards bring Lorne in all tied up and Cordy almost gets Lorne
executed because she’s distracted by the Groosalugg’s backstory. But
she finally snaps out of it & pardons him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Gunn & Wes bump into green bumpy Angel. Angel is out
of control but Fred calms him by dipping her hand into a bag of
blood… “And that’s how I met your mother,” says Wes.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Wes, that’s what Angel’s demon looks like in its
purest form. Because as Anya has explained, most demons we’ve seen
on Earth – including vampires – are only hybrids.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes & Gunn get captured by cows (humans).</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred tries to calm the beast within Angel. She lures
him back to the cave and shows him his reflection. This seems to do
it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel is a bit overwhelmed by what he’s done/seen.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia, who has been listening to Groo’s story, finally feels
vulnerable enough to share her own story.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Groo convinces Cordy of her worth as a princess.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The red demons aren’t happy that Cordy wants to make
proclamations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes & Gunn are tied up. Wes tries to convince the
humans that they’re not spies and that they’re friends with the princess.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s still in complete shock. Wow, that took a lot out of
him. Fred is looking after him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy tries to write a proclamation to free the slaves &
outlaw polyester…</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The red demons make sure to let Cordy know that they’re the ones
in charge.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And oh no! Lorne’s head is cut off and on a platter!</span></li></ul></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s
Thoughts:</b></div></b><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And right where we left
off, with Queen C on the throne!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You’re … safe” // “Little
bit. They made me their ruler.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The music tells us that we’re
in the quirky hijinks portion of the arc, with Cordelia munching on grapes and
jokingly ordering “off with their heads” about her friends. “Kidding!” *opening
credits*</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I mean … they did follow
you to a different dimension, Cords. Maybe be a little nicer?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes hangs a lantern on the
whole thing I was getting ornery about last episode: “It doesn’t make sense,
does it? I mean, in a world where humans are slaves and chattel—why would they
elevate one to monarch?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne cites a prophecy
(stats!) that heralded Cordelia and her visions as the messiah, a “direct link
to the powers that be,” and again I ask why this is a thing for a species that already
has psychic powers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s all excited about
his reflection slash confused about his hairstyle. “This is because of going
through the portal, right?” // “No, it always looks like that.” … “Why didn’t
anybody tell me about this?” Having recently gotten a very different haircut
than I’ve ever had, I get the fixation on the surprising reflection.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile in priestland, it
turns out they are pissed about crowning a human after all, so that’s cool.
They’re still planning to kill Cordy after the Com-shuk and I guess they had a
lot of fun finding a S&P approved sex euphemism there.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne’s mom hates him a
lot.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then we have the weirdest
cameo ever, as Joss Whedon does Numfar’s dance of joy in the background of a
shot. Which would be more fun if we didn’t know what a shit he turned out to
be. It bums me out, because it used to be one of my favorite things.</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptlFl5p3vATyAcX4VW185IpcUHkHHmvnFJBDNxOGLiT5JRSHDYD-VjTSASHxFubtmCApqDEiEpBwTt-iQTR5eFeXG-kHbJ_tBTQ-zSyvOwOk_dbdj3S9ay1fL-ec2lb6Cxw1z8gceoy4/s295/4295306_orig.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="295" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptlFl5p3vATyAcX4VW185IpcUHkHHmvnFJBDNxOGLiT5JRSHDYD-VjTSASHxFubtmCApqDEiEpBwTt-iQTR5eFeXG-kHbJ_tBTQ-zSyvOwOk_dbdj3S9ay1fL-ec2lb6Cxw1z8gceoy4/w400-h306/4295306_orig.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway he’s now doing the
dance of honor in the background that looks the same as the dance of joy, while
Lorne’s family happily celebrates Angel the Drokken Slayer and treats Lorne
like shit.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes is looking at the three
mystical books the priests were using. He catches that a Hart is on one of
them, and that the three are meant to be read together, not as a trilogy, but
concurrent. Anyway, everyone put a pin in the Hart, right? Right? Cuz that’s a
thing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Wes looks at the covers
of the other two. A wolf. A ram.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">JINKIES! WOLF RAM AND HART.
“I’m not sure the priests can be trusted.” It’s nice to have stakes again.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s regaling the family
with the story of cutting off the evil lawyer-beast’s hand. Lorne: “Nice to be
seen as the hero without all the pesky moral ambiguities you get back home, isn’t
it?” Lorne has to remind Angel that for all that it’s nice to feel celebrated
for his achievements, these are the same people who see our beloved Lorne as
useless. “They see you a certain way, you start to see yourself that way. You become
that image. I get it. I do. Because I know how they see me!”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The Com-shuk is a mating
ritual.” // Gunn: “I told you it was dirty.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So random government
question. They crowned Cordelia and had this whole throneroom and whatnot … was
there a monarch before that she’s now unseated? And if not … why was there a
throne room? Who’s in charge?</span></li></ul></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_pjFtSMbvTXnyGB91IqWogRKIDvao09s02CyYU5v1eEmSFM0RrPIV0T4lUVmT6oATDbDTJJ-iBByAHYz4Lk_38s5y180f1pPrQKFk1rQ89j4V0VcvyRYdA2dXWJfU61spnxzM38ku4sc/s340/tumblr_o3la3qSUkn1uqvi23o3_400.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="340" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_pjFtSMbvTXnyGB91IqWogRKIDvao09s02CyYU5v1eEmSFM0RrPIV0T4lUVmT6oATDbDTJJ-iBByAHYz4Lk_38s5y180f1pPrQKFk1rQ89j4V0VcvyRYdA2dXWJfU61spnxzM38ku4sc/w400-h225/tumblr_o3la3qSUkn1uqvi23o3_400.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, they want Angel to
swing the thingamajig and behead … FRED! It’s Fred. Please don’t kill Fred.
Girl’s got another few seasons in her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And as Angel protects Fred,
Lorne distracts them from attacking him by serenading them and it’s so lovely
and these idiots all think their ears are on fire and how can they insult his
beautiful tenor that way?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I want you to find me a
dimension where some demon <i>doesn’t</i> want to impregnate me with its spawn!”
Cordy, I have super bad news about Season Four. “What is it about me anyway? Do
I put out some kind of Com-shuk me vibe?” and you know they called it that <i>solely</i>
for that joke. Anyway, they’re fleeing the castle through the sewers and Cordy
wants to take a bunch of jewelry with her and so she gets caught by the priests
while Wes and Gunn abscond.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Very <i>Shawshank</i>.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Angel’s still
rocking the hero vibe, riding away with Fred on a horse in the countryside. I
don’t think he recognizes her as the woman from Cordy’s vision yet.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Handsome man. Saved me
from the monsters. Bye.” Poor Fred, still so broken. He follows her to a cave
whose walls are covered with mathematical equations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Why won’t you [talk to me]?”
“Because you’re not real. Or I’m not real.<i> Somebody </i>here isn’t real and
I suspect it’s you. So if you’re not real, that means my head came off back
there and that I’m dead now. Dead. And with me being dead and you not being
real I can hardly be expected to have some big conversation with you at the moment.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He finds her ID and so
finally he knows she’s the one they were looking for.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred’s a little put out
that Cordy’s a princess. “Really? Oh. When I got here they didn’t do that.
Well, that’s nice for her.” Very southern politeness.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway we finally meet the
Groosalugg and he’s a hunk with Fabio hair.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh lawd. I’d remembered
that Angel’s vampface was more demonic here but I’d forgotten it was all green
and horny. Poor Fred. “Bad things always happen here.” Because also Angel’s a
lotttttttt more feral. He’s not killing Fred, but he doesn’t seem to recognize
her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile back at the
romance novel, Groo thinks he’s grotesque for his pretty mouth, biceps, and human
heart. So I guess he’s of mixed race? Kinda like Doyle but super buff. I imagine
Doyle having a similar reaction to Fred’s about Cordy being a princess.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apparently Groosalugg means
“brave and undefeated”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Omg and Cordy’s lusty
enough to almost let them execute Lorne. Luckily she catches sight of him in
time. So that’s twice in twelve hours Lorne’s been brought to her throne room
for punishment.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oop FeralAngel finds Wes
and Gunn and they start fighting … until Wes recognizes Angel’s tattoo.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh shit I’d forgotten how
magical and strange and beautiful this moment is (the music underneath is
gorgeous), of Fred standing with her hand soaked in blood, to lure Angel away
from his friends before he kills them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Wes has a Magical
Explanation for Angel’s weird vampire action here in Pylea. His vamp weaknesses
were sublimated in his human form, but now that he’s turned full vamp, all his
humanness is likewise sublimated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I do have a question about
their declaration that Green Horned Angel is the vampire in its purest form,
since he looks nothing like the Turok-Han and I thought that was the pure vampire?</span></li></ul></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN_-0JZCYgIs1bAmsBvBaFH7tHP_GF_2VTtNyubNPAx_8gmlESWZGiCpVNf3MJA_zvL8s3LruZMtAXfXZbWqy75j06dD4uDNhyphenhyphenN-TDOH8D85DGuGCZvjkv2KSnjEm7cPl9brPXRFmaPcc/s1024/Through-the-looking-glass-angel-us-8969692-1024-576.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN_-0JZCYgIs1bAmsBvBaFH7tHP_GF_2VTtNyubNPAx_8gmlESWZGiCpVNf3MJA_zvL8s3LruZMtAXfXZbWqy75j06dD4uDNhyphenhyphenN-TDOH8D85DGuGCZvjkv2KSnjEm7cPl9brPXRFmaPcc/s320/Through-the-looking-glass-angel-us-8969692-1024-576.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtwhJVZD89-srl9Y-TlhJjmUoRnCy3lhWsXaNgTCsUKWHAybNj8OsLLFD8bLFKkobd9B1N8_CZFqkXp15xe7a4GA1GmJqgYB8Aw8cWPSovXc8_F1DATbGS5AGAWLyOFTqRDC7BJ_YevQw/s500/5986772-tumblr_mwyp75fqd51soqsg3o1_500.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtwhJVZD89-srl9Y-TlhJjmUoRnCy3lhWsXaNgTCsUKWHAybNj8OsLLFD8bLFKkobd9B1N8_CZFqkXp15xe7a4GA1GmJqgYB8Aw8cWPSovXc8_F1DATbGS5AGAWLyOFTqRDC7BJ_YevQw/s320/5986772-tumblr_mwyp75fqd51soqsg3o1_500.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Wes and Gunn keep
going from frying pan to bonfire, and now they’re surrounded by human rebels. “Oh
good. More fun.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred lures FeralAngel back
to the cave, where he finally sees his vamp reflection, and is horrified enough
to stop tracking her, and transform back.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">God I really love Fred.
They’re doing a lot to make us love her quickly, since she’s going to join the
cast, and it’s partly working and partly just me remembering that I love her.
But there’s so much beauty in her cave scenes, in the quiet between the madness
babbling.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Angel is shooketh
and shaking, looking pretty broken himself by the events of the day.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy, after hearing Groo’s
story, tells him she’s not a princess. She agrees she has the visions, but that
doesn’t make her royalty. A really interesting shift from high school Cordy,
who had the license plate Queen C on her car.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Groo (slightly) confuses me
by saying Cordelia’s beautiful (I mean she is but stay with me), since he thinks
his own appearance isn’t beautiful. That’s a confusing double standard?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The human rebels who’ve
tied up Gunn and Wes want to send a message to the princess and again I ask,
did Cordy unseat someone when she became princess? How do they already know she’s
a princess when she’s been in throne-office only a day or so? HOW THE HELL DOES
THIS ALL WORK AND WHY ARE THE WRITERS BEING LAZY ABOUT THIS.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh right. We always knew
Joss was a bit lazy in the world-building, sacrificing world logic for whatever
story he wanted to tell.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn: “Have I mentioned
just how glad I am I decided to leave my people behind in L.A. so I could come
here to die?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, still shooketh, “They
saw it. They looked right at it … the monster. They saw what I really am. I can’t
go back. Not now, I can never go back.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Silas tells Cordy she has
no actual power, that she’s just a tool of the Covenant. And again I ask why
the rebels wanted to send their one-day princess a message, and not send a
message to the priests???? I’m calling a general <b>shenanigan</b> over the
logistics of this society’s government/sovereign power and the lack of clarity
thereof.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, they’ve literally
served Lorne’s head to Cordy on a silver platter and it’s all very biblical.</span></li></ul><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite
Lines:</b></div><b>Daniel: </b><span style="background: white;">Angel: “Cordy? She’s fine. They made her princess.” Fred:
“Really? Oh. When I got here they didn’t do that. Well. That’s
nice for her.” <br /></span><b>Zelda: </b>I tried to find a line but honestly this is my favorite moment in the whole episode.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTFWtvBhXbCS7HBa5QcD213iB7CbJSFtXGRhbgfbzy3aEz9Z794bUbD7a-xgNUhGGiENW0kzADll14WjVkIJh8XW0p3unh_xo20ylqq9GlH3a0u89KA0kKu-aMvCMwl8wCUK5GzfsMRak/s400/angel_212_29102016_124024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTFWtvBhXbCS7HBa5QcD213iB7CbJSFtXGRhbgfbzy3aEz9Z794bUbD7a-xgNUhGGiENW0kzADll14WjVkIJh8XW0p3unh_xo20ylqq9GlH3a0u89KA0kKu-aMvCMwl8wCUK5GzfsMRak/w400-h225/angel_212_29102016_124024.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><o:p></o:p><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Arc/Continuity:</b></div></b><b><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>First
Appearance:</b> Lorne’s
Mom, Groosalugg, Rebel Leader<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Recurring:</b> Lorne, Fred, Landok, Silas, Constable Narwek,
Priest #1<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Generally
Known TV Face:</b> Tom McCleister,
Mark Lutz, Adoni Maropis<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Whedonverse
Hat Trick:</b> Joss
Whedon (not sure who this guy is or how he’s connected to the show but he plays
Numfar)<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Lorne’s
Nicknames:</b> Pudding
(Cordelia), Hans Christian Tarantino (Angel)<br /><o:p></o:p><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas on
Tour Song List</b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Stop! In the Name of Love”</span></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Stats:</b></div></b>Cordelia’s Hair – half-up,
with a tiara, because princess<br />Dead Humans – 0<br />Dead Undeads – 1<br />Dead Flashbacks – 0<br />Dead Lawyers – 0<br />Cordelia Has a Vision
– 0<br />
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br />Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br />Evil Reveal – 0<br />Unevil Reveal – 0<br />Shenanigans Called – 1<br />Apocalypse Called – 0</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy Called – 1</span></div>Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-42558631770480295342021-01-25T14:31:00.003-05:002021-01-26T11:48:29.004-05:00Why Are They Afraid of Xena?<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQdi09kYB6mzXf9WT9dVYIYx-gUl43o17LSEAwq46Kqvcp8NVS7yg7BISSfcnN3lutos06kZ-IoNjRxjahrUywkXgn9HNItJyZc977ZloVvwvXNnUQcgTVLxeHP4XprcEpbILxyearDGjj/s620/Angel+Sun.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="620" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQdi09kYB6mzXf9WT9dVYIYx-gUl43o17LSEAwq46Kqvcp8NVS7yg7BISSfcnN3lutos06kZ-IoNjRxjahrUywkXgn9HNItJyZc977ZloVvwvXNnUQcgTVLxeHP4XprcEpbILxyearDGjj/w400-h236/Angel+Sun.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 2.20: Over the Rainbow.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 5.08.01<br /><br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Angel and his friends travel to [Lorne's] home world to look for Cordelia.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wheeeeeeee Pylea time! Fred time! Let’s go!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia may be stranded in a new dimension but she looks pretty bamf in her denim jumpsuit thingy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aw, she clicks her stylish yet affordable boot heels together three times, in case it might send her home. No such luck.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also not good luck? She’s being chased by some kinda hellbeast.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We haven’t talked about it in a while but the <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i> theme music is so pretty.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, back in our dimension, Lorne is lightly panicking about where Cordelia is. “God, I wish I could get drunk.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel jumps into action, ready to open another portal. Wes wants them to take a breath and make a plan before they dive in. Angel: “It’s Cordy.” Wes nods and lets him read from the book.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But it doesn’t work because the portal onstage is all used up. They need a new hotspot.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And Lorne advises them that it’s not good to jump into his world looking like a human … because hey in Pylea humans are called cows and are enslaved.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also the dude who ropes in Cordelia so he can sell her at market is totally a Hey It’s That Guy that I mostly know from <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Mrs. Doubtfire</i>.</span></span></li></ul></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBGkRanDbQAlNLQrqqMondUH3fxueApotWqHd4YRPSisN4fpEfxPvGvb-NevDjlcRQHrwxmeXLjzPud10VsBZ8z2EK2yPr3iU3BXi18Wm0UTLrioLbJgG_OkkRNucv-wxMEs6LFmVRT4A/s1276/william+newman+angel.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="1276" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBGkRanDbQAlNLQrqqMondUH3fxueApotWqHd4YRPSisN4fpEfxPvGvb-NevDjlcRQHrwxmeXLjzPud10VsBZ8z2EK2yPr3iU3BXi18Wm0UTLrioLbJgG_OkkRNucv-wxMEs6LFmVRT4A/w400-h179/william+newman+angel.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628309/">William Newman</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorne is so jittery about the prospect of going back to Pylea and I get that Angel and Wes are super angry and worried about Cordelia, but they’re really not giving much empathy to the fact that this is clearly a whole trauma thing for Lorne.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel: “Who opened the portal?” // Lorne: “Gift horse. (holds up hand as horse puppet) Mouth. (opens hand, then pointedly looks away)”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“All my life, I thought I was crazy. That I had ghosts in my head or something. Simply because I could hear music. Of course I didn’t know it was music. All I knew is that it was something beautiful and painful and right. And I was the only one who could hear it.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And then Gunn arrives, quiet and a bit shattered over George’s death and his own failure. When they try to brief him on going after Cordy, he says “I’m not going … Last night I lost one of my crew. I should have been there, but … I’m sorry, Wes said the trip was one way, and I … I can’t.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorne also doesn’t plan to go, but he’ll try to help them find a new hotspot to open up a new portal.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes: “Gunn does have responsibilities … ties … people to take care of.” // Angel: “So do I.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aw man, they took Cordy’s stylish yet affordable boots.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia, arguing that you can’t just barter a human being, pointing out that she’s an American and she has rights, has forgotten a huuuuuuuuuge chunk of American history.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But hey! As Cordy follows her new slaveowner home, we see Fred! Hi Fred!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorne goes to visit a psychic friend of his named Aggie and it’s totally the same actress who played Aura in the <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i> pilot and while it would be my headcanon that it’s the same character, who moved to LA and started this phone psychic career, don’t you think Aura would be a more on-the-nose name for a psychic?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway she talks him into going with the gang back to Pylea to get proper closure.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, back at the Hyperion ranch, Gavin Park is here! Hi Gavin Park! They’re there to “appraise” the hotel, planning to purchase it out from under Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Someone needs to tell Gavin this isn’t the cool way to lawyer ex machina Angel. And by someone I mean Lilah.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fred comes to find Cordy, warning her not to take the collar off cuz it’ll slightly kill her. And poor Fred is so traumatized that she’s lost her hold on reality. “I was born here. I mean, not really, I just … sometimes I think I was. I mean, I don’t think it was my thought.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m not crazy. Well, crazy, but I’m not wrong.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Damn, she’s super broken.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel’s recording a farewell message on someone’s voicemail, in case they don’t return from Pylea. But we don’t know who he sent it to. Do we presume Buffy? I guess we presume Buffy. Or maybe Gunn. In any event, Buffy’s on the run from Glory right now so she’s a little busy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dang, even in Pylea Cordy has visions. This-dimension-specific visions.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Cursed! My cow is cursed!” Welp. Is it time to throw her in a lake and see if she floats?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And as the gang prepares to drive Angel’s car through a portal, Gunn shows up (how did he know how to find them? Wait NO HOW DID HE KNOW. Angel didn’t know til they pulled up the car. And this is before Find My Phone. I love that Gunn showed up in time, but <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">shenanigans</b>). “Got a phone message. Sounded like the captain of the Titanic getting ready to go down with the ship.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So … that means no one knows where they’re going now. Cool. Cool. Cool cool cool. Oh well, like I said, Buffy’s pretty busy trying to stop All The Portals from opening.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh Aggie. Aggie-not-Aura knows, I guess?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All four literally fasten their seatbelts before driving in and <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">that means they weren’t fastened on the drive over!!!!! Come on, people</i>.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oops the book got left behind when they drove through.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And luckily for Angel, the two suns of Pylea are <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">not</i> setting on Angel on fire.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Can everyone just notice how much fire I’m not on?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David runs so dorkily excited to gather branches “in that patch of sun” </span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m08on7nG9v1qbn4o5o3_250.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m08on7nG9v1qbn4o5o3_250.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So … Lorne had advised them not to show up in Pylea looking all human and they’re here looking all human and I feel like they could have at least done some kind of makeup disguise.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, Cordy’s been brought before the Constable who seized Fred earlier, and they identify her visions as the curse of sight.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes says “Yes, we’re all heartily aware that you’re not on fire. Shall we go?” and I love the amused and tolerant way he says it. You just know Angel has been babbling about it this whole time.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also Wes logics that the book couldn’t travel to Pylea because it opens portals from the home dimension, and that means they probably need a new book to portal their way home.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So we never get to see what kind of terrible tests they ran on Cordy, but she’s curled up on the floor in tears, so that’s fucking awful.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway our fearless heroes who are here to rescue Cordelia are now surrounded by hostile folk with weapons.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn, “I take the twenty on the left, you take the fifty on the right.” // Angel: “Okay.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh man, I’d forgotten the line in the series finale is a callback to this moment.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And then we get one of those ironic cuts from Wes, wielding a sword of some sort and saying “I think we’re winning” to the four of them on their knees, tied up.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn, who’s too used to people in authority positions treating him like he’s nothing, starts mouthing off and it would be great but each smartass remark earns him another punch.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And now they’re in a jail cell, but Angel’s enhanced vampire eardrums means he can hear the guards talking about Cordy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I would just like to point out that Angel and Wes are managing to still look cool with their ankles shackled but that Wes is literally hopping from foot to foot because Alexis loves to clown.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s interesting that here we have a species who can all read auras all over the place (we learned last episode that it’s not just Lorne). So why are they all het up about Cordy’s visions? It … doesn’t make a lot of sense to me? Like … it seems like in this world everyone’s a little bit psychic sometimes?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, they bring our four boys to their royal highness … who is Cordelia.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So … while I’m not saying I don’t enjoy Queen C, I don’t really get why they would do that with a species they keep calling a cow, a beast of burden.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also she’s in a spangly bikini top and I think even this is a foil moment for her commercial shoot, where she was similarly scantily clad but treated as an object. Here she’s on a throne, her power celebrated. And also she has a bowl of grapes.</span></span></li></ul></span></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We start where we left off last episode: Cordelia is in a different dimension/planet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She searches for her friends who are not there.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She clicks her heels three times just in case. Apt for the title, though.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Silver of Lining”, she says. Silver OF lining?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time to run from a guy in a hyena looking costume!</span></li></ul></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTZTSRrDVmGf4EJv260UpnpRUgV60aFQya2ZcFf-iHnR6KSp146lPfiYNlFPq4-jx5JAip6IKiPfmtc3U4qPvuulPdM9S1qTFzKDUDT191Z6yLAUaNbmsiyKHdOBn8RSIulvqj8eXCEqIB/s1024/Hyena.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTZTSRrDVmGf4EJv260UpnpRUgV60aFQya2ZcFf-iHnR6KSp146lPfiYNlFPq4-jx5JAip6IKiPfmtc3U4qPvuulPdM9S1qTFzKDUDT191Z6yLAUaNbmsiyKHdOBn8RSIulvqj8eXCEqIB/s320/Hyena.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back on Earth, Lorne panics.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, Daniel Dae Kim is in the credits!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel tries to open up another portal.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It doesn’t work.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You don’t want to be jumping into my world looking like [human].”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cut to human-looking Cordelia being chased.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily hyena/demon boy is like a tame dog. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Unfortunately his owner is not.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He kidnaps Cordelia.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne name-checks his world: Pylea. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne says Pylea is similar to a hell dimension because there’s no music there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes says Caritas, as a hotspot, is cold.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They can’t reopen it because it’s out of energy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn’s back from his friend’s Viking funeral.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he makes a decision not to go with the gang.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back on Pylea, there seems to be two races of humanoids.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One looks kinda like <a href="https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Clement">Clem</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The other is Lorne’s race of green demon-like people.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">There also seems to be humans there, too, used as slaves.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy, who is being bought, tries to use “I am an American!”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She has a shock collar around her neck.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who’s that watching? It’s Fred, the librarian! At this point, in my first rewatch, I just dismissed Fred as a minimal guest character. In her first episode, she's in a blurry flashback with no lines. In this one, she basically has one speaking scene - and I don't think I gave her much thought as anything more until season 3's premiere episode.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne visits a friend running a psychic phone scam.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But she seems to have some psychic power.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’d rather sit through a junior high production of Cats.” Heh.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">DANIEL DAE KIM: Gavin Park’s first episode. I almost forgot he was a lawyer on this show.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He and another lawyer want to purchase the Hyperion.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy is shoveling demon horse poo.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And the demon horse is so cute.</span></li></ul></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mv5CXZj-ss_pXzq09FHNWXYq30kz3u0rpTQ5Yz_lel1fwywjEOjhKclpHtTAAi2zfVHptH2nbUXpYa7diiNuDtFhyphenhyphentaCFXriK6l0MHvMCWUKmGHP0X5DEqr5nVTfWLv2kn40gz0oL1Xf/s287/demonhorse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mv5CXZj-ss_pXzq09FHNWXYq30kz3u0rpTQ5Yz_lel1fwywjEOjhKclpHtTAAi2zfVHptH2nbUXpYa7diiNuDtFhyphenhyphentaCFXriK6l0MHvMCWUKmGHP0X5DEqr5nVTfWLv2kn40gz0oL1Xf/s0/demonhorse.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fred & her adorable Texan accent talk to Cordy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She warns Cordy not to take off the collar or it could implode.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ooh, like Battle Royale.</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOo_MQTn2msf-KgGUM5hyphenhyphenICrxD9DLMFTnGZ5DUp8KtGkZPsBiFWlJSVjhzbiDVHrUEPE0JiZCwIG_hrP6EP7Lvl7_gyAIK2beaKkllkC7ctqMH7dRdaErgAL7ikXpbONKF4dZeKt4NdvLO/s1582/Screen+Shot+2021-01-25+at+12.25.10+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="1582" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOo_MQTn2msf-KgGUM5hyphenhyphenICrxD9DLMFTnGZ5DUp8KtGkZPsBiFWlJSVjhzbiDVHrUEPE0JiZCwIG_hrP6EP7Lvl7_gyAIK2beaKkllkC7ctqMH7dRdaErgAL7ikXpbONKF4dZeKt4NdvLO/w400-h169/Screen+Shot+2021-01-25+at+12.25.10+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m just waiting for Wes to have the Eureka Moment.” Wes: “Eureka!”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia has a vision!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And the whole town goes mad.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">As they’re about to head to the new portal, Gunn joins them. Yay!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Well that was a quick turn-around.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel takes absolutely no precautions of it possibly being day on the other side of the portal.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They all buckle up and drive through the portal.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OOPS. The book stays on this side.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But on the other side of the portal, they realize that Angel is not affected by the suns here.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m not on fire!”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“And we didn’t turn into a freakish four-man Siamese twin!”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of these Pylea demons look like Shrek.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">A third species of demon conducts a test on Cordy which looks like he’s about to shove something sharp up her nose.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Ooh, like a Covid test!<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Don’t forget the book!”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then there’s a whole “who has the book,” conversation until they realize they no longer have the book.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, it has been determined by red demon man that Cordelia indeed has “the curse”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Why are they afraid of Xena?” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> Oh Gunn. Please don't make him the Xander.<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne goes into a residence and is immediately chased out by Pyleans with axes.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chase!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fight!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I think we’re winning!” Smash cut to all four of them being tied up.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They take Lorne away.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They take the other three away to a different place – tied up in a dungeon.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel uses his super vampire hearing to discover they found Cordy & discovered her visions.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The gang is brought back together with Lorne.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pyleans threaten a death sentence – but first? QUEEN CORDY.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">LOOKING HOT. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV4AF1Rawmx7PK_QPHfbwe1cvUlzaFDNtcjZI5exlxQjMX09bQQyxGTG_tPIRtE4dqbf4RDjqyPqKWh18MDUePX-pXo8xpH0pdhNo656rf888OeIbgoD4jvlpJle2P497-NyEEr9P_NvnI/s792/Cordy+Hot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="792" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV4AF1Rawmx7PK_QPHfbwe1cvUlzaFDNtcjZI5exlxQjMX09bQQyxGTG_tPIRtE4dqbf4RDjqyPqKWh18MDUePX-pXo8xpH0pdhNo656rf888OeIbgoD4jvlpJle2P497-NyEEr9P_NvnI/w400-h225/Cordy+Hot.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crossfire!</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Yes, we’re all heartily aware that you’re not on fire.<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> How did they not prepare for that?<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Z:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Maybe they assumed they would land at night since they left at night?<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Well, you know what happens when you assume.<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Z:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You turn into a pile of—<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You catch on fire.<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“All my life, I thought I was crazy. That I had ghosts in my head or something. Simply because I could hear music. Of course I didn’t know it was music. All I knew is that it was something beautiful and painful and right. And I was the only one who could hear it.” – Lorne<br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></b></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’d rather sit through a junior high production of <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Cats</i>.” – Lorne<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Appearance:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Gavin Park, Silas, Constable Narwek, Priest #1<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lorne, Fred<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Future Famous Person:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Daniel Dae Kim<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Susan Blommaert, Persia White, William Newman<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whedonverse Hat Trick: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Persia White (Aura on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>, Agnes “Aggie” Belfleur on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>), Drew Wicks (second of two roles on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Man on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Dollhouse</i>), Jackson Bolt (Pylea Demon on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Viking Warrior on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorne’s Nicknames: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Copernicus (Wes)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel! In! History!</span></b></div></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel remembers being imprisoned in the Tower of London: “Wasn’t that bad.”</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Stats:</b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – pinstraight bob with highlights, then extremely very mussed<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></p>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-51513977067885447422021-01-19T11:52:00.002-05:002021-01-19T11:52:19.884-05:00He Can't Control Himself. Because He's From France?<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Episode 2.19: Belonging.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Original Airdate: 5.01.01<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CJMwZVtXQ4OG9yGU-b5W0wJ7BV1zwaxNmWuLxTNpxU0QcuXOoX2ozg7WTExvSZ5jP0o-j0H6cU5GhGmJcVtyytylgIxH-hU2txAJCDRoJ1K1PWjcHyTxTIMC8MwrSDnfXCEr64PWBM4/s1024/20160728200147-8cc4fa3d.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CJMwZVtXQ4OG9yGU-b5W0wJ7BV1zwaxNmWuLxTNpxU0QcuXOoX2ozg7WTExvSZ5jP0o-j0H6cU5GhGmJcVtyytylgIxH-hU2txAJCDRoJ1K1PWjcHyTxTIMC8MwrSDnfXCEr64PWBM4/s320/20160728200147-8cc4fa3d.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><br /><br /></o:p></span><span style="color: black;">“A magic portal from
another world brings a nasty demon—and the Host’s cousin—to Los Angeles.”<br /></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</b></div></o:p></span><span style="color: black;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The Fang gang are having a fancy
dinner. They do a schtick where Angel can’t be seen in the mirror
and fine.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Apparently Cordy has landed a
commercial.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“I’m not cheap. I’m just old,”
says curmudgeonly Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">They discuss a case and Angel
is just worried about the cost of a meal.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And then he assaults a woman
because he thinks she’s wearing a shawl made of [checks notes] dead
children? Did I get that right? It’s this thing that
comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere. Just a gag, I guess?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“He can’t control himself
because…he’s from France.” What?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also please don’t let David
Boreanaz do a French accent. <span style="color: red;">[Or an
Irish one. – Z]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And then Cordy throws up her
meal. Angel, “They’ll take that off the bill right?” I kinda love
when they make fun of his age.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">After the credits, Wesley has
an uncomfortably British conversation with his father on the
phone. Full of disappointment and false hope. Is this the
beginning of his daddy issues? Have we seen this before? It’s definitely the
start of his episode arc where he starts to question his leadership abilities.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cut to a Hollywood set.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angel walks right past a
bikini-clad babe and walks onto the beach set. He soaks up the
imaginary sun. It’s actually kind of sweet.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyL1zQmwjkHjzESm45qHMg-kYdDmG5B_U9PvSctBk3sSDuh0Er4wn6hmdLQXAfUuLvBjjLmVShi_NkiXjBu31avB8gsRn4eFYm8_pb1gZq2-DU3BH_OgAtvvQdB20fFOAU06X7jAL3guM/s1024/Angel+Sun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyL1zQmwjkHjzESm45qHMg-kYdDmG5B_U9PvSctBk3sSDuh0Er4wn6hmdLQXAfUuLvBjjLmVShi_NkiXjBu31avB8gsRn4eFYm8_pb1gZq2-DU3BH_OgAtvvQdB20fFOAU06X7jAL3guM/w400-h225/Angel+Sun.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The director condescendingly
and misogynistically talks to Cordy. Makes her take off her robe,
turn around. It’s so gross and cringeworthy. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angel tries to be hero. But
Cordy knows how things are and tells Angel to leave.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Sadly, I’m sure Charisma is
used to this.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Wes & Gunn chat about the
demon. Wes goes into a long explanation on the Haklar demon’s physiology etc.
but Gunn just wants to know how to kill it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile Gunn’s friends stop
by to tell him about vamps. He thinks they needs his help. They just
want to borrow his truck.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Gunn feels left
out. Or like he’s leaving his friends behind.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">There’s lots of character work
being done here. Less plot, which is fine. It’s getting
to the end of the season. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile at Caritas, Lorne
sings <i>Superstition </i>when a portal opens up behind him! Oh no!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Some big demon jumps out and
starts destroying things. I thought there was an anti-violence charm
on the place.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The director continues to be a
sexist asshole towards Cordy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Fast forward. We
don’t actually get to see the Haklar demon they’ve been talking
about. Wes & Angel come back from defeating it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordy is also back. And
dejected. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Lorne comes by to let them know
about the Drokken demon that came through the portal.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cut to: Drokken eating a dude.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angel brings up the
anti-violence thing at Caritas that I brought up earlier. Way to copy, Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Lorne explains it away as it
just shoved things so no real damage? </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angel takes the
lead. But then remembers Wes is in charge. Wes, whose
confidence is a bit blown, resigns to Angel’s plan as being best.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile Cordy has a
vision. It’s Fred! We see Fred for the first time, a librarian
with a portal opening up behind her.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The reason Gunn isn’t there is
because he wanted to catch up with his old friends and fight some vamps.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">But he gets there too late.
George is revealed to be dead. With a bite. They’re not sure if the vamps made
him drink, i.e., if he’ll turn. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Lorne walks into the library
with the fang gang, minus Gunn, as if he can pass for human.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">He cannot, as a librarian
shows. But it’s ok, she thinks he’s the children’s entertainer. It’s
amazing what people will tell themselves. She even says Lorne’s
horns look fake. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Anyway, It turns out Fred
disappeared 5 years ago - which means Cordy’s vision is old.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia finds the book that
was in her vision and reads from it. You never read from the book! <span style="color: red;">[And you never speak Latin in front of the
books. – Giles]</span> She accidentally opens up a portal. This is what happens
when you read from the book.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">A sword wielding demon that
looks like Lorne comes out of the portal.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Lorne knows
him. And he knows Lorne. It’s his cousin, Landok.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh, this is also the first time
the gang learns Lorne’s name. What have they been calling him the
whole time? </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">They also learn about Lorne’s
past, and his dimension. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">So Lorne’s cousin
passive-aggressively makes him feel bad about his lack of training and
disappearing and disappointing his birth-giver. Hey the theme of
this week’s episode is “How to disappoint people and not make friends”.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Speaking of disappointing
people, Gunn tells Rondell that they should have waited for
him. Rondell: we’ve been waiting for you for months, bro.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">While they hunt for the thingy
demon, Lorne muses to Angel about why he left.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">They spot the Drokken. Landok
doesn’t want to wait for a plan, much to Wesley’s chagrin. Angel
goes in and joins the fight. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Landok gets poisoned by the
Drokken’s bite.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh no! Drokken demon punches
Wesley.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Angel saves the
day. He puts a sword through its neck.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordy posits that the portal
works both ways. She’s sure of it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile Gunn has a viking
funeral for George. They burn the body – probably to ensure that he doesn’t
come back.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Back at Caritas, Landok reads
from the book, the portal opens & he’s back.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">But oops Cordelia is
missing. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordelia wakes up in a forest.
She looks up and notices two pink suns. I don’t think we’re in
Kansas anymore, Cordy. End of season arc: started!</span></span></li></ul><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</b></div></o:p></span></b><span style="color: black;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ah, a cute misdirect: we
think we’re seeing Cordy and Wes and Gunn having a fancy dinner, but then when
we hear Angel’s voice we realize he’s there too but we started with the mirror
image.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Cordy booked a national commercial!
Hell yes!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Oh god Angel’s “Irish” “accent”
why</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Also they’re looking
forward to acting on a lead from Cordy’s vision and Wes and Gunn are all cute
and buddy buddy, and Angel’s slightly left out but when he puts up his fist
belatedly for their fistbump, they do put their fists back in the center to
include him too. He even looks cutely stoked to be included.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWVmLpKE5cau8mLJlFJwzqi4CDn3JdBqfyrcNMHOUmJV6ApAV7DKuuLhGLNGKHEmhupPNCJQlZNPSjTT3-L9sQonjt4MiweLvFhWr1A-Z4F-c_JONkTFhVMh34dyaCmxIg_q-ZAS1DwE/s500/fistbump.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="500" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWVmLpKE5cau8mLJlFJwzqi4CDn3JdBqfyrcNMHOUmJV6ApAV7DKuuLhGLNGKHEmhupPNCJQlZNPSjTT3-L9sQonjt4MiweLvFhWr1A-Z4F-c_JONkTFhVMh34dyaCmxIg_q-ZAS1DwE/w400-h160/fistbump.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Is this when Angel Is Cheap
becomes a thing? Get it, guys? He’s not just broody, he’s quirky too!</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Wes on a long distance call
to his parents, so we can all be reminded that even tho Wes is now boss and
respected and appreciated by his colleagues, he still has issues because his
father is The Absolute Worst. He tells him he’s in charge then has to say “No,
I certainly won’t be fired. Well, yes, I was that one time, yes.” Wow just the worst
I hate him.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Aw, Angel’s visiting Cordy’s
commercial set! And he’s cutely excited to pretend he’s on a sunny beach.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Well, knowing the future,
it’s clear how much this episode is setting up stuff to process or subvert once
we go to Pylea. Angel enjoying the sun, Wes either failing or succeeding at
leadership, and Cordy being treated as a sexy lamp by her shitty director, who
insults her face, makes her spin so he can ogle her ass, and then implies she
has an eating disorder.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Anyway, Angel tries to
defend Cordy and instead she’s more mortified.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Ugh, they were so cheerful
last night. Now everyone is off-center. When Gunn asks Wes for the rundown on
the demon they’re after, Wes falls back on his book-learning persona to give
the backstory on the demon, rather than what Gunn actually needs to know. He’s
been unsettled by his father’s undermining, and he’s relying on what he knows
he’s good at.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Oh hey, Gunn’s friends from
the episode with Anne and the shelter. Gunn thinks they’re there to ask for his
help with their new attack mission but they just want his truck, not him. And
Gunn is torn between his two freelance Fight the Evil groups. But he goes with
our team, and Rondell and George look disappointed but unsurprised.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Angel, ranting about how
Cordy’s treated on set, with some bonus foreshadowing: “like she’s a slave or
something. And you know what the worst part is? She took it. When was the last
time Cordy took crap from any of us?”</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Ugh gross come on guys. You
can’t have your misogyny cake and eat it too. They make it clear the director
was behaving a shit, but then all three of our not-terribly-woke boys take a
moment to fantasize about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their friend</i>
in her skimpy bikini, and is that supposed to be funny? Like what the fuck? Can
they stop? Being gross?</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Anyway while I was ranting,
Lorne sang us a song until a portal opened behind him and some kind of feral
demon broke out, broke a few things and escaped. And Lorne looks haunted and,
frankly, a bit PTSD from the sight of him.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Cordy’s back at the hotel,
subdued after her abusive day on set. “I just wanted to act, that’s all. For them
to like me because I was good. I never wanted to feel like this.”</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Lorne enlists our crew to
take out the Drokken demon, which he is able to name and tell them it’s not
from their world.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Welp and it’s killed a
human.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Angel automatically takes
charge until Cordy quietly reminds him, and to everyone’s credit, they shift
easily and agreeably to deferring to Wes (with a nice kudos moment from Lorne,
who didn’t know Wes was bossman). But it’s still a nod to the Wes arc we’re working
on for the finale arc of the season.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Oooooh Cordy had a vision
of Fred! Wheeeeeeeeee.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Meanwhile, Gunn shows up
for his other crew’s mission, but he’s too late. They already did it, and George
is dead by vampire draining.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Gunn: “Did they make him
drink?” // Rondell: “We don’t know.”</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">At the library, trying to
track down Cordy’s vision, they find out that the girl disappeared five years
ago.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Cordy finds the book Fred
was reading and you can tell Lorne recognizes it. He’s twitchy and backing
away. Cordy reads random words and hey, new portal, new demon, but this one’s a
warrior.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Also Lorne knows him. “Landok?
