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Season Two

Go To Episode

Judgement

A green demon singing disco in a karaoke bar. Truly a portent of evil
The first two lines I have to agree with
"I Will Survive" is also the anthem of Stade Francais, a really big, butch French rugby team. I just thought you should know that
You know, I'd make all sorts of assumptions about a young aspiring actress who carries a pager
Don't really see Wes in yellow somehow
"Really Pushing The Speed Limit Wesley" takes on Paul Newman in the hustling stakes. And Wesley proves what a good shot he is by getting a treble 20. They've obviously had a darts professional in to explain the rules
There are never any fat people at a TV gym
"That guy has horns" that's right, deal with it a little bit at a time
What Lindsey should mention to Lilah is that he now has a handy (excuse the pun) club with which to punch her lights out and not hurt himself
Well, no one's fond of Russians
Lindsey has stupid hair. Lindsey has gorgeous hair, leave him alone
Yeah you can see how you'd get Chopin and Angel mixed up
Darla is somewhat disorientated and Lindsey seems right on her wavelength, is joint obsession the starting point of mass hysteria?
Is he a person who can't spell?
Wesley screams like a watcher
Angel can't use a whiteboard
Sorry, all the good noir's on TCM
"Outside the box", this is the problem with calling your child Pandora. I don't think they were ever in a box
Okay, so how exactly did Wesley find out about Caritas? Is he a regular?
The first singing demon was the tongue guy/gal from 'The Ring'! Or at least the same species. Who'd have thought they could get that light-hearted?
So obviously the cat has got Merle's tongue
Big pointy teeth
Angel the mosquito
"Latin for mercy" er no it isn't, clementia is Latin for mercy, caritas is Latin for affection. How hard would it have been to get that right? Unless it's jokes for a small audience, so the Latin speakers can laugh at Angel's poor grasp of the language. But I'm thinking they probably just don't know how or didn't bother to use a dictionary
In Angel's defence, she never said "stop, he's helping me"
Noble does not equal innocent
I'd forgotten how bald Gunn is
The priomotu was a Buddhist?
He's just having one of those days. I have those
Well Angel can run, the woman will have to waddle
Yeah, but that light is really an oncoming train
That's still a super line, "searching for the Gorshan mage who stole his power, and he's feeling just a little bit country"
The Host must have a two track mind if he can read one guy and give the pep talk to another at the same time
Shhh! Don't tell anyone but the words are pretty
If the Destroyer of Worlds won't argue with Manilow, it's all the more reason why we should
Did she get stupid as well as pregnant? Why is she walking down the middle of an avenue?
This is without doubt the dumbest plot so far. 'An Angel in King Arthur's court'? Please
Oh, that poor man
'Try not to make me look stupid' Angel, you don't need the horse's help So stupid….. "There is no try, only do"
Every 14 year-old's fantasy. Angel as a knight in shining armour
The street joust doesn't appear to be holding the traffic up much
If the fight's to the death, then surely Angel's already dead so the other guy's won by default? That's got to be a loophole at least
I love the way his ripped shirt rides up
What is their "of age"?
Cool cameo

Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?

Yep, that's the working definition of "abandoned" dear
Wow, Wesley's cute on a big TV with you know, actual reception, as opposed to me 3rd time copy on a 12" screen
I wonder what they actually use as a blood substitute, it looks like undiluted Ribena (if they have Ribena in America). How do you serve blood? In a shot glass I thought
Nice fade in to the 50s
Not content with swiping 'Forever Knight's photography they've started nicking its actors as well
217 out of 68 rooms? You do the maths. Floor 2 room 17?
What happened between 1952 and 1996 that Angel went from having a hotel room to living in an alley with eating rats?
Does Angel pay the weekly bill? If so, how? What is his source of income?
From the titles, it has to be said, though he does nothing for me personally, Gunn has a lovely smile. He must have been such a cute baby
Ugly wallpaper, too dark
Oh, love that hair. Is he evil here, because he's got the side-parting... Angel has a soul but a side parting - and he smokes! This is the TV PTBs trying to show us he's morally ambiguous
Angel's lightning powers of observation kick in again. See, 50's Angel isn't dumb, it must be 90's pollution
That "and you're the wrong colour" line wasn't in the Sky version was it?
Whilst in most episodes you couldn't replace Angel with a cardboard cutout, in this case I think they actually have
Love the touch of holding him by the ear
Note the post-it note trying to cover the blatant product placement for Apple Mac - as if anybody could confuse it for another company
In point of fact, they shouldn't photograph at all
Vests are a good look for him... Has he kept the same white vest things? Well he wouldn't get them sweaty or anything, so they should last
Carpet cleaners, you don't want those stains to dry
The wallpaper drove him to suicide, that's not unreasonable. And might explain Angel's behaviour for the rest of the season, because I don't think he redecorated
Lizard has fallen under the spell of Angel's suave fifties hair
Oh nobody's blood is pure, everyone's a mongrel
I do like Wes' sage-green jumper
'I've written it a hundred times' Always with a cop out ending
Cordy enjoying her moment of knowledge and power. Cordy has to not do that, Wes has enough problems with feeling unable to contribute as it is
Sticking things in electric circuits rarely makes them work
That is a vile thing to do, throw alliteration at people without warning. Threatening someone with alliteration - cool. The writers must have had a field day with these Hollywood types
Nice, expensive studio portrait of Judy
They have a demon that feeds off paranoia and they get Wes to fight it? Can any one else spot the flaw in that otherwise excellent plan?
The paranoia party is like a bunch of people watching a murder mystery film
Did the Thesulac(?) also whisper instructions on how to tie a proper hangman's noose? They aren't easy knots to get right
You've killed a good-looking innocent vampire, that's what you've done!
Surely there'd have been newspaper articles on all the guests going bananas and lynching a guy whose body then disappears?
Obviously a Southern paranoia demon
The demon has to not bait Wesley, it's mean
Is it just me, or does the paranoia demon remind you of F. Murray Abraham?
He must have felt so silly, grappling with the rubber tentacle
Why is she not freaked by the presence of a man she helped to murder fifty years ago? I know I would be
If she's too paranoid to ever leave the hotel, how does she eat? Or shop? Or get a haircut and that fetching mauve rinse?
You're only paranoid if they're not out to get you
Angel has happy, sparkly face

First Impressions

Angel's been singing again and there are still people in the club? I know dream sequence, but still...
What the Host says is still relevant though
"The pleasure is all mine?" and it quite clearly is
Angel is required to think about maths and stand up at the same time before he's had his coffee intake, watch his stance as muscles start to give way under the strain
The fact that Gunn's snitch isn't doing anything is most of the problem
He was beaten by Al Pacino in 'Scent Of A Woman', and yeah, he was robbed
Pleasant as this image is, what is Angel doing with a sun lounger?
More naked Angel than you can shake a stick at, and then some, and yet still no naked Wesley, has the boy got something to hide? Or not got something...
Wesley clearly wondering exactly where that hand's been
J August Richards wins the award for most syllables in the word "vehicle"
Angel's hitherto undiscovered "maybe they'll find out I'm just a big girl" complex
Joss Whedon gets a lot of mileage out of the fact that Americans don't know what wanker means - I mean 'jerk' is hardly a full translation
Do you get the feeling that the "Hop on board gorgeous" line either wasn't in the script, or wasn't what was actually said when we get the reaction shot of Angel, cause David Borenaz really does look like he's going to kill Alexis Denisof after that comment.
There isn't a slash writer in the world who wasn't drooling over this scene
No actually, Cordy doesn't take orders
I've had moments like that so often, I've mostly learned to recognise them and so shut up before I dig myself too deep
Those aren't car keys
Someone kick Devac
You've got to love the axe in the head
You will be saved or you'll have to put up with Cordelia, there's incentive for you
No he takes and he takes and occasionally he uses, but there's not a whole lot of giving going on
OK, the logistics of finding an oven big enough (presuming she's going to cook him first, and he's been dead a while so she probably should), he'd also be quite tough so he'd need a lot of braising and really would it be worth the time and effort?

