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whiskyinmind
16 April 2004 @ 07:28 pm
Angel spoilers...  


Wow, so it was worth it if only for the yummy Lindsey goodness! Not a bad episode by any means, nice little twist I guess (although I have to admit I saw Lindsey's revelation about the time scale of events coming from way back) It didn't have quite the emotional impact of the previous couple of episodes and it felt very much as though there were two shows going on at the same time here - one with Wes and Illyaria and one with everyone else.

I don't care about Lorne any more, so the whole emotional scene? bored me.

Gunn's atonement, poor guy. but I can't shake the feeling that even though he did the only thing he could so they could Lindsey out he was copping out. He doesn't remember any of it and suburbia isn't really that bad...

Illyaria's comment that Wes drinks too much and called her a smurf - so damn funny!

Spike's "What? I'm listening, with beer." - wonder if I can pull that off in my next meeting at work?

Eve, I still don't have any sympathy for her but I don't feel she's as badly miscast as I did up till now.

New guy - I'm going to call him Jayne just because it was all I could think of watching him (for those of you who didn't see Firefly that was his character name in that show) Funny I guess, but not all that menacing really.

Angel - strange one this, I think I'll wait to see what his reaction his to the revelations but I spent a lot of the episode thinking "Will you stop bitching and do something about it then?" Guess we'll see what comes of it next week.

And finally, Lindsey. Sweet, kind-hearted with a nasty streak Lindsey. Still zero chemistry with Eve but I'm coming round to the thought that maybe he does love her in a weird way. This episode just underscored for me how he is the only really "human" character left. He's holding a grudge, he's being petty, but he's being a realist as well. Plus, it's starting to look more and more like I was right - he's not actually evil he's just letting his hatred of Angel get in the way. all how you look at the glass

[livejournal.com profile] engelsteorra said to me today that this was an instantly quotable episode, you were so right! Every single scene has at least one classic line in it!

Heroes don't accept the world the way it is. They fight it.
 
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[identity profile] smhwpf.livejournal.com on April 20th, 2004 01:46 pm (UTC)
I've been very good all week, not reading this until I got back from Catalonia and could download and watch the episode!

Liked the quote, I'd sort of assumed it came from Angel, so quite intrigued to see it coming from Lindsey, and in a way that worked! Good to see him back, and get a bit more idea of his agenda - as you say, not evil, though not exactly good either. A bit of a *don't say that!*

Also liked the ep. It had enough CPDs to fill all our BBBFic challenges, but seemed to hold together.

I think the 'holding cell' is worse than just suburbia - doesn't something horrible happen to them every day when they're sent down to the cellar? There was that pile of hearts and Lindsey said they were his, so was he getting his heart ripped out every day, and then starting the whole thing again without any memory of it? And he said something near the end about how the Senior Partners could only do to you as much as you did to yourself, or something like that, so it would be much, much worse for Gunn! Or have I totally misinterpreted all that?

As you say, what made the episode was the great lines. Some very good ones coming from Illyria. She has a way with words. And I did like the little reference back to Buffy - the world of shrimp.

Quite shocking to see Illyria replacing Fred in the opening titles - apart from a brief flash at the beginning of her shots. Also quite nice to see Harmony taking her place as a regular - not the most fantastic of characters, but has always been good for a laugh, and I think has earned the regular slot through sheer persistence. Though it makes it all the more scandalous in retrospect that Tara only got the nod for her very last episode.

Well, two soldiers down. Will we see Gunn again? But actually signs, against all the odds, of some sort of vaguely coherent plot, in contrast with last year.
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