Is that you?”</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">And for the first time
since his appearance at the beginning of the season, they name The Host:
Krevlorneswath of the Deathwok Clan. But he prefers Lorne.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">And hey speaking of bad
parents, Lorne’s mom sounds like the absolute worst.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Lorne’s cousin Landok
speaks without contractions, something I remember Groo will do too. Our Lorne
loves him some contractions. No wonder he didn’t fit in.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Gunn, furious and heartbroken:
“You shoulda waited for me.” // “We’ve been waiting on you for months, bro.”
And then they build the funeral pyre because they know they have to burn the
corpse, in case he drank and was turned.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Lorne hates his home
dimension, “No music, no art. Just champions roaming the countryside.” He clearly
hated his life there, but I wonder why he keeps trotting out the champion term
to Angel, since regarding his origins, it’s a lifestyle he hates.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">“For the last time, not a
coward. I just saw both sides of the joust. How are you supposed to joust
someone when you partially agree with their point of view?” Also he makes a
crack about chatting up the senoritas, so I guess he’s not gay but come on he’s
at least bi, right? Just let him be bi, writers. You can do it. I believe in
you. </span><span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[No, also </span>spoilers<span style="font-family: inherit;">, Andrew - Writers]</span></span><br /></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Anyway fighty fight the
Drokkan demon, Landok’s been poisoned by the fight, fighty fight, flarey flare,
stalky stalk “Hey, you want food? I can be food. Pretty tasty here. Here kitty
kitty kitty.” Okay fine I half-smiled.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">And, finally, a sword
through the demon’s neck. Crisis averted!</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Anyway, they send Landok
back through the portal … and also Cordy.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Welcome to Pylea, Cordelia!
It’s got two suns. Is that a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
reference?</span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">“Oh crap.”</span></span></li></ul><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></o:p></span></b><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></b></span></div>Daniel: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">“Oh Crap” – Cordelia realizing she's been portaled to a new dimension.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Zelda:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"> “For the last time, not a coward. I just saw both sides of the
joust. How are you supposed to joust someone when you partially agree with
their point of view?” – Lorne<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></o:p></span></b><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></b></span></div>First Appearance:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"> Fred Burkle, Landok<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"> Angel’s Irish accent, Lorne, Rondell, George<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"> Brody Hutzler<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Whedonverse Hat Trick: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Amy Acker (first of two roles on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Angel</i>, Spoiler on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dollhouse</i>, Lin in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cabin in
the Woods</i>, Beatrice in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Much Ado About
Nothing</i>, Audrey Nathan on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D.</i>)<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Lorne’s Nicknames:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"> Lorne (Krevlorneswath of the Deathwok Clan),
golden spawn (Landok)<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Angel! In! History!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></b></div></o:p></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel is so old he
remembers when a few bob would get you a good meal, a bottle, and a tavern
wench. Also he was a fan of </span><i style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052451/" target="_blank">Bonanza</a></i><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></b></div></b><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Caritas Song List</span></b></div></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Superstition”</span></div></span><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div></b><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Stats:</span></b></div></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>Cordelia’s Hair – big body
curls in her bob, then teased up, then pin straight, stronger blonde highlights
in the bangs<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Dead Humans – 3<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Dead Undeads – 1<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Cordelia Has a Vision
– 1<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Shenanigans Called – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Prophecy Called – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; word-spacing: 0px;">Champion Called – 1</span></span></div>
Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-45383512995697731222021-01-04T19:35:00.004-05:002021-01-05T11:53:17.526-05:00Luckiest. Delivery Man. Ever.<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCUByzSn6fZt276MMAN-v6Qi2iwlCOTAqlMQx_4DABhmGWw4qjYggM8UvhzzhjkBv7k95A0rL3LsXQFRCAf5nSI3Nc2-YN90PAjoFXvWWHXDw6NEhwcgZBzkXPTXyxFFlfJMBcdNkGz56/s853/Cover+Photo.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="853" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCUByzSn6fZt276MMAN-v6Qi2iwlCOTAqlMQx_4DABhmGWw4qjYggM8UvhzzhjkBv7k95A0rL3LsXQFRCAf5nSI3Nc2-YN90PAjoFXvWWHXDw6NEhwcgZBzkXPTXyxFFlfJMBcdNkGz56/s320/Cover+Photo.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 2.18: Dead End.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 4.24.01<br /><br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Wolfram and Hart arranges for Lindsey to get a new hand, but when it turns out to be evil, Angel investigates the firm’s source of body parts.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah, the Lindsey Has An Evil Hand episode. Cool cool.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Well, right now he has a prosthetic hand.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We follow his morning routine of doing things one-handed – including all his ties pre-tied, and then the camera (and Lindsey) linger on his guitar, sitting unloved and unplayed in his closet.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OMG IT’S DARRYL FROM <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND<br /></i></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We smashcut from whatever’s about to happen with Darryl to Cordy suffering badly under a vision of it, weeping and gasping, as Angel tries to comfort her. Definitely moving forward on the arc of the toll the visions are taking on her.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Lawyers having an Evil Lawyer Meeting blah blah Lilah’s a bit skittish and Lindsey’s pretty blasé and cynical. She’s worried she’s about to be killed when he gets promoted, and he seems to care as much as he cared about potentially being killed by Darla that one time.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway boring not-Holland-Manners boss man made a mysterious all-day appointment for Lindsey. Evil Hand!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy’s troubled by the vision. Nothing seemed to be wrong, and suddenly there was a knife in the eye, and I’m supergrateful they didn’t really get very visual on that graphic.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, over at the Hyperion, they’re failing at most of their detectiving to track down Darryl from <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">CXG</i>.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy, still shaken hours later, clutches her forehead. “I wish it would stop hurting … I just keep seeing it.” She’s not even looking for comfort, that’s how wrapped she is in the pain of it and the guilt at not being able to stop it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But over where the evils hang out, Lindsey pulls out his guitar and starts playing and oh right Christian Kane is also a musician so he can do that for realsies.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And L&L are tag-teaming some Evil Lawyering, while Lindsey’s new hand idly jots down notes. Unfortunately, all those notes are just the word “KILL” over and over again. Awkward, that.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Okay so Angel bought every kind of food for Cordelia, because he’s getting better at listening and she said she was tired of people asking her stuff. And she says “I love you” and it’s super sweet and Angel smiles the sweetest smile the man has literally ever smiled and THAT’S super sweet and okay I get why some people ship this. </span></span></li></ul><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHgGlZKErcszwV7uXhtVloQj1pYiB-rl-Nc5IeLM-i5BacVx5MUtMEURDQIhG5hvcI2FVoqgzbmsbU0Q6K3uLO8bzmE58DWXAmOdbITHaKOtgVMjA0JN5lH7mEbsqHj9P5SyAY0VTnwkn/s160/tumblr_m0zu6nxQOS1qaimf2o4_250.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHgGlZKErcszwV7uXhtVloQj1pYiB-rl-Nc5IeLM-i5BacVx5MUtMEURDQIhG5hvcI2FVoqgzbmsbU0Q6K3uLO8bzmE58DWXAmOdbITHaKOtgVMjA0JN5lH7mEbsqHj9P5SyAY0VTnwkn/w400-h400/tumblr_m0zu6nxQOS1qaimf2o4_250.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EVERYBODY SIT DOWN, CHRISTIAN KANE IS SINGING AT CARITAS.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Everyone but Angel agrees with me that this is nice. Also I think Christian Kane and show creator David Greenwalt co-wrote the song he’s singing?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy: “We can’t sing after that.” // Lorne: “You won’t have to.” Luckily, Lindsey’s problem ties in with our gang’s problem. Everyone fanning over Lindsey’s performance is flipping adorable.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least Angel is showing better detectiving now they have a lead: he lifts the glass Lindsey was holding to get prints off the transplant hand.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Back at the hotel, Angel gets complimented for his collected intel from the print but deflects how he got it … he hired someone else to detective … again. Wow he’s the worst.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey’s so mad Angel came to question the same lead he’s questioning, then is mad at him for saving him. “Why aren’t you trying to kill me?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See? I ship Angel and Lindsey more than I ship Angel and Cordy. Their angry banter chemistry is good stuff.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn: “Is it me or are these vision hangovers getting longer and longer? It’s like she can’t rest in there til it’s done.” Wes is worried that she can’t carry it like Doyle did because he was half-demon, and remembers how she was delirious and in the hospital at the end of last season.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel and Lindsey continue their date with a night drive as Angel wonders why Lindsey isn’t happier, now he’s got his new hand.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Their date continues with beating up some randos. So romantic.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, down into a basement and gulp. A bunch of bodies upright in some kind of cryostorage, all alive but many of them with missing pieces. So Lindsey’s hand, Darryl’s eye, they came from these “living” donors.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey recognizes his “donor” – they worked in the mailroom together. And he’s alert enough to say “Kill … kill … kill me … please.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel sets about releasing the others while Lindsey unplugs his donor’s machine. He didn’t seem like he was missing more than his hand though? Why couldn’t they rescue him too?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the denouement, Cordelia finally admits to herself and the crew that the visions are taking a bigger toll. “It’s part of the job, right?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denouement part two: Evil Lawyer Meeting. Lindsey stops Lilah from pulling out her gun in desperation. But Lindsey’s going out in a blaze of burn-this-shit-up monologue about his evil hand, grabbing the guard’s gun and shooting everywhere, blaming it all on the evil hand. </span></span></li></ul></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ISWcyyWdb2m4Jqo_AbAGvgC1gcgPVCIzw_hq3CNqUaqWN8EItfYpO-TL30YhzRIO8m_gN9iWlqDsH2NEnE8fjzklIXeoSGPdyr11UJZ5LmyI5GM-K6clNk_Fw-O3SCwl43DYLPFHig-d/s465/tumblr_lqfai1cVC11qea9e3o1_500.gif"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="465" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ISWcyyWdb2m4Jqo_AbAGvgC1gcgPVCIzw_hq3CNqUaqWN8EItfYpO-TL30YhzRIO8m_gN9iWlqDsH2NEnE8fjzklIXeoSGPdyr11UJZ5LmyI5GM-K6clNk_Fw-O3SCwl43DYLPFHig-d/w400-h225/tumblr_lqfai1cVC11qea9e3o1_500.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He then tells Not Holland that he should have chosen Lilah to promote, with all the work she’s put in, and all the dirt she has on them. So I guess he’s an ally? “Me, I’m unreliable. I got these evil hand issues. And I’m bored with this crap.” NM he gropes Lilah on the way out, not such an ally.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lilah gets her promotion, Lindsey gets to actually leave in a way most W&H employees don’t, and if this were the last we see of him, I’d be satisfied with the arc. But hey, season five.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey’s on his way outta Dodge with his old old truck. He and Angel have a tearful farewell. Well, maybe not tearful. “I hope you’re not waiting for me to tell you that I learned some kind of a lesson. That I had a big moral crisis but now I see the light.” // “If you told me that, I’d have to kill you. I’m just here to say bon voyage. Don’t come back.” // “To LA? Nah, you can have this place.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And one last tip from Lindsey: “The key to Wolfram & Hart. Don’t let them make you play their game. You gotta make them play yours.” So now we all just glare at season five together?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…Angel put a COPS SUCK sign on the back of Lindsey’s car. I guess that was the immature thing he “didn’t have to do”?</span></span></li></ul></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="color: #201f1e;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Hello shirtless Lindsey with his “hand” hidden underneath the covers so no VFX has to be used.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">His stump is seen separate from the rest of his body, again, I’m assuming for practical FX purposes.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">He stares at his guitar longingly.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">How did he become a part of such an evil law firm, he thinks, as he remembers strumming his guitar (probably shirtless) on the prairies of flyover states.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cut to Typical American Family.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Dad gets a kiss from his daughter and a “manly handshake” from his son.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Gross.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then he picks up a knife.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia meanwhile has the mother of all visions.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It hurts so much she starts sobbing. She sees American Dad with a knife and blood.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile at Wolfram & Hart – they talk law stuff I don’t care much about.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey & Lilah are there and whatshisface - the guy who is less interesting than Holland. (Nathan?)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">L&L also update him on Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They’re also going to be reevaluating Lindsey and Lilah’s department which means one of them will be promoted.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lilah is worried she’ll be cut & at W&H that’s literal.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia’s vision is a little unclear. Apparently the dad in the family killed himself with that knife.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey has been signed up for a doctor’s appointment but he doesn’t know what’s actually happening.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey’s getting a new hand.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“This is cause for applause and in just a few hours time, you’ll be doing the applauding.” </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Ha. Ha.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Ok so creepy. This new hand is being magically put on by a weird demon in a red robe.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">I wonder if it’s the same hand that the dad used to stab his eye.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Hmm.</span><span style="color: red;"> [it’s not - Future Daniel]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Gunn is using a phonebook to call hospitals.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">How 2001.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">No one’s come up with anything.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The elevator in the Hyperion looks like the Tower of Terror. I’m sure I’ve noticed that before but it’s so prominent here that I’m focusing on it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel convinces Cordelia to look into the vision again & she does.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Revisiting her vision seems to be painful.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Day two: Hello shirtless Lindsey in bed again.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He’s in the same exact position like he’s stuck in a Groundhog Day loop.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">But this time he pulls out his covered hand…and it’s a hand!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">He looks at that guitar again and this time he plays it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">At work, Nathan tells the client that he’s in….good hands.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wink Wink.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey & Lilah have a meeting with the head of a company that I guess has been poisoning people with chocolate.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He knows what kind of law firm it is because when Lilah mentions enchanting the jury, he doesn’t blink an eye.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey’s new hand…is writing kill kill kill over and over again.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Back at the Hyperion, Angel has ordered sandwiches.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He tells the delivery man to keep the change and the delivery man (who is not listed on IMDB, credited or not credited) responds sarcastically: "Wow. A whole dollar just for me. I'm the luckiest delivery man ever.” And it’s hilarious.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Ahh, we get a little more info on this guy who stabbed himself in the eye.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia figures out that he was happy about his eye…like he just acquired it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wes & Gunn find out that the family has been disappeared.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">At Caritas, Lindsey is singing and guitar playing.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">That’s not karaoke:</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Shazam tells me that this is an original song by Christian Kane.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lorne tells everyone that they’re all working on the same case:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">That Lindsey’s new murderous hand has to do with the guy who stabbed himself in the eye.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“He’s got your case, forgive me, in the palm of his hand. “ All these dad jokes.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Who wrote this? Greenwalt wrote this one.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">At least Lorne had the decency to apologize for his.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel’s got an idea.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He got Lindsey’s fingerprints off the glass of water he drank.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">But he doesn’t have a policewoman frenemy anymore.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">How’s that gonna work?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile Lindsey has his own plan – He uses Nathan’s computer.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Fact: Nathan Reed’s password is ‘Zen’.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And the computer and its contents look like this and….oh man. This was about 20 years ago?</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgASPGTAoK04fh2ZxPTJSwZb2lOmNgeMpXYA7WpLiKEYumusmcppOxksQRDWjtTixlKM7LHZ22GXwbolZUjHgHAO9fnU7rcnrgV86FNO336oK0JzYDnlVuwnUyVoG7g6EcCcbtvY5Gl645H/s830/Computer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="830" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgASPGTAoK04fh2ZxPTJSwZb2lOmNgeMpXYA7WpLiKEYumusmcppOxksQRDWjtTixlKM7LHZ22GXwbolZUjHgHAO9fnU7rcnrgV86FNO336oK0JzYDnlVuwnUyVoG7g6EcCcbtvY5Gl645H/w400-h299/Computer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">So Angel did it but doesn’t want to explain how.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">When he’s forced to, he says he hired a private detective…</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel says, “We did, she got fired, get over it.” Explaining away Kate’s absence who could have really helped this ep.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They need another frenemy on the force.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey, still at the office, finds Lilah looking through files. I’m surprised most of W&H isn’t still working.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I mean lawyers, plus evil. I mean, more evil than usual.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">You work at least 100 hours a week at a firm like that.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey visits a parole officer.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Fact: Christian Kane doesn’t know how to pronounce Lawyer.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The parole officer punches Lindsey and gets him in a chokehold.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then Angel attacks from the window. Neat way of getting around the home entering thing.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“You’re choking my lead!” - Lindsey, to Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel & Lindsey act bad cop bad cop to get the info from Parole Officer Guy. It works.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia is still really upset.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Gunn & Wesley are concerned. Wes tells Gunn about what happened last year when Cordy ended up in the hospital.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Fight time!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel & Lindsey work on the same side.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">They seem to be fighting humans only.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">They knock all of them out.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Ooh.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">They find a basement full of people in cryo-chambers being kept alive for their parts…</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Turns out Lindsey’s hand comes from some guy from W&H mailroom.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And he keeps saying “Kill Me.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel saves some people.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey kills Mail Room guy.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Mercifully, I guess?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I mean.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He was just missing a hand.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">They probably could have saved him.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Then they blow up the entire place.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s time for the promotion. Long story short, too late. Lindsey quits & tells them to promote Lilah.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">He reminds everyone that he has an evil hand so not to come after him.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And I guess it works?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Kinda too easy.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">But I guess the powers that be - and by that I mean the producers - wanted Lindsey to live. For now.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">There is some light blackmail, too.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey packs his stupid truck. Angel wishes him goodbye.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I don’t know if this is the intent, but I ship it. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li></ul><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKkSJ1stlmjvkPWRrogsikfwTNtsm7A00i1SID4D4xsp02N_0HIYNkfpIpdrnMtKlfCOVsqU8hf3NG5jQpzZHPXMUpfkM8ytyfCQzFkBtu8NuUzV70PlVO2SXsE06Fv3uf5oh6nU_wRY5/s2424/Screen+Shot+2021-01-04+at+3.17.42+PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="2424" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKkSJ1stlmjvkPWRrogsikfwTNtsm7A00i1SID4D4xsp02N_0HIYNkfpIpdrnMtKlfCOVsqU8hf3NG5jQpzZHPXMUpfkM8ytyfCQzFkBtu8NuUzV70PlVO2SXsE06Fv3uf5oh6nU_wRY5/w400-h178/Screen+Shot+2021-01-04+at+3.17.42+PM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We ship it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></p><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn: Angel’s gonna sing? // Cordy: Isn’t there some other way? // Wes: There has to be. Think, damn it! // Angel: Hey!<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy: "Why didn't you ask me?" Angel: "Well, you said, why is everyone asking you if they can get you anything, and-and I didn't wanna *do* that..." Cordy: "So you did this - instead." Angel quietly: "Yup." Cordy: "I love you."</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lindsey McDonald, Lilah Morgan, Lorne, Nathan Reed<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Michael Dempsey, Kavita Patil, Pete Gardner, Stephanie Nash<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Kavita Patil (Nurse on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>,<i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"> </i>Mrs. Lee on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</i>), Stephanie Nash (Wife on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Dr. Wilton on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</i>)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorne’s Nicknames:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Angel Cakes (Angel), Pilgrim (Lindsey), Sugar (Lindsey)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey’s Nicknames:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr. Save-a-Soul (Angel)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel! In! History!</span></b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Back in the 50s, we all thought life was gonna be like <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">The Jetsons</i> by now.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also Angel is old enough to think $1 is a good tip on a whole bunch of delivery food.</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Caritas Song List</b></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">“LA Song”</span></div></span></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stats:</span></b></div></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – chin bob with highlights<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 2 <br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Handed Ex Machina – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 1 (evil hand!)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 1 (source of evil hand just wanted to die)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-5586277220166968652020-12-23T11:49:00.005-05:002020-12-29T15:46:16.520-05:00You're an Office Manager and I'm Dead<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Episode 2.17: Disharmony.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Original Airdate: 4.17.01<o:p></o:p></span><span><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2kxtSfSRHy_o3qifTBF1TAuGwK29yhk5dX5uEW6ifePtGcEUarvX7k-ZN_umSdHwFctJRvIs9T7WiS8sN_IdOCzPuIUhco9Gf2w7-tyP9TpHBpkC8-iOunvDOrFZKwGTdWcC2iHdS_dQ/s627/Angel_2x17_001.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="627" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2kxtSfSRHy_o3qifTBF1TAuGwK29yhk5dX5uEW6ifePtGcEUarvX7k-ZN_umSdHwFctJRvIs9T7WiS8sN_IdOCzPuIUhco9Gf2w7-tyP9TpHBpkC8-iOunvDOrFZKwGTdWcC2iHdS_dQ/s320/Angel_2x17_001.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>“Angel and his friends
fight a new vampire running a motivational pyramid scheme. And Cordelia helps
her old friend Harmony, who’s now a vampire.”<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zsDEnSNiYGWXeWxhyrQB8_ZSNExS5PhmeK01BieohC5FWoZFsx2W1Qnn4r77qV4fr7ehgZjttgKN6U-dGxkBMrpXWhP6u40Dee3gA-B_gZ2e3lrHnCPKZpKz9aEN6i0RACsECW99UlI/s300/buffylaughingrealme-1.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zsDEnSNiYGWXeWxhyrQB8_ZSNExS5PhmeK01BieohC5FWoZFsx2W1Qnn4r77qV4fr7ehgZjttgKN6U-dGxkBMrpXWhP6u40Dee3gA-B_gZ2e3lrHnCPKZpKz9aEN6i0RACsECW99UlI/s0/buffylaughingrealme-1.gif" /></a></div>So in the season three
finale of<i> Buffy, </i><a href="http://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2013/09/we-attack-mayor-with-hummus.html" target="_blank">Harmony got bit by a vampire</a> – then the next
season revealed <a href="http://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2013/10/i-love-syphilis-more-than-you.html" target="_blank">she was one and dated Spike</a>, and then <a href="http://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-girls-so-hot-shes-buffy.html" target="_blank">had a hissy-fight with Xander</a>. Then this season <a href="http://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2014/09/rudely-attacked-by-nothing.html">she had minions</a>, making Buffy laugh a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lot</i>, <a href="http://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-sodding-breadbox.html" target="_blank">dated Spike some more</a>, <a href="http://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2015/02/like-lollipops-at-circus.html" target="_blank">broke up with Spike for the third time</a>, and now you’re all caught up!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So it’s the end of that
Angel avoids his friends Arc. But not quite since we’re in the
apology phase of it. Wesley is laying down the law by giving a speech.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel acts like a sorry
puppy and the rest of the gang are overdoing it a bit, giving him coffee
orders & treating him like an intern. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know he deserves it, but
I hope they’ll get over it soon cause it’s not as fun to watch as they think it
is.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After the credits – random
couple making out in a car. Don’t you know that’s
dangerous? And as if on cue, hooded hooligans smash in their
windows.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To be fair, Wes &
Cordelia & Gunn really do seem like they’re really organizing the business.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Cordelia: “Just so we
understand each other – you and I? we’re not friends.” And, harsh
but again fair. Anyway, you don’t always have to be friends with
your co-workers. <span style="color: red;">[I’m confused. – Z,
Daniel’s coworker and friend]</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordelia gets a vision of
the lovebirds.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The gang rush off to help
the couple. Cordelia stays.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then Harmony sneaks
in! “I haven’t seen you since-“ “The high school blew
up!” Yes – since she vamped out. Nice to stay in touch,
Cordelia.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harmony makes a neck
comment so we know she’s a vampire. Eh? Eh?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They vaguely discuss their
lives the past couple of years without revealing anything too intimate or
supernatural.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the gang kills vamps in
green robes! But Gunn remembers that Cordelia said it was blue
robes. I remember black robes?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway, Gunn runs off and
Angel tells Wesley he gave Cordelia the night off. Wesley reminds
him that he can’t buy their friendship or trust. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Where’s my
Sorry-I-Got-Shot-In-the-gut bouquets.” Lol.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile Cordelia & Harmony
are having a girls night in with robes and wine. Wait, did they
shower together? Is this what straight girls do? </span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwk9S4FAp4XXAECGWXgOWy5IQGLsrysy4NHtrZZyYdlJTK7Cbe5php8nrV_BNwh3Ca2z44Go9CjDolxOL9JYLwLC8EfbIi3uE2VH1XaObW6C6n6dWejw8e8hSprgCjXaySPBB6ObAYPYs/s1024/Gals+Bein%2527+Gals.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwk9S4FAp4XXAECGWXgOWy5IQGLsrysy4NHtrZZyYdlJTK7Cbe5php8nrV_BNwh3Ca2z44Go9CjDolxOL9JYLwLC8EfbIi3uE2VH1XaObW6C6n6dWejw8e8hSprgCjXaySPBB6ObAYPYs/w400-h225/Gals+Bein%2527+Gals.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just gals bein' pals</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They reminisce about high
school when Cordelia was popular and stuff. Hey Harmony, remember
that time Cordy called you a sheep?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is kinda honest tho –
You can be an adult with someone you had a weird relationship with in HS.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harmony is more vague about
her life. She says she’s….hungry and then briefly vamp faces while Cordelia is
reaching for the phone to order pizza. And I guess that’s for the
viewers who didn’t watch <i>Buffy. </i>And to create some intrigue I
suppose. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Later Harmony sneaks into
Cordelia’s room. Phantom Dennis slams the door to warn her. “I have
a ghost,” Cordelia tells Harmony nonchalantly. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then Harmony talks
vaguely about Cordelia being luscious and haha, gay humor.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s all so awkward and
weird.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh hey, it’s
Willow! Cordelia is calling Willow. How does Cordelia have Willow’s
dorm phone number? It’s not as if they were ever really friends.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And now there’s more
awkward gay/vampire misunderstandings and I don’t remember there being that
much.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally Willow clears
things up about Harmony. And then Cordelia says “Great big lesbo” which holy
shit.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Willow comes out to
her. “That’s great!,” says Cordelia, “Good for you!” “Thanks for the
affirmations,” Willow rightfully snarks. I wonder why Cordelia
didn’t follow up with, “Then why did you hook up with my boyfriend, you
ho?” </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway Willow calls Angel to
warn him. He and Wes bust in.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But apparently Cordelia
& Harmony are all ok with everything. And she’s weirded out that
Wes & Angel would think she wouldn’t be.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I remember this episode
being more wacky funny than wacky awkward. I was wrong.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordy & Wes bring
Cordelia back to the office. Harmony doesn’t want to stay alone with
the ghost so she goes too.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harmony does what she does
best, annoys.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel distracts her with
blood but she ends up just enticing him by asking him how he can stand not
drinking human blood.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn comes back with intel.
He says a flirty hello to Harmony before Wes reveals she’s a vamp. He takes it
in quick and continues with his intel: Vamps are recruiting.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then…okay. I really
don’t remember this part of episode – but there’s a vampire pyramid scheme
going on. The emcee motivational speaker vampire is explaining the
rules to the vamp crowd. They’re all wearing different robes
depending on what part of the pyramid they’re on I guess. But the ones
on the higher tiers seem to be learning the same as the one on the lower
tiers. I dunno. It’s fine. Wacky episode, remember?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SHENANIGANS</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Harmony spills coffee on the keyboard….and
the rest of the computer bugs out. Only the keyboard would short
out.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s time for Cordy to
distract Harmony. She brings her to Caritas.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She sings “The Way We Were”
and of course it’s terrible.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harmony is eating potato
skins with her blood. I forget where we were on the vamps eating regular food
thing. I think they can eat it but they can’t really taste it or….it
doesn’t do anything for them nutritionally? Anyway, it’s in
character so I’ll allow it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile the gang stops by
because they need Cordy’s help. And then Harmony hustles along
behind them declaring that she’s one of the good guys now & wants to join
them, much to everyone’s chagrin.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway, Harmony annoys
everyone - again – as Cordelia finds the “big red bird” from her vision.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel gives Cordelia a good
talking to. “She’s the enemy. Harmony will turn on you.” SPOILERS!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You didn’t just hurt me.
You gave away my clothes”. HA! Nice continuity there.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Imagine if you had gone
nuts and slept with Darla.” “I would never do that,” he lies.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s a lot of security
in the building against people with souls so Cordy suggests Harmony go in as a
spy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After some convincing, she
does it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harmony comes out,
seemingly helping them inside. But of course…she’s betrayed
them. And now everyone is surrounded by vamps.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Big fight with multiple
vamps. Cordelia gets thrown in the air by Harmony. Wes fights the
leader. He calls Angel by name and seems to know him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Cordelia double
crossbows & it looks badass:</span></span></li></ul></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oHhcQ0StsY7elYhrBv1H4u1lOcZwA0kQGLjtZufuwdVfIwulPnW0-rM3pr2tMA_93mu-enyawi_gY097518kUtU8HIM7UtYTPlx6jphaFeR0W9dcLRUyyK5p34K2RoBJ7kvH3hzFloU/s1024/Double+Crossbows.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oHhcQ0StsY7elYhrBv1H4u1lOcZwA0kQGLjtZufuwdVfIwulPnW0-rM3pr2tMA_93mu-enyawi_gY097518kUtU8HIM7UtYTPlx6jphaFeR0W9dcLRUyyK5p34K2RoBJ7kvH3hzFloU/w400-h225/Double+Crossbows.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It’s nothing personal. I’m
evil! We’re still friends, right?” – One thing I love about Harmony is that
she’s uniquely and consistently written.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordelia lets Harmony live
because <i>she</i> still has her soul at least.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ha! And Angel
bought Cordelia a whole bunch of clothes and I guess all is forgiven.</span></span></li></ul></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></o:p></span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was a seven week
hiatus between Angel’s big epiphany and this. So that’s a thing.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Me: “All right, ‘Disharmony.’
Disharmony on you, Disharmony on your cow.” // Daniel: *ignores me*</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wes is lecturing Angel
about how he has to behave like a good little boy and show him proper respect
and get out of <s>Dad’s</s> Wes’s boss office.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*snort* Cordy set up a
folding table for Angel’s new working space. And now he’s on a coffee run for
the whole group. “Man, atonement’s a bitch.” And that’s how we know that even
though we had basically the most important (at least the most quoted) scene in
Angel’s run last episode, we’re gonna be a bit sillier this episode.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Random couple making out in
random car, random hooded figures attacking said random car, you know how it
goes.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ooooh Allyson Hannigan as
Willow, special guest star.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordy’s changed so much
since early Sunnydale. She’s excited to fight the good fight and help the
helpless, she’s wearing muted colors, but to Angel she reminds him, “you and I,
we’re not friends.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordy’s clearly suffering a
worse headache than usual after a new vision, which is hey, another arc.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But as she schmuck baits
her way around the hotel lobby, suddenly: Harmony! How did Harmony find her? Oh
right, enhanced vampire nostrils.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You got a place to stay?” //
“You offering?” // “Do I have to say it?” // “Yeah.” *snort*</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel and gang to the
rescue of random couple!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But Angel’s still
floundering at the whole human interactions, asking Wes if he should send Cordy
flowers, and Wes asks for a “sorry you were shot in the gut” bouquet. That’s
right, the gang doesn’t know he’s the reason the zombie cops suddenly dropped.
I guess props to Angel for not trying to get points back by telling them.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile Cordy’s trying to
explain how much happier she is with her new purpose than when she was Queen C,
but when Harmony only laughs, Cordy, embarrassed, starts laughing to cover up
that moment of vulnerable honesty. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile,
Harmony’s still not sharing much, but in case anyone watching hasn’t seen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i>, we do get a quick look at
Harmony’s vamp face.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Come on, Harmony, you’re so
lonely and starved for affection, would you really contemplate drinking from
Cordelia when you could suck on a stranger?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But now it’s time for some “funny”
ambiguous language about Harmony having urges while looking at Cordy, so hey
there #gaymetaphor. Cordy, a great ally, “I don’t care about that, not as long
as you’re happy.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s not really an explanation
for why Harmony hasn’t eaten in a while. It’s not like she’s trying blood
abstinence. A conscience still hasn’t occurred to her.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Awwwww baby Willow in baby
dorm, brushing her (not-baby) teeth.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Willow, cracking me up,
“we’re all clear on the fact that Harmony’s a vampire, right?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also Willow comes out to
Cordy and Cordy is way less convincing as a gay ally with her forced enthusiasm
at that reveal. Also, after being so accepting and loving earlier, to
immediately call Harmony a “big ol’ lesbo” behind her back is just … come on,
dude.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatnNmPpruuydWkpxptJi-_W_DHElJzAyePSoPSTb_FiNImTz87eEQD-wgjDoqHwuNdOdGGexBU-n0LwnqnzYQ4c9BKati1SHxr-9ZB-CcE6Rc4KVaXFjIBnKbSpjTrrLC4l_7ReAqpTs/s245/tumblr_mbirx4WTND1r8gsqgo6_250.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="245" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatnNmPpruuydWkpxptJi-_W_DHElJzAyePSoPSTb_FiNImTz87eEQD-wgjDoqHwuNdOdGGexBU-n0LwnqnzYQ4c9BKati1SHxr-9ZB-CcE6Rc4KVaXFjIBnKbSpjTrrLC4l_7ReAqpTs/w400-h278/tumblr_mbirx4WTND1r8gsqgo6_250.gif" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel’s bouncing off the
walls trying to be useful but the truth is Wes, Gunn, and Cordy had already
worked out a fairly good balance of their skills without him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wes: “[VampHarmony] is not
your friend. That thing may have your friend’s memories and her appearance, but
it’s just a filthy demon, an unholy monster. (Off Harmony’s small look of
vulnerability) … no offense.” // Harm: “About what?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They’re costuming Charisma
in a lot of bare midriff outfits this season. I’m not saying she doesn’t look
amazing, but I have questions as to the Why of it. (yes, yes I know the reason,
I’M JUST POINTING IT OUT)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wes is getting annoyed at Harmony
popping her gum (she then disposes of said gum by tearing out a page from
Wesley’s book, THE MONSTER), and he actually comes at her with a stake, very “so
I said to her, I said, you pop that gum one more time” and then there’s a big
dance break.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn, after eye-flirting
with Harmony, then finding out she’s a vampire, does some amazing face acting
on his recoil, before saying “Don’t we kill ‘em anymore?”</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrulpxHuFtysh6h4IkucD3EImc325cSoIAP5RXSdLZWP-iClJ1jxvxPRrpIyfNR5pphMGIeerf0QHViO-aBhDY1mqH5WMJTb6p9tTUgfszRDmPi_uquxZ3NhrPj7DSYuqLu-nTiDMD3E/s450/gunn01.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="450" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrulpxHuFtysh6h4IkucD3EImc325cSoIAP5RXSdLZWP-iClJ1jxvxPRrpIyfNR5pphMGIeerf0QHViO-aBhDY1mqH5WMJTb6p9tTUgfszRDmPi_uquxZ3NhrPj7DSYuqLu-nTiDMD3E/w400-h229/gunn01.gif" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">(thanks Lucas for the gif!)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When we reveal the theater
full of robed vampires getting sucked into the pyramid scheme, my stomach just sinks
at the idea of trying to manage our body count stats.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love the lack of
subtlety. All Doug the Cult Leader’s iconography is pyramid shaped. They want
to make sure we get it.</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdrss2NYmvbQ-s0NDBoMz8kMiRNCTHG9FN1JNZDOrnIJt3RiOk9yKBrWHlM21rOCZSFpCS5NbvbBSiMuF2ZYtvoJo4O-FvJs8j6r8lCnR0Tf-RIVjLT_-m0lpAf7uRvQwSGWHOWY0Yhk/s300/doug+sanders.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="300" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdrss2NYmvbQ-s0NDBoMz8kMiRNCTHG9FN1JNZDOrnIJt3RiOk9yKBrWHlM21rOCZSFpCS5NbvbBSiMuF2ZYtvoJo4O-FvJs8j6r8lCnR0Tf-RIVjLT_-m0lpAf7uRvQwSGWHOWY0Yhk/w400-h269/doug+sanders.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also I’m cracking up that
Doug Sanders was a pyramid scheme life coach as a human, and is doing the same
thing now that he’s a vamp. That is … quite the mustache.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aww, Cordy brings Harmony
to Caritas. That means … MY BEST FRIEND LORNE.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I think your friend should
reconsider the name Harmony.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I picked up on the
‘betwixt and between,’ ‘gotta find my corner of the sky’ vibe.” and wow, he got
two musical theater references into one sentence. I love him.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunn: “Just so we on the
same page, when we find this vampire cult, we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i> gonna kill ‘em right?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harmony’s decided she’s one
of the good guys now. The problem is the good guys are all profoundly annoyed
by her presence.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am an evil fighter.