Untouched

Who's doing Darla's shopping?
They're getting better and better at the bitching
Mature response form Cordy there
Apparently the only qualification for being a cop is to be holding a cup of really bad coffee
Ingrained response, I'm sitting here watching this, the adverts start and automatically I dive for my remote to press pause. I'm not actually taping it of course...
Why do rich people always have those minimalist apartments? Surely they can actually afford stuff to put in them?
Lilah's got relaxed 'at home' hair and professional eyebrows
How old does Lilah think Bethany is? Cute boys? Blood oath?
Wesley completely fails to be knowledge guy
I think Gunn's axe is cool
"Legwork" Gunn discovers his role for the rest of the series
Bethany should be congratulated on her aim, however unconscious
Again vampire healing powers are sadly letting him down
My own personal anti-Angel epiphany, when I realised that I was never going to get it. He's lying half naked, dreaming and my first thought is 'those sheets would look lovely with my new gold duvet'. There is no hope
She's been running around LA in her nightdress at midday and no one offered to help her back to her sanatorium?
Actually he usually gets Wes or Cordy to make tea so maybe Bethany should worry
Holland sounds like Mayor Wilkins when he's talking to Lilah, except a little less sincere
"Utmost confidence" it's like "with all due respect", and means 'absolutely none whatsoever'
Bethany looks drab, all that grey and brown
Angel wonders if any of them should be
Good, if inadvisable, call Wesley
This is bullshit, Angel loathes people, except possibly in the 'I couldn't eat a whole one' sense
"Pretty happy dream" ooh, nice euphemism, also nice to see which part of his anatomy she focuses on. Also relates to the curse, does he have to have his "moment of pure happiness" with another person, or does it apply if he achieves it on his own?
"Make you happy" therein lies the problem. "You wouldn't like me when I'm happy" Oh I don't know. How does she feel about leather pants?
100 rooms? Is Angel building an extension?
Technically Angel isn't qualified for anything
As opposed to comedic funny?
Is it more effort to teleport something heavy than something light?
Hit them with what?
That'll teach you to lean on invisible barriers
He's about three hundred years too young for the age of chivalry
Cordelia should have followed up the coffee with two or three sharp kicks
Car surfing. Cool
That reaction with the exploding windows is absolutely fantastic
Why on Earth would Lilah think that bringing Bethany's father in would be a good idea?
Bethany's father is the Boston strangler from 'American Gothic'
I hate this 'if you're the bigger person, forgive him' bullshit. If you want him dead, kill him
Bethany is the first Victim of the Week I gave a toss about. Congratulations writing team! A first! ( I could patronise for Britain)
After everything that's happened in the past two days, you think that's going to bother her?

Dear Boy

"Table seems far" I have had so many mornings like this, and evenings, and the odd afternoon
It's meant to be a joke, but Cordy's right, Angel is the world's oldest teenager and he acts like it
How many times has Charisma Carpenter fallen back in vision-state and David Borenaz has completely failed to catch her?
Wow! Big set. That's a really pretty tank. Tank? There was a tank? The water tank
The demon looks like a cow pat
What happens to all the disciples? Do they go and join some other fungus cult?
Beware, beware the flashback hair...
How can Angel tell that the daughters are virgins? Do they smell different or something?
She's unlikely to get a receipt from the Triton nebula
Yeah, and I bet they wish they hadn't killed her off so soon
Angel came back from hell, he wasn't actually dead
What is this Darla/dream thing? She obviously isn't actually there, or Wes and Cordy would have seen her, and if it is enchantment who's sending them? Is it just some generic Wolfram and Hart employee sorcerer? And is she really next to the giant talking hotdog or is that a dream too? Oh and can anyone else say Oedipus? They're American so apparently no
Angel doesn't whine, he broods, subtle difference
Does she plan on cooking the eyeballs first? What wine do you drink with eyeball?
That's unfair, even I wouldn't call Angel bizarre and grotesque
Yes, well, he had to move, after the explosion that destroyed his home
How does Cordelia get the waitressing job? Or did they just tell the manager that they needed to do covert surveillance?
Quick yay for Wes in the dark suit
Well, it is a very suggestive outfit
"Made a mistake" Wesley short-hand for 'Going totally insane'
Look up Steven and Dietta Kramer? But Darla called him David. No, she calls him Steven on my copy
Does Angel have no taste in music at all?
Every karaoke performance should come with an apology
Well, I'd want to kill this guy and I'm not as evil as she is
Recruiting drive for convents, "Convents- Just Like A Big Cookie Jar"
"Angel- The Early Years" possible spin off
I loved the synchronised arm crossing
'Pretty soon those memories are going to start eating away at you' They seem to be taking their time
Actually she's more than capable of blaming Angel
Actually Angel's on his fourth chance now, and heading for a fifth by the end of the season
Now I'm seeing him in the cub-scout uniform
Not while you're standing in direct sunlight Darla, unless of course you want to be spitting out his dust
I don't usually feel sorry for Angel, but dealing with Wes and Cordelia must try anybody's patience

Guise Will Be Guise

This I love, Wes is defeated by the drawer, all clumsy and everything, then flips it back onto the desk, the picture of strength and muscular control
Secretaries can be mean and tough you know
Yes and he's wearing some of them
In situations like that, walking purposefully with a clipboard helps
No, again that's not a plan
I'm just going to share the fact that I have issues with the word "cherific"
Well, probably not their souls as he reads demons. He said "auras" in 'Judgment' and it's not the same thing
For a total fake the not-a-swami makes some very valid points
I had never thought about the car like that before
The vampire in the convertible is not ironic, it's just stupid. If he changed it for a hard-top then forgot to close the sunroof, that would be ironic
There are many different shades and types of black, getting black to match is actually quite difficult
Wes throws himself between Cordelia and the gun without even thinking about it
Wes looks a bit lost inside that coat
Life-defining juxtaposition, "Going shopping" "At gunpoint"
Does no-one ever question why a vampire would need glasses?
He was rather amazing! When did Wes become so good at fighting?
Did she not notice the guy she was screwing had a temperature and a pulse?
NAKED WESLEY!! AT BLOODY LAST!! After more naked Angel than I can comfortably deal with, we actually get one long flash of lovely slender Brit(ish) collarbone and a bit of upper arm, even if he did have to pretend to be a eunuch to pull it off
Fishing, statistically the most dangerous sport, we are graphically shown why
Oh you are so not Angel, for which we should all be grateful
"Swamis don't hit, swami's swam" The full explanation to this doesn't fit here, so link to The Swami Rant on the Clog-Dancing Mouse Page
"Were you in Virginia?" Angel unknowingly makes dirty jokes
"I know Ieska" what, personally?
Angel changes Wesley's plan for no good reason, other than to pettily make himself seem more important
It's the coat, a mind controlling coat, a coat that wears it's owner, subtly controlling their every move
"You're not a virgin?" Cue Xander's comedy music. It's spreading - like disease
Wonderfully fringedweller-like, less a conversation, more six vaguely related monologues
Poor parents, they're always the last to know
Poor Frank!

Darla

They really needed to sort his mood swings out. It should have been a gradual descent, not a series of jerks back and forth across the "I'm mad, obsessed and and self involved" line. It feels like the episodes are out of order
That's a very unflattering sketch of Darla
Lindsey in those shades is just the absolute epitome of rich pretty-boy lawyer, and absolutely staggering. He so should have kept the long hair
Time for a quick point-and-loon at Darla
To be fair, she knew Angelus
Darla puns for tragi-comic effect
Always nice to see leeches back on television
What would the Master sing to Darla?
Has anyone got that as a domain name yet? I haven't got around to trying it. Yes, someone has
Angelus is an arrogant little oik isn't he?
"South Wales and Northern England" thus taking a sharp left turn and neatly avoiding the entire West Midlands. Not even vampires can stand Birmingham it seems
Don't worry Master, she doesn't want him for his mind
"Maybe human was the only way they could bring her back" or maybe they got the blood and the ketchup mixed during the ritual. Did they check that the moon was in the eighth house?
Bitch, evil bitch, get your filthy little skinny blonde paws off my lawyer
Yes Lindsey does want to screw over Angel, but what's wrong with a little recreation along the way?
God I love that long hair, why didn't he keep the long hair?
Darla's body dying around her, well that would be the syphilis
You've just got to admire Spike's timing
Kudos to the stunt guys for making that blow look convincing from two separate angles. That or she really did belt him one with the phone
Why has Angel got a cut over his eye? And again, yes I know he's in a state of mental torture and all, but how does that prevent him from having a good wash?
Yay for Lindsey's silver Merc
Angel's just pissed cause Spike's had a slayer and he hasn't, okay killed a slayer and he hasn't, bad choice of words
Love that shot with the flowing hair and coat, the intense look against the fiery backdrop, so funny
I'm beginning to suspect that Wolfram and Hart don't have a clue what's going to happen with Angel and Darla. they just talk in abstracts and then say 'yeah, we knew that was going to happen', they've got that X-Files conspiracy thing going. They don't seriously expect Angel to turn Darla do they?
Yep, Darla's pretty much got the humanity thing down
Angel proves the 'no opposable thumbs' theory by crashing through a perfectly good window

The Shroud Of Rahmon

Are cops allowed to threaten people with physical violence? "Kick Ray, kick as though you were interviewing a suspect"
This is the only time I have ever actually screamed out loud during Angel, seeing Cordelia's new hair
Wouldn't Cordelia have to change at least three times before even thinking of going to the flashy premiere? I really can't see her going in what she wore to work
Knitting's very relaxing
Angel's got enough dark in his wardrobe, Gunn should knit him something in yellow and neon pink
Arrogant little vampire, isn't he? Ok, arrogant big looming vampire
Oh yes, colourful as a morgue
If Angel does see anyone he knows, then in that get-up, they won't admit it
The orb of Thessala doesn't bring back a soul, it arranges for a swapmeet. Angel got back his soul but had to give up his brain
"Norwegian? Finnish?" Moorish?
Cordelia makes a valid point, let's all marvel at Cordelia's valid point
That is so cool, that guy's head just pops right off. Oh, you could tell he'd been dying to rip someone's head off
The blue eyeshadow is doing Kate no favours
She's not dead, we're not that lucky
Wes suddenly sees Gunn in a whole new light
"In a very long time" well, in a year and a half at least, or doesn't Buffy count? Less, he drank from that actress under a year ago

The Trial

Okay, how men really talk about things in England, goes something like "Beer?" "Cheers"
So Darla returns to her roots and by way of avenging her wrongs spreads syphilis on the unsuspecting
Moral Responsibility my arse
If Lindsey and Darla have had sex, he would have been a lot more worried about the syphilis
I'd go there for free cable
Someone's had a word about dismounting without stirrups, so Angel does this neat little flip and lands on both feet without nearly breaking his ankle. Sorry, inner riding instructor breaking out again
What kind of idiot vampire made the twat that Darla picks to sire her?
Vampire virgin
The dumbness is apparently hereditary. How is Darla going to explain the next stage of the vampire-making process if her heart is stopping?
"Don't presume you know me" despite the fact that she presumes she knows him
I love the way she jumps on that horse and doesn't have to spend ten minutes getting her petticoats straight
Lin didn't just take the wind out of Angel's sails but some of the stiching as well
Why don't (or didn't) Lin and Angel get more scenes together, the chemistry they've got (not to mention the raging ust) can actually set things alight when they're on screen at the same time
Lindsey's eyes look green in this scene
Random question then, am I the only person who's accent actually gets less pronounced when I get mad? Mine's much stronger when I'm happy or relaxed, when I get pissed off, I revert to my extremely well-understood and very descriptive RP Queen's English. Because I would hate anyone to misunderstand exactly what I'm calling them
Can everybody on the 'Angel' cast sing?
"Some green- faced, horned lounge singer just asked you to do it and you just do it? Why?" Darla has a damn good point here, it has to be said
Was I the only one hoping that we'd see something kinda funny?
Love this butler, I want a butler like that
Why does he need Angel's shirt and shoes? Or is it just an excuse to get him naked again?
Wasn't Angel's tattoo on his left shoulder normally? No, I'm pretty sure it's usually on his right, although it does move around a bit, and I think occasionally they flip the shot and it ends up on the other side
Either DB has a third nipple or that is a huge spot!
"It's only a flesh wound!"
How come Angel manages to knot a chain securely? You can't do that. I know from personal experience that it's impossible, they won't tighten and just slip loose
Could he not just take it carefully and step between the crosses? Admittedly I would have an unfair advantage in this, having walked across my bedroom floor for many years, which is even more fraught with pitfalls than the trial room
That's the point, that's why he has to save her
Twice, so technically this would be her third chance
Angel himself has a very impressive four-year-old strop, not as much foot-stamping as Lindsey's, but impressive nonetheless
Oooh! Darla has fat calves!
"She's living her second chance" "Maybe this is my second chance" Darla is very swift on the uptake there. She's still quicker than Angel who still seems to be struggling with the concept
Lindsey's little power trip is so sexy. He should get to be powerful and menacing more often, it looks good on him
Drusilla looking serene as a Jedi, yet mad as a fish