That’s why I suck at being evil, I was meant to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fight</i> evil.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordelia spots the bird
from her vision but it’s not red … but luckily Angel shows he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">can</i> be useful, turns on a red neon light
and suddenly … red bird!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel tries to remind Cordy
that it’s in Harmony’s nature to turn on him. Cordelia calls out him claiming
his soul as being his true nature and making him de facto good, by pointing out
how shitty he was recently while ensouled (she also specifically identifies one
of his big betrayals of giving away her clothes). Also Angel reminds us what a
bad liar he can be, saying Cordy knows he’d never sleep with Darla. Remember
how he was a good liar for one episode, tricking Faith into thinking he was
Angelus?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway, they’re sending
Harmony into the cult as their mole, forgetting that she has, as Chip Mulaney
would say, the “the moral backbone of a chocolate éclair.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harmony comes to fetch the
gang, sneaking them in the back, chattering loudly the whole time, thanking
them for helping her find her purpose … which of course is betraying them to
the vampire cult, because she’s a scorpion and nature can’t be denied, booboo.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I mean, Cordy told us years
ago: Harmony’s a sheep.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fighty fight oh god how do we
count. Oh good a bunch of them are running away after Angel stakes exactly one
vamp, wow.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordy, being a badass,
aiming a crossbow at Harmony’s throat. H: “That won’t kill me.” // C: “No,
it’ll just hurt like hell (raising second crossbow aimed at Harmony’s heart)
This one will kill you.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harmony, tearful, asks if
she and Cordy are still friends. Cordy lets her go, but no, they’re not
friends. And to Angel, also not currently her friend, “Don’t say anything. Not
a word.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And for our comic coda, as
Wes talks to Angel about giving Cordy time to forgive him, we see that Angel
heard Cordy earlier and bought her many bags of colorful clothes, and she’s so
fucking adorably excited, and even Angel’s mirroring happiness and excitement
is adorable, and y’all know how rarely I think this man is adorable these days.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRjmITbG9nxCED33fQSdBqsefj1QJMBR6QoSiCnnHa6Eu5qkOo41EdPuGM99ma-Zu-fATs_BMpKJYKGFzxjED-rfuNy8JdR4Ld7XAEEqVTXYSfggm9-pnfmdYCNSOzbKH1v-9FfK2xS0g/s245/new+clothes.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="245" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRjmITbG9nxCED33fQSdBqsefj1QJMBR6QoSiCnnHa6Eu5qkOo41EdPuGM99ma-Zu-fATs_BMpKJYKGFzxjED-rfuNy8JdR4Ld7XAEEqVTXYSfggm9-pnfmdYCNSOzbKH1v-9FfK2xS0g/w400-h263/new+clothes.gif" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></span></div>Daniel: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I think your friend should reconsider the name Harmony” – Lorne,
in response to Harmony’s singing<br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zelda:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “I picked up on the ‘betwixt and between,’ ‘gotta find my corner
of the sky’ vibe.” – Lorne<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></span></div>First Appearance:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Harmony Kendall, Willow Rosenberg<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Recurring:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Lorne, Phantom Dennis<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Pat Healy, Rebecca Avery<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Buffy Crossover:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Harmony Kendall, Willow Rosenberg<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Adam Weiner (Caged Guy on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Angel</i>, Simon on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i>)<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lorne’s Nicknames:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> My Little Cacophony (Harmony)<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Caritas Song List</span></b></div></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span>“The Way We Were”</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span> </span></div></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Stats:</span></b></div></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Cordelia’s Hair – blonde
highlights, hair gathered back with clip and headband because it’s super short
y’all; later, down, pin-straight, side-part</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead Humans – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead Undeads – 6<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cordelia Has a Vision
– 1<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel Prat-falls – 1<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Duh Reveal – 1 (of course
Harmony turned on them. Come on, y’all)<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shenanigans Called – 1<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prophecy Called – 0</span></span></div>
Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-41495356651825271552020-11-30T15:12:00.003-05:002020-12-01T11:49:35.231-05:00All That Matters Is What We Do<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 2.16: Epiphany.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 2.27.01<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLU4KUnhHbOGIRKtcgQXzddRbvkV-Pdk61WM0bKTkxdeUBOvjaR5TNt6VeXHUXHN3LWCm5jV1uFaiougm6KsX8g45hf8XWE3kTBELo7wxTYpjsgcXAd2DHwYNDdSsERqYnkIWFvrBOeGd/s1024/Cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLU4KUnhHbOGIRKtcgQXzddRbvkV-Pdk61WM0bKTkxdeUBOvjaR5TNt6VeXHUXHN3LWCm5jV1uFaiougm6KsX8g45hf8XWE3kTBELo7wxTYpjsgcXAd2DHwYNDdSsERqYnkIWFvrBOeGd/w400-h225/Cover.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Angel has an epiphany which has him questioning his actions over the past few months. Meanwhile, the three eyed demon clan is after Gunn, Wes and Cordy. It’s up to Angel to save them … if they can all start trusting him again.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All right y’all. Let’s have us an epiphany.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Starting where we left off, with Angel waking post-coital with a gasp. As in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>, he runs out into the rain, his shirt half on. Pretty sure this rain only exists at the Hyperion, since Cordy doesn’t seem to encounter it on her money-getting errand/trap.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Darla assumes what we’re all assuming (if we don’t know the future), that his soul is flying the coop and soon he’ll be smoking and wearing eyeliner again.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But Angel looks at her, stricken. “You saved me.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And he apologizes to her. And somehow that apology makes her realize it didn’t take. “You saved me. I’m sorry I couldn’t do the same thing for you.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She even asks the same thing poor Buffy asked, “Was it not good?”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel agrees it was perfect. “It was perfect despair.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He says she’s always been the reason, for everything. (um, okay) I don’t quite know why he’s classifying sex with her as saving him from what he was sinking to.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But on the plus, what she’s saying is making him recall echoes of the message Kate left, and he rushes off to save her. And he’s able to enter her home, even though he’s never been invited in. And he couldn’t save Darla. But he can save Kate.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Powers-That-Be intervention? Or was she truly, momentarily dead?<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Honestly I have to go with PTB because … if she was dead he would have had to do CPR, and he told us he couldn’t administer it to Buffy in “Prophecy Girl” because he has no breath. If the show doesn’t want me to call shenanigans, it has to be PTB intervention.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Darla’s back at Lindsey’s, where he knows he has to keep her even more of a secret. But she’s got the ring that Angel stole, and Lindsey recognizes it. Apparently after Angel swiped it they disenchanted it, so Darla doesn’t even get her Power Ring. She’s having a rough year.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Caritas in off hours! Lorne’s got an adorable honeycomb-colored robe. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWn_g2dCKxuhzjoZfPJAT08Wr3VdOI17RlG-KqiYtw7g4wTciCpkpPPcm1zCfr29I9KUJltal1KzkwcO9UyrSQxIh045P2DZdEkYlLR2twqjikLM34xPm7S8qdItqdA_AXcgHllSPJAyR/s1024/lorne+robe.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWn_g2dCKxuhzjoZfPJAT08Wr3VdOI17RlG-KqiYtw7g4wTciCpkpPPcm1zCfr29I9KUJltal1KzkwcO9UyrSQxIh045P2DZdEkYlLR2twqjikLM34xPm7S8qdItqdA_AXcgHllSPJAyR/w400-h225/lorne+robe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He thinks Angel’s turned a corner. Heyo we’re done with Beige Angel! Swank.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s called a moment of clarity, my lamb. And you’ve just had one.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel doesn’t know how to get back to what he was. “Well, that’s just the thing. You don’t. You go on to the new place, whatever that is.” I love this.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wow, Lorne even gives Angel the out that the wine cellar slaughter would have happened with or without Angel’s help. And like. I just. I get not holding Angel accountable for Angelus’s atrocities. But he needs to be held accountable for stuff he does while still in possession of his soul.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorne tells Angel he needs to save the rest of his team, and I have so many questions about how Lorne knows any of this. No one’s singing. I thought singing is how he unlocks his thang. But he just seems to be in possession of all necessary knowledge, from Angel’s sexing to his not-beiging, to the team in danger, and you know what, this time I am calling a <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">shenanigan</b>.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, Cordy arrives at the Sharp home, and no one’s there, the lights are out, but the door is apparently unlocked so she lets herself in and <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">I know she has seen horror movies come on</i>.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Welp, that’s four dead bodies on the floor.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And she has a vision too late to save herself. She shouts to the PTB: “That was helpful!”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aw man, since this is the same night as last ep, poor Wes is wheeling around his apartment, newly dumped, when he hears what we know is Skilosh demons approaching. And he can’t reach his weapons, though he’s trying.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh he got the shotgun down. Good job Wes.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But it’s Angel at the door, demanding to be invited in before the demons can get to him. And soon enough, hey, that’s two demons down.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes almost smiles in triumph at Angel, then remembers, and frowns: “What are you doing here?”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*snort* Lindsey, after pouting on the couch, gets his cowboy boots out of the closet. Yee-haw!<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes is in the car with Angel, off to try to rescue Gunn and Cordy, but he’s still not too fond of broody boy.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And Angel’s doing this fake-cheerful attempt at bonding (over gut-wounds) that I always superhate from him because they’re going for funny awkward but it’s so far away from Angel’s energy that I don’t even buy it as an overcompensation. I’m really gonna hate it when it comes back in S5 with Wes’s father.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aaaaaaaaand hey it’s time for another Please Why No Stop recurring theme of demons forcibly injecting Cordelia with their spawn and CAN WE PLEASE FUCKING NOT.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes reminds Angel that he doesn’t know the team anymore, that Cordelia isn’t the party girl he seems to think she still is. “It’s the visions, you see. The visions that were meant to guide you. You could turn away from them. She doesn’t have that luxury.” I guess they’re implying that she’s continued to have visions we haven’t been seeing?<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile Gunn and Wes have a secret handshake now. Angel’s feeling all jealous. Good.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Does it make sense that she would go there in the middle of the night without calling either one of you?” // “They owe us money.” // “Let’s go.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aaaaaaaaand Cordy’s got that third eye spawn thing going on.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes and Gunn are both pretty dismissive of Angel’s epiphany. “That’s real good that you can have one of those. Ain’t that good, Wes? Cuz, you know, epiphanies, they handy. When do you think you might be having another one? … No, I’m interested, you know, cuz they could strike at any time. Could be the next time you see one of them lawyers, you get all epiphanied off right back at them.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Welp, that’s five Skilosh here to attack our three in the car. Angel tells the other two to keep driving to Cordelia, while he stays to fight the ones that found them.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But before they can battle, the quintet all scatter—because Lindsey and his cowboy boots and old truck have shown up and he literally crashes his car right into Angel and his epiphany.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have a hard time believing Lindsey’s been lawyering around in this truck. Did he just keep this as his spare vehicle for when his cowboy self re-emerged? With how difficult parking is in LA?</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-lAsYsvsDzoW_3uhOBwCrbSXkK2_iYNHt2vVNYk9vaPtLie3_EBdCKmOAgxBVB8zAWDyagsxmgkf-9yUrQHL4utvotnoiwEl0baQxfHi8t7IIxEkB8AQKv214FrpDosXCjzJXDsoTeIW/s1024/Farmhand+Lindsey.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-lAsYsvsDzoW_3uhOBwCrbSXkK2_iYNHt2vVNYk9vaPtLie3_EBdCKmOAgxBVB8zAWDyagsxmgkf-9yUrQHL4utvotnoiwEl0baQxfHi8t7IIxEkB8AQKv214FrpDosXCjzJXDsoTeIW/w400-h225/Farmhand+Lindsey.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lawyer Lindsey now available in Farmhand Lindsey<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hot damn, he’s got a big ol’ mallet to beat Angel up with. This isn’t toxic masculinity at allllllll, beating someone up for having sex with someone who’s not even your actual partner. Nothing gross to see here, moving along.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So since Angel didn’t do battle with the five Skilosh, does that mean they have circled back to the Sharp house and in fact will be there to hurt our trio? Angel, already failing on his redemption mission.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But first let’s have him beat the shit out of Lindsey, including the fairly brutal blow of smashing his prosthetic hand with the mallet. “Could have been the other one. Just be glad I had an epiphany.” Before then, he did get in an apology that hit some valid points, including that he didn’t try harder to save Lindsey when it seemed possible to save him, last season.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes has come so close to giving us some pratfalls, but I’m grateful he hasn’t, since he would definitely tear his stitches. But the almost-falls are still amusing. He’s a good physical comedian.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel smashes Lindsey’s truck into the house, which is the confirmation we didn’t need that the entire Sharp family is dead. Sorry, Cordy, you’re still not getting paid.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The eye-spawn thing is undone by Wes, Angel fights off the demons, I have about 30 questions about why they didn’t just plant their spawn in Mama Sharp, and why they seem to have just fled now because I don’t think Angel killed them, but whatever, let’s get to the emotional beats.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No, you know what, before we get to that, <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">shenanigans</b> on the whole Skilosh masterplan. They should have implanted in all the Sharps rather than slaughtering them, and they shouldn’t have just fled in disgrace when Cordy was un-implanted. We’ll never see them again so I guess their vengeance vendetta is an only-sometimes situation?<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is it a recurring issue on this show, that even when their emotional arc stuff is strong, the minutae of the demon-of-the-week is invariably sloppy? It wasn’t this consistently sloppy on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy tells Angel he really hurt her feelings, and lets Wes and Gunn help her, Angel returns the car to Lindsey with a “Thanks” message, Lindsey sees that Darla has moved out, and Angel and Kate finally have their heart to heart.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“In the greater scheme or the big picture, nothing we do matters. There’s no grand plan, no big win … If there is no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. Cuz that’s all there is.” This is the line, the line people always quote when they talk about why they love <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>. The notion that even with no final reward to expect, the fight is still worth it. Doing good is still worth it. Being good is still worth it, as end in itself. It’s the most important thing. It doesn’t have to be about one grand gesture that saves the world. It can be one small gesture that makes one part of the world a better place.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s also a reiteration of his conversation with Buffy in “Gingerbread.” “We never win … We never will. That’s not why we fight. We do it cuz there’s things worth fighting for.” Wait does that mean his epiphany is something he already knew two years ago? And that another show already covered? Oops.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ooooooops.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kate’s had her own little epiphany, having survived her suicide, and she’s ready to keep fighting. “I think maybe we’re not alone in this.” // “Why?” // “Because I never invited you in.” I think she’s siding with the PTB intervention too.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And for our final emotional beat, Angel visits the office where the trio are. “I’m sorry.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And in another capitulation, he doesn’t want them to work for him anymore. He wants to work for them. “Why?” // “Because I think I can help.” And that’s right. They’re the ones who didn’t abandon the mission, whose commitment has been unshaken. Better to follow their lead, and work on re-earning their trust.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Let’s go.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></span></b>Rainy windy evening at the Hyperion. We start where we left off.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel wakes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is his soul leaving his body like when he slept with Buffy? Let's see.<br />Darla joins him on the balcony satisfied with herself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She wanted this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She expected this. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>She thinks he needs a fresh kill to wipe away the memory of his soul.<br />She also admits she was planning on killing him. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>Whoops, he still has his soul. The thing is, Angel’s not playing her here. He genuinely feels sorry for her. What we're seeing is Angel's [insert title of episode here].<br />I dunno. I think Darla is smarter than this. Especially as an ex-prostitute, she should know that orgasm doesn’t equal perfect happiness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But maybe she trusted in their centuries old relationship.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Vampires can be idealistic too.<br />When Darla says “I trusted you,” Angel suddenly remembers Kate.<br />He runs to her apartment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He’s able to come in – I’m assuming because she was legally dead on the ground.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m not really sure how Angel saves her.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He drags her into the shower but that’s about it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He has no breath so he can’t do CPR.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Does that mean she wasn’t actually dead when Angel entered?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s a bit odd. <span style="color: red;">[Wait. - 40 Minutes Later Daniel]</span><br />Meanwhile Darla is back home and Lindsey arrives.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He’s so in love with her and Christian Kane really sells it.<br />This scene is too long.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lindsey finds out Darla & Angel are together and he acts like a jealous boyfriend.<br />Caritas. Angel comes to tell Lorne about what happened; ask for advice.<br />He feels guilty about the death of the lawyers. And other things he's done.<br />“I’m not your link with the powers, Angel. I never was.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yeah, that was Cordelia.<br />Lorne: “It depends on whether or not they live through the night. “<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How does Lorne know this?<br />Cut to Cordelia…being dropped off by a taxi to the Sharp residence.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She kinda just walks in?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The door was open but still weird to do.<br />She finds the entire Sharp family dead.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has a vision and kinda…too late?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wish she had the vision in the cab. “That was helpful,” she shouts to the heavens & I laugh.<br />We don’t see what happens to Cordy but she wakes up after being knocked out.<br />“Three are responsible. Three must pay.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The demons have a third eye in the back of their head.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cordelia realizes the connection now.<br />Cut to Wesley.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He hears the demons coming but he’s stuck in his wheelchair.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s a nice tense and suspenseful moment while he's trying to get his shotgun from the closet. A shotgun isn't the first weapon I'd associate with Wesley. He seems more of an axe man, being a demon hunter and all - but I'll allow it.<br />Angel arrives to the rescue! He begs Wesley to invite him in. He does. The demons break through the window. They fight.<br />Wesley shoots<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Eww, Yellow gory blood. <span class="Apple-converted-space"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4U5vSBI1YrAdFbNI-6HijMhUAIwDhWwrCQgdmfFWjdZ0xvyfFci4rOJ3sUDvRJcTELUZj6iwZJPlfaKtODWOsm-AP_nrgurg-gYRit7rR1-2uLM0s-W1JAeFnk7iKdLIGHczCcs1piYGX/s1024/Demon+Goo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4U5vSBI1YrAdFbNI-6HijMhUAIwDhWwrCQgdmfFWjdZ0xvyfFci4rOJ3sUDvRJcTELUZj6iwZJPlfaKtODWOsm-AP_nrgurg-gYRit7rR1-2uLM0s-W1JAeFnk7iKdLIGHczCcs1piYGX/w400-h225/Demon+Goo.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unintentional Homoerotic Content<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span>Wes does a quick smile but then he remembers that he’s angry with Angel and asks what he’s doing there and it’s very cute and so in character.<br />And now Angel is being awkward and it’s also sweet. </span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We could call it an epiphany as the title suggests or Angel might be bipolar?<br />“Guess who stabbed me,” “Darla?” Heh.<br />Wesley fills Angel in on the Skilosh demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They’re an interesting species: Asexual, they reproduce by infecting a human host….that explodes out of the human when it’s born.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What a fun existence.<br />And for the second time this series, Cordelia has been impregnated by a demon. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>Angel and Wesley look for Cordelia at the office but of course she’s not there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We still haven’t seen Gunn.<br />Angel thinks she’s out with friends but Wes shows Angel that he doesn’t know Cordy as well as he thinks he does.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He tells Angel that she’s changed partly because of the visions. Angel is shamed and rightfully so.<br />Gunn’s back. For some reason Wes thought he was leaving for good.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I didn’t get that from the last episode.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m not sure why Wes did.<br />Angel is pretty much in goofy repentance mode and it’s silly but I’m here for it.<br />Clues! Gunn figures out where Cordelia went.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>Cordelia, who has now passed out for a second time, wakes up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span style="color: red;">[One day I'm gonna wake up in a coma - Cordy] </span></span>This time, with a third eye in the back of her head.<br />“You just wake up and, ‘bang?’” “Kinda the other way around.” HA.<br />Holy crap! A demon just jumped into Angel’s moving car!<br />They fight it off.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But there are more coming.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel tells Gunn to take the car and get to Cordelia while he fights them off.<br />Angel’s about to fight when they run off.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lindsey, in some weird truck runs him down.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <b> </b></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZdf7tCwNx9XQU5tkYsTytxcobRxKzzzxzVEKkdFXBpM8UYtwz_zNRLx-Eq9-Ucpt5xcqaiJRDdlDZBEDA8RUPXrx_QaR2Hq5zZ8cy68PbfYt9lOBM4iwlQGClHPOiyLOn721DsCt61ar-/s698/Weird+Truck.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="698" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZdf7tCwNx9XQU5tkYsTytxcobRxKzzzxzVEKkdFXBpM8UYtwz_zNRLx-Eq9-Ucpt5xcqaiJRDdlDZBEDA8RUPXrx_QaR2Hq5zZ8cy68PbfYt9lOBM4iwlQGClHPOiyLOn721DsCt61ar-/w400-h276/Weird+Truck.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farmhand Lindsey now comes with Truck from the 1930s!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span>Wes & Gunn are outside the house.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They see Cordy with her third eye with all the demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wes says gestation might be almost complete – but the little girl had this eye for way more than just one night. <b>SHENANIGANS.</b><br />Lindsey comes out looking like a farmer and hammers Angel. Wait. I mean with a literal hammer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He’s pissed about Darla but he doesn’t know the whole story.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He thinks Angel did something to Darla.<br />Lindsey puts the hammer away and gets a stake.<br />“I’m sorry she’ll never love you.” Ouch.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel knocks Lindsey out and takes his truck.<br />Wes & Gunn have been captured. It’s all up to Angel now.<br />Oh hey, they want to impregnate Wes & Gunn now.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>Angel smashes though the living room with Lindsey's truck.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How did he know he wouldn’t hit his friends?<br />Anyway, Angel fights and kills the demons while Wes performs the magic spell to….er….abort the demon spawn.<br />Lindsey comes home to Darla being gone.<br />Oh hey, Kate stopped by the Hyperion. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>This is Kate’s last episode and for so long, I’d forgotten she had such a long arc. And I think I forgot that because it was a long arc – but it wasn’t a detailed one. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m glad she’s having a happy ending and an epiphany of her own.<br />Kate brings up a loose end as well and I’m glad she did.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She never invited Angel in, yet he was able to come in anyway.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And she wasn’t dead, as I thought….so something else intervened.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And It doesn’t feel forced.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It doesn’t feel like a plot hole. It feels earned. And it’s a nice moment.<br />“I don’t want you to come work for me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I want to work for you.” And shut it, you’re crying.<br />And Cordy has another vision.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some generic big scary.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wesley says “Avengers Assemble” and the all go.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The gang is back together.<br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I was tempted to go with the line that everyone knows, but I really like this one too: </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Angel: </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I don’t know how to get back.” // </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Lorne:</b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Well, that’s just the thing. You don’t. You go on to the new place, whatever that is.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Daniel:</b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Gunn: </b></span></span></span>“You just wake up and, ‘bang?’” <b>Angel: </b>“Kinda the other way around.” </div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vgfxzBxJGzVvPy5Uij5A7HfSMxqf4wHY-bKNb0ad884TiDRxC0Zpdsgm0AobXKS7KGbZxBW1EdYgUdAnKo_prD5A9EsVJfRyYYUGYMJcw9QqKQOodHWV2mvR90WfsqD9Z5NGBM14-RYg/s245/Angel+Quote+1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="245" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vgfxzBxJGzVvPy5Uij5A7HfSMxqf4wHY-bKNb0ad884TiDRxC0Zpdsgm0AobXKS7KGbZxBW1EdYgUdAnKo_prD5A9EsVJfRyYYUGYMJcw9QqKQOodHWV2mvR90WfsqD9Z5NGBM14-RYg/w400-h229/Angel+Quote+1.gif" width="400" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3BozZ3B1x0vc0oGsSeK6ZWIMDzUmcLNh5PqLXK_xPd3XS9-q7VfubU80hUCZoNXuO2PPddK3rn84p1fNovSmYYt_7HJaZz5BYJNU8DzeYjXQ9FYHOsqElydlUBDxur-HYmmnNjvzM4yQ/s245/Angel+Quote+2.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="245" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3BozZ3B1x0vc0oGsSeK6ZWIMDzUmcLNh5PqLXK_xPd3XS9-q7VfubU80hUCZoNXuO2PPddK3rn84p1fNovSmYYt_7HJaZz5BYJNU8DzeYjXQ9FYHOsqElydlUBDxur-HYmmnNjvzM4yQ/w400-h291/Angel+Quote+2.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Detective Kate Lockley (final episode), Lindsey McDonald, Lorne, Darla, Francine Sharp (as a corpse), Skilosh Demon<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorne’s Nicknames:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> my lamb, sparky<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stats:</span></b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – well there’s this third-eye-egg situation<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 3<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 2<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 2<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 1 (Angel isn’t Angelus … YET)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 3<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></p>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-56567088706233282362020-11-25T11:40:00.003-05:002020-11-25T11:40:30.482-05:00City of Angphlmns<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipD6cpI7wybZdoQBvwM6BGcTNXxNMbVhuIq52kNvokDPXCn7wBmlFRxjLNeO1J8Jbl6ZGanwd4o8GaaAnqxEJ95uci9h6KrMn0vp3FdI20WqhKz0oFgJ17Nw4ZQM4TBEzKeI5OWdtKO0Q/s245/tumblr_70c04eaaafdf325f5cc7fc44f03e2db3_1219eb79_250.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipD6cpI7wybZdoQBvwM6BGcTNXxNMbVhuIq52kNvokDPXCn7wBmlFRxjLNeO1J8Jbl6ZGanwd4o8GaaAnqxEJ95uci9h6KrMn0vp3FdI20WqhKz0oFgJ17Nw4ZQM4TBEzKeI5OWdtKO0Q/s0/tumblr_70c04eaaafdf325f5cc7fc44f03e2db3_1219eb79_250.gif" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Episode 2.15: Reprise.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Original Airdate: 2.20.01<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“On the eve of a 75-year
review at Wolfram and Hart, Angel seeks a magic ring that will take him to hell
to look for the firm’s ‘senior partners.’”<br /></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span></o:p></span><span style="color: black;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abandoned graffiti and garbage filled
building. Creepy Doll…</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Screaming.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel cautiously approaches.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Omg, he’s in a room full of goats.</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHtyS8aKw11ytzCdMvrqUCInAEf_LA64JPmln31tWWhVvZ8Ra5lkvSqpus_menjz7EILAE6V2UYl1c7rT-lin-Sk9MznuilpJ6FlS1D_tl5Llx1O1Sg1lEfwujLKdmbWZagxxq3CE2BE/s250/angel+goats.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="250" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHtyS8aKw11ytzCdMvrqUCInAEf_LA64JPmln31tWWhVvZ8Ra5lkvSqpus_menjz7EILAE6V2UYl1c7rT-lin-Sk9MznuilpJ6FlS1D_tl5Llx1O1Sg1lEfwujLKdmbWZagxxq3CE2BE/w400-h278/angel+goats.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lol, and there are two guys who are reading Ikea-like instructions
about sacrificing goats and it’s kinda hilarious. “Using a clean, diagonal
motion slit throat of sacrifice with the pre-blessed ceremonial dagger
provided. - I didn't see that in the box."</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel knows the guys are being given orders by W&H.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These two morons don’t even know what they’re praying to – they
don’t know what they’re doing. They just work here.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And in continuity from last episode, Wesley is in a wheelchair
& the little girl who had a third eye is now cured.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The mom now thinks it’s a big scam and won’t pay.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley thinks it’s okay. Cordelia and Gunn do
not. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn makes up some excuse to leave and we don’t see him for the
rest of the episode.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">W&H: Lindsey & Lilah are worried about their review in two
days. She mentions a fellow-lawyer who gave her first born as a sacrifice to a
demon and wow. Neither seem fazed by this.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lilah also mentions Darla & Drusilla and asks Lindsey if he’s
seen them. He lies, no.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, meanwhile, goes to Kate for help. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also happening on Friday? Kate’s review time. Internal
Affairs are investigating her because of what happened with the zombie cops
last week.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She also pulls out a picture of the dead lawyers from the wine
cellar.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey comes home. Darla, still with some burns, lies sick on
Lindsey’s couch. He’s had her the whole time. Apparently,
according to Exposition Darla, Drusilla brought her to him & Dru is gone,
presumably having left LA.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Lindsey goes to take a shower, Darla gets up like she’s not
as sick as she’s making out to be. She opens the file Lindsey
brought home.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas is overflowing with people. And lawyers.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m not here to sing” “Is that what we’re calling it now?”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So this review happens to W&H every 75 years and everyone’s
worried about it. Lorne sums it up in two words: Senior Partner.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel is desperate. He needs to know what’s
happening. Lorne insists all the rituals happening around the
city are just brown-nosing – nothing important.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne: “I’m picking up one other thing. They’d really
like to see you dead.” Pan to half a dozen lawyers staring at Angel with
dagger-eyes. Heh.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel tries to do research but he can’t find the ones he’s looking
for.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He barges into the new crew’s office and demands a
book. Cordelia is pissed but Wes wants to just get rid of him and he
tells Cordelia to give him the book.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“If it was anybody else, I’d just say get laid already.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then Wesley’s stitch reopens.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate’s review. I guess it’s Friday? Kate won’t talk because what
can she say? The reviewers bring up her father which I guess is her
only characteristic. And she’s been fired.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m glad your father’s not around to see this.” Me: “Oh, Fuck
you.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ooh, more continuity. Angel visits the bookstore owner
that he visited back in the 50s. He’s of course much older and
Angel is the same age. He’s fascinated even though Angel pretty much
admits that he didn’t help the hotel people & just let the demon have
everyone.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Angel does research about the ring that Lorne mentioned – it
gets you to home office all right, but home office is just a fancy term for
‘hell.’</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now there’s a mention of a glove that he
needs. It’s all pretty convoluted and even Angel thinks so too
saying, “Ok, now you’re just making this up.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Book Store owner thinks everything is going to be all right
now. And oops, he’s stabbed through the torso by Darla – as is Angel
who needs to recover – so he can’t immediately run after her.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Wesley/Virginia. Don’t know whose place this
is. Doesn’t matter. Virginia, who grew up with evil
demons and such is scared for Wesley. The demons she’s used
to. The guns, not so much. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The gun was fired by a zombie if it makes you feel
better.” It doesn’t. She wants Wesley to quit.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And they break up? And it all just happens so fast and weirdly. I’m
not really sure why except maybe Virginia didn’t test well. They
don’t really use her much. Zelda and I are always surprised when
she’s there. Because she’s just “there.” And that’s not the actress’s
fault. They didn’t give her any agency like they did with other boy/girlfriends
of <i>Buffy</i> characters like Oz, Anya & Tara. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate meanwhile brings her stuff home and is sad.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lilah walks with her security guards who Angel takes out easily.
Angel coerces her into getting inside but she notices his wound.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes calls Cordelia indicating that he won’t be in
tomorrow. She takes it in stride. They talk about life
and friends and it’s nice & also a little bit sad.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s about to leave when the mom from earlier calls to say
she’s going to pay them but this is obviously a set up.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the mom turns around, there’s a demon who obv made her
call. And then the demon kills her.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">W&H: Chanting and suits and pentagrams. You know,
the usual. Security lets Nathan Reed know that there’s a vampire on
the floor and then of course Angel shows up. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lilah gets away by elbowing him in his wound.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel finds Darla who is wearing the glove. They
fight. Lindsey looks on helpless.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But oooh, someone is rising from the pentagram.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey punches Lilah out for saying “stake the bitch” re: Darla.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel pushes the demon out the window with the glove which I guess
kills it? Z & I are unclear about how but whatever. He’s dead
and Angel has the ring.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He puts on the ring and says home office.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then elevator to hell opens in the middle of
nowhere. Holland is inside giving the slow-clap. He
indicates his contract with W&H extends beyond death which is super
creepy. I’m glad they brought him back for this.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course the elevator to hell has elevator music.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the way down, they discuss the apocalypse which of course.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holland explains that they’ve always been there and always will.
“The world doesn’t work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us
- because of us.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the elevator opens, they’re right back where they
started. I guess the point being hell is Earth. Hell is
other people. How philosophical. And how pointless.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel does a slow walk thought LA. Through the
homeless, people fighting. Kate is sad. Wesley is
sad. Cordelia is about to meet her death. That sorta
thing.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel comes home to hear Kate leaving a message on an answering
machine. For those Gen Zers out there: this is an answering
machine.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA8gpM0DZ-LJq0O3LoRoZNzMkHfnWTvKRcbnfFDY30xynB4GaGhnB0xVQo9LfuHRahgGWcf92EuNxMsHIBAGwiv7UB30QJXbLt3OVUdYigpVrDou7JRGC_Jl9v-Ndlf95ciU_IPw5GmW4/s378/Answering+Machine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="343" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA8gpM0DZ-LJq0O3LoRoZNzMkHfnWTvKRcbnfFDY30xynB4GaGhnB0xVQo9LfuHRahgGWcf92EuNxMsHIBAGwiv7UB30QJXbLt3OVUdYigpVrDou7JRGC_Jl9v-Ndlf95ciU_IPw5GmW4/w363-h400/Answering+Machine.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She drunkenly rambles at Angel. It seems there’s
alcohol and drugs mixed which is never good. It’s not her last
episode, but it is her second to last so we’ll see what happens next week with
her.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel comes home, defeated. Darla is there. He tosses
her the ring of pointlessness. And then Angel really hits rock bottom. He
has sex with Darla. I don’t know what he’s hoping for. He
says he just wants to feel something. I don’t know if he thinks
it’ll turn him evil. But he tosses her through a glass door so too
late?</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway they have their vampire sex and it’s surprisingly
vanilla. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cut to the next day when we assume Angel’s gonna
turn. He wakes up with a start like he did the night after he slept
with Buffy. And then….we cut.</span></span></li></ul></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /></span></o:p></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</b></div></span></o:p></span></b><span style="color: black;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The titles for this show
are so whatever. So many titles are just one word and I don’t know what any of
them mean so I can’t remember the plots without reading a synopsis. Anyway this
is the one where we find out where hell is. Well one of the hells. Angel was in
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a</i> hell, after all. Is that why it’s a
reprise? Like. Why what.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anywhen, in an abandoned
graffitied building, he finds a room full of goats. Oh right, goat sacrifice.
Okay.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hah that’s David Fury.
Random. His other Whedonverse cameos feel more … playful.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">OMG they’re doing the
ritual sacrifice for W&H and shoutout to S5 when goat sacrifice is one of
the phone options.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They’re the lackiest
lackeys though and know nothing, so Angel destroys the altar and sends them
running.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Not!Angel
Investigations has gotten rid of the eye in the back of that girl’s head
between episodes. I’d call it a weird way to tie up the arc but I know the
future etc.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, the mom’s being
real shitty and refuses to pay them because an eye in the back of a head isn’t
possible therefore they’re charlatans and what utter bullshit. I guess next
time take photos for before and after views?</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes is cool letting them go
and I’m confused he’s not concerned about the money since he just racked up a
major medical bill, between the ambulance and hospital stay. To say nothing of
the future physical therapy to recover his strength once he’s out of the chair.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, W&H and Lilah
and Lindsey and blah blah some big review is coming up. I guess that’s what the
goats were for.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel brings his concerns
to Kate, who … isn’t concerned. “Why is this so important to you?” // “Because
it’s important to them.” // “Oh right, and therefore it must be stopped.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apparently Kate’s job is on
the line because of that time Angel beat up the zombie-raising police captain.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate’s calling Angel out,
not for all the shit she knows about, but the shit she just figured out: That
Darla and Dru had to break out of the wine cellar after the Holland Manners
massacre. That Angel locked them in there. She says she’s done helping him, and
damn straight. See, hating Angel for being a vampire was annoying and stupid.
This? Justified. Proper. Right.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile it turns out
Lindsey’s been sheltering Darla while she recovers from her burns. No word on
where Dru is, but I think she has her appearance in <i style="color: black;">Buffy</i> around this time, yes? <b><span style="color: red;">[Yep,
seven days earlier – imdb]</span><br /></b></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne time! Yay Lorne!</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel wants the skinny on
the W&H doings, and there’s a bunch of lawyers in the bar. He tips Angel
off that they’re worried not about the upcoming review, but the reviewer. The.
Senior. Partners!</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, not able to find the
research he needs at the hotel, storms into the gang’s new office to swipe some
books. Cordy tries to stop him, but it’s enough to make Wes stand and say “Just
give him the damn thing. Let him get the hell out.” Aaaaaaand tear his stitches.
So, more medical bills.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate’s getting fired but
they’re offering her therapy as part of her severance. “You people have no idea
what’s going on in this city.” // “Is this the part where you start to talk
about monsters? We’ll need your gun and your badge.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then one final dig: “I’m
just glad your father’s not around to see this.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And that’s it. Kate’s
career is over.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Awwwww Angel goes to the
same old bookshop he went to back in “Are You Now…” and it’s got the same
proprietor, Denver, only much older! That’s a nice callback.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well at least we finally
know what Angel thinks the way to win his war is: go to the Home Office/Hell, and
destroy “the whole lot of them.” I guess that’s the same plan he goes into S5
with?</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s a magic glove.
Angel’s got experience with those too.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aw fuck. Darla kills the
store proprietor and takes the glove. I forgot about that. “The ring’s not
about vengeance, Angelus. It’s about power. We’ll get to the vengeance part
soon.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is another interesting
piece in the Why Fight the Fight argument that this episode (and next episode)
are making. We see here evidence that Angel does and has made a difference. He
changed Denver’s life, gave the man hope. But we also see that just as easily,
that life can be taken away by someone who doesn’t even care that he ever existed.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Virginia’s taking care of
Wesley, but it’s clear she’s rattled by his injury, by the fact that it came
from a regular gun and not some supernatural element. She asks if the battle
always feels like it’s worth the fight.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley realizes that this
might be the deal breaker for their relationship, if he keeps fighting this
good fight.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But fighting that good
fight, that’s the big thesis of this arc, and leading up what is a lot of
people’s favorite line in the whole series.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But before we reach that
epiphany, we’ve got to keep digging deeper to get to that rock bottom. Kate’s
self-medicating her pain with alcohol and trashing her apartment. And Angel’s
planning that daytrip to Hell.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And we all know any daytrip
to Hell starts with knocking out Lilah’s bodyguards and breaking into W&H
again.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile the Sharps are
calling again, after stiffing the gang on their fee, and Cordelia’s heading
over … on her own. But Cordy! Admiral Ackbar wants you to know that IT’S A
TRAP. The Skilosh demon made her call Cordy over, then snaps her neck. Well
then.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey how did Darla get on
the floor without setting off the sensors like Angel did?</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Angel and Darla
fight over the glove at W&H while the ritual summoners keep summoning. Lilah
says “Stake the bitch” to the guards tackling Darla, and Lindsey punches her
for it.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Angel tacked the
summoned whatsit, it disintegrates, but he’s got the ring and the glove! He’s
got all the accessories.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And an elevator opens.
Inside the elevator, clapping that slow clap, is Holland Manners! Hi buddy! So
much more compelling than Nathan Reed.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m quite dead.
Unfortunately my contract with Wolfram & Hart extends … well beyond that.”
Another nice bit of foreshadowing for spoiler in S4, including that the death
injury remains on the body.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holland warns him the trip
to the Home Office is one-way.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holland wants to know what
Angel’s long term goal is here. “Now, let me see, there was something—in a
sacred prophecy, some oblique reference to you. Something you’re supposed to
prevent. Now what was that?” // “The apocalypse.” // “Yes, the apocalypse, of
course. Another one of those. Well, it’s true, we do have one scheduled.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Of course all the people
you save from that apocalypse would then have the next one to look forward to,
but hey it’s always something isn’t it.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel: “You’re not gonna
win.” // Holland: “Well, no of course we aren’t. We have no intention of doing
anything so prosaic as winning.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel wants to know why
then. Holland says for W&H there is no fight, they just go on. “We’re in
the hearts and minds of every single living being … The world doesn’t work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in spite of</i> evil, Angel. It works <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with</i> us. It works <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because of</i> us.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Y’all this is a good scene.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The doors open on the Home
Office – it’s the same bit of street Angel just left. Angel’s got tears in his
eyes as he takes in the truth. The Home Office is Earth. Hell is other people,
and all that.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We music montage our way
among Angel walking through the petty evils of humanity, his last bit of
righteousness leeching out of him; Kate, adding pills to her self-medication
and sinking further; and Wes, lying on the couch, wounded and heartbroken. And
Cordelia, off to go fight that good fight.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And honestly it’s so
important the montage ends with Cordelia. Angel’s lost his last bit of hope,
his war is over because it was never a war to begin with. Kate’s almost gone.
Wes is alone and hurting. And while all this is happening, while everyone is
sad and alone and scared and broken, Cordelia keeps fighting the fight. That’s
what you do. That’s what she does.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Angel gets back to the
hotel, we hear that he never took Cordy’s voice off the voicemail. Kate’s drunk
dialed to leave a message, blaming him for making her believe and letting her
be crushed. “I won’t care either. I won’t feel a thing.” And even hearing his
friend hitting her rock bottom doesn’t pull him out, it reconfirms everything
he now knows. Everyone is ugly.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So when Darla shows up, he
gives in. He throws her against a wall and starts tenderly kissing her. “I just
wanna feel something besides the cold.” And now she’s laughing as he bends her
over a table and kisses her more passionately. So he throws her through the
French doors. “What are you doing?” // “Doesn’t matter. None of it matters.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aaaaand sex.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And, as he did at the end
of “Surprise” on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i>, he wakes from
his post-coital nap with a gasp.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is his soul gone again?