Reunion

Probably not the best time for this, but what the hell is going on with Wesley's wardrobe this season? This awful, tasteless casual jumper thing has got to stop.
Why does Angel keep his stakes in the back of the filing cabinets?
Why is it a cosmological upshot and not just an upshot? There's nothing cosmological about it
That is beautiful, Angel walks into what is clearly Lindsey's old apartment to discover Wolfram and Hart's scope, finesse and attention to detail
Angel really thought that Lin would stay in an apartment with an open invitation...
Yes but Drusilla could see stars through the ceiling, in the daytime. She's not going to let a little smog worry her
Lindsey fails to follow Dru's train of thought, which actually is not that surprising. Have I put the "Baikal-Amur mainline" quote in already? Cause if I haven't it should probably go here
Is Dru handicapped in some way that prevents her painting her nails all the way to the end?
Dru proving once again that shovels really do have a thousand uses
I love Lindsey's tiny, totally unapologetic shrug after Holland's "I didn't know you were here"
No sudden movements is usually for cats, spiders and snakes, but fair enough they all bite
Poor Lin, just when he thought he was going to get some
As Darla takes a deep (unneeded) breath and remembers what Drusilla is really like
Oh Darla used a box to get to that guys neck
The twisted suicide guy is worshipping Bruce Dickinson, which is not unreasonable
So he's not just going to die, he's just going to turn into a Rice Krispie?
I'd rather have the weight of Wolfram and Hart firmly in front of me where I could see what it was doing. And make rude gestures behind its back
Not a paying customer, so I don't think it counts
The window smashes a good second before Angel comes through it
Lin and Angel, just feel the sexual tension
Lindsey smiles the smile of a small person with extensive armed back-up. He's got that Alan Rickman "hired thugs" look. Suddenly he's got the brains and the brawn. We mean brawn as in muscle by the way, not brawn as in pig's head in jelly brawn
Does Lindsey ever send Angel the bill? I have a sneaking suspicion he probably did
Lindsey drinks wine like it's fruit juice
What the hell had Lilah done to deserve any praise? So far, all she's done is screw up
Look at Holland's face when Darla and Dru walk in and he realises all the things he can lose
Lindsey doesn't get eaten because he's not scared, and people taste better when they're frightened
Why the hell should Lindsey be afraid? All of his plans have just worked beautifully
Angel makes jokes in a serious situation
The Powers That Be really need to take more interest in the events they set in motion, although this must be why they're the Powers That Be, rather than the Powers That Do

Redefinition

Does every office have those cardboard boxes with handles hanging around in case an employee gets fired? Most offices throw out their old cardboard, but there are always boxes if anyone has to leave. And American buildings all have wood-fired central heating, you'd have thought there'd be emissions laws against that, even beyond the safety aspect
I feel a rant coming on
The chin-ups would be more impressive if he were doing them with any kind of control
Poor Lin. All discomfited because they left Lilah alive. I have to admit I wonder why? Maybe she tasted skanky. I could believe that
Virginia does a stint as Wesley's personal cheerleader
Aarrgh! What the hell is Angel doing with that sword? Or more to the point what is he doing with his feet whilst he's waving that sword pointlessly in the air? You can't actually do moves like that without landing on your arse and spraining something. Of course in my quest to prove this I did manage to land on my arse and sprain something, which made my point but probably wasn't my brightest moment. In retrospect doing it on the hardwood floor was a mistake. (In fact after studying the tape, we're pretty sure Angel hits the ground, cause at the dodgy bit he wobbles dramatically, then they cut away quick before you can see him fall)
Please somebody take the sharp objects away from him
Lindsey's bruise looks very real
Lin's first paddy as he stalks the corridors of W&H glaring at everyone. His second is better
I share Darla's casual dismissal of Lilah
There's a comment to be made there, so I'm going to press pause and make it. The difficult position Darla puts Lindsey in? You'd have thought that was what Lindsey wanted. Perhaps not with an audience...
Spooky sewer fog
Angel decapitates the guy by cutting vertically downwards. He really should not be let anywhere near sharp objects of any kind.
"I'm ready" he says as he throws his weapon behind him and leaves it in the sewer (unless he's finally come to his senses and realised that he's more likely to damage himself with it than any kind of opponent)
Got to respect a man who starts the night on vodka. Okay, I'm reaching, but it was a good reach
Surely Caritas qualifies as their local by now?
In their place I would have sung "Death On Two Legs" by Queen, just to relieve my feelings. I can think of a couple of Wildhearts tracks that would fit the bill too
Is he torturing Merle for information or just a casual chat?
No. Godzilla had a better English accent
Drusilla's jumper certainly has my attention, it's vile
I adore Lindsey's innocent face, "But Lilah, I would never steal files from my employer..."
They really can't sing, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt as they're drunk
Angel packs like a woman. Weapons are his shoes. I bet he didn't end up using half of them
That's not eucchh, it's blood. The Sunday after this episode was broadcast I mucked out a deep litter stable which had had three ponies in it for the past month and I can assure Gunn that there are many, many different kinds of eucchh. Most of them are black, a few are green and they are all deeply unpleasant. We can also learn from this remark that Gunn has never cleaned out the grill pan in a student kitchen
Wes plays cricket and knocks the demon for six
Gunn takes lesson from Jael wife of Heber
Angel goes bad and smokes like a Nazi
Who was that masked man!! Sorry
Lindsey confronts the horrors of working with Lilah
Does Lindsey still have the files he stole in 'Blind Date', or the copies he made of them?
Definitely a rant coming on
It's not Angel, It's not Angelus. They can't think of an new name for what he is now, well allow me to help you out- Braindead, Arrogant, Self-Obsessed, Thoughtless, Arsehole, Ridiculous, Dickhead. Not just a rant, but an acronymic rant

Blood Money

Risk, such an obviously male endeavour.
Ye Gods! Cordelia's hair! Bad talentless actress! Bad!
What's in a name? Quite a lot to this girl apparently. I like the fact that they brought her back though
Hmm, not sure I like Obsessive!Angel very much.
Is he stalking Anne or stalking Lindsey?
Like the ‘probably’ there.
This is what happens when good schools relax their entrance requirements, it attracts a bad element
If they knew they were going to attack a dragon, they should have brought a fire extinguisher.
It's Errol! They killed Errol!
The Wesley and Gunn comedy double act begins.
Lesson for Merle, get the cash first and don't give information on credit
Hey, don't mock beanbag chairs, they're useful and comfy. Angel has far too much in common with your average bean-bag chair to be mocking them
Angel looks genuinely pained about the beanbag.
God, it’s hideous.
Why on earth did Cordy leave her clothes behind?
Angel's super hero name, Empty Platitudes Man
Merle really is getting the rough end isn't he?
I’m sure that Wolfram and Hart had considered ‘Evil Inc.’ as a name, but their focus group probably advised against it.
If you need to do a lot of reversing, always have vampire passengers in the back
I love the attitude of Lindsey's secretary "I'm not gonna tell him that". There is the sign of a personal assistant who isn't getting paid half as much as she thinks she deserves
"I like to think so" well, she's the only one who does
I assume that during this macho pissing contest the senorita in question wandered off and found someone better to do. She obviously didn't end up having sex with Angel, and Boone doesn't sound like it ended well for him
Lawyers, honour, nah. They do know stuff about honour, they know how to manipulate people who have it
Why does anyone talk to Merle?
This is one of my absolute favourite of Lindsey's scenes. It's the hopeful "Did he happen to mention how?" and the wonderful "I like it. I like it and I'll tell you why, because of the finding you instead part. Oh and "Let me wipe away the tears with my plastic hand!"
Cordy suffers a MAJOR spaz attack
They just used the same shot as they did earlier didn't they? Or Angel only has the one expression
Lindsey has been working on that look of concern
I love the metallic thunk as Boone thumps Angel
Lindsey has a positively evil, twisted grin, and a really terrible line in shocked cover-ups
Lindsey's description is pretty much spot on
Anne joins the small list of people to survive encounters with both Angel and Spike
So long as the bank will take it, who cares
Oh dear Lord, not country.
So he's underlining the male deer then?
Reed is Hank Marvin's evil twin
Nice dig at Willow there.
Lindsey can't believe this is happening to him. He works so hard, plans so long, and is paid so much money, and then he's outwitted by Angel and a blue demon. It's so sad
Now that’s more Wesley than I ever needed to see.
No, Angel still cares and he still thinks that everybody else does
Notice the not very subtle distance that Lilah put between Lindsey and herself.
Can you really fit two and a half million dollars in a saddlebag?
She’s actually going to have to launder that money, isn’t she?

Happy Anniversary

Gunn, that’s exactly how I feel about my friends. I'm not entirely sure if that's flattering or not
Ooh, Angel had no armpit hair. I prefer that to the usual male underarm rainforest.
If the Host was going to sing the national anthem, even I'd go to the Lakers game
I have a horrible feeling his aura really is beige. Having a beige aura isn’t very promising.
The Host thinks Cordy is hot?…I was sure he fancied Angel
Wesley's going to be playing a huge what? Piano?
The Host's coat clashes with his skin
It would have been more merciful if they had actually murdered The Everley Brothers
Actually, he knocked the Host over, the bar knocked him out
Well, he has a busy schedule but Angel is willing to try and fit him in.
His work got the professor a Nobel nomination. That sucks
I want to be able to make threats like that.
Time Boy looks like Alan Cummings from 'Goldeneye' I keep expecting him to shout "I'm invincible!"
Love Lorne pandering to the proletariat
Grey haired, grey skinned hollow eyed men in badly fitting suits walking around the physics department. It took me a while to realise that they weren't actually lecturers. No, really, until they bought out the glowing magic thing I just assumed they were the faculty
Uh oh. Physics demons.
Oh look, his knob is glowing.
Brief rant about television physics, well television maths actually. I know you can't get the formulas right, because you would then have invented a way to stop time, but if you're going to use words like "differentiate" then putting a differential symbol in somewhere would be nice. And why in his original pair of equations is there a formula defining S when there's no S in the top formula?
Considering the cost of those big church candles, they could probably have paid to have the whole office rewired
No, they were excited before Wes broke the electrics, now they're depressed
Hasegawa strikes again (the second principle of Hasegawa- if something isn't working at the end of the day, leave it then try again in the morning, it usually works fine)
A yeehaw moment! Especially for Tobin who thinks life should contain more of them, Time Boy has a yee-haw moment
Time Boy moves well for a physics grad student
"New school mascot"? Angel thought of that himself did he?
Librarians are not that helpful, and they never have useful publications like that to hand. They always have to get them from some little room somewhere and you have to come back tomorrow. Actually they probably do have those things under their desk, cause it's the one place you won't be able to find them
Again, fallacy of the mouthy sidekick, as the Host flattens Angel with a text book. Good shot!
Could one person shift all that heavy looking lab equipment alone?
He does still have a heart, it's stopped working not been physically removed. Could a vampire do that? Take its heart out and put it somewhere safe so it couldn't be staked?
"My crew"?!
Surely when the evil demon steps out in front of the car the thing to do is accelerate? Why did they stop the car? I'd have kept on going. Possibly after backing over them a few times
Wesley turns into Miss Marple (I would say Poirot, but he's not that Belgian). Wesley’s Miss. Marple impersonation is so cool! I love the impotence and intelligence remarks.
It might be the time thing, it might be the fact that he hasn't tilted the glass, but the big guy just poured a really foamy glass of beer
Note how the sheet is actually tucked between Gene and his girlfriend which is discreet, but must make physical contact slightly more difficult
They're quite warm, it's Angel who's cold
Wes' moves on the dance floor haven't improved
One of Wesley's finest moments. "It's just a name"

The Thin Dead Line

Oh yeah, he must be all evil-angsty because he’s making a mess of the paperwork for no discernible reason.
And, on cue, … Why not? Evil knows a cue when it hears one
Like she’d have any poor friends.
If I were to give Cordy ten out of ten for observation, would that be tacky?
I love the way the eye follows Wesley’s finger.
The 10pm curfew must be to keep the numbers down at the shelter. That and so that it serves it's purpose of keeping the kids off the street at night
This episode is dragging already and the titles have only just started.
I feel I should be commended for not shouting "Ghostbusters!" at this point, but as I wrote it down instead I really can't
I never understood why Gunn, a man with responsibilities and used to taking command, suddenly gave it all up to be Angel's 3rd class sidekick
"Sounds handy" more eye-y (or aaiieeeee!)
Is stalking actually Angel's new hobby? He's certainly getting plenty of practice, helped by his new subscription to 'Stalking Monthly', the luge has obviously lost its appeal
The dead have risen and whilst they aren't voting Republican they do appear to be joining the police force
I love that decapitation.
“These kids” like he’s that much older than them.
Busy with her finger in the socket by the looks of things
And strangely, he is, but not in the way Kate means it
"Bet they don't teach you that at the academy" it's a damn shame they don't
Gunn has worked out how to deal with Cordelia
You know she's right
Be bloody, bold and resolute except if you’re Wesley and Cordelia when you can change your mind in two seconds flat.
How does Angel know? Because that's a really revolting talent to have
Yeah but it’s the “here” he’s worried about.
Love the menacing nightstick clicking
Says Gunn, quite clearly arguing with him
Running and yelling at an armed man, and an American policeman, not the best idea, zombie or not
Aaahhhh!!!!! Not the extremely cute Watcher!
You can tell Alexis Denisof was padded because it looks like Wesley has a paunch.
Depends which book you’re talking about really. If the captain is using the “Raising Dead Police Officers To Serve As An Undead Army Against Crime, Perceived or Actual” then yeah, he’s going by the book.
Uh oh, trouble is brewing, two bald alpha males are facing off.
You will care who's out there
Who is Cordelia phoning? I'm guessing ringing the police might not be the best option here, especially as they'd send officers from the nearest precinct
I wonder if the police captain ends up in John Malkovich's head?
Again the props people come through in the offal department with some very entrail-y looking entrails
How are they going to explain the corpses?
Wesley doped up on the morphine is very sweet
Wesley is right, morphine is bloody lovely until the pink elephants start dancing on the top of your curtain rail. I had an accident with the self-administering clicker.