Tune in next week etc. etc. etc.</span></span></li></ul></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Daniel:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Angel: “I’m not here to sing.” Lorne: “Oh, is that what we’re
calling it now?”<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Zelda:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Not a line, but the montage ending with Cordelia going off to do
good.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">First Appearance:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Skilosh Demon<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Detective Kate Lockley, Lindsey McDonald, Lilah Morgan, Lorne,
Holland Manners, Virginia Bryce, Nathan Reed, Darla, Francine Sharp, Stephanie
Sharp, Denver (bookstore proprietor)<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Thomas Kopache<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> David Fury (writer and producer for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Angel</i>; first of three roles on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Angel</i>,
Mustard Man on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i>, Newsman on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doctor Horrible</i>)<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Lorne’s Nicknames:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Angelcakes<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas Song List</span></b></div></span></o:p></span><span style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Reunited”</span></div></span><span style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stats:</span></b></div></b><span style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s Hair – chin bob,
highlights, slant bangs</span></div></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Humans – 2<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Undeads – 1<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia Has a Vision
– 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shenanigans Called – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apocalypse Called – 1<br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy Called – 1 (Angel
has to prevent the apocalypse)</span></span><br /></div>Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-70259621737652208992020-11-18T09:10:00.004-05:002020-11-18T11:45:48.284-05:00Walking While Black<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 2.14: The Thin Dead Line.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 2.13.01</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Angel, Gunn and Wesley battle zombie police officers who have been stalking street kids.”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhheMuBMyUasTeZA4ztj4bdmY9T5y8T24FGfnF8tnq9Nm-QrNh6DGwGz1-j3lVZWeRXBXVXOe0VErcF9xtW6EnbXvHSA0l4v3WnjKZPLkfMJ84d2taxkTWekG7ZNszJmX0BCqEl4r1yADNt/s1024/Third+Eye.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhheMuBMyUasTeZA4ztj4bdmY9T5y8T24FGfnF8tnq9Nm-QrNh6DGwGz1-j3lVZWeRXBXVXOe0VErcF9xtW6EnbXvHSA0l4v3WnjKZPLkfMJ84d2taxkTWekG7ZNszJmX0BCqEl4r1yADNt/w400-h225/Third+Eye.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Ugh. Time for another I-hate-how-this-is-still-relevant-twenty-years-later episode.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel’s shoving stuff off the counter like a cat and pouting … is this right after he stopped time from stopping?</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Anyway, the other three are at their new office and hoping for a new mission (except for Gunn, who’s enjoying his newspaper).</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">And hey, a new mission walks in the door, another referral from Wes’s girlfriend Virginia, who still exists.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Yucko, little girl’s got a giant demon eye growing out of the back of her head.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Anyway, onto our A plot, we’ve got two kids running away from a slow walking predator of some sort.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">And Anne! It’s Anne. She also still exists. Hi Anne and Anne’s shelter. The two kids are begging to be let in, even though they’re past curfew. They’re scared enough that even though there aren’t any more beds, Anne lets them inside.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">And the predator? He’s still in shadow but he’s wearing a cop hat.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">I wonder if we were supposed to wonder if the cop was a good guy and the kids had done something really awful and that’s why he’s after them. I remember the episode so I know the truth, but like. That’s not something most people watching this show would buy, at this point.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel’s so lonely he goes to visit Merl, who’s packing and planning to fly the coop.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Oh right, Angel’s still using him to get the skinny on whatever W&H is up to.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">“Best of luck. Hope you bust that evil law firm wiiiiiiide open.”</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Merl’s rightly upset. Everyone shows up, beats him up, doesn’t pay, and leaves.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Back at the shelter, the next morning, and Anne wants to know what scared the two kids the night before. “Cops. They’ve been hassling everybody lately. Which, hey, what else is new, right? But these guys … this cop comes up out of nowhere and just wham. Hit me so hard I thought my teeth were coming out.”</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Anne says she thinks she knows someone who can help, and we think it’ll be Angel, but it turns out she knows Gunn! He calls her Annie, and I love this. They’re both about protecting the youth in the neighborhood. Of course they’d be friends and allies.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">But when Anne hears they’re calling themselves Angel Investigations, she clocks it and tells them Angel tried to help her a few episodes ago. The gang gets their hopes up that he’s back on mission, but when they hear it’s about W&H, they let out their collective breath and get back to work.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel’s in full stalker mode, following Gunn and Anne from the agency back to the shelter.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Here’s where we know the writers room is full of white people, with Gunn assuming the kids were provoking the cops and that’s why they’re being violent, as opposed to the crime of, as Jackie put it on </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Veronica Mars</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">, “standing while Black.”</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Although the next scene is a cop going after the fairly pallid Angel, so we know race isn’t the only determining factor in the Cop Attacks.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Aaaaaaaaaaand Angel kicks the cop’s head clean off. The head quickly deteriorates into a corpse mottled green and the head tries to keep reading him his Miranda rights.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Two of Gunn’s old associates already know about the Cop Attacks and Gunn’s mad he didn’t. They’re mad at him for no longer working the streets with the crew, but being part of Angel Investigations. Also one of them is totally Alex’s best friend Ray from </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Alex Mack</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">. </span></span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOuRt20R6tnJmy97XkBCxY53jffss9zjsEWF2UlCfujV4OajVcatjVw5TilS3hvbPju6n8k4xPzNtoQ0w5_U8Gh8veNnjmsGXnZP07B7Y0n63el_aU5KlAufWMk4wEnn9r2puK3-qegDNz/s1024/darris+love+angel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOuRt20R6tnJmy97XkBCxY53jffss9zjsEWF2UlCfujV4OajVcatjVw5TilS3hvbPju6n8k4xPzNtoQ0w5_U8Gh8veNnjmsGXnZP07B7Y0n63el_aU5KlAufWMk4wEnn9r2puK3-qegDNz/w400-h225/darris+love+angel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn finally remembers urban reality, saying he’ll be a good target because he’ll be the one “walking while Black.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh Kate still exists too. Lots of recurring folk this ep.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She and Angel are slightly more civil, but it’s hard to tell because they’re both so … stoic. Not even fun stoic. Their line deliveries are monotone, their faces barely move. It’s very … non-entity.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, the cop Angel beheaded died six months ago.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AT LAST AT LAST THE LINE ABOUT ANGEL BEING BAD AT PLANNING GOD BLESS US EVERYONE. Wes: “That can’t be his plan, can it? I mean it’s … really a dumb plan.” // Cordy: “Hey, Gunn graduated with a major in dumb planning from Angel University. He sat at the feet of the master and learned well how to plan dumbly.” The only issue I have with this is <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">no one</i> is as bad at planning as Angel, and there’s no call to throw our Gunn under the Bad Planning Bus.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes and Cordy are off to back up Gunn, deciding the rich kid with the third eye isn’t going anywhere soon.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aw, we’re at a cemetery. #Buffynostalgia. Angel can tell that a number of cop graves have been disturbed recently, and thinks someone’s zombielording them around the city. Kate panics, but Angel confirms her dad’s safely underground.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least their faces are moving this scene.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*snort* Cordelia shows up at the shelter and recognizes her shirt that Angel donated. Nice continuity.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aaaaaand a threatening fellow shows up, pushes his way into the shelter and is apparently coming after one of the kids. Cool so this is gonna go well. “You don’t think I’m gonna kill you or something, do you? … I’d never kill you here.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn: “Someone having an apocalypse and forget to invite us?” // Me: *checks the stats* “Naw, you’re good.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A cop shows up, demanding they put their hands on the wall. Gunn’s calm and asking what law they broke and basically doing all the things they tell you to do, but which somehow still often end with Black people being assaulted or killed.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes shows up, trying to be the white witness and advocate, “This man is a friend of mine.” But. The cop turns and shoots him in the gut. Ray from <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Alex Mack</i> gets his gun and shoots him before he can pull his back-up piece and kill the rest of them.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before he can finish freaking out, though, the cop sits back up, because undead and whatnot.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not-Dead Cop gets on the walkie and says “We have a situation … We have witnesses. I need back up.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cool cool cool. Nothing topical here, nothing to see.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes isn’t dead yet but he’s definitely going into shock, so they call for an ambulance.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn rides in the ambulance with Wes, holding his leg, and I’m having some friendship feelings. But before we can feel like we’re safely away, the ambulance is cornered by cop cars and they start shooting. Cops assaulting at health care providers trying to save victims of cop violence. Also not at all topical.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just. Fuck, y’all.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And it looks like the zombie cop brigade intend to take down the entire shelter, with all the kids inside it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes, sweating and pale: “He had no right.” Gunn, having known this for his whole life: “I know, man.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turns out Gunn knows Jackson, the threatening fellow, but they aren’t friends.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy insists they take Wes to the hospital, but she opens the door to see the cop cars closing in. Let the siege begin.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel strolls into the chief’s office, all, “I need to talk to you … about some of your more dead cops.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And chief just shoots him three times in the chest like wtf. That’s just full on no-code villainy, not even trying to justify that he thinks he’s keeping the neighborhood safe or whatever other shit I’m waiting for them to shovel at us.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“These are good cops. They put their life on the line,” the chief says as the cops rip metal grates off the windows, shatter the glass, and drag literal children out to be slaughtered.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The cops are getting in everywhere, overwhelming the few adults we have fighting to protect the kids … just as Angel finds the idol for the zombie god and smashes it. Suddenly all the cops collapse and revert to rotting corpse form. But our friends don’t have time to question it, because they need to get Wes to a hospital.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t hate this episode for being shitty like the last two, it’s just … it’s so fucking sucky how much this is barely a metaphor. I hate this episode from 2001 for still being infuriating, immediately relevant.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel saved his friends and the kids in the shelter by smashing the idol, but they don’t know that. All they know is that Wes nearly died and Angel wasn’t there with them, helping them protect the hopeless. So when he comes to the hospital and Cordelia catches him watching Wesley through the window, she sends him away. “Wesley doesn’t need you right now. We don’t need you. You walked away. Do us a favor and stay away.” It’s a good line but he doesn’t seem to mind being sent away. He’s still fighting that war, remember? That war that involves making Merl do all his research for him? And then glowering and knocking things off of counters in dimly lit lobbies? That war.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He’s still beige Angel.</span></span></li></ul></span></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span></b><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel comes back to a fully lit hotel and you know how this bothers me so I’ll move on.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sad music plays so you know he’s sad.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He shoves books off the countertop, so you know he’s a prick too.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, the rest of the crew seem bored at their new office which is tiled like a bathroom.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We can’t expect evil to just walk through the floor.” Cue the door opening.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">A woman who reminds me of CJ Cregg comes in with her daughter.</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFklNtZK0VHEXLdb42f9S9JjfChPcKNZxHCpQoVClvrmms615d6ZRaDbH0XpD6oSRh5z-MYadfztEX0B28rHk8TMUs9AmHPdyflcp0IHxj87W1motYadK8yRnXK_uGwi4VpNDn18A5cHO/s2216/CJ+Cregg.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="2216" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFklNtZK0VHEXLdb42f9S9JjfChPcKNZxHCpQoVClvrmms615d6ZRaDbH0XpD6oSRh5z-MYadfztEX0B28rHk8TMUs9AmHPdyflcp0IHxj87W1motYadK8yRnXK_uGwi4VpNDn18A5cHO/w640-h253/CJ+Cregg.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basically the same person<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Something bit the daughter and now she has an eye in the back of her head.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In downtown LA, something is stalking two teens.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh hey, Anne is back. Her shelter is full of teens.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The two teens who were being stalked knock on the shelter door but Anne says they’re full up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They plead and because Anne is nice and we like Anne and they seem scared, she lets them in.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The thing stalking them in the shadows?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A cop.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is going to be a fun episode.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">After the credits, we see Merl leaving town because everyone beats him up for information. Good reason, I guess.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“You don’t care about anyone about yourself," -Merl, unexpected voice of reason.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next day, Anne questions Teen #1 (Kenny?) about what happened the previous night.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He tells the tale of renegade cops.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anne goes to see the Angel-less crew. Apparently Gunn knows Anne.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia reveals the name of their former boss & Anne reveals that she knows Angel. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia is hopeful when she hears that Angel helped Anne out but when Anne says that Angel just wanted to fuck over a law firm, Cordelia is deflated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ooh, and Angel is stalking the team.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I guess he was properly shamed by Merl. </span>From the rooftop, he sees Anne leaving with Gunn. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder if they were considering adding Anne to the cast.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, in a “This is how teens talk” written by 30 year old writers scene, the ‘teens’ tell Gunn what’s going on.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel listens in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He hears enough and leaves – but meanwhile gets attacked by an ‘officer’.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Big fight.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The cop acts more robotic than zombie-like – like he’s been programmed to say what he's saying.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel knocks his head off….and his body morphs into a zombie-like skin etc.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It still talks, but winds down like a robot powering off.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn has called some of his ex-crew who are kinda pissed that he’s abandoned them and I don’t blame them, tbh.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Angel goes to see Kate. They play nice & awkward. (Name of their sex tape.)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel finds out from Kate that the officer he ‘killed’ already died 6 months before.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia tells Wesley of Gunn’s plan – basically to get the beating on tape.</span></li><li>"Gunn graduated with a major in dumb planning from Angel University. He sat at the feet of the master and learned well how to plan dumbly." HAHAHA. To be fair, I don't know if I would have noticed how dumb Angel's plans were if it wasn't for Zelda who's pointed it out many times. This is gold, though.</li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy & Wes decide to put off the third eye case and go help Gunn.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel visits the gravesite that he can tell was disturbed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He recognizes other graves that might be disturbed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel explains zombies. But they're definitely not George Romero Zombies. They're not 28 Days Later Zombies. They actually kinda act more like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem">Golems</a>. This won’t be the last time this show deals with unusual zombies.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate rushes over to another grave – it’s her dad.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel assures her that his grave hasn’t been disturbed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has a huge vulnerable moment and it’s nice that they remembered this and added this short but important moment to the episode.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another cute moment of continuity – Cordelia recognizes one of her blouses on one of the homeless teens.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is from when Angel collected some of the clothes at the hotel to donate to Anne when he wanted to get an in with Anne.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok in yet another storyline?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some older guy pushes his way into the shelter to harass one of the teens. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Gunn and his two friends set up their spy cam in time for another zombie officer.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Wesley tries to be all white-savior ‘explaining’ to the cops that this black man is a friend of his. And the reality of that scene stings.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zombie officer, however, shoots Wesley.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of Gunn’s friends ends up shooting the officer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But oops, he comes back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because Zombie cop.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zombie cop gets on his radio to get back-up, as zombie cops are wont to do.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate & Angel go investigate the precinct where the Zombie cops come from.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They don’t get much help, as expected.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile WESLEY IS BLEEDING OUT. WHERE IS THE AMBULANCE.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, there it is.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">UH oh.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The ambulance is stopped by two cop cars who just open fire.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One of the EMTs gets shot.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gunn takes over and gets the ambulance out of there.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He takes Wesley to the shelter along with the remaining EMT who looks after him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So the guy who came to the shelter – Jackson – also knows Gunn. (GUNN IS POPULAR) </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn…in a really weird bad writing moment badgers Jackson for contributing to the violence. It's like - there was really no reason to introduce this character except to shame the black community. He never comes back; he's only there to intimidate a teenager and have Gunn yell at him. It's a real "there's bad people on both sides" moment and it's awful and I hate it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Zombie Cops arrive at the shelter.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel is finally able to find the Captain of the precinct who is in charge of resurrecting the zombies. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Captain guy shoots Angel but oops, Angel is a vampire. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Captain reveals that the cops he’s brought back are cops who were killed on the streets as if this is a great excuse to raise unpredictable zombies who can just go around killing innocent people.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ooh, there’s a backroom with shrines to the cops as well as other mysterious objects.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel finally finds the thing that’s controlling the zombies and smashes it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At the shelter all the zombies re-die…</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate tries to excuse the Zombie cops by saying in the past couple of months, crime has gone down in that area.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So ok- I- <b><span style="color: red;">[SHE ONLY MEANS CRIMES NOT PERPETRATED BY COPS BEATING CIVILIANS JESUS FUCK I HATE THIS - Z]</span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hospital: Gunn waits byWes’s bedside and it’s very sweet.</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SLHaR9_ZN7HmjnjDEAfj7iM-GJrn5qo1FwY9YZ_NxgcrQh-BjKzveJxb1JRLUA_pVPIvPtpym5G-4BYxbmOSKB5D-zSyV13Se0uq1bEYtKvCzjet38aqkKX45LdUYizflvPBOa4PMylO/s1024/Gunn+Wes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SLHaR9_ZN7HmjnjDEAfj7iM-GJrn5qo1FwY9YZ_NxgcrQh-BjKzveJxb1JRLUA_pVPIvPtpym5G-4BYxbmOSKB5D-zSyV13Se0uq1bEYtKvCzjet38aqkKX45LdUYizflvPBOa4PMylO/w400-h225/Gunn+Wes.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Angel watches from afar, as usual.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This time, Cordelia catches up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She tells him that they don’t need him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She’s angry and rightfully so.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a weird arc that I hope will end soon. And it seems Angel has a little bit of remorse, so we may be seeing the beginning of the end.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Oh they never cured the eye girl. I'm told by Zelda that those two characters will return. Okay.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda & Daniel: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hey, Gunn graduated with a major in dumb planning from Angel University. He sat at the feet of the master and learned well how to plan dumbly.” – Cordelia<br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></b></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Appearance:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Rondell, George, Francine Sharp, Stephanie Sharp<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Detective Kate Lockley, Anne Steele, Merl<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generally Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Cory Hardrict, Kyle Davis, Darris Love, Leah Pipes<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jarrod Crawford (Rondell on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Lead Hydra Agent on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</i>), Darris Love (George on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Hallmate on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stats:</span></b></div></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – chip bob, straight, blonde highlights throughout<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 1 (we’re not counting the hoard at the end, who were deactivated, not re-killed)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></span></div>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-35467778901749109932020-11-03T11:57:00.004-05:002020-11-03T11:57:31.342-05:00His Own Sweet Doting Aunt Helen<p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b>Episode 2.13: Happy
Anniversary.</b> Original Airdate:
2.06.01</span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXuMxU6CXDgSiqvy9cRAA6GJoa1T_CWVg9LBkQM6RrNG_EMbG4TaUvPamWH4rD1W0Jo1hZ_dgXqip3ijs0kFU3g2d8OHRJKTe44qG__RAPhPEgo9MCLgKRJvPkHeSSi_-8guzMwtuE4c/s764/lorne+happy+anniversary.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="764" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXuMxU6CXDgSiqvy9cRAA6GJoa1T_CWVg9LBkQM6RrNG_EMbG4TaUvPamWH4rD1W0Jo1hZ_dgXqip3ijs0kFU3g2d8OHRJKTe44qG__RAPhPEgo9MCLgKRJvPkHeSSi_-8guzMwtuE4c/s320/lorne+happy+anniversary.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Angel tries to stop a lovelorn physicist from stopping time forever."<br /><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</b></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel broods. And that’s it for
now.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s visit the gang. I really remember nothing about this new
office that Cordelia found.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a mess, but it’s a decent size.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And shenanigans ensue. No Phone service! Wes
accidentally wrecks the electricity!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m so glad I met you guys. It’s entertaining, really,” says Gunn
& I’m sad because we’ll barely see them this episode.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back to Angel brooding. He falls asleep in his clean
sheets and dusted hotel. He wakes to distant singing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne is singing the Star Spangled Banner. I guess that
hotel lobby has some good acoustics. Singers can never resist good
acoustics.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Tomorrow night the world is going to end. Thought you might want
to know.” - Lorne. Great! We have this episode’s plot.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I don’t have coffee,” – Doesn’t Angel drink
coffee? Isn’t that canon?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne calling Cordelia hot-o-rama makes me feel very
uncomfortable.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne tells/flashbacks about how he knows it’s going to be the end
of the world.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love this demon with the extra head singing from his
chest. </span></li></ul></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYflHNj-RmHufSFZZr02bUdWrBhi5tXYzUOqeAkWjXT0in58utQkY952N0wdhVJJRtcBRpWVTa8cTHDrvy932xIRHexoqYzmLdiYVMaaxsPIwTP55JIhqqWmDsRX9eGaq4O1uWo9Fy5s/s546/Two+Headed+Demon.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="525" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYflHNj-RmHufSFZZr02bUdWrBhi5tXYzUOqeAkWjXT0in58utQkY952N0wdhVJJRtcBRpWVTa8cTHDrvy932xIRHexoqYzmLdiYVMaaxsPIwTP55JIhqqWmDsRX9eGaq4O1uWo9Fy5s/w385-h400/Two+Headed+Demon.jpg" width="385" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It's such an obvious puppet but it delights me.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OK this bland guy – and they really probably put that in the
casting call or he’s just a really good actor.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne read the bland guy and there was *nothing* for him or anyone
else. He thinks that because of this, the world is going to end at 10pm.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“That is if you’re not too busy getting lawyers killed or setting
girls on fire.” Touche, Lorne, Touche.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Omg, these early 2000s haircuts, I can’t.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So turns out bland guy is a scientist messing with time – and
that’s never good.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They’re using words that I don’t understand and I’m pretty sure
the writers don’t either and that’s ok. It’s just a bunch of sci-fi
mumbo jumbo. He wants to freeze time except he says it’s technically
not freezing time. Doesn’t matter. It’ll all end in chaos and that’s what we’re
after.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey, it’s Bland Guy’s Impossibly Hot Girlfriend (because of
course.) and she’s Darby Stanchfield of <i>Scandal</i>
fame among other things. But we love her and she’s so underused
here.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Angel & Lorne visit 17 karaoke bars. I
know this bartender. Mike Hagerty and if you see his face, you just
know him. He was the Super in <i>Friends</i>
and made Joey teach him how to dance.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He’s not surprised by Lorne’s appearance, though which is another
indication that people in LA are more aware of other worldly things than we’re
first led on to believe. Also the fact that Bland guy went
specifically to a demon bar and was unfazed by it. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scary guys from my worst nightmares appear in the lab after Bland
guy appears, reconfiguring the board data like Matt Damon in that movie where
he was a smart janitor.</span></li></ul></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dqBr6d7igJ8EONwNCDKPWsBXrzWX6YGo164YFg6D-7_NPF3tZxZ0w3EXexfcpuWHLTfzdXnqbl4jEv3PkFgdIs84fXlrfGCjMyi3tdL_fkDGRyWoGIMSQqH8kpkE_Gfvxx18p87Njzo/s560/Nightmare+Demons.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="560" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dqBr6d7igJ8EONwNCDKPWsBXrzWX6YGo164YFg6D-7_NPF3tZxZ0w3EXexfcpuWHLTfzdXnqbl4jEv3PkFgdIs84fXlrfGCjMyi3tdL_fkDGRyWoGIMSQqH8kpkE_Gfvxx18p87Njzo/w400-h296/Nightmare+Demons.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nightmare Fuel</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In our pointless B-Plot, Wesley’s girlfriend exists.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She waits at least 5 hours before she tells them that she has a
job for them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“They invented chairs or something.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We’ll do it! We’ll do anything” “That’s so
sad.” And her delivery is perfect and we should have Wesley’s
girlfriend here more often.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Bland Guy comes back to the lab and sees the new calculation
and he’s all excited and it seems to have worked. He froze time or
whatever…like in a bubble.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But then he just leaves like – dude, you don’t leave an oven on
and leave your apartment – why would you do that?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne & Angel are at the library because they’re both hundreds
of years old and don’t know how to use the internet, I guess.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne hides behind a book so no one can see him except for the
100s of people on this campus who probably saw him. Including one of
the nightmare guys.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile 90s Pixie Girl is chatting with Impossibly Hot
Girlfriend. And Bland Guy just happens to overhear her say
she’s breaking up with him. The words “Energy suck” and
“Sympathy Bone” are used in this conversation and that’s all you need to know
about these two.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good thing he just invented a time freezing thingy-do-hickey.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, so they’re at the campus library because they’re looking at
grad student pics – and I guess this is just pre-facebook? I’m sure
MySpace existed, though. <span style="color: red;">[Facebook, 2004 (2006 publicly),
Myspace, 2003, Friendster, 2002, this episode, 2001 - The Internet]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Angel figures out who he is by doing his quick-thinking
undercover thing that he does but oh no, nightmare guy tries to stop him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne tries to help by throwing a book but he hits Angel instead
and I laugh.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OK so now there’s this post-chat fight & no one has called
campus security?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not everyone isn’t not fazed by Lorne. (Three negatives make a
positive?) Other grad student guy is surprised and so are some
people at the library but no one really cares that much. See Lorne
can join the gang for real. People would get used to that <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=punim" target="_blank">punim</a>. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Bland Guy (he has a name but I refuse to call him anything
other than Bland Guy.) </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne tries to give Angel a pep talk to bringing his friends back
into the fold but I don’t care. It wouldn’t be such a bad thing if
the rest of the gang got some equal screentime or a chance to get any personal
character growth whatsoever.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel mentions Darla and I remember that she still
exists. Where’s she been? Recovering from her burns, I
guess.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">These nightmare guys might be as creepy as the Gentlemen but
they’re not as good. One gets hit by Angel’s car. Another
tried to use a chair as a weapon back at the library.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Wesley, Cordelia & Gunn are at the end of what could have
been an interesting A-Plot. They killed the demon, but Wesley
surmises that he was being controlled by someone in this rich family, I
guess. It’s very <i>Knives Out</i>. One
guy is even wearing a similar Chris Evans sweater.</span></li></ul></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg0FRwGM71N21HrkyPA69KjuSFfVJwdtU5OuPpAZftN6iVRP2_vV-2znMLmY3tGBo-5kXrMfgjL_o0ceX3LfpktkoYzNwyXYKF_iJps7QA3KWX9xikFkHZUR-jgDeeUrzrr6sQQsLhro0/s2938/Chris+Evans+Sweaters.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="2938" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg0FRwGM71N21HrkyPA69KjuSFfVJwdtU5OuPpAZftN6iVRP2_vV-2znMLmY3tGBo-5kXrMfgjL_o0ceX3LfpktkoYzNwyXYKF_iJps7QA3KWX9xikFkHZUR-jgDeeUrzrr6sQQsLhro0/w400-h146/Chris+Evans+Sweaters.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway Wesley continues to Sherlock Holmes cosplay and reveals the
killer.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel fights. Lorne sings a high note and kicks a guy
in the balls.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bland Guy and Impossibly Hot Girlfriend share an awkward and bland
meal. I don’t mean the food was bland – although, who are we
kidding? It most likely was.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So here comes the sympathy bone.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel & Lorne drive away from the demons…and encounter more
demons.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">While they’re boning (missionary style, of course) bland guy
freezes time.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel simply unplugs the machine which stops
everything. That seems like a design flaw, but ok. And
bland guy has his bland orgasm. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the next scene, Angel & Lorne sit with Bland guy who
apologizes. He says he didn’t know that there was a world of demons etc but
dude, he was at Caritas so I call <b>SHENANIGANS.<br /></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel starts to reconsider what he did to his friends.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Gunn, Cordy and Wes are partying it up after
finishing their case which I’m sure they got paid lotsa money for. And a new
client walks in.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Which one of you is Angel?” “It’s just a name.” Oooh.</span></li></ul><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</b></div></b><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Honestly it already feels like time has lost all meaning and is running
especially slow, this of all weeks, but sure let’s keep going and pretending we
know how to function.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oooh we’ve got a new office for our team! Full of clutter from the
previous tenant.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes tries to fix the phone line, which somehow shorts the power. ‘kay</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Angel … hangs out in his hotel room a lot?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">*snort* Lorne’s here to sing the national anthem and annoy Angel into not
wallowing in depression. Honestly, I’m siding with Angel right now, even though
y’all know I love Lorne and especially love Lorne’s singing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Never mind, Angel’s being all grumpface with Lorne. No being grumpface
with our favorite green fella!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, he’s here to tell Angel the world’s gonna end, so that’s another
stat for our list.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“So the world’s gonna end.” // “Brings you right down, doesn’t it.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne remarks that Angel’s getting darker and darker (debatable), but
says Angel’s aura is beige, and I laugh for years, and I guess that’s why this
is called the Beige Angel era.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also some unnecessary and supremely out of character objectification of
Cordy from Lorne. I hate it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I do like the continuity of Lorne still fixating on Ramone and his
betrayal and firing from Caritas.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder what the random human is doing in a demon karaoke bar. Like …
how did he find it, what does he think of the other clientele? So many questions.
Never to be answered.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, random human singing caused Lorne to pass out from what he read
on him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“He has no future after ten o’ clock tomorrow night. And neither does
anybody else.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder how, if <i>no one</i> has a
future after tomorrow night, Lorne knew it comes from this guy. That’s never actually
explained. He says he doesn’t know what the dude does to stop the world, we all
wanna get off, but somehow he just knows???? I …</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And with one final dig about Angel setting girls on fire, we’re cutting
to rando in some kind of lab, starring at a board of calculations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Science guy’s girlfriend is hey, it’s what’s her face from <i>Scandal</i>. And they have the least
chemistry ever, and yet have somehow been dating for a year, but with the
comfort of people who’ve been on two dates and haven’t decided if they’ll go on
a third.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I do enjoy the bartender who’s blasé about Lorne showing up, saying most
of the demons they get are vamps passing for human. At least Los Angelinos seem
to have a better sense what goes bump in the night than the residents of
Sunnydale.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s on the mission but he seems to care about as much as I’m caring
about this episode (I’m sorry, y’all. It is a rough time, and my ability to
detach and compartmentalize is rapidly fragmenting)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They also don’t really explain why science guy, who’s supposedly been in this
relationship for a year, not realizing that she doesn’t love him until he
eavesdrops on her, sings nothing but sad sack broken heart songs when he does
karaoke. And like … does he go alone? To karaoke? Really?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy’s trying to compensate for the lack of electricity with setting out
candles, but Gunn and Wes tell her to come sit with them behind their one desk.
“Cordelia, stop trying … join us.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes: “Sometimes you need to wallow. Just let the depression settle in.
Silently.” Shit, was this scene written for right now?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Wes still has a girlfriend and she’s here to give them champagne
and a referral to a wealthy family with a demon problem.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Science guy’s formula got fixed by the demons I was ignoring while trying
to figure out why he sings sad karaoke everywhere he goes, but anyway, they
helped him make his time stopping device work, so the apocalypse is right on
schedule!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Question for the group: The Lubber demons knew how to fix his formula.
The machine was right there. Why didn’t they just … do the thing they wanted to
do? Why did they need to make him do it?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s a lot of language here about Lorne and ladies and like … I
thought he was coded as gay? Why is there so much hetero energy this week? Who
wrote this? <b><span style="color: red;">[Embarrassingly, it was us, Joss and David. – the actual show
creators]</span></b> Why? It’s not even good bi energy because they never quite dive into
him being interested in the fellas, beyond how much he misses Ramone, and most
of that is canonically tied up in how good a bartender he was and not how good
a boyfriend he was.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Science guy’s name is Gene. I’m sure that came up earlier but whatever.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Darby’s gonna dump him on their anniversary, but he overhears her
plan.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So that’s why he’s gonna stop time, and he’s gonna do it <i>while they’re having breakup sex</i>. And
the fucked upness of that is really vomit inducing. Especially when like. It’s
not even freezing on a perfect moment. It’s freezing on a moment where they’ll
both be miserable. She, going through it to “let him off easy,” but not
actually getting anything out of it, he, having sex with someone he knows doesn’t
care about him anymore and it’s all a lie. He’s planning to freeze time on an
unhappy lie. That’s not heaven, my dude. That’s hell.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway one of those random demons with the ghosty makeup tries to knock
Angel out because he knows he’s trying to stop Gene.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fighty fight in the library.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne’s explanation for the Lubber demons is they’ve been waiting for a
messiah, which I guess is a handwave for why they didn’t just do it themselves.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But also. How much of a “golden child” is their messiah when he actually
didn’t have the science on his own and they had to push him over the finish
line. Their religion is real dumb y’all.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This episode has a lot of sense it’s just not even <i>bothering</i> to <i>try </i>to make.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne says the problem is Angel’s heart isn’t in the fight anymore.
Lorne, haven’t you heard? Angel’s not fighting the good fight. He’s fighting a
war. That’s why he was staring out the window and lying in bed. That’s how you
fight wars.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Never mind, I don’t want to empathize with Angel anymore. Yes, I can
relate to the depression, but he’s being a shit and I’m bored by it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You want to know what my problem is? I’m screwed. That’s my problem. I
can’t win. I’m trying to atone for a hundred years of unthinkable evil. News
flash: I never can. Never going to be enough … Darla had a shot at redemption.
They took it from her. Now I have to hunt her down and kill her. I’m gonna do
it. I’m gonna kill her and then I’m gonna burn that law firm to the ground.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">That’s … that’s the war? That’s how Angel wins the war?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne’s got some wisdom though: “It’s not always gonna be this way. The
song changes.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lubber ambush! Time for more fighty fight.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn succeeded in killing the demon for that wealthy family, but Wes
wants to pull a Poirot and narrate the master plan behind the demon, which he
says was only a puppet.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is clearly meant to be a satirical riff on the parlor reveal
monologue, but it’s going on <i>a long time</i>.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But anyway Gunn remarks after he finishes, “that was cool.” I think Gunn
needs to raise his standards.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back to Lubber fight. Lorne manages to stave off a double attack on his
beautiful self by hitting a high note. The literal high point of this stupid
episode.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s do the time freeze again. I guess.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily for us, the effect of the time freeze spreading isn’t
instantaneous.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Machine deactivated, Gene ejaculated, Gene’s girlfriend evacuated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also Gene might be feeling some chagrin about almost stopping time for
everyone, but I don’t think he fully grasps HOW FUCKING WRONG IT WAS FOR HIM TO
TRY TO DO THAT TO SOMEONE JUST BECAUSE SHE DIDN’T WANT TO BE WITH HIM ANYMORE. Get
this fucker some fucking therapy, teach him how to respect boundaries and
fucking autonomy of <i>people who aren’t him</i>.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jesus fucking Christ I hate this episode.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s finally noticed that firing his friends was wrong.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile said friends are having a candlelit dance party in their new office
and it’s nice to see Wes still can’t dance.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And a new client shows up, hesitant and vulnerable. “I need help.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Which one of you is Angel?” // *beat* “It’s just a name.”</span></li></ul> <br /><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Lines:</b></div></b><b><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Daniel:</b> “That is if you’re
not too busy getting lawyers killed or setting girls on fire.” – Lorne<br /> <o:p></o:p><b>Zelda: </b>“It’s not always gonna
be this way. The song changes.” – Lorne<br /> <o:p></o:p><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Arc/Continuity:</b></div></b><b><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Recurring: </b>Lorne, Virginia Bryce<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Generally Known TV Face:</b> Darby Stanchfield, Matt Champagne, Mike
Hagerty, Victoria Kelleher, Eric Lange, Norma Michaels<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Whedonverse Hat Trick: </b>Brendan Wayne (Mike on <i>Angel</i> (as Danny
LaCava), Jiaying’s Assistant on <i>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D</i>), Eric Lange
(Lubber #1 on <i>Angel</i>, Fed on <i>Firefly</i>), Norma Michaels (Aunt Helen
on <i>Angel</i>, Older Woman on <i>Buffy</i>)<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Lorne’s Nicknames: </b>Mr.
Get-to-the-point-y-pants (Angel), Angel Face (Angel), Goliath (human bartender),
F. Scott (human bartender)<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Angel’s Alias: </b>Leonard Taubman from
the Taubman Foundation<br /><o:p></o:p><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Caritas Song List</b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;">“Bye Bye Love”</div><div style="text-align: center;">“All By Myself”</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>LA Tour Song List</b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;">“Star Spangled Banner”</div><div style="text-align: center;">“Greensleeves”</div><div style="text-align: center;">“For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”</div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Stats:</b></div></b><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Cordelia’s Hair – chin
bob, choppy angled parts, blonde highlights<br />Dead Humans – 0<br />Dead Undeads – 1<br />Dead Flashbacks – 0<br />Dead Lawyers – 0<br />Cordelia Has a Vision
– 0<br />
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br />Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br />Evil Reveal – 1 (Aunt
Helen)<br />Unevil Reveal – 0<br />Shenanigans Called – 1<br />Apocalypse Called -1 (Lorne says the world will end tomorrow night)</span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy Called - 0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Champion Called – 1<br /></span></div></div>Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-71373654116300000912020-10-27T11:47:00.003-04:002020-10-27T11:48:36.354-04:00Evil Incorporated<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Xla9gFpvFEYORbO1L37NulB2Ju99dSu5omrT9BuZikQWoyTg031ThWlvXqbw46mMuDrQYjHKBX22TIpjGU5_ETXEkwlHmMkYOTSoZmhIXTVT_a-RM3GebJnaUDtasUFtSzZ4hZseMENo/s845/Anne.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="845" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Xla9gFpvFEYORbO1L37NulB2Ju99dSu5omrT9BuZikQWoyTg031ThWlvXqbw46mMuDrQYjHKBX22TIpjGU5_ETXEkwlHmMkYOTSoZmhIXTVT_a-RM3GebJnaUDtasUFtSzZ4hZseMENo/s320/Anne.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 2.12: Blood Money.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 1.23.01<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">“Wolfram and Hart are sponsoring a fund raising benefit for a local teen shelter. Angel is suspicious of their motives and starts investigating. Meanwhile, Wes, Gunn and Cordy work to establish their own detective business.”</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah yes the classic misdirect of Gunn and Wes staring each other down over tense music. But they’re just playing Risk. Ugh I do not enjoy playing Risk.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also they’re playing it in Cordy’s apartment and I see she’s been drafted into hosting the office at her home. Again.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes wants to scrap the Angel lobster business cards, and Cordy’s hackles are up because she designed them.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wow, Cordy’s visions are getting very helpfully specific about location. Thanks Powers That Be!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile Angel bumps into ANNE IT’S ANNE. Aka Chanterelle aka Lily, and I’m so pleased they’ve not only brought back this character, but shown us that Buffy did indeed help her, and that she now has purpose and confidence. </span></span></li></ul><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZw9q5bXbI9inAjp5iBAdvdbVQGYiF-HhzfH634Lh_O8jNJTaKMWFvAeCJGcedVLPkoV9YlzEa0-Vb1GYOb5eS7hRAS7n80gvP_osxeAjfp6XsHRhdfvOj3iCPWB9cbeuNGdGlik10FKRX/s608/chanterelle+lily+anne.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="608" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZw9q5bXbI9inAjp5iBAdvdbVQGYiF-HhzfH634Lh_O8jNJTaKMWFvAeCJGcedVLPkoV9YlzEa0-Vb1GYOb5eS7hRAS7n80gvP_osxeAjfp6XsHRhdfvOj3iCPWB9cbeuNGdGlik10FKRX/w400-h149/chanterelle+lily+anne.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Neither Anne or Angel seem to clock that they’ve met before.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But when Angel goes back to the hotel we see that he’s stolen her wallet and has a wall full of stalker photos of her wtf Angel, oh right one of the stalker photos is of Anne with Lindsey so I guess it’s back to Angel Has a Vendetta.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh right, Angel’s fighting that “war” while the others fight the good fight.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2qgb2OswQ-niBezvok9ckwn7iQRL4uUm9dWry-ccUIYp6emgmmzaXk8riNRegHOp8-7WUEr08EMt2N8ESvk54Z4FWmKdX6ea87CoLsCX6hiHcnmlsReAKeSz0xE_rHEFmUv7BC6JeAyW/s498/sure+jan.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="498" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2qgb2OswQ-niBezvok9ckwn7iQRL4uUm9dWry-ccUIYp6emgmmzaXk8riNRegHOp8-7WUEr08EMt2N8ESvk54Z4FWmKdX6ea87CoLsCX6hiHcnmlsReAKeSz0xE_rHEFmUv7BC6JeAyW/w400-h221/sure+jan.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s not a teddy bear and it probably shouldn’t be attending the Kenyard School for Girls.” Good point, Wes.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They’re not showing us this giant fire-breathing demon (budget!) but they show Gunn and Wes looking up and scared, and fire blasting at them.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel’s here to harass Merl some more, but at least he’s speaking this episode?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t understand why Angel’s using Merl for his intel. I thought Merl was a snitch, not a detective. Isn’t … detectiving … <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel’s job?????</i> Do your own research my dude.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel drops by Anne’s shelter (oh look, doing his own detectiving), with a paper grocery bag of clothes, including a shirt we saw Cordy wearing two episodes ago, so wow he’s just giving away her shit but also didn’t we see her exit with a file box full of stuff, but she somehow left clothes behind? This is making less than sense to me.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anne tells Angel, without much prompting, that W&H is a big sponsor of the shelter, and that there’s a big benefit coming up soon. So I guess we know that Anne, at least, is on the level. Sure, she’s taking money from W&H but it’s got to come from somewhere and a lot of big companies sponsor charities so shrug?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Random big lug demon calling on Merl, stepping on his fingers. “Angel and I have a history … an unfinished history.” Much ominous. Very yawn.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“What’s a Wolfram and Hart?” // “A law firm, technically. More like Evil incorporated.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They do that fun mirror trick with Angel sneaking into Lilah’s car and her not seeing him in her rearview mirror. “Fun.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He’s basically just there to be sarcastically happy for her promotion.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember how good <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i> was two episodes ago? Back when Cordy was wearing that shirt Angel just gave away like the shittiest of shitty friends?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He’s like … lightly patting at Lilah’s shoulder as he says “You screw with me and you screw with me and you screw with me …”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Angel, please.” // “The begging, that comes later.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They’re acting like Angel’s all dark now and I know that’s the arc they’re working on, and I believed it a bit better when he set Darla and Dru on fire, but this? This is just him being a bit of a pissant, lotta bark, not much bite, certainly not much effect (even the end of the episode and whatever strike he achieves against Lilah and Lindsey is meh). So … good job with that war you’re fighting, Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, big lug shows up at W&H and wants their help. He knows Angel’s coming for them, and wants to be lying in wait to go after Angel when he shows up, to finish some fight he had with him eighty years ago. He claims their fight was over “a seniorita” and I just. This is so dumb.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey wants him to kill Angel, Lilah reminds him they’re not supposed to kill Angel, Lindsey gripes about his plastic hand, and Lilah calls him Napoleon, taking a dig at both his height and his hand thing.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, Gunn and Wes are very proud of bringing down the giant demon thing. And Cordy’s looking for an office, and it’s very sweet to see the three of them so proud of themselves, and excited for the future. Except they each want to name the agency after themselves and then Cordy … tries to do a hip hop song and dance about Gunn’s name, and the cringe is <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">beyond</i>.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poor Merl is getting beat up a <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">lot</i> this episode. This time it’s Lilah and some W&H goons to find out the kind of work he does for Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Angel comes back to the shelter, Anne jokingly asks if he’s stalking her, and I guess to his credit, he says yes. He shows her the photos and gives her back her wallet. He’s telling her because he wants her to know that W&H are not a good firm to be partners with, including a heads up that she’s probably not gonna see many funds from the benefit, when all is said and done.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You follow me, take my picture, steal my wallet. What makes you think I’ll believe anything you say?” Fair fucking point, Anne.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey shows up to play the white knight, and then after some posturing, the big lug demon (his name is Boone, okay) strolls in.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Boone, working for Wolfram & Hart. I thought you had integrity.” We did already see earlier that he seems to have some sense of honor. Based on the timeline he gives, that fight was with Angel, not Angelus. He said it was just to see who was the better fighter, and I guess he still wants to know. Angel flees this fight, so … I guess that answers that.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey tries to mansplain to Anne about the demon world, but sweetie, she belonged to a vampire club. She went to Teen Runaway Slave Dimension. She knows what goes bump in the night.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lilah confirms that their plan was to steal $2million, and that seems … this is one of the special projects they’re in charge of? Really? I just … everything in this episode is so small potatoes acting like it’s a giant mutant spud.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“A few years ago it would have been a big turn-on. I thought vampires were the coolest.” // “What happened?” // “I met one.” Yeah … you met Angel. (Okay, fine, meeting Spike is what changed her mind. She just thought Angel was rude.)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anne points out that even if she only sees 5% of the money raised, that’s still $100,000, way more than the shelter can hope to raise elsewhere.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel gives her his little tape of “proof,” but she says no.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh hey, Holland is here on a pre-record video on the big screen. Dead but not forgotten! So I guess this special project was something Holland had set in motion and L&L are just finishing the project for him. Okay. Sure. It’s still dumb.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We meet Nathan Reed, Lilah’s current boss. He’s all fake smile and smarm and I miss Holland. Holland at least was nuanced in his evil.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Can we really change the world? At Wolfram & Hart, we’re counting on it,” says video Holland.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The silly gimmick is that celebrities are dressed up like bandits to steal donations, and … okay.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Serena, I have to know … this thing about making your character gay, is that all about ratings because … I don’t get it.” A not so subtle nod to Willow’s S4 development.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, Angel sneaked in with a black hooded cloak, and he and Boone gonna rumble again.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More har-har jokes, with one of the celebrities watching Angel and Boone fight, snarking “I’m not buying the makeup.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But hey, integrity Boone helped sneak Angel in, and staged the fight as a distraction. So I guess Anne said no but took the tape, and is now going to play it? Off-screen? Okay? Meanwhile, the live cameras capture Lindsey and Lilah desperately running to stop her from playing it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the tape is just Cordy’s audition tape.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So … this was all just to embarrass Lindsey and Lilah, but not actually expose W&H. Seriously. HOW IS THIS ANGEL FIGHTING THE WAR.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sure, it’s fun to see Wesley be silly and dance in front of the camera. But like. THIS IS SO DUMB. THIS IS ALL SO DUMB. WHY.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Okay the one not-dumb part of the plan, as Lilah and Lindsey once more run like the dickens through the party, is that Boone walked away with the money before W&H could steal it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel, to Anne: “That’s the difference between us: You still care.” I see why people call this the Beige Angel arc.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So also … if Boone was in league with Angel the whole time (which I hadn’t remembered) … why did he need to beat up Merl? That’s so goddamn petty. Merl didn’t need to be beaten up three times, and the second time was purely for the audience’s benefit. I call <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">shenanigans</b>.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New boss Nathan Reed doesn’t want Angel dead because “the prophecies all agree that when the final battle is waged, [Angel] plays a key role … which side he’s on is the grey area, and we’re gonna continue making it as grey as possible.” </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">[Or beige. – the fans]</span><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So we finally know why they want Angel alive, and sort of explains all their various machinations to try to turn him dark. They want him in the apocalypse, but they want him on their side. … ’kay</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least their plan has a stronger end goal than any of Angel’s “plans.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boone brings the sack of money and jewelry to the Hyperion, and it’s apparently what he’s wagering to finally have his knock-down drag-out fight with Angel. We don’t see the fight, but we cut to Angel, bruised and cut up, dropping the winnings on Anne’s desk.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She holds up a stained stack of bills. “What’s this?” //“Blood.” // *beat* “It’ll wash.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Well. That was certainly an episode that Daniel and I watched. </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">[We sure did. - D]</span><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When does the show get good again? Do we have anything fun between now and Pylea? I remember liking Pylea.</span></span></li></ul></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="color: #201f1e;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;"><i>Angel</i> the series really likes those fake openings where it seems like people are fighting but are actually not and it’s so obvious.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Anyway, Gunn & Wesley are playing RISK at Cordelia’s apartment.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">I think Wesley is wearing the shirt he was wearing when he was pretending to be Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia calls Angel “The A Word.” heh.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">While Wes & Gunn are spitballing logo ideas for their new detective agency, Cordy has a vision.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel bumps into our old friend Lily/Chanterelle….now named Anne. I really like that she named herself after Buffy’s alias/middle name which is something we knew at the end of that episode of</span><i style="color: #201f1e;"> Buffy.<br /></i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The first time I watched this, I don’t think I made that connection - like I think I thought she was a new character.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oh shit, Angel stole her wallet. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And he’s been stalking her!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And we see why: There’s a photo of Anne crossing the street with Lindsey.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Gunn & Angel hunt the demon that Cordelia’s vision was about. It’s too bad that</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">her visions don’t usually allow time for research.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“I thought you said he </span><i style="color: #201f1e;">breathed</i><span style="color: #201f1e;"> fire.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">As the fire comes out of the demon’s butt.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Heh</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Except this episode didn’t have the budget to show the actual demon.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s fine.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">We get plenty of demon make up.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel visits Merl who I guess is ok to work for him.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He doesn’t like Merl – so he doesn’t have to worry about caring about him and then losing him. I guess? Also it's ok to slap him around? Bah.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Merl’s underground layer is full of electronics & bean bag chairs.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel disapproves of the latter. We can’t all have furnished hotels, Angel. </span><span style="color: red;">[Yeah, check your privilege, Angel my dude. - Z]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oh now Angel’s donating Cordy’s clothes?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">How dare.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Anne tells Angel about W&H.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He finally sees that she seems to genuinely believe that W&H are good people or at least doing a good thing.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Some new demon comes and interrogates Merl.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Merl spills pretty easily, telling him what Angel is up to.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel meanwhile surprises Lilah in the parking garage of Wolfram & Hart.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">I guess the vampire detectors don’t extend to that area?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel’s acting as Darla described him last episode – somewhere between Angel & Angelus. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And it doesn’t appear to be an act.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Even Lilah tells Lindsey “He doesn’t play by the old rules.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">This new blue demon, introduces himself to Lilah & Lindsey as Boone.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He tells them he has a history with Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">So the deal I guess is that Boone wants to team up with Lilah & Lindsey to trap Angel. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia has an amazing view for what she’s paid.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I mean I know it comes with a ghost, but wow. </span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDYxfe3y_CnL4cuJw6rtqtXOvAzWttyQrWOqMllfsiuvjyBTworTxLHoKmqTyrFCBq3wXXNfAkj59sBlVSdQNiPNqquoeaxyYA9Gpf1bcLxNV5zqJbGCLP1gBnFPAAgo20aXePixWeouN/s1024/View.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDYxfe3y_CnL4cuJw6rtqtXOvAzWttyQrWOqMllfsiuvjyBTworTxLHoKmqTyrFCBq3wXXNfAkj59sBlVSdQNiPNqquoeaxyYA9Gpf1bcLxNV5zqJbGCLP1gBnFPAAgo20aXePixWeouN/w400-h225/View.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Unfortunately Dennis the Ghost does not make an…ahem…appearance. *waits for laughs*</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wes & Gunn are proud of their latest victory & Cordelia has found a new office.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They all want to name the new agency after themselves and I’d like this storyline more if there were any real conflict or point and not just a B story.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Third time someone’s infiltrated Merl’s lair. This time it’s Lilah & Lindsey.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">He says, “Last couple of days I’ve been following this girl.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">What? How?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s not as if Merl can be inconspicuous on the streets of LA.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel comes to Anne with the truth.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey comes to Anne’s “rescue” bringing Boone in.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They fight. Angel runs.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsey tries to explain the demon world to Anne</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">who is like yeah, been there, done that, joined two different otherworldly cults.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">I’m glad they brought Anne back for this.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s a perfect fit for this storyline. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile, Angel comes back to see Anne. Again.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They back and forth about evil and good and whatnot.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel wants her to slip him into the party with a tape.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">OMG, this video with Holland Manners.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s so bad.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I think it’s purposely bad, but it’s so bad.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">I love that they brought Holland Manners back just for these dumb videos.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The theme of this gala:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s so wrong.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">“Highway Robbery”.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Rich people: “Hahaha, I’m being robbed. Ha ha. Ha.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">But also, like would people really come to an event like this with so much actual cash? Ya know what? Imma </span><b style="color: #201f1e;">SHENANIGAN </b><span style="color: #201f1e;">that.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">There’s no way people would bring so much money in cash form.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oh hey, Angel got in.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And oooh, Boone was helping him the entire time! What? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcY6-90jJzZ63qNZSBZdnYWrQuM-Na-YiFxA4g-ZJfx6kI2eXxLY6odzJf5K9E0eyZ1yEXF1fQhN71anrncPpFUOP3HaunATm3PqliWA5K9z_2WLwHIjOXnHgNt93w4ZRFkTr2Sq1F4Ur/s480/giphy.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcY6-90jJzZ63qNZSBZdnYWrQuM-Na-YiFxA4g-ZJfx6kI2eXxLY6odzJf5K9E0eyZ1yEXF1fQhN71anrncPpFUOP3HaunATm3PqliWA5K9z_2WLwHIjOXnHgNt93w4ZRFkTr2Sq1F4Ur/s320/giphy.gif" width="320" /></a></div></span></span></li></ul></span><span style="color: #201f1e;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oooh, and it turns out Anne had the tape the entire time!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The tape starts with Cordy doing an audition tape. “I sorta believe the coat rack more,” one of the celebs quip.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Aww, Cordy..</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And this is back when Cordelia had long brown hair (which is done with a really bad wig.)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oh man, and Wesley dancing on camera. OH NO.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wesley is doing a strip tease. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">YOU FIRED THEM. HAVEN’T YOU DONE ENOUGH.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">There are a shit ton of levels to this shit plan.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And wait.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I mean,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">what exactly did this elaborate plan do again?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He stole the money, I guess?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Is...he going to use it to use to pay his hotel electrical bills? Cuz…</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“That’s the difference between us.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">You still care.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I think you still care, too, Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile Lilah & Lindsey get reamed out by the W&H exec.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He’s coming back so we might as well name him: Nathan Reed.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel, Nathan says, is a major player in the apocalypse.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Which one?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">There have been a few.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wow, the money with jewelry is worth 2.5 mill.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Boone comes back with the money…but why?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I guess the part of the story where they fought is true - but what reason did Boone have to help him out in the first place?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And now they fight…honorably?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And I assumed Boone was dead.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Zelda believes he is still alive.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">The consensus on the internet is that his fate is unknown.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">So I’m moving a little more to Zelda’s side. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And Anne takes the money that is literally covered in blood.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Which again, is why I assumed Boone was dead.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He bleeds red which is interesting, for a demon. So maybe they didn’t fight to the death.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">They fought…to the pain.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">I dunno. A lot of this episode is really really dumb and pointless.</span> </span></span></span></li></ul><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crossfire!</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> So he was in Juarez. And Boone’s going back to Brazil.<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Z:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> … You’d think they could try to cast a Latino actor for Boone.<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Right? What the hell?<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Z:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> What the hell?<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Can we really change the world? At Wolfram & Hart, we’re counting on it.” – Holland.<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Ss0RTWjUmlvEy-a_8cm3a6vXb1GZF70f5kqD2Ag3C56RTMPoFLmVSQlJMsYH9gQU4AukFf59W9fLnmaPgcajXFOwj-I9N9E_DVoJjmZaJu0iKiH-rqdgsKIHx-bQFn1RA6KsPlgzS7Ba/s500/Wesley+Dance+Gif.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="500" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Ss0RTWjUmlvEy-a_8cm3a6vXb1GZF70f5kqD2Ag3C56RTMPoFLmVSQlJMsYH9gQU4AukFf59W9fLnmaPgcajXFOwj-I9N9E_DVoJjmZaJu0iKiH-rqdgsKIHx-bQFn1RA6KsPlgzS7Ba/w400-h160/Wesley+Dance+Gif.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Appearance:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Anne Steele, Nathan Reed<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lindsey McDonald, Lilah Morgan, Holland Manners, Merl, Cordelia's Business card<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generally Known TV Face: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gerry Becker, Mark Rolston<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Buffy Crossover:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Anne Steele (nee Chanterelle/Lily)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jason Padgett (first of two roles on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lilah’s Nicknames: </span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Napoleon (Lindsey)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Merl’s Nicknames:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Fluffy (W&H goon)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel! In! History!</span></b></div></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the 1920s Angel was in Juarez in Mexico and got into a 3.5 hour fight with Boone over “a seniorita.” It ended when the sun came out.</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Stats:</b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – chin-length bob, blonde stripey highlights, side part<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 1 (Boone’s in cahoots with Angel)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 2<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 1 (there’s gonna be one)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 1 (and Angel will be a major player)</span></span></div>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-75659074557436072762020-10-20T11:49:00.008-04:002020-10-20T11:49:54.629-04:00Godzilla, Darcilla, Whatever<p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Episode 2.11: Redefinition</b>. Original Airdate: 1.16.01</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYm2xhUJQndrHdB14pv6zASnQfR3dz2Y0yKFL1snuLWRXmfuK351xV331imT6z4fPfZ4PQv0CRuDu7S-pOvVyuaTEPkZXUcMSNdedDnVwqX3Mcb82dPbskJvsabljm68CjrlYuaFiaBMQ/s400/gunn+cordy+wes+karaoke.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYm2xhUJQndrHdB14pv6zASnQfR3dz2Y0yKFL1snuLWRXmfuK351xV331imT6z4fPfZ4PQv0CRuDu7S-pOvVyuaTEPkZXUcMSNdedDnVwqX3Mcb82dPbskJvsabljm68CjrlYuaFiaBMQ/s320/gunn+cordy+wes+karaoke.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“After firing Cordelia,
Gunn and Wesley, Angel trains for a showdown with Darla and Drusilla while the
others decide what to do with their lives.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p> <br /> <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Wes, Cordy & Gunn now laid off, are taking their boxes out of the Hyperion</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well Gunn doesn’t have a box but the other two do. Among Cordy’s things are her MacBook and flowers. I feel like Cordy would have more stuff than that but maybe it’s a first trip</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They talk about Angel’s recent decisions. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy thinks it’s all about Darla. “It’s always some little blonde driving him over the edge.” Heh.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I won’t pretend to understand Angel’s reasons but maybe he needs to be alone right now and the best thing that we can do for him is to let him be.” Wesley is being extremely understanding right now.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel meanwhile is getting rid of all things Darla including his creepy drawings of her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now a training montage & a voiceover? Are we in a Rocky movie? <span style="color: red;">[If we hear any inspirational power chords, we'll just lie down until they go away. - Giles]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also Angel is panting as if he has breath.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, all the lawyers are dead piled on top of each other.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Except Lindsey…opens his eyes. “She saved me,” he says, all in mopey dopey wuv.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m the only one left.” “Hey we’ve got a live one here!” “We do?” Aww, Lindsey thought he was special.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s Lilah of course.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh hey…it’s Wesley’s girlfriend, whatsherface? I keep forgetting she exists.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes is wearing the ugliest orange shirt. I just…it’s distracting me.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes is at that point where he doesn’t know what he’s going to do with his life.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, as if in another episode entirely, Angel narrates pointlessly.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also seriously, who is paying the electric bills for this hotel?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back at W&H, Lilah’s arm is in a sling and Lindsey has a bruise on his face but other than that, they seem fine.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lilah is worried that they’re going to be under suspicion for surviving.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And oop – Darla and Dru are waiting for Lindsey & Lilah in his office.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“He’s got cow eyes, big and black. Moo…” – Drusilla adds her commentary as only she can.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla spared Lindsey & Lilah because they want a connection to W&H and “the world above.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some vamps roaming the sewers bragging about eating people at fast food places.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel slides in and stakes em. Who is he, Buffy?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas! Lorne is singing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley needs to make a decision about his future, so where else can he go?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Bloody Mary, please.” ‘Do you want real blood with that?” “Ah, no…bloodless, thanks.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Cordelia made the same decision, I guess. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Gunn makes three.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes to Gunn: “Well, I assume it’s not Madonna, but what are you gonna sing?” Don’t assume, Wesley. Don’t assume.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Angel is torturing his ol’ pal Merl for information: “I heard about your girls, Godzilla, Darcilla [sic], whatever.” Lol.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Monster fighting pit – didn’t we do this already? I guess this isn’t to the death, though. Just for fun?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Violence without victims,” – is what Darla calls it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OMG, Dru just pulled a demon’s ears off. Holy shit, Dru!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Vampy ladies are looking to recruit. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru can see that Angel is watching.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He was, but he left just in time. He continues to narrate his lament and non-readiness and it’s so maudlin & boring.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Lilah is worried. She wants to form a united front with Lindsey against D&D. Except she’s wearing a wire…</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now our three fired friends are drunk. Cordy’s drink of choice: Margarita. Gunn’s: beer.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy making fun of Gunn: “Mr. I don’t take orders but where do I stick my axe?” lol</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh hey, a casual homophobic joke. Must be nice for J. August Richards, a closeted gay man at the time.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now the R-word. Oh someone needs to rewrite this scene ASAP.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They drink more, they fight, they sing We are the Champions, they close the bar. I don’t care.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne comes to say hello. They want guidance now.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia has a vision & it seems like Lorne predicted that it was about to happen which is cool. I wonder if we’ll see more of that?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I guess they know what they have to do now: continue to help the helpless.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel gets all his weapons in a row and ignores a phone ringing at the hotel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They’re all drunk right now. I don’t know how they think they can help. I don’t know how they’re even walking straight.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla, “Where is he? Probably flogging himself in a church right now.” Dru: “Ooh, Flogging. Eww, Churches.” Hehe.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel goes to slay some demons but they look pretty tough.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The laid off trio meanwhile bump into the big ugly demon.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">After a long battle, Gunn finally kills him. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn points out that he nearly killed them all but Cordelia makes a great point: Yeah, but out of everyone here, which one’s the dead one? YEAH Unity!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru’s opinion of Lilah, “I like the girl. She’s wicked.” You and me both.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s killed all the demons. I bet it was those pull-ups that helped. <span style="color: red;">[You're my favorite. - Z]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla seems unsure if she's dealing with Angel or Angelus. The smoking usually means he's evil again. </span></li></ul><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZHJdA_ixWa90gYnRKrX57ufN3OKgg1knCrrXPa6UlvrPDoXNMpC0uh3swTPy2vjCJALLhBSLGjVnVziO1w2uabcv5pz3Qkuv1e3mFjcikiO2Irl-VSiPlO_0OYu5Po642eT0fY6E9LQ/s1080/Angel+Smoke.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1080" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZHJdA_ixWa90gYnRKrX57ufN3OKgg1knCrrXPa6UlvrPDoXNMpC0uh3swTPy2vjCJALLhBSLGjVnVziO1w2uabcv5pz3Qkuv1e3mFjcikiO2Irl-VSiPlO_0OYu5Po642eT0fY6E9LQ/w400-h229/Angel+Smoke.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel is playing mind-games. He sets Dru & Darla on fire. Holy shit! Their stunt doubles axe a fire hydrant open. They’re burnt all over, but they’re okay.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It wasn’t Angel. It wasn’t Angelus either.” Yeah….this is something in between. This is Angel having no more fucks to give.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now it’s time for Lindsey & Lilah’s meeting with a representative from the senior partners.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They need a replacement for Holland. The rep lays out both of their misdeeds. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the decision: Lilah & Lindsey will do the job jointly.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley comes to visit Angel. He tells Angel that they’re keeping the agency open with or without him.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh right. Angel fired everybody. Let’s go!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily they had the standard file boxes on hand to pack up random stuff
to carry out, as all fired people must.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“One thing you can say about Angel, at least he’s consistent. It’s always
some little blonde driving him over the edge!” Is this why Cordy goes blonde
later in the series?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes thinks they need to let Angel be, and that maybe he’ll return to
himself that way.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Cordy, Wes, and Gunn all walk away in three different directions.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s file box, meanwhile, is full of his pencil sketches of Darla, but
he’s burning them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s an interesting problem, really. Sometimes when I’m really upset the most
important thing I need is alone time to process. They’ve seen that trying to
Intervention Angel has, repeatedly, done jack all, because he ignores them or
fakes normalcy to get them off his case. He doesn’t have to fake anything now.
And knowing the future, he is eventually gonna cathart this. But I still think
pushing everyone away like this is just one more Bad Plan from Angel the Bad
Planner.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, blah blah Angel VoiceOvers about not being ready yet while he
does a lot of physical training, which isn’t a bad watch.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh right, dead lawyers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Except Lindsey! Not dead! Just covered by deads.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He’s kinda pleased to be the only one left, thinking Darla saved him.
When they find another live one – Lilah – he’s disappointed.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh right, Wes’s girlfriend Virginia. She wants him to file a grievance with
the union for being fired. Union of Rogue Demon Hunters! URDH!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes is a bit glum because he doesn’t think he has other skills. Come now,
he could be a librarian like Giles! He can polish spectacles, brew tea, and
pontificate about dusty tomes with the best of them!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s still VOing. Does he talk at all this episode? I really don’t
care about his inner monologue, which is mostly vague abstract yawners like “I’m
not on their level, but I can get there.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We do have the hero shot of him walking through an underground tunnel,
coat aswirl, which I think lands in the credits sequence at some point.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh hey Darla and Dru are waiting for the two lawyerly survivors in Lindsey’s office.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“He’s got cow eyes, big and black. Moooooooo.” Hi Dru.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla’s decided she wants to run LA, no longer being W&H’s puppet,
but she’s willing to keep the lines of communication open, via Lindsey and
Lilah. She won’t be the puppet, but she’s willing to have W&H be her consigliare
(did I use that word right?)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah, Angel’s other practice for getting on Darla and Dru’s “level” is …
fighting vampires. How unusual *stares at camera*</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Guess that was enough. “I’m ready. I’ve got the moves.” *stares into the
camera even harder*</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I really liked the last two episodes. This one is so much ugh-er in
comparison.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne is wailing on “Lady Marmalade” and god I love him. We lost Andy
Hallett way too soon.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes, Cordy, and Gunn all had the same idea: go to Caritas and have Lorne read
them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aw I feel a bit bummed that Gunn’s feeling at loose ends too. I thought
he was only part time with Angel Investigations and still has his own crew. Is
this the beginning of the defanging of Gunn from badass smart crew leader to
just a follower, just the muscle?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel tortures Merl to get intel, still not speaking on camera, and leaving
Merl to hang once he gets what he wants. What a shit.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some kinda demon fight club, which Darla and Dru break up with a slow
clap and a villain stride.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru straight up rips off a demon’s ears, dang. Oh and Angel’s there,
hiding under vampface and a hoodie. Give him a baseball cap and sunglasses and
he’ll be as covert as an MCU superhero.</span></li></ul></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7K4KcflrfwModgZgfXBgli3AAFE1DK1B5q7Vb-i8_UEo0mis-83nNI3V1eaywVg0UMzDqhO7MXD46DgcP_Ri4lknAFhMZufuOiDENu4SLNkoWPDmhtRuxMNsXN3JNI-TpVQKQJEr2tk/s448/angel+hoodie.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="448" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7K4KcflrfwModgZgfXBgli3AAFE1DK1B5q7Vb-i8_UEo0mis-83nNI3V1eaywVg0UMzDqhO7MXD46DgcP_Ri4lknAFhMZufuOiDENu4SLNkoWPDmhtRuxMNsXN3JNI-TpVQKQJEr2tk/w400-h224/angel+hoodie.gif" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Very stealth.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru suddenly clocks him, saying “Eyes like needles,” which is one of the
things Human Drusilla said before she was turned, in “Dear Boy.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s enough to rattle Darla, who starts combing the crowd for Angel but
not finding him. She’s losing her supervillain dignity.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We still don’t know if Darla has much of a plan beyond forming a crew.
You’d think, for a former child of the Master, she’d want to have a crew made
of this “royal” line, more from the Order of Aurelius (basically I’m wondering
why she and Dru aren’t just siring a bunch of newbies)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anywhile, Lilah’s approaching Lindsey with the proposal of an alliance,
including stealing files for insurance, like Lindsey did in season one. Except
actually her plan is to record him on a wire admitting to it and making a plan.
But he’s onto her, grabs the wire and says into the mic “But Lilah, I would
never steal files from my employer.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy’s drunky-blaming Wes for the Darla obsession, Gunn’s
drunky-complaining about their sibling style bickering, and now Wes is
drunky-saying it’s because Gunn doesn’t follow orders and what the shit.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And after an unfortunate of the use r*tard as a pejorative and an
escalating fight full of problematic shit, we cut to the three of them singing <i>quite badly</i> “We are the Champions.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne, rather than reading them their future, preps his blazer as a cushion
for poor Cordy, who’s tossed into a vision.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The three of them, drunk and sleepy, go to rescue.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They do try to call Angel but he ignores the ringing phone, grabs an axe
to go with his duffel bag of weapons, and goes off on his own stupid thing. At
least he’s not VOing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They get to the alley, the victim is missing, and they have no weapons. Gunn:
“Man, I wish Angel was here.” // Wes: “Well he’s not. Angel’s walked away from
his duty. We’re not going to.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru makes a reference to having de-eyed a bartender, but 1, we’re not
sure if the bartender was human or demon, and 2, that’s not necessarily a death
blow (after all, the guy whose ears she ripped off survived), so it’s not going
in our headcount.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru warns Darla that no matter how big an army Darla builds, Angel will still
come for them. Darla’s pissed everyone keeps bringing up Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kinda fun detail: some of the demons in the warehouse are clearly reusing
some of the demon makeups we’ve seen earlier in the series.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh shit, demon bites a big chunk out of Wes’s shoulder. Luckily, Gunn
puts the demon down.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We should go before I pass out. Or possibly during.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But yay they beat the demon!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla says with a smirk that she doubts Lindsey and Lilah even know what
W&H’s true plan for Angel is. But clearly Darla doesn’t know either, so
like … why are we being superior about this?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aaaaaaaaaand warehouse full of dead demons. “Dead already? Bad soldiers,”
says Dru.</span></li></ul></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5yNBDr8FzxkgjQLvVhEy1fBva2JtM41jmY-ugiEV6_8raRHjrxQb2-NB4XN9icP2BGz5dVxIwT8-_TauQleOCpofVC-YqhE2kem09yp5fZyn4nAehpRpG4bYNp4nctyWjFDssRZPjSY/s245/tumblr_lzt8cm9vsG1qen516o2_250.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="143" data-original-width="245" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5yNBDr8FzxkgjQLvVhEy1fBva2JtM41jmY-ugiEV6_8raRHjrxQb2-NB4XN9icP2BGz5dVxIwT8-_TauQleOCpofVC-YqhE2kem09yp5fZyn4nAehpRpG4bYNp4nctyWjFDssRZPjSY/w400-h233/tumblr_lzt8cm9vsG1qen516o2_250.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And gasp, Angel’s there, SMOKING A CIGARETTE.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">BUT WHEN YOU SMOKE A CIGARETTE ON <i>BUFFY</i>
OR <i>ANGEL</i> IT MEANS YOU’RE EVIL OR
ABOUT TO DIE.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember when Buffy’s guidance counselor smoked a cigarette on school
grounds? What the hell was that shit?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Angel tosses down his cigarette, it follows a trail of motor oil,
and sets Darla and Dru on fire and it’s fucking vicious.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I’ve got two shenanigans to call here: <b>shenanigan</b> one: they
burn slower than literally any other vampire in this universe (seriously, they
should be ash); <b>shenanigan</b> two: water wouldn’t put out a gasoline fire.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the last we see of Dru for a while … she’s got a visit to make in
Sunnydale before we say the longer goodbye (I think this is when she shows up
in “Crush”?)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Random new Old White Guy in Charge at W&H tells Lindsey and Lilah
they will jointly be Executive VPs in charge of special projects, so that their
competitiveness will yield interesting results. “The Senior Partners will be
watching you.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes comes to see Angel at the Hyperion to tell him they’re keeping Angel
Investigations open, even if he’s not going to be involved. “You may have turned
your back on your mission, but we haven’t. Someone has to fight the good fight.”
Angel continues to not speak on camera but VOs “Let them fight the good fight.
Someone has to fight the war.” What … war? Literally what. He set two vamps on
fire but didn’t even stay to make sure it killed them. Angel and His Shitty
Plans are very bad at war-fighting.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">What a dumb dumb stupid dumb character.</span></li></ul><b> </b><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Crossfire!</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">D: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow, does Angel really not talk the entire episode? I didn't catch that.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Z:</b> I think so, yeah. And it's just a narrative conceit because clearly he had to say something so Merl knew what he wanted to know.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>D:</b> I wonder if they only gave him that dumb internal monologue after the table read when David was all - dude, the lead has no lines?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Z:</b> I half wondered if he had laryngitis.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Lines:</b></div><b><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Daniel: </b></span>“Ooh, Flogging. Eww, Churches.” – Drusilla<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b><b>Zelda:</b> “You may have turned
your back on your mission, but we haven’t. Someone has to fight the good fight.”