Reprise

Angel surrounded by a herd of goats. There’s a special interest fic waiting to happen.
Love the expression on Angel's face when he sees the goats
That's where all Willow's goats went, she didn't sacrifice them, she sent them to LA
Diminuendo is right, you’ve got to work hard to explain the presence of goats.
Where do you get a manual of ritual sacrifice (for all ages and occasions)
The guys doing the sacrifice sounded a lot like Bitca and I putting a DIY bookcase together. Talk about comedy moments…
Being the worlds most phonetic speller (Gee, ya think? This from Diminuendo who has to type up Lizard's comments and decipher said spellings) I know only too well the follies of sounding something out. Latin phonetics are different to English, never mind American English phonetics and with spells and prayers I would have thought pronunciation mattered
You’ve got to love the lollipop.
Why don't they threaten to replace the third eye for non-payment? I would have
Making it rain a lot would screw up the climate in L.A. so maybe they are
“No,” thinks Angel, “Not really”.
Oh yeah, like that is something she can use in her defence. Even Wolfram and Hart would have to come up with something better
Why does it need (speaking of phonetic spellings, I'm not going to correct this one...) ferenzicks (see what I have to deal with?) to tell anyone that Darla and Dru broke out? Anyone with a pair of eyes could see that
"I'm always dirty" a phrase to make the most lustful of us go weak at the knees. And yet another excuse to deploy the Russell bucket, although I love Darla's little eye-roll at the melodrama
Lindsey very nearly makes it on to the Naked Chart...Tease!
Hah! I spot Post-It flags! I wonder of they're as ordered and colour-coded as yours are? (Tobin beta-reads for me and my stuff comes back littered with little orange, blue and yellow tags)
Meaning that Lorne and also the lawyers don't know what it is. Love Lorne's moral stand incidentally
"They'd really like to see you dead”? Wow, he must be super psychic! I got that! Like Lorne needs prescience to work that out
At this point I would have given a cheery wave to the lawyers.
Does Angel use the waffle iron?
Look it up in what? He's stealing all the books!
The stabilizing influence, I would imagine that referring to her colleagues as training wheels wouldn't have helped her much either
I hate psychological reviews and the like. No one ever comes out of them looking sensible and well balanced (whether you are or not) largely because you are being reviewed by people who have read a second hand report on you then think that they have a right to discuss your life like they know you. Anyone would feel defensive, frustrated and very probably angry, this is the normal human reaction to some jumped up idiot invading your privacy. I personally would be more worried about a person who didn't react badly in this situation. I know I did when some guidance person from school accused me of sounding angry when I defended myself for having missed school with migraines after she implied that I had been sciving. I explained politely why I sounded angry, and she went away and never came back
Not that this would have helped, but I would have shot pop psychology woman
No, not monsters. This is where I rant about people who got a degree in psychology and managed to come away from it more ignorant than the day they were born. No, actually you did that already...
Can someone who is undead commit suicide?
Could Angel use the glove if it is a holy object?
Isn't it nice that when Wes gets shot he actually STAYS shot for some weeks, instead of making that miraculous TV recovery that most people do, unless it's like Daniel's appendicitis and he actually did have some horrid operation and so can't do the running around
And he looks fabulous in that black robe/dressing gown thingy. Are they Watcher issue dressing gowns, because Rupert has one just like it
Makes dinner and a movie look kind of tame.
She dumps him now?! Frizzy haired bitch!
If she doesn't have friends then who the hell are all those people she keeps inviting to her parties?
How did she recognise Mrs Sharpe's voice on such a short acquaintance?
Is the money from these people going to cover a 30 mile taxi fare?
Aren't they using a terribly cheery and colourful pentagram for this summoning? I thought it should have been more black and blood red. They’ve had an interior decorator in to do that pentagram, you can tell.
It's the Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch Monks again. Do W&H keep them on retainer?
I rarely give Lilah Morgan credit for anything, but she deserves a well done for hitting Angel in the sucking gut wound and actually taking advantage of a screamingly obvious weakness. Lindsey on the other hand, has a really wussy left hook. You'd have thought he'd have knocked her out cold. Poor Li'l Lindsey, he's feeling all betrayed, but he does better with his second left hook defending Darla
What is it going to take to get Lilah fired? She just let in an intruder who killed one of the Senior Partners!
"My contract extends well beyond that" What, as a lift boy? Bit of a comedown. (Geddit?!) Still responsible for your commitments after death, so that's where the credit card companies get it from
Perfect detail- the lift going straight to hell has ambient music...
Which Apocalypse? Because he's prevented a few. Wait, it's the one in 'Becoming' where he nearly caused it and Buffy prevented it. The Master was right, prophecies don't tell you everything
If he prevents the upcoming Apocalypse he saves all people, not just a great many
It's hell on Earth and they're playing what sounds suspiciously like Enya
She must be suicidal, she's spilling the decent vodka
Not to be vulgar, but if Angel doesn't want to feel the cold, shouldn't he be screwing someone warm?

Epiphany

Darla is deluding herself. You can tell Angel doesn't go evil as the leather trousers are (unfortunately) nowhere to be seen
Again, notice how he takes the time to clothe himself when he thinks he’s turning evil.
He's not turning, he's just having his epiphany. I have to say my Jimmy Stewart epiphany was much more pleasant. As was my Riley one, although unfortunately there's only so much fun you can have when your epiphany comes on a train just outside Caersws
How can you tell if you have a soul? Is there a soul recognition process that we are unaware of?
Felt him surrender, amongst other things
Arrogant git (three times)
Darla briefly turns into Ally McBeal for a moment there.
Yes! YEEEES! At bloody last! Vindicated! 'Perfect Happiness' was not an euphemism for orgasm! I've said so for 4 years in the face of total opposition from the cold hearted cynics also know as my friends. May I just say - Nyanyanyanyanya! I hope you're not referring to us when you say that, because as far as I now we've all been sceptical about that... In fact, perfect despair is just one get out clause of many, Reasons Why Angel Can Still Have Sex are on the Mouse Page
That's right Angel, cause drowning will help her
Unfair, poor Kate gets a shower scene with Angel and he doesn’t get his kit off. And he doesn't even get that wet
Ok, suicide rant. I hate to break it to people, but taking an overdose is not cured by taking a cold shower with a tall dark hunk of nothing. It takes hospital visits, stomach pumps and even then you're lucky if you survive. I would like to add that half the time it doesn't happen that quickly either. For those of you who are daft enough to consider paracetamol induced fatality it would behove you to know that it usually takes days to work, and if you change your mind half way through what usually happens is you lose a couple of limbs at the least because while you've been faffing around going "Oooh why am I not floating away on a blissful cloud" your body is shutting down all it's systems. And, NEWS FLASH PEOPLE!: You don't get them back!!!
"Move it in my bedroom" oh, nice try Lindsey
Darla's not moping because Angel left, it's because he didn't pay her in cash, she's have to pawn that ring before she gets any money out of it
Am I the only person who's accent doesn't get thicker when they get mad? I've seen it mentioned in fic enough times that Lindsey's accent is stronger when he's annoyed, and they're right. But my (fairly broad) accent only tends to get stronger when I'm happy, or drunk. When I'm mad it tends to vanish completely
"A little late with that advice" For one glorious moment I thought he'd forgotten to put them on. Actually, he can take his pants off whenever he wants.
Did Angel actually give her cab fare? Somehow that seems unlikely
You know, it's taken me nearly a year to get the 'It's A Wonderful Life' reference there, which considering it's one of my all-time favourite films is kind of sad
How wonderful would it have been if he had turned over, seen what was lying next to him and gone 'geaahh!' It would have just been such a shot in the arm for all of us well-built brunettes to see him recoil in horror from the waif-like blonde
You know the Host has a point there... And the Host channels the Fringedwellers for a scene.
Angel can't move on, well that's news. Let me help you, take a stake for the team
Poxy visions, talk about a day late and a dollar short
Wesley now known as the Wheeléd One in all the sacred texts.
Wes has a huge apartment for someone on the salary Angel pays (or doesn't)
You see, being safety conscious could kill you if you’re not careful
Why do they emphasise that Angel hasn't been to Wesley's apartment before?.
They are ruining Wes' apartment, although the yellow goes quite well with the blue, but you would hope for a stenciled border rather than a splatter pattern
Lindsey and Darla - couples therapy
Is the pink fluffy turtleneck Darla's or Lindsey's? Not that I'm casting aspersions or anything...
Angel, when you are trying to apologise you might want to start with an apology
Never one for small talk.
That was truly revolting
The truck that Wesley sees must be Lindsey's. I suppose it must be, I always assumed it was Gun's, but he'd recognise that wouldn't he?
Having that three-eyed thing must be very disorienting, you'd be looking in two directions at once. Gross as that third eye is, it would be invaluable in the classroom.
"Get all epiphanied off right back at them" which actually he does
Keep driving you dozy bastard
Yiiiippppeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! The pickup may be small, but it's going at a fair clip when it hits him. Every time
Backing over people is an underused move
Lindsey looks very sweet out of his suit and in the lumberjack shirt, and also very little. Makes you suddenly realise quite how small he is. Aw, it’s the Lil’ Redneck. I'm half a lumberjack and I'm okay.... Oh baby! Right here. Right now. I'll sign anything that makes me his sex slave
He won't be telling him anything if he's had his jaw broken
If nothing else, that's one hell of a polo arm he's got there. A good polo arm it may be but it's the wrong one. The rules of polo state that you must use your right hand and Lindsey doesn't have one
I am however slightly disappointed, cause when I read that he ran Angel over with a truck, I was expecting, you know, a truck. A big one with 16 wheels and a separate cab, not some tiddly vintage pick-up
"I really am" no he's not, not in the slightest
Hooray! He vanquished the evil lawyer-beast.
Only Wes would thank his captors
Would that truck crashing through the window work if the owners were alive, or would Angel still have been repelled? I think he would still have been repelled, probably thrown out of the back windscreen too
It left her with a bald patch! Is she going to have a comb over from now on?
Love the sign. Petty, yes, childish, definitely, but I would have done it and not felt any guilt at all. Angel's handwriting looks like it was written by the magic pencil on 'Words and Pictures'. Maybe that's what Angel was doing in the eighties, working for children's TV. And of course he wouldn't appear on the camera (due to the mirrors), so that's how they got the pencil to look like it was floating! Great childhood mystery solved!
Darla?! Not in that sunlight mate
To be fair, that's a sizeable epiphany he's had there and it's a good one, but that doesn't mean anyone should cut him a break until he's earned it
Lying bastard, he doesn't want to work for them or even with them, he just wants an easy way in
Angel has to drive, he's the only one of them with a car

Disharmony

Someone else will have to do this episode because I hate it, I have some severe issues with Angel being a selfish, unfeeling, vicious, tactless git to Wesley. Just know that there is fury and bile, and some derogatory spitting
How many of those pencils will he break while he remembers how to write?
This is not atonement Angel, it's what you had coming
Let's be fair, she does detect a bit
Poor Angel's upset that people aren't being nice to him, and after all the effort he's made to win back their trust and respect...
Yeah, and a real pain in the arse, I’m sure.
Ugh, that pizza sounded vile.
Somehow it’s hard to be terrified of the vampire in the pink fluffy slippers.
Don’t you just love the perils of miscommunication?
Oh, poor Wesley. Poor, pissy Wesley. By the way, I would have staked her for ruining that book. I would have staked her the second she touched tit
"Into vampires" no Cordelia, into small white mice, what the hell did you think they were turning them into?
That mustache is scary. That’s an horrific moustache.
Does your sense of humour have to die with you leaving only the memory of good jokes, or is it just because he's a motivational speaker?
The Host's great little moment, "cacophony", also we see him being neutral and sending someone to do bad things, because it's their path
I love the look Angel had on his face then.
Angel is the only one who deserves Harmony
It would help if you told Wesley you supported him, Angel
Cool, Harmony's vamp face automatically gives her a side parting! Told ya it was a sign of evil! (Or one of us did)
Wesley seems to be more use as food than as a new recruit.
Love that with the key, who'd have thought
Again lying slime
Words have failed, I just feel ill, forgiveness can't be bought Angel, it has to be earned
I’d have exactly the same reaction if he turned me loose in Waterstones

Dead End

Lin is just so sexy. I know we said this before, but frankly, it bears repeating
That's a very cheap razor that Lindsey's using
Am I supposed to be sorry for Lindsey because he can’t play the guitar anymore? Boo bloody hoo. He chose to join Wolfram and Hart, and stay with them once he knew what they were like. You do evil things, expect to pay the price. Lindsey and the guitar is like the line about Wesley's father, it's a really cheap way to get us to empathise. Let's face it, by now you've pretty much decided whether you love or hate Lindsey MacDonald, and finding out he can't play his songs any more isn't going to change that
Isn't Cordelia meant to have these visions before they happen so they can do something to prevent them? It was a bloody useless one in 'Epiphany' too, the PTB are slipping
"Cup of tea?" Gunn's been hanging round with Wes for WAY too long
'Cause For Applause' wouldn't that be the most excellent name for a racehorse?
Not complex, pretty damn simple really.
Rubber hand! Creepy though
Should Lindsey be able to see that?
Wesley very quickly learning the art of delegation there. Good shot Wesley, delegation's what you need. If you wanna be a record breaker?
That’s a very girly bracelet.
It's little harsh that Wolfram & Hart put Lin through a fairly major surgical procedure and expect him to be at work the next day
So he has a potentially murderous hand, and the first thing he does is give it a really good stab? He's the kind of guy who prods tigers really hard to see if they bite when you piss them off. Aha! The Steve Irwin of the demon world!
How freaked would Lindsey be if his hand answered back?
Yeah, he should smile more often.
Why does Gunn put the blood-soaked moulding back in his pocket? What's he keeping it for?
Did you too spend the whole singing sequence wishing everyone would just shut the hell up so we could actually hear Lindsey sing (or in my case telling them to shut the hell up, which unsurprisingly didn't work)? He's not quite as sexy as Giles, but he is still very, very good. What! He is so sexy here!
I did also channel Wesley briefly, "Don't even joke about that". Although at least he didn't suggest "Battle Of Evermore" cause that really is long
"The hand's quicker than the eye - you'll get that later" I have to admit it took me a moment
I love Lin's instant fawning fan club
When you see the long shot in the parole guy's apartment, check just how much of an angle they've had to tip the picture at so it's level with the top of Lindsey's head
I love Lindsey's little paddy, I'd call it a tantrum, but that would credit it with more dignity than it actually deserves, I've seen four year olds in Safeways make less of a fuss. Lin's paddy is just the best seen on TV… well, ever!
Although Lindsey completely proves Angel's point, Angel is the last person to be going on about immaturity
Lindsey HAD Angel? Well that's news...
If he's good at moping it's because he's been watching the master for so long
Lin is so brave - Angel comes at him with an axe and he gamely puts up his fists!
Mmm! He is so fine…did I already mention that?
Oh, there’s a personal question.
Don't you just SO wish you could quit your job like that? That's how I should have left my last job. When I left my last job, I walked out of the office for the very last time, tripped over, fell down the stairs and sprained my ankle, which all things considered was a lot less impressive
The hand isn't evil at all, it was asking for help and then, well, it's just a very good excuse
"Make them play yours" strangely, this is also the best method of defeating the England rugby team. Coincidence??
Christian Kane is an utter god and the next Buffyverse spin-off should be based on the adventures of a morally ambiguous attorney and his evil hand! Okay, and I'm sensing something of a Christian Kane epiphany here?