– Wesley<br /> <o:p></o:p><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Arc/Continuity:</b></div></b><b><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Recurring:</b> Lindsey McDonald, Lilah Morgan, Lorne, Virginia
Bryce, Darla, Drusilla, Merl<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Generally Known TV Face:
</b>Nicolas Surovy, Jamie McShane<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Whedonverse Hat Trick:</b> Joel Stoffer (Vampire #1 on <i>Angel</i>, Enoch
on <i>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</i>), Jamie McShane (first of two roles on <i>Angel</i>,
Man on <i>Firefly</i>)<br /><o:p></o:p><b>Cordy’s Nicknames: </b>Mr. I-don’t-take-orders-now-where-do-I-stick-my-axe
(Gunn), Ass-pansy (Wes), Mr Big Mojo Guy (Lorne)<br /><o:p></o:p><b> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas Song List</b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Lady Marmalade” (Lorne)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We are the Champions” (Gunn, Cordy, Wes)</span></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Stats:</b></div></b><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Cordelia’s Hair –
shoulder length bob, side part, dark but now with a blonde highlight in her sideswept
bangs<br />Dead Humans – *just a
note that we revised last episode’s death count to reflect the 15 total, per
Darla*<br />Dead Undeads – 15
(assuming Dru’s count of 10 little soldiers is accurate)<br />Dead Flashbacks – 0<br />Dead Lawyers – 0<br />Cordelia Has a Vision
– 1<br />
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br />Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br />Evil Reveal – 0<br />Unevil Reveal – 0<br />Shenanigans Called – 2<br />Apocalypse Called – 0<br />Prophecy Called – 0<br /></span><p></p>
</div>Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-25748314821431704032020-10-12T11:29:00.012-04:002020-10-19T14:25:45.593-04:00Newborn Grandmummy<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode 2.10: Reunion.</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 12.19.00. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Angel fights to stop Darla and Drusilla as they embark on a murderous rampage across the city.”<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">So Gunn’s pulling a weak and limping Angel into the Hyperion. I guess Angel called Gunn and not Wes and Cordy?</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel’s all ripped up, traumatized really, from having watched Drusilla turn Darla.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Wes and Cordy are properly spooked about Dru. Gunn: “Who’s Drusilla?”</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Angel’s muttering that he’s gonna save Darla, as Gunn tries to calm him down, but oh – Angel wants to save her from having to be a vampire again. He’s got a stake ready.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Gunn’s trying to get the backstory. Darla sired Angel, who sired Dru. W&H revived Darla, then brought Dru to sire Darla anew. “That means the granddaughter remade the grandmother.”</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel’s pulling away from his team, so we’re back to continuing that arc. He insists on seeing Lindsey alone. But hey when we finally get there, the place is emptied out. Sorry, Daniel. The swingers bar is gone. </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">[One more Tom Collins for the road?- D]</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Our helpful realtor gives us some exposition about Dru babbling about her pregnancy and giving birth under the stars. “I explained to her that you can live your whole life in Los Angeles and never even see a star.” but we cut to Dru looking up at them, “I can hear them singing to me.” Callback to when she was naming the stars, even though that was the ceiling and also it was day!</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">We’re in some kind of rooftop solarium and Dru murmurs about her grandmother/daughter and it’s very </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Chinatown</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">. But when Lindsey asks if Darla can hear Dru, a moment of lucidity as she looks him point-blank in the eye. “She’s dead.”</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Wes “Angel, I fear you may be looking for a logical pattern in the rantings of someone who doesn’t think logically.”</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Hey, Gunn once again with our breakthrough analysis: he suggests nursery could mean plants.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Seriously, how did this team get anything done before him.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Random question: if you stake a body that’s not yet a vampire but leave the stake in, would they ash the moment they finished turning? Anyway, Angel found Darla’s body. And I guess he’s gonna try that plan of stake ‘n wait.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">But Dru smacks him around with a shovel. “I saw you coming, my lovely. The moon showed me. It told me to come into the 20</span><sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> century.” // “It’s the 21</span><sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">st</sup><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> century, Dru.”</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Oop Darla’s awake. And not interested in being saved by Angel anymore.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">I have trouble believing that Darla is able to throttle Angel and hold him in the air – not because of strength but because she is tiny and doesn’t have the arm span. Y’all know I’m right. </span></span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtc1rYL5ik9Gmn86wkOoJDtY-NOUWgnQy4NxoPJw95lF-JOzpkhRXHaYTNIjrqmdPfFW-lllge6VdPoHKvMG4A-AtV0EXaUMyb1ZhfyCsmzfvJSdDJB5vbEJOte_r2uyygK_Q43jwed5S/s1024/darla+angel+throttle.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtc1rYL5ik9Gmn86wkOoJDtY-NOUWgnQy4NxoPJw95lF-JOzpkhRXHaYTNIjrqmdPfFW-lllge6VdPoHKvMG4A-AtV0EXaUMyb1ZhfyCsmzfvJSdDJB5vbEJOte_r2uyygK_Q43jwed5S/w400-h225/darla+angel+throttle.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Anyway, Darla’s throwing Dru away too, not just Angel, so I guess she’s just generally feral.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">But hey, half-mad is how Dru likes ‘em so she doesn’t mind.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Tiny blondes in white dresses. A common motif in Angel’s life.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">The team is desperate for Angel to have a plan, a hunch, or even an inkling. Another common motif: Angel and His Total Lack of a Plan.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">He wants to storm W&H. Cordy: “Nice plan, General Custer.”</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Oh right, Holland Manners is hosting a party. This is the blood bath, right? The “I can’t seem to care” moment?</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Omg Dru’s got a ceramic doll. I wonder if Miss Edith knows about this.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">She warns Holland and Lindsey that Angel’s on his way. They get a call that there’s an untagged vamp but TWIST it’s Darla!</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">She throws Lindsey across the room, grabs a gleeful Dru’s hand, and the two flee.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Cordy’s having a vision! It’s been a hot minute since we’ve had one of those.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Angel tries to “maybe it’s a false alarm” her vision when it’s in the other direction and Cordy’s got no patience for gaslighting.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Darla may have absconded with Dru, but she’s not exactly pleased with her. She’s wailing on her and finally asks “Why.” // “For you. All for you. I thought it was what you wanted, to be saved.” And Darla’s anger quiets. She even, more than she ever did in the past, seems to have affection and patience for Dru’s madness and grief, comforting her. </span></span></span></span></li></ul></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53HRMKay2d6w6-bvoB-hR31bgaN5u80z_2wu7gJugD6jxdzAzlfT_pRQMf8CaTlB7zW-il1pVYxCGRze7e2yW3LrjsBUpEXrpNG0X1Td6WTHLH1GQyAOknM6Z5ELts2KkkGYWVhRsogly/s500/darla+drusilla+reunion.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="500" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53HRMKay2d6w6-bvoB-hR31bgaN5u80z_2wu7gJugD6jxdzAzlfT_pRQMf8CaTlB7zW-il1pVYxCGRze7e2yW3LrjsBUpEXrpNG0X1Td6WTHLH1GQyAOknM6Z5ELts2KkkGYWVhRsogly/w400-h190/darla+drusilla+reunion.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, let’s kill this homophobic driver I guess.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And now that Darla’s had a meal, she’s less crabby. Dru: “You’re all new again.” // Darla: “Let’s go shopping.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Random emo guy summoning a demon. Oh this was Cordy’s vision, okay.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel deals with it … not delicately. “You’ve got, you know, a million reasons to live … I bet.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn and Wes point out that this may have been a move from the PTB to stop Angel from going after Darla and Dru, but Angel’s beyond listening to reason.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Why settle for a spree when you could have, say, a massacre?” That’s Holland Manners’s blessing on Darla and Dru painting the town red.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holland: “We won’t have to worry about Angel anym—” // Angel: *crashes through the window*</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh this is the first time Holland and Angel have met.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holland clarifies that Darla isn’t the project, Angel is.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A: “People die. Innocent people.” // H: “And yet I just can’t seem to care. But you do.” Yep, this is the massacre episode. It’s funny how certain lines stick with you.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You misunderstand us, Angel. We don’t want you dead … yet.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wow they’re arresting Angel for breaking in. Lindsey “The firm may not want you dead, but I’m cool with it.” And who’s in the squad car waiting for Angel? Why, it’s Detective Kate Lockley.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And she’s here to tell him Dru and Darla killed two women. “They’re not done, are they?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A: “Why are you telling me this?” // K: “Because I don’t think I can stop them. Maybe you can.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And I guess this is the moment Kate moves past her anger at Angel. They’re not friends anymore, but she’s no longer seeing him as the enemy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holland’s party is taking place in his wine cellar. I wonder if it has a cask of Amontillado? No reason. Just curious.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Darla and Dru join the party. Invited in by Holland’s wife. “Very sweet she was. Like clover … and honey.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Darla’s there to offer Holland his massacre, and honestly it’s cute that he thought they would join up with him and do what he says like wind-up toys, especially when we’ve been warning Lindsey for ages that Darla won’t be loyal to him once her soul leaves the building.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s that meme about people being surp</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rised that the face-eating wolves they voted for are now eating their faces.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_G27onQxm9F-v2_YozsTRM4_fVVD_pK6zH2IU3SQR9IYR8Zu6R_Vp0WlhPXtu0bW7mK24mYe_18HMbpmaFDH8s_QEtHTsmle0t2jIPIMS43_PCuQL2rfu2x1wzpdKqo_QsoR_KYhoqNGI/s500/Leopards.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_G27onQxm9F-v2_YozsTRM4_fVVD_pK6zH2IU3SQR9IYR8Zu6R_Vp0WlhPXtu0bW7mK24mYe_18HMbpmaFDH8s_QEtHTsmle0t2jIPIMS43_PCuQL2rfu2x1wzpdKqo_QsoR_KYhoqNGI/s320/Leopards.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Pretty lawyers all in a row.” Dru can at times overstay her welcome but I’m enjoying her this episode.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey’s the only one smiling to see Darla, the only one who doesn’t seem scared.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel finds someone cowering in a dressing room in the store where Dru and Darla were shopping. They left her alive. I still wonder why (beyond the need for exposition). They would have been able to smell and hear her, and Dru would definitely be able to sense her.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She gives Angel what he needs to know, where they’re going next.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holland reveals that the wine cellar used to be a bomb shelter. Nice and secure.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I gotta say, Darla has much better massacre follow-through than Angelus in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i> S2 had.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Darla: “Do you know what I’m getting from you, Lindsey? Nothing. Why aren’t you afraid?” // Lindsey: “I don’t know.” // D: “You could die here. Chances are you will.” // L: “I know.” // D: “And you don’t care.” // L: “I care. I guess I just don’t mind.” It’s such an interesting character moment but I’ll also admit that <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">I don’t really know what it means</i>.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Dru honey, in our new digs, we <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">have</i> to put in a people cellar.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel arrives and Holland’s wife isn’t completely dead yet. Just alive enough to invite Angel in.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel looks at Darla. “I’m sorry I didn’t get to you in time.” // “I’m not.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And even though W&H’s Project: Angel has clearly this whole time been about trying to turn Angel evil, Holland, Lilah (not so much Lindsey, who still has a small smile), they still hope Angel will be good, good enough to save them.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holland: “Angel. Please. People are going to die.” // Angel “And yet somehow I just can’t seem to care.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And he closes the doors and locks them. And the massacre begins. </span></span></li></ul></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-weight: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyKl5HISAeqa6LZLF9iYj-5yp3yEqS_CHRbRBP39jgM4WiclKjuqlleY0rNrYYasKiQBH-uzC9DcQrg-_wXlSCzGsQ6iT7ojoumLra8DqkiyT_PICWAdwKYbMI1R9Qpzvr-DKpwu29n_N/s245/holland+manners+death.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="245" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyKl5HISAeqa6LZLF9iYj-5yp3yEqS_CHRbRBP39jgM4WiclKjuqlleY0rNrYYasKiQBH-uzC9DcQrg-_wXlSCzGsQ6iT7ojoumLra8DqkiyT_PICWAdwKYbMI1R9Qpzvr-DKpwu29n_N/w400-h288/holland+manners+death.gif" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TFW the leopard eats your face<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wes, Gunn, and Cordy are quietly horrified that Angel let them kill the W&H party. Wes: “You could have stopped them.” // Angel: “And I will.” // Cordy: “When? After they’ve finished off all the people you don’t like?”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Right now the three of us are all that’s standing between you and real darkness.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel agrees. And he fires the three of them. And leaves the room.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We have begun D</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ark Angel Arc for realz now. It’s upsetting but oof this episode’s beats are well made.</span></span></li></ul></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</span></b></div></span><span style="color: #201f1e;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">We start this episode soon after the last one.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Gunn is helping a beleaguered Angel back into the Hyperion.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">He’s delirious and mumbling. Gunn says he managed to get him home without him bursting into flames (nice throwaway explanation there) but Gunn’s still not sure what happened.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wesley & Cordy ask lots of questions.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">But finally Angel tells them about Darla & Drusilla. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wes & Cordy know Dru. Gunn does not: “Who’s Drusilla?” Whedonverse fans: “WELL-“</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel rifles through drawers mumbling about Darla.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He finally pulls out a stake.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oooh.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">When we come back from the credits, Gunn has been given the cliff’s notes version of Angel/Darla/Dru.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“The Granddaughter remade the Grandmother,” Gunn says with confusion. If you’re confused by that, I do not recommend an ingenious little Netflix show called </span><i style="color: #201f1e;">Dark.</i><b style="color: #201f1e;"><i> </i></b><span style="color: #201f1e;">But seriously, everyone please watch </span><i style="color: #201f1e;"><a href="https://www.netflix.com/watch/80100172?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2Cb5754763c84bd65a2f4fa98d0e54199c2a3e4fa6%3A3b6c9ea2d7abc1da8f40719d76a90cab5ee12e06%2Cb5754763c84bd65a2f4fa98d0e54199c2a3e4fa6%3A3b6c9ea2d7abc1da8f40719d76a90cab5ee12e06%2Cunknown%2C">Dark.</a><br /></i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel’s plan is to go to Lindsey’s.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He explains to the gang that he can already enter since he was already invited once.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">When he gets there, though, it appears he would have been able to come in because no one currently lives there.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The real estate agent reminds me from Alison Brie.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“That sweet but very odd English Woman that was visiting him.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">She gives Angel a clue of where Darla & Dru might be. Something about giving birth and a nursery.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And here we are in a greenhouse….with Darla, Dru & Lindsey.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Joined by Lilah & Holland.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Holland: “Can she hear you?” Drusilla: “She’s dead.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Dru, talks about Darla’s resurrection as a birth – as if she’s going to “be a mommy.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I love it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Back at the Hyperion, the gang is looking for where Darla & Dru might be.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel: “Stick with cemeteries then.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Something with a night sky.” Cordelia: “So Just outside cemeteries then?” Cordelia, master of the sass.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They figure out Nursery means plant kind and not baby kind.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">But what nurseries do W&H own? TO THE INTERNETS.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">I very much doubt they’d be able to find that info.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">They need a Willow-type-computer-geek.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">But of course, they do.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel finds dead Darla, laying in dirt.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He takes out his stake but….he’s interrupted by a shovel-wielding Drusilla.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They fight. Darla wakes up.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then Darla is suddenly strong and holds Angel by the neck.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">More vampire strength fighting!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Darla goes all vamp face and fights with Dru.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel stops her for some reason. He goes to stake Darla but he can’t.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And then they escape.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia: “How’d it go?”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Not great.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Your boss froze a few times and let them escape.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel’s in plan mode which we all know is never good. They weapon up. And Angel wants to go to W&H. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Back at the W&H offices Holland & Lindsey have a heart to heart.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He seems genuinely concerned about Lindsey having a work/life balance & to have healthy attachments - of course he just wants him to stop obsessing over Darla. He doesn’t realize Drusilla is there.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">She’s holding a doll all creepy like. She’s worried about Darla.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">She also informs him that Angel was there.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“Security alert”: There’s a vampire in the building.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">But it’s not Angel, it’s Darla.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Darla hugs Lindsay and then throws him across the room. She grabs Dru and runs.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“<i>Healthy</i> attachments, Lindsey.” Hah!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Oh no!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Cordelia is having her first vision in ages.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">She tells them her vision is from another direction.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Darla’s not saving Dru, though.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She’s fighting her. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Dru even gets hit by a car and gets up scaring the shit out of the driver.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Darla wants to know why Dru did it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Dru is extremely genuine when she says she thought it was what Darla wanted.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">It’s actually sort of sweet.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Interesting note, this (well, last episode) was the first time we've seen these two in the present. Darla died before Drusilla & Spike made an entrance on <i>Buffy</i>. Up to this point, we've only seen them together in flashbacks.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The LA crowd just assume these are just two crazy drunk women having a fight/cry.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Some homophobic, misogynist asshole comes out of a truck and hurls some insults.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Darla makes her first kill. Ah, well.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel and his crew stumble in on some kid who wants to kill himself because of a demon.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel has no time for this shit.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">So he just throws a stereo at the kid, grabs the kid’s gun & throws it in a tub of oil.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Mission done, according to Angel.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">But the rest of the gang want to stay.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">So Angel leaves them there.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile the WOMEN BE SHOPPING.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></span></li></ul></span><span style="color: #201f1e;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg973aZNzmJQlA6X6fREWHvmFsyl3d7UTkmr8Q0uumy5m5DToHyvr-DHtWLFcfFCdXAJ4s_2mpElkeo3i0y6XNJKCXXsTHgYEkPsTwjFhy9PdkU2oYPQuieuvS1z7CsQn39uS37mc3CVQ1D/s895/WOMEN+BE+SHOPPING.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="895" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg973aZNzmJQlA6X6fREWHvmFsyl3d7UTkmr8Q0uumy5m5DToHyvr-DHtWLFcfFCdXAJ4s_2mpElkeo3i0y6XNJKCXXsTHgYEkPsTwjFhy9PdkU2oYPQuieuvS1z7CsQn39uS37mc3CVQ1D/w400-h254/WOMEN+BE+SHOPPING.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Dru & Darla are in a shop trying on clothes. And oops, the shoplady is dead.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">W&H gave</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Dru a cellphone, weirdly enough.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Holland calls & says, “why have a spree when you could have - a -say- massacre” and knowing the end of this episode, I assumed he was inviting them to the party and was setting up his colleagues for some unknown reason.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">But I guess he was speaking of some hypothetical future because he ends up signing his own death warrant by planting the idea into Darla’s head.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And…Darla kills the other shoplady, complaining about customer service. What a Karen, amirite?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lindsay, Lilah & Holland are in an office. Holland, “At least we don’t have to worry about Angel anymore.” *Angel swings through a window.*</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">HA! Holland is really forking things up this episode, isn’t he?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“You don’t kill humans.” “You don’t qualify.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">This, dear readers, is foreshadowing.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">But I guess kinda misleading foreshadowing?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel is almost immediately surrounded by stake wielding security guards.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Instead, the cops arrest him.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He’s put in the back seat of a cop car with Kate.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Her neck looks ok, so I guess she’s healed?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She is wearing a collar, to be fair, but it still would have been nice to see evidence of what happened to her.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HXrRf-y3uqqlLoZ2MdgnRbzoSwQIta6Ym7NO6VSK3z28EMXTqKrMwE2Jbo7d2oDszwb6aGOhkeMXBFgj8WYfkJtUimav9t_g2EHP5t62L76zxs4e2DMHK3SU1xZF3DTxPWZnWW4iOOfR/s1024/kate.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HXrRf-y3uqqlLoZ2MdgnRbzoSwQIta6Ym7NO6VSK3z28EMXTqKrMwE2Jbo7d2oDszwb6aGOhkeMXBFgj8WYfkJtUimav9t_g2EHP5t62L76zxs4e2DMHK3SU1xZF3DTxPWZnWW4iOOfR/w400-h225/kate.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maybe she's hiding it with her collar?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Kate fills Angel in about the shopladies.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Kate’s not her usual brooding self.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She shows her thankfulness to Angel by letting him go. She also knows she can’t stop Drusilla & Darla on her own.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Meanwhile, Lindsey arrives at the party and is greeted by Holland’s wife.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Later, Dru & Darla interrupt the festivities in the wine cellar. There’s blood on their mouths so they’ve apparently killed Holland’s wife.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">They both vamp face and remind Holland they were promised a massacre.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Also Darla got her hair did somewhere along the way, I guess.</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBTxXQ72G8SdmW3k27R9_UBeIj5ldW-Gp60e2KkAzajviFpuE0lMV69dmDVe_hL6phYeiiIkKW69KT9CFIgaC0WNeBPRD3Jo6YQbtgeoKkXWk8xcZpUNw36e3v_lvWVPxYxEOBo8Sr22p/s2000/Darla+Hair.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBTxXQ72G8SdmW3k27R9_UBeIj5ldW-Gp60e2KkAzajviFpuE0lMV69dmDVe_hL6phYeiiIkKW69KT9CFIgaC0WNeBPRD3Jo6YQbtgeoKkXWk8xcZpUNw36e3v_lvWVPxYxEOBo8Sr22p/w400-h225/Darla+Hair.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I guess she killed a hair dresser after the shopladies.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #201f1e;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Back at the shop, one of the cops is collecting evidence in front of a mirror, he has an eerie feeling but sees nothing.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel, of course, is behind him and it’s a nice moment.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Lilah actually looks scared as Darla talks to her.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">There’s another scared lady in a changing room.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">The actress is really good and she looks familiar.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She gives Angel the clue he needs.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Darla & Dru are headed to a party.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">The wine cellar that everyone is huddled in used to be a shelter….a great place to lock people in.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Darla continues to taunt everyone but the only reactions we really see are Lindsey, Lilah & Holland’s.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Everyone else is just background & it’s weird how we don’t really see any of their reactions.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“In our new digs, we have to put in a people cellar.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel arrives. Oh!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">Holland’s wife isn’t dead….she’s just been bitten.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">She may die later, though.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“Here for the tasting?” So many double entendres.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">“I’m sorry I didn’t get to you in time.” Darla: “I’m not.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">And here’s the darker side of Angel.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He locks everyone in.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">He’s just so tired of W&H’s bullshit.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">And he lets everyone die.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wes, Gunn & Cordelia are floored after Angel tells them what happened.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Angel’s reasoning is that he didn’t bring Darla back.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">That it’s W&H’s own fault.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">Wesley: "You could have stopped them." Angel: "And I will." Cordy: "When? After they've finished off all the people you don't like?"</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #201f1e;">They are seriously worried about Angel.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e;">That he’s turning to real darkness.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">And so…he fires them all.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">And this isn’t out of nowhere.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">The groundwork was laid out in this episode and a little in past episodes, too.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">His gang has been arguing with him (and rightfully so) at every turn.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Angel has had enough.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">It’s dark, it’s chilling & it’s an interesting path for the show to go on.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Let’s see how it turns out.</span> </span></span></span></li></ul></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crossfire!</span></b></div></span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Z:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Angel locking them in the cellar … was that an evil reveal?<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> No … I’m not angry at him, I’m just disappointed.<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite Lines:</span></b></div></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zelda:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Angel: “I’m sorry I didn’t get to you in time.” // Darla: “I’m not.”<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel: </span></b></span>Wes: “You could have stopped them.” // Angel: “And I will.” // Cordy: “When? After they’ve finished off all the people you don’t like?”<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arc/Continuity:</span></b></div></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Appearance:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dru’s thing for ceramic dolls<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recurring:</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Detective Kate Lockley, Lindsey McDonald, Lilah Morgan, Holland Manners, Darla, Drusilla</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Stats:</b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – dark, shoulder bob with a flip, partially clipped back<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 19<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 15<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></span></div>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-77694087887948884672020-09-30T11:57:00.006-04:002020-09-30T11:57:52.187-04:00Hunk of Hero Sandwich<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b>Episode 2.09:
The Trial</b>.
Original Airdate: 11.28.00.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ7sRfUaAeAJFXL3sCWgu304XyICjgplfRwHb48XtW9iXVAA8o6UUcM63Srl2Wgee_1vhORl5zXa9GouKBkgf-jS38g-sldMnCY7fom7muBcmMBH6Bfvq6isELet8MiVcKwWv9oUz01KY/w400-h225/20160727235027-dbcc8d89.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“In an
attempt to save Darla’s life, Angel must undergo three separate challenges that
no one has ever survived.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s
Thoughts:</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia still has her hair…it’s slightly better?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She and Wesley are talking about Angel, who is in the cellar, I guess.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley is wearing some weird cardigan that I actually like but it seems very casual for him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel comes up and he’s all in a weirdly good mood. Everything is weird.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m mostly distracted by Angel’s neck hair.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4KPgO0_7O5j-7t_pNtxAAWrmPaPIKX-zL1l9oBbmhBtSaJaAAt4_MGWVNB6RvlK_DPDpxkFCszhYmBCQKMUuQa3yzBvO32gjtApVGj_ihQ9nwhS06EWx5wyuxxCPA6OtN2N3t6Sm9Y_8/s2048/Angel+Neck+Hair.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4KPgO0_7O5j-7t_pNtxAAWrmPaPIKX-zL1l9oBbmhBtSaJaAAt4_MGWVNB6RvlK_DPDpxkFCszhYmBCQKMUuQa3yzBvO32gjtApVGj_ihQ9nwhS06EWx5wyuxxCPA6OtN2N3t6Sm9Y_8/w400-h300/Angel+Neck+Hair.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn runs in. He’s found Darla. Angel abandons everything to go with Gunn.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“WE HAD TEA.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla is at a motel. I’m not going to shenanigan how she has the money to afford it. She’s Darla. I’m sure she found a way. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, before Angel & Gunn can get to the motel, Lindsey’s already found her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">After the credits, Lindsey has brought Darla in to W&H.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holland shows her some documents but we don’t know what they are yet – but Darla seems upset by them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Gunn – at the motel – states the obvious: “She ain’t here, bro.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flashback! 1765! France! Angel’s terrible wig and accent are back.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel & Darla are being hunted by someone named Holtz. THIS WILL BE IMPORTANT LATER BUT NOT JUST YET.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the present….Darla’s at a bar chatting with a vamp in vampface so this must be a demon-friendly bar.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This vampire is called “Shempire” in the IMDB credits – I’m assuming it’s a riff of Shemp from the three stooges.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnDuJhFn4smILPcd0aToOPKHATWO1NVvaBlKMjmn1XEjh-rIy73DYypdwMT3mKIR-LIf7yBqbRrKP5VdQNRjPns6Ll-muQaSYH5ToVO7DQJ02-bOfNXYrfdXGN1P5dfH5tBWOZ6qJ60U/s1830/Shempire+2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1830" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnDuJhFn4smILPcd0aToOPKHATWO1NVvaBlKMjmn1XEjh-rIy73DYypdwMT3mKIR-LIf7yBqbRrKP5VdQNRjPns6Ll-muQaSYH5ToVO7DQJ02-bOfNXYrfdXGN1P5dfH5tBWOZ6qJ60U/w400-h241/Shempire+2.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I can see it.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla is acting like she’s a human…and has always been a human.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">She wants Shempire to turn her back into a vamp.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">She teases this guy with eternal couplehood but she’s probably planning on staking him once it’s done.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shempire agrees and takes her into an alley.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel “saves” her, staking the vamp. But He’s Saving Her From Herself.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>You </i>were made in an alley as I recall.” Ooh.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla reveals what the documents that Holland showed her revealed: She’s dying. We don’t know of what. Maybe when they brought her back it was under the condition that it was a limited time. <span style="color: #fb0207;">[Nope - 10 minutes later Daniel]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back in 1765, Angel & Darla are trapped in a burning farmhouse.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla knocks Angel out to get away. Cold, man.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back in the present - Angel brings Darla back to the Hyperion.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Are you planning on sleeping over?” “I’m dying.” “Just for the one night then.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel thinks W&H are lying about Darla dying.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel tells Darla she’s not a prisoner. But Cordelia & Wesley tells her she most certainly is.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel breaks down Lindsey’s door. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He’s got this small apartment but it’s got a full bar and it’s awesome.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey, who obviously cares about Darla, invites Angel in.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And omg with the track lighting - this place is right out of a 1960’s bachelor pad.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPRnwwZv6CBhAj2UjqzNmkfiaN3LrRgmq-RC3yEwySqsCRitnQpgHYN1YiVjNI6NHYW6RRQs9AQwY7wxJ2I9ZjBtWVqLSyGopKNiiSfejKjqY2nJzaBkSEIpKnB40S5QTp_dTzyVOlHg/s1024/Lindsey+Apartment.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPRnwwZv6CBhAj2UjqzNmkfiaN3LrRgmq-RC3yEwySqsCRitnQpgHYN1YiVjNI6NHYW6RRQs9AQwY7wxJ2I9ZjBtWVqLSyGopKNiiSfejKjqY2nJzaBkSEIpKnB40S5QTp_dTzyVOlHg/w400-h225/Lindsey+Apartment.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hey baby, do you swing?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So it turns out Darla is dying of Syphilis which is what she was dying from before the Master made her.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Angel asks Lindsey if he loves Darla. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I was with her for 150 years.” “But you didn’t love her.” Ouch. Truthful, but ouch.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy & Wesley are gossiping about Darla when they see Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The thing is, I really like this storyline with Darla & Angel. Unfortunately what it does is relegates Cordelia & Wesley to background players – they’re there only to help the main storyline along instead of having their own respective character & plot developments.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel takes Darla to Caritas! She’s a better singer than Angel, definitely – but she sings like she talks – in a weird Betty Boopish type voice.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Hunk of Hero Sandwich”. What even.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne is reading both Darla & Angel watching Darla which is interesting.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“it’s a bit of a quest, it’ll probably kill ya.” Lorne gives Angel a mysterious address and tells him “we’ll see if you’re really ready to take the plunge.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel takes it literally. He thinks it’s a leap of faith. Darla disagrees. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She asks him why he’s doing this. He doesn’t answer.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel dives into the empty swimming pool and ends up in some underground something, so he was right. It was a leap of faith.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s a “man”, identified as “The Valet” on IMDb. He describes the trials: There are three and if he completes it, Darla will “become whole”. If he fails, she’ll die instantly. All these challenges, treks, etc that our heroes in the Whedonverse have to do are always so damn vague & no one asks any questions.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">To complete the challenges, Angel needs to take his shoes and….shirt off. Of course he does.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OK Trial #1 – Angel has to fight a demon who looks like an ogre in order to go through a gate.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Valet lets Darla psychically see what’s happening.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OMG! The demon gets sliced in half. Angel thinks he’s defeated it but he wakes up…and puts himself back together!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel slices him in half again but this time chains him up in two separate areas so that he can’t be put back together. Trial #1: done!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, Angel runs through a hallway of crosses. Of course every cross he steps on burns him. So this is a trial only for vampires?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The key is in an urn of holy water. Lots o’ burns for Angel, but he gets through.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final trial, Angel is now strapped into cuffs with a wall of stakes coming towards him. The third test is apparently about death. The Valet explains that in order for Darla to live, Angel has to die. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Again, with the wall of stakes, these trials seem to be tailored towards vampires in particular. I’d call a shenanigan on this but maybe they change the trials slightly depending on who takes it… <span style="color: red;">[That's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it. - Z]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel considers it and chooses death, like the martyr that he is.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But all he had to do was choose death….not actually die. Angel is back in the room with Darla and fully clothed for some reason.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Valet only then realizes he can’t give Darla a second chance for life because she’s already been given one. Wish they knew that before the trials. Woulda saved a need for lots of aloe.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel gets pissed and trashes the room, and beats up a couple of guard demons in the process.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel & Darla are back at her motel which is apparently from the 1960s with that décor.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel considers biting Darla. He thinks maybe if he turns her while having a soul, she’ll retain hers, too.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s an interesting theory, but Darla dismisses the idea even though it’s originally what she wanted.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel tells her he’ll take care of her but oops, Lindsey arrives with some meatheads who tase Angel and keep him down. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">AND OOH DRUISILLA IS HERE. SHE VAMPFACES AND BITES DARLA. She’s gonna turn Darla!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a nice use of Lawyer-Ex-Machina here. Darla becomes a vampire again, but Angel doesn’t have to feel guilty of turning her.</span></li></ul><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s
Thoughts:</span></b></div><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hyperion: Cordy and Wes are worried Angel’s hiding in the cellar for too long.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh lord,
he was doing laundry. And he’s oddly chipper. Cordelia, suspicious, “You seem
all calm and homey. Are you on drugs?”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s
hair, still dark and shorter, less alarmingly big.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s
reached some emotional peace about the whole Darla thing, or so he says, but
then Gunn comes in with Darla’s location.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">C: “You
lied to us!” // A: “I did. I know.” // W: “Why?” // A: “I figured you’d nag.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As Angel
leaves, ignoring their objections, Wes: “Didn’t we learn anything from the
tea?”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla,
troubled by her own reflection.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And
Lindsey found her, slightly ahead of Gunn and Angel. Not surprised. He may not
be as obsessive as Angel (though he’s pretty obsessive) but he can afford an
expensive investigator.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They’re
telegraphing what we’re about to find out – that Darla’s terminal – by having
her face look chalky, her eyes shadowed.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holland
Manners says Darla is their “moral responsibility” and wow I’m amazed he could
say those words without flinching.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla,
seeing her diagnosis, looks to Lindsey asking if he knew about this. He doesn’t
reply.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oooh
flashback triggered by Angel saying “when you’re desperate, you do what you
have to do,” so we then see Darla and Angelus hiding in a barn, somewhere in
France.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angelus
“I hate the French. We should go someplace like Romania.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder
where Dru and Spike are.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ohhhhhhhh
this is when they plant Holtz the Vampire Hunter.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back to
the present: Darla, chatting up a random vamp (credited as Shempire, snort),
hoping to be sired because she knows Angel won’t do it.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We still
don’t officially know Darla is terminal, but we will in a bit, and anyway I
know the future blah blah.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow,
rando vamp doesn’t want to turn her because he’s afraid of commitment.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then
he admits he’s never turned anyone and it’s kinda an interesting twist on the
virgin trope. Darla “I’ll walk you through it.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But Angel
stakes him before he can do it.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Just
because we had a thing for a hundred and fifty years, don’t presume you know
me.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And here
it is. As Angel tries to persuade her to give being human more time, she tells
him “I’m dying.” She’s got only a few months left.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s
interesting. She was on the edge of death when she was turned by the Master.
Which means they resurrected her not precisely as she was in her last moments
of humanity, but close to.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Welp,
Flashback Darla conks Angelus on the head and rides the horse away, leaving him
in the burning barn with the offscreen Holtz.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway,
Angel doesn’t believe Darla’s dying and thinks it’s another trick by W&H,
which, fair.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">D: “I don’t
trust them, but I know a thing or two about mind games. So do you. We played
them together for over a century.” // C: “Yes, but you were just soulless
bloodsucking demons. They’re lawyers.” // A: “She’s right. We were amateurs.”
Yeah but that’s just because you’ve literally always been bad at planning
Angel. How much time did you randomly kick around <i>not</i> killing Buffy after
you turned evil three season ago?</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel,
like Holland, tells Darla she’s not a prisoner at the Hyperion. But once he’s
out the door, Cordelia says “So first up: You’re a prisoner.”</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYieQv2YpRF3ZOG4uRkPaOrd4-xS8zDqOTLtJvuRM5o-92BwnT__xOwERWePL1uEcHzW1U6TO1DzUSuWiT4EizjkRsVBugT0I7YthtosbKosq37QRn-0HTYwBHG52eBxhDhDkzqm8OLQ0/s500/tumblr_li32sbbRrD1qgbabho1_500.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="500" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYieQv2YpRF3ZOG4uRkPaOrd4-xS8zDqOTLtJvuRM5o-92BwnT__xOwERWePL1uEcHzW1U6TO1DzUSuWiT4EizjkRsVBugT0I7YthtosbKosq37QRn-0HTYwBHG52eBxhDhDkzqm8OLQ0/w400-h153/tumblr_li32sbbRrD1qgbabho1_500.gif" width="400" /></a></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh hey
Angel’s visiting our buddy Lindsey and he invites him right in.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lindsey’s sitting in the dark, depressed and
drinking. “Yes, she’s dying. Yes, those medical reports she saw are real. You
want a second opinion? Here. How about a third? Hmm? How about a tenth?”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Syphilitic
heart condition. Welp.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh. I
just noticed Lindsey got his hair cut.</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvhan4U96UURXpZgKVclyL61NHs0BgCQjyiDrxa6ezh8nQJfQmE3HCANRhh55jPEfAOCibej-XXU_semiPR9d44H0sODsPafWeY6BikzuYhxBzkidRYCD7xi0Jqc-C6du1GL2lnSNyyA/s1024/lindsey+hair.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvhan4U96UURXpZgKVclyL61NHs0BgCQjyiDrxa6ezh8nQJfQmE3HCANRhh55jPEfAOCibej-XXU_semiPR9d44H0sODsPafWeY6BikzuYhxBzkidRYCD7xi0Jqc-C6du1GL2lnSNyyA/w400-h225/lindsey+hair.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Maybe he and Cordelia had a salon date!</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey
wants Angel to save Darla’s life by turning her.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel
points out that once Darla turns she’ll probably kill Lindsey. It’s kinda funny
that he ends up being wrong about that.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla’s
out in the garden. “Jasmine. It blooms at night. I remember what that was
like.” Aww a premonition of her granddaughter.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*snort*
And off to Caritas for Darla to sing! Hey she actually sounds all right, and
they even give her a concert-y treatment. This isn’t meant to be a funny gag
like when Angel tries to sing.</span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizMHbTnqJ2-8zrGelaOp8BRCjfUdrUQFVLx6EoGJCV_QoBUS5MXSk6H1MPWd8O7nSj9QF-CB4kMmSDzjOR2O91a1DmLt2VbU2qTtJ3sWFxqqL3GCsU4ixYp0mHyx4smF2C9V-XzkzmLGI/s491/tumblr_lydq48dCpY1r5rjqdo1_500.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="491" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizMHbTnqJ2-8zrGelaOp8BRCjfUdrUQFVLx6EoGJCV_QoBUS5MXSk6H1MPWd8O7nSj9QF-CB4kMmSDzjOR2O91a1DmLt2VbU2qTtJ3sWFxqqL3GCsU4ixYp0mHyx4smF2C9V-XzkzmLGI/w400-h181/tumblr_lydq48dCpY1r5rjqdo1_500.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yay
Lorne! “you’re a big hunk of hero sandwich.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorne
evokes one of the best lines of poetry, “Things fall apart. Not everything can
be put back together, no matter how much you want it.” Angel’s angrily
desperate to give her a real second chance. And Lorne tells him there’s one way
he might be able to save her. “It’s a bit of a quest. It’ll probably kill ya.” //
“I’ll take it.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You’re about
to face the hell and the high water.” I just … I love the way Lorne phrases
things. He’s my favorite.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
challenge starts with Angel diving into a drained pool—a leap of faith. “I’m
either comin’ back with a cure, or you’re about to see something kinda funny.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla’s
here in the trial land too, as the collateral. If Angel completes the three
trials, he saves her life. If he fails (which would kill him), it will kill her
too.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The trial
emcee says he needs Angel’s shirt and shoes and that’s gratuitous but who’s
gonna complain? He looks good.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emcee <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>says he can’t tell Angel about the last two
tests because he’s never seen anyone survive the first one. Really? I mean
fine, but really? And then he says Angel’s already lasted twice as long as
anyone else, at only 17 seconds.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway
big ol lime green demon is beating on Angel but I ain’t worried.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel
slices him in twain!</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aaaaand
that’s insufficient, as limey reassembles himself. Well then. I’d forgotten
about that.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Angel, not dicking around, slices him again and chains the two halves away from
each other so he can’t do that again and it’s kind of hilarious.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And so
trial one is completed.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trial
two? A corridor lined with crucifixes, including the floor. Angel, shoeless,
must run across it like a bed of coals. Emcee: “In this place, the journey is
all.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh damn
and the key is in a bowl of holy water.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well,
that was painful but he got through it.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel,
limping, covered in red rashes from burning, walks toward the third trial: and
his arms are magically shackled and raised over his head. He’s facing a wall of
stakes—even with his tiny tiny Angel heart, one of them is bound to hit his
heart.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emcee:
“This third test has no catch, as you put it. Death is the final challenge. We
can’t restore one life without taking another. You see? In order for Darla to
live, you must die.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Y’all
Angel waxes his pits.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFQoH_RUb7jfZbWo2f3BD6PKjCc31f6lPcDDaStv1ZrKssJ1EwUa2j0QPFB4LJWAsMNXHfrRgsXbl5P8q29XSFIsoFUg2yhKGyUdWOJIsZ0f33XfoTJsO1GLpHuYkhPVXnbCaQ5Iwqzc/s1024/20160727234639-31b7526a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFQoH_RUb7jfZbWo2f3BD6PKjCc31f6lPcDDaStv1ZrKssJ1EwUa2j0QPFB4LJWAsMNXHfrRgsXbl5P8q29XSFIsoFUg2yhKGyUdWOJIsZ0f33XfoTJsO1GLpHuYkhPVXnbCaQ5Iwqzc/w400-h225/20160727234639-31b7526a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Either that or they tried to photoshop blur the hair out.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emcee
gives him an out: Angel can walk away now, he can leave. Darla will die, but
Angel will live.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“No deal.”
// “I expected as much. A pity. I’m beginning to like you.” // “Spare me.” // “I’d
very much like to. Do you mind if I ask you a question? Isn’t the world a
better place with you in it? You can save so many people. It seems she can
barely save herself.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“How long
will it be before she stumbles, before she falls?” But Angel, showing why (even
if I don’t like him a lot of the time) he is our hero, won’t be swayed. He’s
here to save innocent lives, even at the cost of his own.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And hey …
it didn’t kill him after all. It was accepting the death that was passing it,
not the death itself at all.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emcee puts
his hands on Darla’s head to save her and then … stops. “She’s been given new
life once before, by supernatural means … I can’t help you.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We had a
bargain. She’s earned her second chance.” // “She’s living her second chance.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We could
say then this episode was a waste of time, since the meat of it is Angel undergoing
these three trials, all for naught. But I think it’s actually pretty
emotionally important. We’re going through the stages of grief here, grieving
the life that Darla could have but will never live, that Angel never could and
never will. We had denial (assuming W&H lied), we had bargaining (Darla
seeking a vamp to turn her; Lorne and the trials), and now as Angel smashes the
temple, we have anger. We had to go through this so we can get to this: Darla’s
acceptance of her fate.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now,
sitting quietly, she doesn’t want Angel to turn her anymore. “I’ve seen it now
… I’ve felt how you care. The way no one’s ever cared before. Not for me.
That’s all I need from you.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla
finally sees this is her second chance, to die as she was supposed to, but
dying knowing someone cares.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel
promises to stay with her, so she won’t be alone when she goes, and she cries
on his shoulder, and fuck now I’m crying.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So of
course it’s time to ruin it all. Goons crash the room, tase and bind Angel, and
Lindsey strides in – with Drusilla, all in red. “How did you think this would
end?”</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7qo-lwtGedzCiUDXLxWM5-XkP0aE0YJnYIleb9DC5DW_EiRJvR23bLeNOqs5-qGhBqu7QH_J4Jhako1stwC4lmZ8MdMJsqTQ0en3TPYmxvjOfHJH2kxBxSy4uqorzAy7BNlC98iNVHI/s500/tumblr_li2zn6t2l61qgbabho1_500.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="500" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7qo-lwtGedzCiUDXLxWM5-XkP0aE0YJnYIleb9DC5DW_EiRJvR23bLeNOqs5-qGhBqu7QH_J4Jhako1stwC4lmZ8MdMJsqTQ0en3TPYmxvjOfHJH2kxBxSy4uqorzAy7BNlC98iNVHI/w400-h193/tumblr_li2zn6t2l61qgbabho1_500.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel can
only watch, helpless and heartbroken, as a terrified Darla is turned once more.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fuck this
is good TV.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru even
turns Darla the same way Angel was turned, slicing herself above the breast. We
won’t even mention (much) that her nail is nowhere near the line of red.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fuck fuck
fuck. That was really good. Heartbreaking, upsetting, perfect. Fuck.</span></span></li></ul></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Lines:</span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daniel: <o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="background-color: white;">"Yes, but you were just soulless bloodsucking demons, they're lawyers.” - Cordelia<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zelda: </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Things fall apart. Not everything can be put back together, no
matter how much you want it.” – Lorne <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Arc/Continuity:</b><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First
Mention:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Holtz</span></div></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Recurring:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Lindsey McDonald, Lorne,
Holland Manners, Darla, Drusilla, Angel’s “Irish” “accent” and stupid wig</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Generally
Known TV Face:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Jim
Piddock, Evan Arnold</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whedonverse
Hat Trick:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Jim
Piddock (The Valet here, Biz in <i>Dollhouse</i>)</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lorne’s
Nicknames:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Hunk of
Hero Sandwich (Angel)</span></div></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel!
In! History!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1765
Darla and Angelus were on the run from Holtz in France (Spike and Dru
presumably elsewhere), though Angelus wants to go to Romania next (le gasp!). And
when he was in Italy he wanted to go to France.<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">[Note to self: Angelus is
Rum Tum Tugger. – Z]</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Also Darla leaves him in a burning barn to face the
horde alone, but promising to meet him in Vienna if he survives.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas Song List</b></div><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">
<o:p></o:p></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Ill
Wind”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stats:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s
Hair – shoulder length, dark, no bumpit<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead
Humans – 1 (Darla! *weeping*)<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead
Undeads – 1<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead
Flashbacks – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead
Lawyers – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia
Has a Vision – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lawyered
Ex Machina – 1 (Lindsey bringing Dru to kill Darla; he didn’t wield the law,
but he’s still a Lawyer who’s Ex Machinaing shit)<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evil
Reveal – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unevil
Reveal – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shenanigans
Called – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apocalypse
Called – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy
Called – 0</span></span></div>
</div>Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-14105551813650089742020-09-15T11:13:00.002-04:002020-09-15T11:48:00.948-04:00I Am Pleasant<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Episode 2.08: The Shroud of Rahmon.</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Original Airdate: 11.21.00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPABZtA3jmYgWkqh_aE73oSFfC0vxGCrxXstRgFU7Nv7qI1mHpPrVCgdUocsEx1gm4iVTWjYN6hNojNNrOlTJ0RKTPqa5U0lSibKk6NP8DcfbTB2VTqPxhN4IIudlZEoMrXvptK1Ne8hzp/s756/Angel+Bites+Kate2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPABZtA3jmYgWkqh_aE73oSFfC0vxGCrxXstRgFU7Nv7qI1mHpPrVCgdUocsEx1gm4iVTWjYN6hNojNNrOlTJ0RKTPqa5U0lSibKk6NP8DcfbTB2VTqPxhN4IIudlZEoMrXvptK1Ne8hzp/s320/Angel+Bites+Kate2.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">“Posing as a hip Vegas vampire, Angel infiltrates a gang of thieves bent on stealing a supernatural shroud housed in a museum vault.”</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s Thoughts:</b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ominous detectives acting ominously, mentioning a dead body and a <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">she</i> who might die and it’s all very ominous and what could it meeeeeeeeeeeeeean.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah yes, Wesley is in the interrogation room, all emotionally tortured. “She shouldn’t have been there. She didn’t know. I had to warn him. He didn’t know what he was getting into. None of them did … You didn’t bring it here did you?” Yes yes, very ominous.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But then we have Wes doing a classic Whedon Writes Crazy move and saying, apropos of very little, “I’m quite good with the ladies myself, you know.” Knowing the future, I guess this is somehow still the after effects of the Shroud? But … ugh fine.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And we get a flashback shot of a body falling to the ground, a scene we’ll end up seeing four times this episode, each time with a different context.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“He should never have been there! Of all people he should never – You don’t tell <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">him</i> what to do, he’s the boss … he helps people, you know? When he’s not in trouble himself.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And as Wes remembers Cordelia, we flashback to Before It All Went Wrong.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I do enjoy some non-linear narrative with my TV.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway WHAT have they done to Cordy’s hair WHAT. It’s shorter, it’s <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">much</i> darker, it looks like a wig but I think it’s just a bumpit giving it body on top (since she doesn’t have the same lift to it later). Poor Charisma.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh but for a nice change of pace, Angel is out helping Gunn on a mission. Nice to see Gunn’s still got his own thing going on.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apparently there’s a heist job Gunn’s cousin Lester is the driver for, and they’re expecting a “psycho vampire from Vegas,” and I like the touch that as Lester stumbles over the name, Angel recognizes and names him: Jay-Don. We can even pretend this is a nod to the fact that Angel!In!History! has spent some time in Vegas, though I don’t think we know that yet.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oops, so much for Angel “helping” Gunn; he’s now taking over the case and pushing Gunn out. “Since when do I take orders from you?” // “Since I’m paying you.” // “This ain’t no paying gig. I brought it to you.” Ugh stop just stop. Then he even tells Gunn to knit him a sweater.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh look Kate is back, still looking for Darla, and threatening Angel with a cross carved into a stake. Ooh, a multitool!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You get stuck between me and Darla, it’ll be the last thing you ever do.” Well then.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We don’t get to count it since it happened off-camera, but apparently Wes had a prat-fall at the premiere and spilled cocktail sauce all over Cordy’s blouse. Oops.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Okay you know what, no, this is a dumb joke. I know they’re trying to make a joke about how guys don’t notice things and so it’s taken both Wes and Angel ten days to notice Cordy’s new <s style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">wig</s> hair, but no, they wouldn’t suddenly both notice on the same day, this is very stupid and I am calling a <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">shenanigan</b>.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So in case anyone was curious of the degree of douche with this Jay-Don vamp, he wears sunglasses. A vampire. Who can’t go out in the day. Wearing sunglasses. Which Angel, after pretending to be a fanboy and ascertaining that there’s no password, swipes as he stakes the dude.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I do enjoy seeing DB have fun as these sillier characters, both the fanboy and Jay-Don himself.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But uh … according to the captions he’s doing a “New York” accent, and well </span></span></li></ul></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOMuSKMOwAhSNf90er_oFVbKU4LUffM_Iz2k3NKZc0CIq7BkKjQYot7E1EgNQSrWdVNLcOim_ojZA0jqfHfcwdbTDD58Uud5JlaeVAKz8CVkpI7YPWTVf5I-NChZK0ktslEioJyGk8MZ-n/s498/sure+jan.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOMuSKMOwAhSNf90er_oFVbKU4LUffM_Iz2k3NKZc0CIq7BkKjQYot7E1EgNQSrWdVNLcOim_ojZA0jqfHfcwdbTDD58Uud5JlaeVAKz8CVkpI7YPWTVf5I-NChZK0ktslEioJyGk8MZ-n/s320/sure+jan.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gah-gasp! When “Lester” shows up, it’s Gunn! Who saw this coming? Seriously Angel why did you not see this coming? Do you even watch TV? “I told you I’d handle this.” // “I told you I don’t take orders.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh, it’s pronounced Rah-MON, not RAH-men. Well, our crossfire below is about to make less sense.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah, they need a vamp because the vault has a thermal sensor and there’s that whole body heat thing. Okay, sure.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel is trying to pick enough of a fight with Gunn that they can take it outside and have it out, but ta-wist the heist is tonight and bossman doesn’t want anyone opening up any Zoom breakout rooms. Welp.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s funny because I know two of our heist boys are well known faces but <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">they are both covered in demon makeup!</i> So how are two bloggers to tell?</span></span></li></ul></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-weight: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="1170" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNzAqzq_cOjERUX8Il6FZZA9VLTjZl_1TO2W1SICYiFZenwanYnIxHnwSwTgwenHoGGJat-eU-dZXMcCIfj0Ut7e05ApuufgDUttk5V_sr74zC-O1rbdOxuO4QmqXczOe83BUQReNyOBQ/w400-h164/tony+todd.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Tony Todd" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tony Todd Demon Todd<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-weight: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8QqpLMEQDTJQvwcYYhkdbezifW9RhgpkNDzGGnpo94xgOGaKJWuuDANs8gUiCmM3N1eRMFnCK1NzVaDMdBJ4WGr0oabo9KhRev_EVb-TgmdCZFOaGIeH5l5CgSnbc2AEUmpWtOCkUR95z/s887/w+earl+brown.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="887" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8QqpLMEQDTJQvwcYYhkdbezifW9RhgpkNDzGGnpo94xgOGaKJWuuDANs8gUiCmM3N1eRMFnCK1NzVaDMdBJ4WGr0oabo9KhRev_EVb-TgmdCZFOaGIeH5l5CgSnbc2AEUmpWtOCkUR95z/w400-h144/w+earl+brown.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">W. Earl Brown W. Earl Demon</span> <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordy: “Okay, two words I don’t like right off the bat: tomb and unearthed. People, you’ve got to leave your tombs earthed.” Oh my god did y’all read about all the new mummies they discovered? Can we please make them leave them alone? 2020 DOESN’T NEED AN EXTRA CURSE.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel tries to get them to leave Gunn, as the driver, with the truck, but no dice. Oh well. Also, again, Gunn isn’t looking for Angel to protect him. He asked for an assist, not a takeover.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia, speaking truth: “Why is it always virgin women who have to do the sacrificing?” // Wes: “For purity, I suppose.” // C: “This has nothing to do with purity. This is all about dominance, buddy. You can bet if someone ordered a male body part for religious sacrifice, the world would be atheist like <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">that</i>.”</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A nice touch—when Angel gets near the casket with the Shroud and hears the whisperwhisper, his eyes flash vampire yellow but his bumpy forehead and fangs don’t come out.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh never mind, his forehead went vampface for a minute.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gunn: “When they gonna start making some pretty demons.” // Me, on behalf of Lorne: Hey!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aaaaaaaaaand now I’m angry because Shroud or no Shroud (and we find out later that Angel’s only sort of under its influence), it is crossing a major line to throw Gunn’s trauma of losing his sister back in his face as if it didn’t happen <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">less than a year ago</i>.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, spiny Tony Todd demon beheaded the human guard member of the heist boys, so that’s the dead body our prologue detectives warned us of.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So okay I am CONFUSED. Wes told us the Shroud makes people go all ragey, and we saw that it raised Angel’s vampface. And now that the vault is open, those vibes are flowing out through the museum (I guess???), but then <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">why</i> is it just making Cordy and Wes act very very stoned? That’s … the opposite of ragey? I AM CONFUSED.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But sure, let’s have Wesley put on his best absent minded professor routine while Cordelia stares at her reflection in a display case and announce her teeth are big.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh and now she’s stealing a beaded necklace off a mannequin in Indigenous regalia and if this isn’t a fucking microcosm.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And now Angel, two for two on the What the Hell Man game, taunts Kate about her dead father.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Though I guess biting her neck and drinking her blood is also kind of bad.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But when the budget SWAT team show up, all they find is a bewildered Wes kneeling over an unconscious Kate. The shroud, the heist boys, they’re all gone.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But at heist lair, they’re finally opening the casket and the whisperwhispers get more intense, and now it’s in a four-way tug of war. Nope, make that three, Spiny got shot.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But somewhere in there, Angel sobers enough to say “Gunn, I remember. You have to trust me. I know what to do with this.” And Gunn sobers enough to hear him and let go of the Shroud, so Angel can destroy it.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And now we’ve caught up in the timeline with Wesley in the interrogation room and I guess this wasn’t as nonlinear as I had hoped it would be. But anyway before they can finish arresting Wesley, a waxy-skinned red-eyed Kate stops them and releases Wes.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And then we get our third iteration of the bite, where Kate remembers Angel whispering “Stay down or they’ll kill you.” Which tells us he had at least some self-control but still felt like it was a good move to needle two of his friends’ biggest open wounds.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And back at the Hyperion, Cordelia is insisting—<i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">while still wearing her appropriated necklace</i>—that she returned everything she stole. Meanwhile, Wes is worried that Angel drinking from Kate will reignite his bloodlust because he thinks Angel hasn’t had human blood “in a <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">very</i> long time,” so are we ignoring that he drank from Buffy two seasons ago? That’s not that long in Vampire Time.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And see here’s my stink. I get that they were trying for a whole recovering addict metaphor for Angel in S1, and that <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">that</i> is somehow connected with his tipping into possible Angelus territory, and if they had actually done anything with that idea in the past twenty episodes, I’d be willing to consider it, but they haven’t. Far more effective to lean into the whole “Angel needs to be invested in the world he’s saving” element, which does feel earned and exercised, and connects much better to his current Darla Problem, because she’s trying to pull him out of that investment.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But sure, let’s end the episode with Angel remembering drinking Kate’s blood, his expression ambiguously blank. </span></span></li></ul></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6oTQasriOFiGh5HLIA6u9EJqcN6KUGnvRs6zZAM7pzo2eiVykGCE16xlj3J4Nxx-Nb6E3B9uczzfjkdBSEZWH0vNmxOKDDynGHPJCZiwYFaGKc0M4bb3PVqdwgKlCdBm7RCKnvX3G33Wd/s498/sure+jan.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6oTQasriOFiGh5HLIA6u9EJqcN6KUGnvRs6zZAM7pzo2eiVykGCE16xlj3J4Nxx-Nb6E3B9uczzfjkdBSEZWH0vNmxOKDDynGHPJCZiwYFaGKc0M4bb3PVqdwgKlCdBm7RCKnvX3G33Wd/s320/sure+jan.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</b></div></b><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok we got two suits talking cryptically about someone.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ah, they’re cops.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I guess.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yeah, the way they were talking and the way they’re dressed, I shoulda guessed that.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They’re interrogating someone and we’re not supposed to know who he is but it’s obviously Wesley.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They mention a body without a head.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley mysteriously says, “You didn’t bring it here, did you?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We flash to Angel with blood on his mouth and a woman falling to the ground.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A blond woman.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Darla? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t remember this episode at all.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes continues to narrate after the credits. He describes what we saw…before the credits.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He mumbles something about trying to stop him and he shouldn’t have been there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All weird vagueness.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We flashback to Wes & Cordelia.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There’s no 24 hours earlier tag or anything and -</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO CORDELIA’S HAIR. WHAT IS THAT.</span></li></ul></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihCHTtnI28cfD9mORwmMK47Zva8SFGrK1J1wkDNEJH9jtQdw7kyOhiO40pRh_5bDaTco_MbW_LPxY5Bva_NDqQht_MScwRoW8lnLsGoOAw3xrqu1xFziKgzCY9jxgjZSBvvg-gaqy6dqT1/s1024/Cordy+Hair.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihCHTtnI28cfD9mORwmMK47Zva8SFGrK1J1wkDNEJH9jtQdw7kyOhiO40pRh_5bDaTco_MbW_LPxY5Bva_NDqQht_MScwRoW8lnLsGoOAw3xrqu1xFziKgzCY9jxgjZSBvvg-gaqy6dqT1/w400-h225/Cordy+Hair.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even Cordelia has no idea<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy exposits that Wes is still dating Virginia – and Angel is helping Gunn with something.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel & Gunn are talking to a friend of Gunn’s. The guy is nervous about a job regarding another vamp.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel recognizes the name of the big bad vamp. And he wants to take on the job himself and leaves Gunn. Okay.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Detective Kate surprises Angel at the Hyperion in his room.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She’s silent the whole time but the chip on her shoulder gabs a lot.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She’s looking for Darla.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Also, search warrant much?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They’re really playing Kate up to be an enemy for Angel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She even holds up a cross with a chiseled wooden stake at the bottom end.</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkptUw1kj7zy9nSCwTZNWr-HeDJG5gGgk6IlhVRT28-BzbBewRz27hthDuz2ygZmsoD1uQFNBTo_Lfsqzb6YjrVA6l5C7zamVjj95annfqbUa27hVtA1gxkfcbOwpUvLUUDidgwPyf9EA/s1024/Cross+Stake.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkptUw1kj7zy9nSCwTZNWr-HeDJG5gGgk6IlhVRT28-BzbBewRz27hthDuz2ygZmsoD1uQFNBTo_Lfsqzb6YjrVA6l5C7zamVjj95annfqbUa27hVtA1gxkfcbOwpUvLUUDidgwPyf9EA/w400-h225/Cross+Stake.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It looks cool, anyway</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel catches Wes & Cordy up with what’s happening with Gunn’s case.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jay-Don, the vampire that’s coming in to LA is apparently loud, flashy – and ran with the Rat Pack.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy and Wes look at Angel like it’s make-over time.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel is actually good at undercover – pretends that he’s excited to see this Jay-Don – and dusts him – but not before stealing his sunglasses….and then does a quick change!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">A demon lurks around. Angel acts like Jay-Don and gets in a car with him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jay-Don meets with two demons and a security guard human.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They’re waiting for the driver, Lester.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn takes a page out of Angel’s book and goes to the meeting in Lester’s place.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I love that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because he’s using Angels methods while also kinda using it against him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s also convenient that none of these people have met and/or know what they look like.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel fabricates animosity between him and Gunn for some reason – I guess so they don’t suspect them as working together?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia, on a museum website: “Don’t they have a section of like, things you want to steal?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, Angel says he hit Gunn to protect him. Gunn reciprocates by punching him back when they’re alone and tells him not to do it again. Good for him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two Demons, Two Humans and Vampire Break Into a Museum.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel stops the demon from killing another security guard.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate and her detectives have security cam pictures of some of our heist members.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And of course Kate recognizes Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy makes good points about why religions always need virgin women for sacrifices.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s a nice moment but it’s not like it’ll change anything.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy & Wes find out that this shroud is something that makes you crazy, so that’s fun.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And indeed it does.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As soon as they open the vault, you can see the affect it has on Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn sees Angel’s eyes turn and is concerned. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes & Cordelia show up and they’re not even near the shroud but they’re all of a sudden acting like they’re drunk. As if the shroud is doing something to them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Detective Kate has arrived as well.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Glass in the box cracks which makes their emotions run even higher.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the part of the heist where the security guard who is in on the con gets tied up to deter suspicion. But he yells about getting someone to hit him so it looks like he’s a victim. One of the demons obliges…by twisting his head off.</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_nwzizLmkvQJAizuwu7qyPt9hwUQ-x0ujTBFA5PZW6ygLODoqKYHeTR6DSE1NCsUsNm28JGiUHpMH3zjb4d_XqF896jtYB-GSmkiCjrXyHQ6w5cmVEwEmNCNFbCbY8oeS468ZVma9v3f/s1024/Oops.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_nwzizLmkvQJAizuwu7qyPt9hwUQ-x0ujTBFA5PZW6ygLODoqKYHeTR6DSE1NCsUsNm28JGiUHpMH3zjb4d_XqF896jtYB-GSmkiCjrXyHQ6w5cmVEwEmNCNFbCbY8oeS468ZVma9v3f/w400-h225/Oops.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oops<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So the shroud changes peoples’ behavior I guess?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel is getting angry, Wesley is getting stupid, Cordy just seems drunk…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gunn kinda stays the same? For some, it looks like it heightens their emotions. Gunn becomes more angry about his sister.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kate gets more angry about her dad.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s kinda like the the types of drunks they are.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wes is a stupid drunk. Cordy is a happy drunk and the rest are angry/sad drunks.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel gives another speech to Kate about how she uses her father’s death to be angry with the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And it would be powerful if it was the first time we’ve heard it, but it’s not.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then Angel bites Kate! Oh, I guess it wasn't Darla. Remember when I thought that?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Next everyone’s gone but Kate and Wesley while the fuzz surround them and I guess arrest Wesley is the assumption.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The four remaining robbers are back in the warehouse fighting over the shroud.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And it gets violent.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Demon #1 shoots Demon #2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s really interesting that a demon uses guns.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then there’s the moment where Angel ‘sobers up’ for lack of a better term.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He knows what to do with the shroud and he asks Gunn to trust him which he does.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Which is why they make good teammates.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel burns up the shroud.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We’re back in the interrogation room. They’re about to arrest Wesley when Kate, looking drained <span style="color: red;">[literally - Z]</span>, opens the door and tells them to let Wes go.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She flashes back to the moment where Angel bites Kate – but as we know from the past, Angel knows just enough to drink.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We see that he whispered to her to stay down or they’ll kill her.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She does so.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">So once again, Angel saves Kate’s life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She seems to appreciate it this time by letting Wes go.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But will it last?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">As she’s wearing the stolen necklace, Cordy tells Wesley she returned everything she stole.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Oops.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And Angel sits and remembers feeding off of Kate. </span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>NY Times Crossword:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Guys, look at the Times Xword today:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTB7E-DEHVPgIkbhH2pbdfGgy0Z4HcESdxTH4Mej4_lpCddL6VYzJmOCyyAfPsQeKPnydXkWksu_a9K0SoNc_vkFRr_mgIPpawLLhvcD1nWBxdySzzfCY3pJDvbxRjQ3XcMzbjXXFQ9J3C/s1636/Screen+Shot+2020-09-15+at+9.58.40+AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="1636" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTB7E-DEHVPgIkbhH2pbdfGgy0Z4HcESdxTH4Mej4_lpCddL6VYzJmOCyyAfPsQeKPnydXkWksu_a9K0SoNc_vkFRr_mgIPpawLLhvcD1nWBxdySzzfCY3pJDvbxRjQ3XcMzbjXXFQ9J3C/w400-h70/Screen+Shot+2020-09-15+at+9.58.40+AM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;">Crossfire!</b></div></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Z:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The Shroud of Rahmon.”<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">D:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> *giggles* Rahmon.<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Z:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I love ramen!<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;">Favorite Lines:</b></div></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Zelda: </b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This has nothing to do with purity. This is all about dominance, buddy. You can bet if someone ordered a male body part for religious sacrifice, the world would be atheist like <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">that</i>.” – Cordelia<br /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></b></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Daniel: </b></span>Cordelia, on a museum website: “Don’t they have a section of like, things you want to steal?”<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit;">Arc/Continuity:</b></div></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Recurring:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Detective Kate Lockley<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Already Famous Person:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tony Todd<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Generally Known TV Face:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> W. Earl Brown, Dwayne Barnes, Tom Kiesche<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Michael Nagy (Jay-Don on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Alfonse on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>, Particularly Dressed Man on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Firefly</i>)<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel’s Alias:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jay-Don fanboy; Jay-Don<br /></span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Gunn’s Alias:</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lester<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Stats:</b></div></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia’s Hair – We don’t even know. It’s much darker, it’s bobbed to just above her shoulders, there’s a bumpit in there giving the bob a very Mod look (1960s/70s?)<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Humans – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Undeads – 2<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Flashbacks – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Lawyers – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unevil Reveal – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shenanigans Called – 1<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apocalypse Called – 0<br /></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 15px;" /></div>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-69886790360608711322020-09-01T11:20:00.003-04:002020-09-01T11:20:23.143-04:00I Give it a Century – Tops<div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Episode 2.07:
Darla.</b> Original Airdate: 11.14.00.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="335" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-X6z0jAkozijlhba05PLZt0Bev_FQpvF6Cc0GHM1kEoaeW_fwSPWoch91MRruqIafqJ6stGmRrL1LAgUmb7wKhELoeWwRiSjc-wvAlcYalewZYPcQcT5ASmgraO1ihMfLVsPUlJ0bds/w419-h234/fanged+four.gif" width="419" /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Lindsey
finds himself drawn to Darla as her mental state deteriorates.”<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s
Thoughts:</b></div></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel brooding in his room, drawing. I weirdly like that that is one of his talents. And they keep bringing it back.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He’s drawing Darla when he senses Wesley lurking.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley’s worried and it’s because he knows Angel’s starting to get obsessed: littered on the ground are dozens of drawings of Darla.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">What’s interesting here is while it’s revealed on <i>Buffy</i> that Darla was Angel’s sire and that he was the one to kill her in the end, that was really the end of that. Angel never seemed obsessed with Darla on that season of <i>Buffy</i>. He just warned Buffy that Darla was dangerous. He didn’t mourn her demise and I think he rarely spoke of her again (if ever). There were some flashbacks with Darla that we saw through Spike. But they retconned a lot with Angel’s history - or at least they hadn’t fully planned it out when Darla (or even Spike was first introduced.). Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s brilliant that they brought Darla back & filled out her and Angel’s backstories respectively. Just an observation that on <i>Buffy</i>, Darla never seemed as important to Angel has she does now.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Darla is having a crisis of her own. She’s destroyed her apartment. She’s also starting to remember all the horrible things she’s done in her life (death?). </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She’s also bleeding. It doesn’t look like she’s slit her wrists on purpose…just a few cuts from breaking glass. But it’s gotten to the point where an ex-vampire (or a vampire who’s recently gotten a soul) starts to remember and feel guilty about all the things they’ve done. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And we’ve got Darla in History as we see that she lived in 1609. She’s dying of some kind of venereal disease.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s the Master, Buffy’s first Big Bad – and this is a brilliant move to bring him back for this. </span></li></ul></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ-oScWtsKPkPB8MdkF_tFvdTCw37_lwMM0sGraofu7rMXGJ6GWzCKBSDxHf0r8V6SMk0gkizY-m-r8iXPIKQkB9SRyarBLf2mJAcwajhED1pEdws8FjA8baxTpw-Yk6S__Kf05trw8rg/s640/Fruit+Punch+Mouth.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ-oScWtsKPkPB8MdkF_tFvdTCw37_lwMM0sGraofu7rMXGJ6GWzCKBSDxHf0r8V6SMk0gkizY-m-r8iXPIKQkB9SRyarBLf2mJAcwajhED1pEdws8FjA8baxTpw-Yk6S__Kf05trw8rg/w512-h384/Fruit+Punch+Mouth.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It's Fruit Punch Mouth!</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">His features are the same as they were in the 1990s. Since animal-like features come with the age of the vampire, it would have been cool to see The Master in a different form. I mean, how old can he be? Also, Darla is about 400 years old…how come her features haven’t changed? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile the Fang Gang are trying to figure out how to find Darla. Gunn comes up with the only plausible idea – looking into real estate W&H might own. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the ago: Darla introduces Angel to the Master. They don’t see eye to eye.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s interesting that Darla, a 400 year old vamp and The Master, a (probably more than) thousand year vamp…(a millennial?) are both killed relatively easily in season one of Buffy (especially Darla.) </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla chooses Angel over her sire.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Master: “I give it a century, tops.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It took a while for Darla to break. And it only took a brief conversation with Angel to do that.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apparently Holland Manners knew this would eventually happen but Lindsey did not.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We flashback to a century later and Drusilla has joined the gang. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love that Dru calls Darla grandmother.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They bump into William, pre-vamp, a bumbling idiot.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia used her “acting skills” to get Darla’s address. Except I shouldn’t call them acting skills. This here is proof that lying isn’t acting. To lie is to deceive. When you’re acting, the audience is in on it. You’re not trying to deceive anyone. That’s why you can be good at one but not the other. <span style="color: red;">[THANK you. - Z, a good actor and a terrible liar]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla’s now getting all philosophical about who and/or what she is.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">While she’s trying to figure it out, she makes out with Lindsey. So that’s fun.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We find out that that the Romani people who cursed Angel to bring back his soul were massacred by Darla, Dru & Spike.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Darla calls Angel. She is so damn broken.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey catches her. She begs Lindsey to let her go to Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla tries to knock Lindsey out and she kills the security guard. Still, Lindsey helps her escape.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey’s such a sap. I don’t understand why the powers that be haven’t already gotten rid of him. They’ve killed people for less.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">One more flashback: China. An ensouled Angel finds Darla. Surprising that <i>she</i> hasn’t come after <i>him</i>. But she doesn’t kill him. Because she loves him. And as we all know vampires are capable of loving someone:</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjUPxpyR2pTDy_Tso-0EgP0m3OJVxfMFgWrto9tvPg06dBWsejd1tveEcJWB4rUlKOrJXEVxqmq0plQBpAUL1RT5miR6mjMVUFndftbMP_zaJmU6xgX_lZ6W_9b9vxvGWFu-YxyvxfwuM/s500/Drusilla+Love+.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjUPxpyR2pTDy_Tso-0EgP0m3OJVxfMFgWrto9tvPg06dBWsejd1tveEcJWB4rUlKOrJXEVxqmq0plQBpAUL1RT5miR6mjMVUFndftbMP_zaJmU6xgX_lZ6W_9b9vxvGWFu-YxyvxfwuM/s0/Drusilla+Love+.gif" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the ago, - Boxer Rebellion - Angel tries to be bad again, but he can’t. And this is also where Spike killed his first slayer.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla, in the ago, tells Angel that he only kills evildoers. Like Dexter!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She wants him to prove himself by killing a baby.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the present, Angel saves Darla from the men who have been ordered to kill him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But we find out the entire thing was a ruse. The security guard we thought was killed – is still alive. Holland Manners set this all up so that Darla will get close to Angel again. I think he’s still under the theory that orgasms=perfect happiness.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia rightfully corrects Darla as she calls him Angelus. “Around here we call him Angel. Just Angel.” I love how protective she is.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla wants Angel to turn her back into a vamp.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Julie Benz is giving this all she can – she’s amazing – and…I wish she had a better acting partner.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Favor? You think it was a favor? You damned me.” -Angel</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the ago, Angel can’t kill a baby which disgusts Darla. He even runs and takes the baby with him, saving it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s juxtaposed with Darla running from the Hyperion.</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Zelda’s
Thoughts:</b></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m
excited! I hope this episode is as good as I remember it being.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aw I love
that they keep this consistent thing, that Angel is good at the pencil
sketches.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But
whooooooooom is he drawing? (spoiler: it’s Darla)</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes is
checking up to see if Angel’s okay, as he’s camped out in his room drawing …
and that’s because the floor is covered with discarded drawings of Darla
because *sing-song* somebody’s obsessssssssssssed.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla,
meanwhile, is camped out in her trashed apartment, every reflective surface
smashed, and I guess that’s her soul finally making itself known, like Angel
warned her it would.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla
asks if Lindsey has someone special, but we know he’s nursing a crush on Darla.
But she’s still fixated on Angel, on how he’s no longer Angelus, she’s no
longer the Darla she was. And she’s decided that now they’re “soulmates,” as
she laughs quietly – and not too sanely – to herself.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flashback
time! Darla human, the first time, dying in 1609. A dying prostitute, with a
slightly English accent, okay sure, but HEY GUESS WHO’S VISITING HER, IT’S THE
MASTER.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I do like
this touch quite a bit, this remembering that he is who made her (although actually this may be the moment we find that out for canon sure). Fruit punch
mouth and all.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“God
never did anything for you, but I will.” Nice mirroring of what she said to
Angel (“God doesn’t want you, but I still do.”)</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And back
to the present, Angel wants to mount yet another Darla hunt and everyone else
is like hey this is a dumb plan.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A: “We
investigate things. That’s what we’re good at.” // C: “That’s what we suck at.”
She’s … not wrong.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But hey,
reminder that Gunn is actually effing smart and suggests that if they look into
housing owned by W&H they might find her. Angel’s input: “She’d want
something with a view … Darla always loved something with a view.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flashback
time, this time to 1760 (seven years after Angelus was sired, according to my
quick internet search), to Darla bringing Angelus to meet <strike>Dad</strike> the Master.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I
don’t think I clocked how long the Master was trapped under Sunnydale, but I
had assumed it was longer than Angel had been a vampire. But here is he, not
trapped. (again, internet tells me he got trapped in 1937)</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway,
Angelus with his shite Irish accent has very little respect for any of the
Master’s plans or aesthetics. The Master thinks they should live below ground,
but Angelus wants to live above ground, give Darla her view, her fancy clothes
and niceties.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Master keeps smacking Angelus, and he’s ignoring him, just telling Darla they
should leave together, go off to Naples. A: “Tell the truth, whose face do you
wanna look at for eternity? His or mine?” // M: “Idiot. I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">made</i> her.” But oop, off she goes with Angelus. Master’s gonna get
empty lair syndrome. Time to make Luke?</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It won’t
last. I give it a century – tops.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hah,
funny retcon by the writers: Angel finds out the name Darla wasn’t in common
usage until a century after she was born, and credits the Master with naming
her. Like Angelus, she got a new name when she changed from human to vampire. I
don’t mind it much, but it is more evidence for what Daniel talks about above,
that they clearly had no idea/plan for the history of Darla, giving her too
contemporary a name for how old she is.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes
points out what should be obvious: that they brought Darla back to keep Angel
focused and yet distracted, so he won’t pay attention to what the other (evil)
hand is doing. Big ol’ yup. And Angel acknowledges: “It’s working.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holland
chastises Lindsey for bringing Darla to the office, then realizes “She’s
cracking up … she’s way ahead of schedule.” Annnnnnd Lindsey is pissssssed.
It’s clear he wasn’t let in on the full plan with Darla. (spoiler: even by the
end of the episode he’s still not in on it)</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey now
we’re in the past again with Darla, Angelus, and Drusilla, and man Darla does
not enjoy Dru – either the weird talk, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or</i>
her referring to Darla as grandmother </span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLI0zRlJWv3ZGE6D_fNsqhRjMAKOurJJh80MbNOaETbra1bOx0XZK_JNWv3lWpDxl3O4qrovYIh4AJHbbQXp7t7BJwldY-j93YZAQIful7aazG62XTk3gFX1xe1SkTHfUNsdsBSEZkWNY/s245/darla+grandmother.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="136" data-original-width="245" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLI0zRlJWv3ZGE6D_fNsqhRjMAKOurJJh80MbNOaETbra1bOx0XZK_JNWv3lWpDxl3O4qrovYIh4AJHbbQXp7t7BJwldY-j93YZAQIful7aazG62XTk3gFX1xe1SkTHfUNsdsBSEZkWNY/w383-h213/darla+grandmother.gif" width="383" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">ALSO HEY LOOK IT’S SPIKE BUT NOT YET
SPIKE.</span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A
beautiful beautiful beginning of the crossover flashback event with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i> episode “Fool for Love,” as a
brokenhearted William knocks into them and tearily yells “Watch where you’re
going,” and Dru looks after him, intrigued.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s not
a great sign when literally half of everyone on this team’s job is protecting Angel
from himself. Cordy’s figured out where Darla is, and Wes stops Angel from
running off, saying he’ll do recon with Gunn (and Cordelia has to remind him
it’s the middle of the day and the apartment is in Sun Valley).</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla!In!History!:
she doesn’t remember her human name. “I was Darla for so long, then I wasn’t …
I wasn’t anything. I just stopped. He killed me. I was dead.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“What did
you bring back, Lindsey? What am I? Did you bring back that girl whose name I
can’t remember? Or did you bring back something else? The other thing …” This
reminds me a bit of when Spike will later struggle with his soul, speaking of
it as a separate presence from his fractured mind.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Darla
finally calls L’s crush out, asking “Why haven’t you kissed me?” He says he
wasn’t sure if she wanted him to, and she asks why that matters, and ugh
consent can we just.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway,
they kiss and it’s actually quite sweet, for some evil-ish folk.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Welp, she
bit Lindsey on the neck.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She
really is cracking up. “I can feel this body dying … it’s a cancer, this soul.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah right,
we don’t know yet that she actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i>
dying.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flashback,
this time to 1898, to Darla bargaining with the Romani tribe to remove
Angelus’s soul, to restore him to his evil glory.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru,
meanwhile “He shall be very cross if he finds we had a lovely mass slaughter
without him.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla
tries to leverage the man’s family in the wagon against Angelus’s soul … and
then Spike emerges from the wagon and burps, having already slaughtered the
family. So much for that bargaining chip.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru:
“They cry out for mercy.” // Darla: “Show none.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Present
day Darla calls Angel on the phone. “I don’t remember anything. It’s a great
big nothing. Could it be there’s no hell?” // “There is a hell. A few of them.
I’ve been to one.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel can
apparently hear Darla’s heartbeat through the phone and … nope. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shenanigans</b> on that. There’s no
enhanced vampire hearing that can override the limits of phone tech.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now
we’re in China in 1900 and it’s the Boxer Rebellion! Which means Spike’s off
killing a Slayer. </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel,
dirty and disheveled, finds Darla. She holds a knife to his throat. “You reek
of vermin. Is that what you’ve been living off of?” And Angel asks her to kill
him. Or take him back. “You and me, together, Darla … I miss the view.”<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mercifully,
his accent is finally (if inexplicably) gone. Maybe his soul was like “there ain't room for the both of us in this dumb vampire” and kicked it out.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey’s
doing his waffle dance again, asking Angel to help him get Darla away from
W&H control. And knowing the future, we know that in fact Holland Manners
& Co were counting on this, knowing Lindsey’s weakness.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow, here
Angel is in fucking China and he finds <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
one white family</i>. Did they … did they just not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">try</i> to hire any Chinese actors? I guess they’re supposed to be
missionaries but come the fuck on. Even when the show gives itself an
opportunity to cast more non-white actors, it … doesn’t. Did they think the
only way we would care about his sparing innocents – especially the baby later
– is if they were white? This is full on racist garbage.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A nice
detail, just because in Spike’s flashbacks to this moment on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i>, we don’t clock Angel had his soul
already. It adds a new angle to his reaction to Spike’s murder of the Slayer.
Angel, grim, “I guess that makes you one of us.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dru,
smelling fear in the alley behind Angel, is smelling the family with a baby
he’s trying to protect from the vamps.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now
we have the slo-mo hero walk, this time clocking how Darla watches Angel.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flashback!Darla
confronts Angel, pointing out that the only men he’s killed have been murderers
and rapists, scoundrels. She found the family he tried to protect, killed the
parents, and brought the infant for him to finally prove himself to her: either
kill the ultimate innocent, or leave her.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey
sees the security guard he was told was dead, alive and shaking hands with
Holland Manners, and realizes he’s been lied to. And now we wonder – about what
else.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We had
to make you believe it, Lindsey.” // “Why?” // “Because she has to believe it.
Because Angel has to. The crisis needed to be real.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“What do
you expect him to do?” // “What he will do. What he must do. Save her soul.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla:
“I’m so lucky to have someone who understands. Who knows. That’s something you
never had, is it.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla
asks him, small and vulnerable: “You’ll make the pain stop, won’t you?” Angel
thinks she means grappling with her soul. But she wants him to turn her. She’s
weeping, asking him to stop her beating heart. But Angel sees the gift that it
is, to be human again. You know … that thing he had and threw away in S1?</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And in
both flashback and present, Angel tells Darla he can’t give her what she wants:
“I can’t seem to be what I’m not.” He won’t turn her; and in the past, he
wouldn’t kill a baby. And in both times, she rejects him. “You disgust me.” /
“Don’t look for me again.”</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fuck.
That was a good episode, y’all. As a show (and as a protag) I still like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy</i> better, but damn when this show is
good, it’s good.</span></span></li></ul></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite
Lines:</b></div></span></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>Daniel:</b>
“Around here, we call him Angel. Just Angel.” – Cordelia<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Zelda:</b> Darla: <o:p></o:p></span>“I don’t remember anything. It’s a great big nothing. Could it be there’s no hell?” // Angel: “There is a hell. A few of them. I’ve been to one.”<br /></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Arc/Continuity:</b></div></span></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>Recurring:</b>
Angel’s A+ drawing skills, Lindsey McDonald, Holland Manners, Darla, Drusilla,
Spike, Angel’s “Irish” “accent”<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Buffy
Crossover:</b> The Master, Drusilla, Spike, Romani Man<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Cordelia’s
Alias:</b> Darla’s sister<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Angel!
In! History!</b></div></span></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are
a few hells. Angel’s been to one of them.</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It took
Angel a century of soul-having but soul-not-wanting to start his redemption
arc. During the Boxer Rebellion (when Spike murdered his first Slayer), Angel
was souled but trying to get Darla back. It didn’t work out.</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Darla!
In! History!</b></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1609 Darla was
a sex worker dying in the Virginia colony, and was turned by the
Master.</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After
siring Angelus, she brought him to meet the Master in 1760, but then left the Master’s Order
of Aurelius to go on Angelus adventures. </span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1880 London the group picked up Spike. </span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1898 she tried to bargain with the Romani tribe to remove Angelus's soul.</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion she tried to reconcile with Angel, but ultimately rejected him. </span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We don’t know when she returned to
serve the Master, but it was sometime after this.</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Stats:</b></span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s
Hair – half up, hanging straight</span></div></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead
Humans – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead
Undeads – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead
Flashbacks – 6 (+ Romani caravan, presumed many in China)<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead
Lawyers – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia
Has a Vision – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Wesley Prat-falls – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lawyered
Ex Machina – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evil
Reveal – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unevil
Reveal – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shenanigans
Called – 1<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apocalypse
Called – 0<br /></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy
Called – 0</span></span></div>
Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-2689867952281636432020-08-25T11:57:00.000-04:002020-08-25T11:57:04.554-04:00Delusions of Angel<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Episode 2.06: Guise Will Be Guise. </b>Original Airdate: 11.07.00.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia5dkfI40kgctL2Hhu9hnIPFAbaJpK35gQIENjY0828U7bHMVu2u8TD-wmb2_9MYIfGucimQMSyYpWUKjqWnciPfpdjU7g8xDXK-js5QoEI0pQTKQLjTllF2NjXFdWi-XUs5iTKkF650Oa/s512/V+Formation.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="512" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia5dkfI40kgctL2Hhu9hnIPFAbaJpK35gQIENjY0828U7bHMVu2u8TD-wmb2_9MYIfGucimQMSyYpWUKjqWnciPfpdjU7g8xDXK-js5QoEI0pQTKQLjTllF2NjXFdWi-XUs5iTKkF650Oa/w513-h384/V+Formation.jpg" width="513" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Angel meets with a swami to end his obsession with Darla. Meanwhile, Wesley assumes Angel’s identity and plays bodyguard to a businessman’s daughter.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Zelda’s Thoughts:</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The episode starts with Wes stumbling, struggling to open a file cabinet drawer, and spilling the contents everywhere. Because we have to have an arc.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aw, throwback to when Wesley was a rogue demon hunter … and then he takes a prat-fall on the spilled files.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whee, Angel and Gunn breaking into W&H through the basement. And Wes and Cordy crash their elevator to stop Angel from being a dumdum.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">AHAHAHAHA I love Gunn reacting to Angel’s shitty shitty plan: “What? <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">That’s</i> the plan? Walking real quick was the plan?” We still haven’t gotten to my favorite line about Angel’s bad planning skills, but I appreciate this character consistency/mocking thereof.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also the security guard’s stick has a retractable stake. Fancy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aww they took Gunn to Caritas! He’s part of the gang.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Once more with <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">less</i> feeling,” says Lorne and it’s like he knows what my started <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i> episode was.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s all twitchy and acting like an addict.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn’s worried Angel will have to sing, but Lorne lets us all off the hook and sends Angel to T’ish Magev to fix his brain. “He’ll shock your chakras, filet your soul, whatever you need.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia imitating Angel: “Oh no, I can’t do anything fun tonight. I have to count my past sins, then alphabetize them. Oh by the way, I’m thinking of snapping on Friday.” I fucking love it. The more this show mocks Angel, the more I dig it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gasp! A heavy shows up waving a gun and threatening Cordelia. Wes overhears, then steps into action: hero shot, big flowy coat, a hint of bluster. Time to pretend to be Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hah, I forgot this entire episode is basically T’ish Magev calling Angel out, starting with a vampire driving a flashy convertible in Los Angeles. And wearing all black.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel claims the all black means he doesn’t have to worry about matching, which is incorrect. Some blacks are reddish, some bluish, especially under tinted lights, and you can tell when you’re mismatching them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">HAH. Wes: *begins to enter the house* // Heavy: I invite you in. // Wes: *immediately ducks backwards, then enters again* </span></li></ul><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9G00qJkxEupPInKfePs7xhcmAL9yL1GS1QMfdNjFptIbUhs9Uug-hWI9nL9pAsPmy7iYnEz8xu211g5_Q4dnSPuYP_XMCqMmjPWgPfly7ZKNwOS7XhQ40ZTx11d9YNKb7aGYuQyExDUC/s219/tumblr_n9sxi6dRBD1r64i05o4_250.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="219" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9G00qJkxEupPInKfePs7xhcmAL9yL1GS1QMfdNjFptIbUhs9Uug-hWI9nL9pAsPmy7iYnEz8xu211g5_Q4dnSPuYP_XMCqMmjPWgPfly7ZKNwOS7XhQ40ZTx11d9YNKb7aGYuQyExDUC/w429-h326/tumblr_n9sxi6dRBD1r64i05o4_250.gif" width="429" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also, is he coming in from direct sunlight?</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></b></span></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a great episode for Alexis Denisof, so much fun for him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eeep he has to drink a cup of blood as part of the subterfuge. *trying not to vomit* “Dear god that’s … nummy.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway he’s asking him to protect his daughter.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“There are two yous,” the T’ish Magev says over a shot of Wes!Angel. We see you, show.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway now he’s calling Angel out on his hair gel. </span></li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAS82nKi7YIALTkxfkPAaVMCzhq9_TsYvurGsN0AiOhnVSHH8KToDToAzR1N2lily66eAmRkXwpc0IvjlOTwaXZuyZlhB_8nadzf7uX1-Bb0kZp3utW6CPJuBD0hGhyXHVld9qYGXwbXBy/s250/tumblr_ngud07Sg7z1tc6gmeo3_250.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="250" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAS82nKi7YIALTkxfkPAaVMCzhq9_TsYvurGsN0AiOhnVSHH8KToDToAzR1N2lily66eAmRkXwpc0IvjlOTwaXZuyZlhB_8nadzf7uX1-Bb0kZp3utW6CPJuBD0hGhyXHVld9qYGXwbXBy/w489-h270/tumblr_ngud07Sg7z1tc6gmeo3_250.gif" width="489" /></a></b></span></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes sees his reflection in a mirror, freaks out, backs away, and knocks over a truly creepy clown-doll art. Well done.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes, trying to be Angel to two random thugs: “Don’t worry, I don’t kill humans … unless I’m <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">angry</i>.” Props for his improv skills, but I’m still surprised people are buying his act. He’s got so many tells. If <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">anyone</i> here had good observation skills, he’d have been found out immediately.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, T’ish is fighty-fighting with Angel and psychoanalyzing him and GASP he’s on the phone to someone, letting we the viewers know that he killed the real T’ish and is just here to keep Angel distracted, which is when the mysterious guy he’s on the phone with wonders who the hell is the English guy. Also, I’m sad because Lorne was like “Ramone is the best” and we find out Ramone is how they knew to set this whole thing up.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow, for once it’s not W&H behind the subterfuge.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Virginia: “I keep waiting for my life to start,” and it’s very strong Rapunzel vibes! </span></li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_J3ZdWskn4KoMmJl4Gh8GwBU651w9rJ5ZoiSbRSwVV5G_d3lJPJJmJpZgGZ9979OJ-ZZkzU-WAGJ-qPv5nnkDdXSFUgPIgZ3scPrEpQS7pq-6axwFVnsjAvrvfpwkbEfzdhvRm97I2b0Z/s244/6ce6084445bbe592ac1eab9ce8170bd2.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_J3ZdWskn4KoMmJl4Gh8GwBU651w9rJ5ZoiSbRSwVV5G_d3lJPJJmJpZgGZ9979OJ-ZZkzU-WAGJ-qPv5nnkDdXSFUgPIgZ3scPrEpQS7pq-6axwFVnsjAvrvfpwkbEfzdhvRm97I2b0Z/s0/6ce6084445bbe592ac1eab9ce8170bd2.gif" /></a></b></span></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two hooded guards try to take Virginia and Wes … trounces them! Good job, Wes!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oop, T’fake tells Angel to go hook up with someone else to help him get over Darla, and I guess the jig is up.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But before that, time for Wes and Virginia to hook up!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy shows up to try to spring Wes, but it’s too late.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Oh no, not the sun! For I am a vampire! Oh, it burns!” Ooooooops.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Virginia’s rightly pissed because Wes was lying to her and they slept together.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also gasp! Turns out Bryce wanted a bodyguard for Virginia to keep her alive only until the sacrifice planned for his 50<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">th</sup> birthday and are there <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">any</i> good father figures in the Whedonverse?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, confused: “Were you in Virginia?” // “That’s beside the point.” #sexjoke <span style="color: red;">[And because I am 11, this is my favorite line. - D]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily Angel is back in time to tell us that Bryce doesn’t worship a god but a demon, and Wes accesses his Watcher Brain for Yeska knowledge, and figures out the plan.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes, still showing his better-than-Angel leadership skills, makes a plan, then backtracks before Angel and says he probably knows best. Angel adopts Wes’s plan because, again, Angel is <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">bad at plans</i>.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow, all the party guests are just watching this shit happen, as Virginia is chained to the altar.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Man, all the evils are human this episode, I guess we won’t be killing anyone.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, it turns out none of this would have worked anyway, because Virginia is “impure,” and how nice, we’d gone too long without obsessing about a woman’s “purity” and sexuality as somehow reflective of her character.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aw, Virginia and Wes are still dating! That’s cute. Cordelia’s grumpy: “Reflective glory? That’s <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">my</i> thing.”</span></li></ul><p></p><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel’s Thoughts:</b></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hyperion with Wesley.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He does a bunch of physical comedy before some guy comes in.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The guy wants to talk to Angel because he needs someone who is tough.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley tries to be tough but pratfalls and the guy leaves.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia comes downstairs with some urgency.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile at Wolfram & Hart, Angel & Gunn are sneaking in through a grate in the basement.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>& Cordelia have also snuck in, but instead of coming through the sewers, they disguise themselves as lawyers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy warns Angel that W&H have vampire detectors.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sure enough a security guard with a baton-stake (cool!) tries to dust Angel, but Angel stabs him in the foot.</span></li></ul></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitE0VlWTerNeZm3JM3FtUtAMO2B0DU11zwN3rXW5jWb7pvFRi8Iu8yQKHMDWUS7guCLzniuT6hR2SEPqHy8VwpVCNdRB_8SGWE3m82cRp1gFaqwzSv_X73KYjNF2bHryxqWWO0CPvuLVUk/s1024/Stake.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitE0VlWTerNeZm3JM3FtUtAMO2B0DU11zwN3rXW5jWb7pvFRi8Iu8yQKHMDWUS7guCLzniuT6hR2SEPqHy8VwpVCNdRB_8SGWE3m82cRp1gFaqwzSv_X73KYjNF2bHryxqWWO0CPvuLVUk/w512-h288/Stake.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oops<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caritas.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s Gunn’s first time here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some guys are singing ‘I Got You Babe’.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wait, so they went to W&H but…just left after?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily, we don’t see Angel sing this time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lorne’s just giving him a reading.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia is also relieved that Angel doesn’t have to sing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cabin in the woods! (in...Ohai)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The swami is not what Angel expected.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Like could they not hire an Indian actor?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They hired a white actor for…the joke? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile another mob looking guy threatens Cordelia if she doesn’t produce Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Enter, Wesley pretending to be Angel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This will go well.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ugh, and this swami guy …they’re having a conversation about Angel’s car & clothing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is he a stylist? His publicist? What is happening?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley as Angel is introduced by Mr. Bryce who needs protection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He offers Wesley blood…and oh man, there could be so many excuses to not drink it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wesley isn’t smooth. We know this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So much not smooth that he dumps the rest of the blood in a…clear vase…</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bryce wants WesGel…AngLey? to protect his daughter. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I get it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is a “fun” episode.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Virginia is the spoiled rich daughter. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Oh, I remember her.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She’s recurring.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m sure she’ll have more depth later – but first impressions have to be stereotypical.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia calls Gunn for help.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some thugs try to take Virginia but Wesley reveals himself to be Angel and the thugs get spooked off really easily despite Wes’s obvious stammering and weirdness.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel continues his own journey and the wise old white man continues to try to therapize him I guess.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s kinda boring.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ohhhhhhh.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>EVIL REVEAL.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Turns out this guy is not the real swami & he’s in league with the mob guys.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">More guys trying to take Virginia.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This time Wesley actually shows off his fighting skills and kicks their asses.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now this guy is trying to coach Angel to go out and neg some girl to heal his heart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And this…is when Angel starts getting suspicious.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Interesting that this happens only after we realize the evil reveal.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Virginia and Wes get closer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is the part of the episode where the rich girl lets us all know that she has it tough too!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m sure a TikTokker has done this bit.</span></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1114209903256715265" target="_blank">This one is close. Follow @RachelWenitsky on Twitter. She's hilarious</a></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Virginia and Wes kiss. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, I’m calling <b>shenanigans. </b>Virginia knows about the curse.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They’ve obviously done their research on Angel – they have tons of magical books and histories – and yet…they haven’t seen a picture of him? Also, where was that original mob guy from the beginning who actually met Wesley and his pratfalliness. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel also tells the “guru” about the curse. He sorta explains it’s not always about sex – but ‘true happiness’, a distinction a lot of people don't seem to get.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Wesley has sex with Virginia under false pretenses.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn goes to find Angel but gets wacked in the head.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The guy, stays in the sunlight but Angel gets creative using a fishing pole.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s actually pretty cool make-up effect.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOB4HpJz4SeIuxZ5yZoDj93tOGs_6kK1y-w7mwT_PcyK9dJQwIUT4OodpnVaFrGuvCOGtwD-RUEa_1yDYKgtU26FiWw0K4C74auu1MTNXRffahmVSn1lVHhD8mdX65429O2iuAxLCU-uHO/s1024/Fishing+Pole.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOB4HpJz4SeIuxZ5yZoDj93tOGs_6kK1y-w7mwT_PcyK9dJQwIUT4OodpnVaFrGuvCOGtwD-RUEa_1yDYKgtU26FiWw0K4C74auu1MTNXRffahmVSn1lVHhD8mdX65429O2iuAxLCU-uHO/w512-h288/Fishing+Pole.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway the jig is up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Everyone knows now that Wesley isn’t Angel so now he and Cordelia are trapped.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wait, he just....lets them go?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah right.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The sacrifice. I remember this.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Were you in Virginia?” “That’s besides the point.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Oh dude.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">With Angel back, they put everything together.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel is more concerned about his coat.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love when Angel’s vanity comes through.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Virginia is at the big party and of course has no idea she’s about to be sacrificed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kinda like that time Doyle went to that bachelor party.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The crew arrive in a v-formation like they always seem to do.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But this time,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wesley is in front </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OMG the demon looks like a demon from The Evil Dead. </span></li></ul><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY_aT6PxGtCbYTPh6jJ0hFKQO4aozpgGStMdPvzwVRCuvQ7YodeXbN9CXyv8T_sOh7BAa3s4B0bgFO56tm29714BYWCol-fpG2-typJp-T1KLD0ie0yZY9QrUZTOl7wpzreyHdLBh8tQqM/s1024/Demon.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY_aT6PxGtCbYTPh6jJ0hFKQO4aozpgGStMdPvzwVRCuvQ7YodeXbN9CXyv8T_sOh7BAa3s4B0bgFO56tm29714BYWCol-fpG2-typJp-T1KLD0ie0yZY9QrUZTOl7wpzreyHdLBh8tQqM/w512-h288/Demon.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I'll swallow your soul!"</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">LOL, Angel offended being called a eunuch.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This whole spell was under the impression that Virginia was a virgin.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I mean…I’m getting this strange feeling like…she was named Virginia….for that express purpose. <span style="color: red;">[Gross. - literally all of us]</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But Virginia is not…and has not been…a virgin since she was 16.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Favorite Lines:</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Zelda: </b>“Oh no, I can’t do anything fun tonight. I have to count my past sins, then alphabetize them. Oh by the way, I’m thinking of snapping on Friday.” – Cordelia</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Daniel: </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">“Were you in Virginia?” “That’s besides the point.”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> - Angel/Wesley</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Arc/Continuity:</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>First Appearance:</b> Virginia Bryce</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Recurring: </b>Lorne</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Generally Known TV Face: </b>Brigid Brannagh, Todd Susman, Saul Stein, Michael Yama, Patrick Kilpatrick</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Generally Known Face:</b> Art LaFleur</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Lorne’s Nicknames:</b> Angelito</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Cordelia’s Alias:</b> Lawyer, “Angel”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Wesley’s Alias:</b> Angel</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Caritas Song List</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I Got You, Babe”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Stats:</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s Hair – blown straight, parted down the middle (clipped up when in Lawyer mode); bewildering low ponytail with half her hair loose</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Humans – 0</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Undeads – 0</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Flashbacks – 0</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Lawyers – 0</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 0</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley Prat-falls – 2</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evil Reveal – 2 (T’ish Magev isn’t T’ish Magev; Bryce wants to sacrifice his daughter, not just keep her safe)</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unevil Reveal – 0</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shenanigans Called – 1</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apocalypse Called – 0</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></p>Banyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-59183131489309333762020-08-18T14:36:00.007-04:002020-08-18T14:36:50.105-04:00Between the Clowns and the Big Talking Hot Dog<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Episode 2.05: Dear Boy.</b> Original
Airdate: 10.24.00.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8qrhKo4bBPfc3IQHNV3NrYaKvB2e0C1KHgO2HmY7zQ719_9H3rCaLLZdbPC1rnfHHw5hUFU-ZPJ6BAw5WVB3b-mIsZXZVUrqVmgB_Z8dgznH-1DkowRcrBJffqv6x-Z8p0rtfOQzRLQ/s700/angel2x5.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="700" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8qrhKo4bBPfc3IQHNV3NrYaKvB2e0C1KHgO2HmY7zQ719_9H3rCaLLZdbPC1rnfHHw5hUFU-ZPJ6BAw5WVB3b-mIsZXZVUrqVmgB_Z8dgznH-1DkowRcrBJffqv6x-Z8p0rtfOQzRLQ/w328-h225/angel2x5.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">“Darla tries to drive Angel over
the edge in hopes of getting him to embrace his dark side.”</span></div>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Daniel’s Thoughts:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Hyperion is really looking nice. I can’t imagine Cordelia cleans that lobby every day.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel is really super tired. No one knows why. We do.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy vision: Red hoods, big green monster.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel makes a quip and no one laughs. I hate when that happens.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He falls asleep briefly and Victorian era Darla sits on his lap kissing him. It’s weird.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We’re gonna need some muscle. Call Gunn.” GUNN IS MORE THAN JUST MUSCLE.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“My Uncle Theo always said never buy a dull plow and never get in the middle of a religious war.” <span style="color: red;">[And never get involved in a land war in Asia. And never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! - Vizzini]</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO01HGmFV3qK1BQPJlLdfcLdinKteIZVTkxQPyjkUa-FScYKQYoUOb5BEvHfi7YQYJ7j0ZJQByCMd8aZ6AoN66gPxk8A47D65x01FZUV_lqBviSuiJQMBLAp-E3brTZx-n-wi7Z4qFnqs/s245/tumblr_maxqdyJzPN1qf12z1o7_250.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="245" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO01HGmFV3qK1BQPJlLdfcLdinKteIZVTkxQPyjkUa-FScYKQYoUOb5BEvHfi7YQYJ7j0ZJQByCMd8aZ6AoN66gPxk8A47D65x01FZUV_lqBviSuiJQMBLAp-E3brTZx-n-wi7Z4qFnqs/w306-h250/tumblr_maxqdyJzPN1qf12z1o7_250.gif" width="306" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia: “Well at least they’re not killing each other and not--” Big Green thing: “Intruders!” Oh, Cordy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn kills the big green thing which reminds me more of a Doctor Who alien than a demon.</span></li></ul><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzp87cjoty5CRpYok46cFYvmiLgI-Gn5WMf6TrcnM3n2TA1k1pUuUeHawaDYvWvs60asEeFlj-PpwrU7ENHpiBKJzEOlqxjPhUEuN3djo6ROc-zpjT_2ChoxZr7pZQMenicApU9hHi8k/s1024/Big+Green+Thing.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzp87cjoty5CRpYok46cFYvmiLgI-Gn5WMf6TrcnM3n2TA1k1pUuUeHawaDYvWvs60asEeFlj-PpwrU7ENHpiBKJzEOlqxjPhUEuN3djo6ROc-zpjT_2ChoxZr7pZQMenicApU9hHi8k/w512-h288/Big+Green+Thing.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moisturize me?</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel continues to whale on some guy without any awareness of what’s around him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Again with the random fair in the middle of an LA sidestreet park thingy. This time, at night. Finally, Angel sees Darla while awake.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh! Guest starring Elisabeth Rohm. Is this her last episode? (snark.)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ooh, and we get some of Angel’s past. Angel with the long hair and the bad accent.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ahh, this is the story of what Angel and Darla did to Drusilla.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">They talk about her. Dru is still human. They’re attracted to her because she has “the sight” which we know from<i> Buffy.</i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the present, Angel loses Darla in the crowd…but he’s getting closer to understanding what’s going on.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Wes and Cordelia are interviewing a new client who claims his wife gets abducted by aliens.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy & Wes are incredulous to this – but if there are demons, why not aliens?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But it quickly becomes clear that his wife is cheating on him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Do you think my wife’s cheating on me?” “Probably.” – Angel says without any context.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Angel sniffs Cordelia’s hair and is really weird.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia, “I like Buffy as much as the next-“ Do you, though?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is this Lindsey’s first episode back? He’s got a prosthetic hand now. He and Darla flirt, I guess. I think that’s just their personalities?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey Detective Kate. Some guy, some fellow cop, exposits where she’s been and what she’s been up to. Apparently she’s been transferred. And she finds out, Angel has too, in a way. He also reminds the audience that Kate likes to investigate the strange and unusual. And he seems really…angry about it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Cordy undercovers as a waitress at the hotel the wife is cheating at. Wes is so not subtle taking pictures. Angel hides in a plant.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But Angel is tired of this and doesn’t want to do it so he exposes themselves thusly losing money for the team.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Darla is in the hotel! Wes & Cordelia have never met her so they don’t recognize her. And she’s human. She fakes a name and a husband and cries out for help. She obviously didn’t run into him by accident so I don’t know what the point of this is. Is it just to continue to play with him?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh no, we hear Angel sing karaoke badly again – at least he apologizes for it? That’s actually kinda hilarious.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And we get to see Lorne, so that’s good</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy gets an address for “DeEtta” (Darla) and Angel does what he does best: stalk.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Inside, it’s clear that it’s a ruse. Darla’s “husband” is an actor and talks about his art…and it’s so lame. They really like making fun of actors on this show.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s also a guard inside, hiding from the windows.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn finds out that Angel can turn back into Angelus and he’s not too happy about it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn “ If he gets back up to his old tricks, how bad can it get?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The show answers by providing us with another flashback.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel has killed all of Dru’s family. Darla’s disappointed that he hasn’t killed Dru yet. Angel’s plans for Dru are worse. He wants to turn Dru and make her torment permanent. So Angelus is a barrel of laughs.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla’s security guard is a vamp who kills the actor husband. She calls 911 pinning it on Angel. The cops come immediately, of course.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel escapes to the attic and ends up on the roof.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Darla meets Detective Kate and what is with Kate’s hair??</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZaI4siAo-9Ut4jKeb5HnIS-QudCcJGXRRnZdiiTgAkNSDXa18nO9Gy8EVTpeyKOpXCbE4KBNL2lSaoyTNKPBGofSDtU3SL_TTo66XF41kbsl1sDTZU8jcb3AYMPC87aEphV8Jacshoc/s2048/stupid+hair+copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZaI4siAo-9Ut4jKeb5HnIS-QudCcJGXRRnZdiiTgAkNSDXa18nO9Gy8EVTpeyKOpXCbE4KBNL2lSaoyTNKPBGofSDtU3SL_TTo66XF41kbsl1sDTZU8jcb3AYMPC87aEphV8Jacshoc/w512-h384/stupid+hair+copy.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla sob stories about how awful Angel is which fuels Kate’s already really bad hatred of him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Angel kidnaps Darla in the coolest way. He just drops down from a tree and scoops her up.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate: You guys want to help us out here or go down with the boss? Cordy and Wes defiantly cross their arms and it’s awesome.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And of course Kate singles out the one black guy in the room and asks if he has any priors.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel never doubts for a minute that she’s Darla which is amazing because she’s a pretty good actress. (Both Darla and Julie Benz). She doesn’t give a hint of deception - it’s great how Julie Benz is playing this.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla finally caves when Angel goes all vamp and bites into her neck. “There’s my boy.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley and Cordy have finally come around about Darla because they found a picture of her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla has a soul now but that doesn’t mean she’s good. She still wants Angel to lose his soul.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You took me places, showed me things - but you never made me happy.” Oof. Truth bomb.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla thinks she can turn him by having sex with him like Buffy did. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate has this incredibly flawed logic that innocent people wouldn’t get killed if Angel and his team didn’t get involved in this fight. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla leaves. Angel Broods. Like he can just sit in a chair for hours, can’t he?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“There’s going to be trouble.” Wesley, meet show.</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Zelda’s Thoughts:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, still sleepy and out of it.
Cordelia: “Ah, you must be all worn out from sleeping for the last three days.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia and Wesley, bicker bicker
bicker. At least he’s not insulting her intelligence.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Uh oh, Angel is now hallucinating
Darla while officially awake. Or at the least, he’s dreaming of Darla without IRL
Darla there to facilitate it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">How does Angel just know so much
about the former convent. I guess it’s convenient. And that is where he tracked
Dru down when he finally turned her, so it’s actually setting up our
flashbacks, fine I’ll allow it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nice, Gunn uses his fancy hubcap
axe to kill this rando thrall demon. While Angel spends all his energy punching
a thralled human.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy: “He’s off his game.” // Gunn:
“Since when is it a game.” For real.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh hey the fun’s begun! Angel,
walking through some promenade, sees Darla in red (of course). HOW COULD IT BE.
I do like this chess move. Now that his dream state is currently thoroughly
fucked with, and it’s impacting his work, let’s throw
Is-She-a-Hallucination-or-Real into the field.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course we know the truth, but be
prepared for some gaslighting of our grumpfaced vamp.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh no a flashback and a wig. A bad
accent can’t be far behind.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And there it is.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flashback Darla’s picked out
Flashback Angelus’s next target … FLASHBACK DRUSILLA.</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5BsrpHeElwVTclTFZOchxJTjrHR-D9G0sS1nj5GkwOIWcRVfYkRJSeUkjNXJ2sh5CAniA6YxeOuH3aWcq0UxdLA2E4Zlt7iioCmGi_MJ-Dj3oFbEL6P_SGSFrTGUs5yft7oovV5DNpo/s1184/Dear-Boy-drusilla-8979370-1184-664.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1184" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5BsrpHeElwVTclTFZOchxJTjrHR-D9G0sS1nj5GkwOIWcRVfYkRJSeUkjNXJ2sh5CAniA6YxeOuH3aWcq0UxdLA2E4Zlt7iioCmGi_MJ-Dj3oFbEL6P_SGSFrTGUs5yft7oovV5DNpo/w512-h287/Dear-Boy-drusilla-8979370-1184-664.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><p style="margin: 0in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aw man, the one time Juliet Landau
gets to play pre-insane on either show. I mean, she doesn’t look steady but
that’s because she’s already got visions. Poor thing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway back in the flashpresent they’ve
got a new client who claims his wife gets abducted by aliens “on a regular basis”
and dude she’s cheating on you, time to cut and run.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel strides in, distracted. “Do
you think my wife’s cheating on me?” // “Probably.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jesus fuck Angel is sniffing
Cordelia’s hair and nuzzling her why why stop.</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlscjPZWAjmfAFs0o0kheIkBxga1YXmFSdukLbPZ6GM8K9FsDLn-IRzUe4A_m17WDfCvwBD-0FxeOuADdUUdIlRrNXtvk-4ub9mjPWd2RG9vwdZoHQWmZoNUMFh4ostAuJpdKq6uvIBZA/s500/tumblr_lh2jauhAqu1qgbabho1_500.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlscjPZWAjmfAFs0o0kheIkBxga1YXmFSdukLbPZ6GM8K9FsDLn-IRzUe4A_m17WDfCvwBD-0FxeOuADdUUdIlRrNXtvk-4ub9mjPWd2RG9vwdZoHQWmZoNUMFh4ostAuJpdKq6uvIBZA/s0/tumblr_lh2jauhAqu1qgbabho1_500.gif" /></a></div><p style="margin: 0in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel says he’s out of it “because
of her,” and they assume it’s Buffy, but nope. At least he’s finally coming
clean.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">But like why would dreaming about
Darla make him want to sniff and nuzzle Cordelia? I assume they smell nothing
alike. I hate it. I super hate it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey’s hair is sooooo 90s
boyband, especially with the center part. How would W&H be okay with this
look? (don’t get me wrong, Christian Kane is a cutie, but it’s a surprising
hairstyle for a supposedly slick city lawyer)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla: “Everyone betrays you. That’s
not what eats at you in the long winter’s night.” // Lindsey: “Yeah? What does?”//
Darla: “Missed opportunities.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh hey Detective Kate is still
around. She’s apparently in the “Siberia” department, no longer downtown. Aw
she’s full Mulder with a bigger grudge.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow, the whole team’s a-spying on
the “abducted” wife, taking pictures, recording audio, and Cordelia’s in a
weird wenchy waitress costume.</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0FDf39h8geRkPT2IPa3akls33t78yImXc9rn2MYOVh0QtHsFAo6m4kGy0g9_zUYHgHp8JYkwrLiPDOJ_KX6YMxONJEuvS6L7Z76NeaiWrD2Fv3EJFeH70K1FD10xngOx5s9quo9JoIkM/s500/tumblr_lh2jeaCT011qgbabho1_500.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0FDf39h8geRkPT2IPa3akls33t78yImXc9rn2MYOVh0QtHsFAo6m4kGy0g9_zUYHgHp8JYkwrLiPDOJ_KX6YMxONJEuvS6L7Z76NeaiWrD2Fv3EJFeH70K1FD10xngOx5s9quo9JoIkM/s0/tumblr_lh2jeaCT011qgbabho1_500.gif" /></a></div><p style="margin: 0in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel sabotages the surveillance,
and then gasp Darla is just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">there</i>,
and he confronts her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She’s doing a great job acting
confused and scared – and then she runs to meet her “husband” Stephen, and
stares at him from the sunlight. Gasp!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I know Cordy never met Darla, but
Wes should know what she looks like, shouldn’t he? I guess they were carefully
making sure he didn’t get a good look at her face.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, after just WOW struggling through
that Wang Chung song, abruptly flips off the karaoke machine and says “I’m very
sorry” and it may be his finest moment.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder why Lorne’s not being more
helpful. With his powers, he should know just telling Angel to back off this path
won’t actually deter him.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And off Angel goes to DeEtta Kramer’s
house, where she’s having dinner with wow the guy playing Stephen is So
Invested in his ROLE. Talking about the Actor’s Studio and puppet theater of
the absurd.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">We also see that there’s a
bodyguard of some sort standing guard.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oops, this is the first Gunn is
learning that sometimes Angel turns evil. They really should have looped him in
on that earlier.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Imagine Bonnie and Clyde if they
had 150 years to get it right.” </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn asks how bad it can get if
Angelus comes back, and we transition to the convent Angelus shredded, and poor
Drusilla’s lost her mind, muttering to herself.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dang, Angelus and Darla are basically
having sex in Drusilla’s lap. That’s pretty fucked.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aaaaand, back to the present, Darla
calls 911 on Angel breaking into the house and then the bodyguard is a vaaaaaaaamp
and he kills Stephen, and once she’s done panicking, Angel breaks in.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsey, listening over Darla’s
bug, smirks and says “Woman should have her own series.” Dude’s got a point.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s kinda fun that Darla’s pulled
a trick like this twice on Angel: she framed him for assaulting Joyce so Buffy
would turn on him, and now she’s framed him for murdering Stephen, and to quote
Angelus to Buffy, “And you fall for it every single time!”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And hey now Kate’s there on the
case. I guess it’s lucky she’s no longer working the downtown beat, so she can
visit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>suburbia?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although … what is up with Kate’s
hair.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla’s fabricating a stalking
history of Angel following her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The small satisfied smile on Kate’s
face when she hears Angel vamped out: fucking cold. This is what she’s been
waiting for: a valid reason for her hatred of him. She can congratulate herself
that she always knew he was evil.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whoop, Darla’s standing there and suddenly
whoomp she’s pulled up out of frame. I’m having flashbacks to the giant ape
puppet in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">King Kong</i> musical.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kate storms the Hyperion looking
for Angel.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ugh, Kate’s being suspicious of
Gunn and you can pretend to remove context and say it’s just because he’s a new
face, but wow is it also textbook fucking profiling of the Black guy and I
fucking hate it. “Any priors?” “I forget.” Gunn, too tired and used to this
behavior from cops.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah, this is why we had that random
battle earlier. To give us a cool column-y set for the big confrontation with
Darla.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel, drifting much closer to
Angelus than I think any of us are comfortable with, stalks Darla through the
space, then vamps out and bites her.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Darla finally breaks character,
“there’s my boy,” and woop they’re making out.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily Gunn finds the flaw in Kate’s
argument: Angel couldn’t have broken into DeEtta’s house unless the real owners
were dead, on account of vampire. And then Wes shows Kate a daguerreotype of
Darla and we’re finally on … well, not the same page, but I think we’re all in the
same chapter.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Except Darla already thinks she
knows how this book ends.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“What’s the big plan, get me so
screwed up I go bad again?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel warns her, she has a soul
now, and eventually her memories will start to chew her up.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla’s not interested in that; she
wants to give him his moment of happiness, make Angelus truly return.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“But you never made me happy.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We were together 150 years. We
shared everything. You’re saying … never?”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Buffy wasn’t happiness. She was
just new.” Angel’s rewriting the chapter and stealing the narrative back from
her. She looks lost and scared, covering it with bitter cynicism.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">She insists he had this darkness in
her before she ever turned him, which is an interesting point. We’ve seen Liam
and he was kind of a tool <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and he had a
soul</i>. Angel is somehow separate from both Liam and Angelus. Except that he
is drifting closer to the nihilism of Angelus right now.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You’re gonna feel it, you know. What
you did. That man you got killed?” // “Please. He was an actor.” Hey!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel grabs her by the throat. She
holds a crucifix to his chest. As he burns, she reminds him “You see, no matter
how good a boy you are, God doesn’t want you. But I still do.” And she runs
into the sunlight, where he cannot follow.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He … he really shouldn’t have let
her go. Like … that was a good exit line but that’s no excuse for shoddy PI
work.</span></li></ul><p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Favorite Lines:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Daniel:</b> <o:p></o:p><span style="background-color: white;">“Right, Guilt. Who loves guilt, like you love guilt?” - Cordelia</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Zelda:</b> “You see, no matter how good
a boy you are, God doesn’t want you. But I still do.” – Darla <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Arc/Continuity:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>First Appearance:</b> Drusilla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Recurring:</b> Detective Kate Lockley,
Lindsey McDonald, Lorne, Darla, Angel’s “Irish” “accent”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Generally Known TV Face:</b> Stewart
Skelton, Cheryl White, Rich Hutchman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Buffy Crossover:</b> Drusilla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Whedonverse Hat Trick:</b> Stewart
Skelton (Harold Jeakins on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Angel</i>, Chief
Wellins on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">S.H.I.E.L.D.</i>), Derek
Anthony (second role on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Angel</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Darla’s Alias:</b> DeEtta Kramer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Angel! In! History!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel is 247. He was with Darla for
150 years. And he has a thing for convents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darla picked out Drusilla for
Angelus. He murdered her entire family, pursued her to a convent, murdered
everyone there, and then had sex with Darla in her lap. She didn’t take it
well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He staked Darla 3.5 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Caritas Song List<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Everybody Have Fun Tonight”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Stats:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s Hair – low ponytail or
fully down, choppy waves; high ponytail, loose curls; messy bun with loose
tendrils<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Humans – 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Undeads – 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Flashbacks – 2 + Drusilla’s
entire family + a convent full of nuns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Lawyers – 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evil Reveal – 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unevil Reveal – 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shenanigans Called – 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apocalypse Called – 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy Called – 0</span><o:p></o:p></p>Zelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063141388797173496.post-85029994774556239052020-08-10T17:06:00.002-04:002020-08-11T11:51:45.277-04:00Nobody But Our Mr. Bills<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Episode 2.04: Untouched.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Original Airdate: 10.17.00.</span></span><br />
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<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I feel like there’s a joke somewhere in saying “Hey there Lilah,” but I can’t be bothered.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway she’s snooping in a dark office. Probably Lindsey’s but he’s not in this episode. I guess Darla lives in his office? That’s … a choice.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also Darla is totally flirting with Lilah.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her dress is similar enough to the one she wore in Angel’s Caritas dream, coupled with her just appearing out of the dark, that this all feels hallucinate-y. Even though it’s not. Anyway, she’s using some kind of magic powder when she has her visits with Angel, to keep him knocked out but receptive.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cool, Wes is being casually misogynistic to Cordy as they argue about paying Gunn for his help, which … yes duh, come on, listen to Cordelia and pay Gunn.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seriously, why does every episode lately feature one of the guys belittling Cordelia’s intelligence. We’ve known she’s smart for years. Stop just stop just stop.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s still out of it, and at least he’s admitting it to the team. Wes: “It’s been going on for a bit, hasn’t it? You sleep more, you’re less rested. Are you dreaming?” Wow, Wes is dragging all of us right now but anyway before we can go into it, Cordelia’s our Vision Girl. And as Angel runs out, she, recovering, says “Oh god, he’s gonna be too late.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Girl in the alley looks like Sarah Polley. She’s not, but she looks like her.</span></li></ul>
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<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway the two guys chasing her have now been crushed by a dumpster so that’s cool.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh right, this is the episode about weaponized trauma. Ugh this poor woman.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s very clever, striding into the crime scene and fooling the beat cop into thinking he’s an official detective to get the skinny.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And as Angel wanders off, the real detective shows up, and poor beat cop looks confused.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He follows his enhanced vampire nostrils to find the woman hiding in a nearby warehouse.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aaaand she telekenesises a rebar through his shoulder. Luckily for us it’s not wooden?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel’s working hard on the empathy angle, pointing out he’s not like other people, same as she isn’t like other people. And then when it’s clear she doesn’t have family in town, he says he doesn’t either. A bit of a dig to Cordy and Wes, but I see what he’s doing.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He was also, back at the Hyperion, trying to create explicit employee-employer dynamic with Cordelia, so this could be part of a larger symptom of the distance building up between him and the others, as Darla takes over his mind and OOPS Bethany (alley woman) is staying with Lilah.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I guess they’re from the same small town? And Lilah scouted her, brought her to LA, and cool, another tool for W&H.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia calls Angel’s pec a “manly boob muscle” and I just.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You know how hard it is to think straight with a rebar through your torso?” // “Actually I do. Benefits of a Sunnydale education.” Heyo, shoutout to “<a href="http://oncemorewithextremeprejudice.blogspot.com/2013/03/loves-bitch.html" target="_blank">Lovers Walk”</a>!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn is here! And he’s friendlier with Cordelia and I’m into that. And he has a fancy new axe!</span></li></ul>
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<div class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I can tell by the doors opening, that this is Wolfram & Hart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Very creepy & dark, but standard Law offices.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lilah sneaks into the office…and Darla creepily appears out of the shadows.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Was she, like, just waiting there for someone to come in?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Turns out Darla has a special dust/drug that she uses to keep Angel asleep while she<span class="Apple-converted-space"> rapes him physically and mentally.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Advanced Bosoms?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Geez, Wesley.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is his misogyny deal?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> What is with everyone seriously belittling Cordelia's intelligence? </span>Also…what would an Advanced Bosom class entail?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley & Cordelia are arguing as to whether they should pay Gunn or not….<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Uh.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Why wouldn’t they?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel gets into the conversation and I'm feeling uncomfortable about three white people discussing whether they should pay a black man for his labor.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordy has a vision of a woman being chased.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh man, but this woman doesn’t seem to need help from Angel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She uses telekinetic powers to smash her would-be-rapists with a dumpster.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ha, I love Angel undercover.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He’s pretending to be a detective to get the scoop.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lol, the cop compares the squished bad guys to Mr. Bill and I am here for it.</span></li></ul>
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<div class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel didn’t even get her name.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I did.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s Carrie.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn has arrived with a giant metal hatchet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gunn to Cordelia: “You still saving my life?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Aww, continuity.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And she is, in a way – fighting for his right to get paid.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The fact that this is even a question is astounding.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is he an artist? “Do it for the exposure!” – (Fuck everyone who says that.) Just because you enjoy your job, doesn't mean you shouldn't get paid for it. And it is a job. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carrie is having scary dreams, causing the lamp next to her to shake and eventually fall.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The dreams have to do with her father – which is giving me an ick factor.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ooh, Angel’s dreams are now….memories?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Or just set in the past? Angel looking like Ron Perlman<span class="Apple-converted-space"> i</span>n that show…Beauty and the…<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092319/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_7" target="_blank">guy with the weird face.</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carrie left Lilah’s apartment and shows up at the Hyperion.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">She introduces herself as Carrie White.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Fine, it’s Bethany Chaulk</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">- I wonder if Chaulk was used…because chalk…is white? </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reaching?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Probably.)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">She’s also a redhead like Sissy Spacek.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holland reams out Lilah in the only way an evil corporate lawyer can.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But Bethany calls Lilah at just the right moment.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel and Carrie are outside…and very close to direct sunlight.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The bottom of Angel’s shoes are yellow and really clash with his all black outfit.</span></li></ul>
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Like, there's not even a montage or anything.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel breaks into an apartment with Gunn but it seems like Gunn can only get inside.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But then weirdly Angel falls through the barrier which I guess means the owner of the apartment literally just died?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile Cordy and Carrie have a pow wow…at a carnival or something.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Don’t bone my boss,” she says, missing the point.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some brutes try to take Carrie away, but Cordy rescues her by throwing coffee in their faces and it’s awesome.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But oops, a van comes and takes her anyway.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Luckily Angel & Gunn are not far behind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Car chase!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel hanging from the back of the van!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">“One more excuse and I’m going to bury you alive next to my house just so I can hear you screaming.” – Lilah.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then Bethany sees her father and explodes the entire room.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is the second time Angel’s been thrown across a room this episode.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First for Cordy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At least Wesley isn’t there.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Why would they use her father, someone who obviously triggered her telekinesis to try to get her back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is like the opposite of what they should do. Unless they think it'll just kill Angel and be done with it. Eh, I dunno. It seems counter-productive to the trust Lilah was trying to build with her previously.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel at this point says, "You've got the power, use it. Finish it." making it seem like Angel's okay with killing. It crosses a line that a regular superhero show wouldn't do - but maybe that's the point. Morality in this show isn't black & white.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And she tosses her father out the window!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But also lets him fall safely, stopping him before he hits the ground.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Carrie finally leaves Lilah’s apartment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Angel is waiting outside because he’s not invited in.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“Looks like you're gonna have to find someone else’s brain to play with, “</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">“Yeah we have someone in mind,” Lilah answers pointedly but Angel doesn’t get it.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Ooooh.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">This is what I love about Lilah.</span> </span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Generally Known TV Face:</b> Gareth Williams, David Meunier (as David J. Miller)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Whedonverse Hat Trick:</b> David Meunier (as David J. Miller; Man #1 in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Rat-Faced Demon in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Buffy</i>), Drew Wicks (first of two roles on <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel</i>, Man in <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Dollhouse</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Angel’s Alias:</b> Police Detective</span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel! In! History!</span></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angel prays to forget several fashion trends he’s lived through.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flashback!Angel had Flashback!kinkysex with Flashback!Darla while the Romani girl was tied up in the room, forced to watch.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia’s Hair – low ponytail, lightly wavy; half-up, still lightly wavy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Humans – 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Undeads – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Flashbacks – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dead Lawyers – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cordelia Has a Vision – 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wesley Prat-falls – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lawyered Ex Machina – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Evil Reveal – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unevil Reveal – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Shenanigans Called – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Apocalypse Called – 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Prophecy Called – 0</span></div>
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