Belonging

Sushi repulses me too.
Few bob? He's turning into my grandfather
Somehow I'm surprised that Angel ever actually had to pay for the tavern wench, although if you got to have sex with him and hard cash...win/win situation
Cordelia looks like she was electrocuted.
Oh I just love seeing Angel make a twat of himself in public
Thank God I’ve never done that in public. Don’t you have to start to digest the food before you throw up?
Finally they (briefly) deal with the thing between Wes and his father. This is beautifully acted, especially the way Wesley reverts to the perfect student reciting the demon's pedigree to Gunn. You get the feeling he had to do that before he went to bed every night to prove he'd learnt it right
I wish they’d stop doing that to Wesley, and to us.
Not in that bikini.
I could rip his head off too, and I don’t have vampire powers.
Gunn is surprised by the efficiency.
How come we never get to see any of the guys in the swimsuit that covers like nothing? I mean any of the attractive guys
That was a very male moment.
Does the Host have an insight into his own character when he sings?
Ophelia rarely has any input into the lighting arrangement, but to be fair he didn't hire her to be Jack Cardiff either Actually it sounds like Cordelia has more lines than Ophelia and in that bikini stands a better chance of surviving the drowning scene.
I might have to put my 'unfeeling git' rant in again. But note how Wes doesn't feel the need to change a perfectly good plan just to make himself feel important. I thought he just couldn't come up with anything better
No he didn't mean to step on Wesley's toes, he just didn't bloody think- ever
"Nice choice of conductor" ringing endorsement of Wesley from the Host
Libraries can be fun, thank you very much!
5''7' isn’t particularly tall.
Whilst the host and his cousin are having their little joust disagreement, Angel looks like he's thinking about something, in the unlikely event that he is actually is thinking, what is he thinking about?
Angel wouldn't know what to do with a plan
Full power to the Draaken!
Oh, the poor guy looks blissed out.
Very tasty indeed.
I really expected the Draaken to explode after it swallowed that flare
Nice, we’ll just smooth over the gaping plot-hole with some psychic-vision babble.
That’s going to smell.
The Standard Hero Grip.
When did Cordelia get sucked through and why did nobody notice?

Over The Rainbow

I have to say, I really don't like these three episodes. They're aren't bad episodes, they're three very good episodes, of 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'. As episodes of 'Angel', I don't really think they work
That’s it, draw attention to yourself.
Yeah, but Cordy the shoes aren't red
Looks like the Oz references jumped ship from 'Stargate' to 'Angel'. Oh god! Jack's references to 'The Wizard of Oz' must be catching. What's up with that anyway?
It’s a book sweetie, they don’t need batteries.
Bad Angel, don't throw the book
Wesley identifies the crux of the matter.
Wouldn’t want one of those humping your leg.
How did the Host open Caritas? Surely that involves a big wedge of cash?
Yeah but on the plus side no country music either.
How much dimension-jumping experience does Wesley have?
Could I have an American-zapper, please?
Given the fact that there are people out in the world dumb enough to pay for Botox to be injected into their faces, I’m sure that hydrochloric acid facials can’t be that far behind.
Oh ick, there was no need for the mental image of Wesley and the handcuffs. I knew Wesley was hiding something under that refined exterior. Besides, Angel has a hotel full of chains and manacles, finding metal restraints wouldn't be a problem
Now Lindsey's gone, they're really running out of ideas
That’s artfully smudged dirt on Cordelia.
How come servants always have rags? Are they specially pre-ragged for the new slaves?
After a winter of horses on deep litter cause we couldn't get straw onto the farm, me and Lizard dream of stables that look like that
Unfortunately, whilst he says "Eureka" he completely fails to leap naked out of the bathtub
And so now nobody in this dimension knows where Angel has gone and all the plans and information on the hotel are useless
The book, oops
The more I look at these eps the more I realise they completely wasted a huge budget!
Alexis and David morph into Peter and Adrian, which is truly frightening, you suddenly expect high-jinks with noses and white paint
God Angel is such a child, although to be fair, I'd be just the same in his position. I know he's excited and all, but what a dork!
Angel and Wesley are sweet when they start to bicker like children.
Nice rationalisation there Wes
Wesley learns not to tempt fate
He can use his tongue in my presence all he wants. Is that crude?
Love the comedy hobble.
That guard has a bucket on his head. Cunning helmet so they don't have to use any makeup
Where are the marks on Cordelia’s body if she’s been tortured?

Through The Looking Glass

She’s enjoying that far too much.
The irony of being scantily clad despite ultimate ruler really is lost on Cordelia isn’t it?
Where? Like I said before, her outfit would not cover torture marks. Although it does cover Charisma Carpenter’s tattoo very well.
I’d be a bit more wary of being suddenly made princess than Cordelia is.
She's not the messiah, she's a very naughty girl
Well you did order his head cut off - I'd want to leave too
His hair isn’t that bad!
Ah, here’s the catch.
Why the left horn?
I love the look on Angel’s face as he disbelievingly mouths “Mom?”
Don’t they have HRT in Pylea?
Numfar rules!
Wolfram and Bambi
Never trust priests, especially robed ones.
Evil lawyer beast? Yeah right some poor defenseless (and in this case he is defenseless) individual half Angel's size and he makes it sound like he bare knuckle wrestled with Godzilla.
Oh please, that episode sucked the first time round. It did spawn a few great puns though.
Well, it is The Supremes, you'd quail too. Diana Ross will do that to the unwary. Especially during certain, very dramatic moments of 'Lord Of The Rings' eh Tobin?
Jumping onto that horse must have chaffed. Mind you it was far more graceful than my grunting struggles just to get in the saddle. And I had a stirrup
Do like Gunn's 'booty' pun
Fred suffers from a fit of feminine pique
Actually, Fred’s little rant made a lot of sense.
A man who looks and sounds like that shouldn’t be allowed to use words like “beneficent”.
Incredible Hulk much?
Presumably then, although a male human couldn't mate with a female demon, a male demon could mate with a woman, otherwise how did Groo get "cows blood in my veins"? Okay, so we worked this out during a discussion about slashing the Host, but it's a valid point nonetheless
That hand dipped in blood is gross.
Okay, brief 'what the hell are they playing at' moment. The whole thing with Angel's demon being more pronounced is complete rubbish, and makes no sense compared to the whole soul/demon thing that's been canon for the past two years. If it's the demon that is allergic to the sunlight, when the human isn't, then why doesn't the demon burst into flames when it gets in the sunlight (and yeah, different light wavelengths and all, but they never mention that)? Besides, the demon in it's purest form isn't that scary, Angelus is far more frightening, precisely because he is so human and isn't just a ravening monster
I guess beauty really is only skin deep.
Angel does gibbering terror very well, bettered only by Harrison Ford, who did have the advantage of actually gibbering in terror at the time
I love the idea of reconnaissance cows. I expect them to be issued with binoculars and a code book and parachuted into enemy territory.
And Wesley was so close to succeeding there.
Actually, I’m glad it’s Cordelia that’s wearing the tiara.
I never thought he was dead

There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb

And I want you to stop that! Good grief. I've seen better performances on 'Neighbours'! This is an all time low of awfulness
I knew he was going to do that
Can you be august if you are young and skinny? I thought that was an old fat person’s adjective.
One soldier, surely?
Hah! I didn’t fancy him and his head still blew up.
It’s not a curse, just a bizarre string of coincidences.
There’s something inherently comic about Wesley and Gun wandering about with the stocks on their necks.
Good shot, little Rebel village men
He also got beat when he didn't change
I love the adventures of the Host’s decapitated head.
I wonder who's foot that is in the Host's suit?
Anyone else notice that the blonder Cordelia gets the more Angel seems to care about her? He'll be fancying her next!
I now have an image of men in gorilla suits attacking the castle.
Because Wes, if you're given enough space to move but not enough space to worry about it, you're good at it. And like the man said, you have a plan
If Doyle hadn’t died, would he have had to mate with Groo?
I just need to point out quite how unbelievably sexy Wes looks crouched in front of that fire with the sword
"This is ten times worse", no it's not. Possibly from Angel's point of view, turning into big green scaly thing is more upsetting, but from the point of view of potential victim, Angelus is far more terrifying. Angel's just pissed because he's lost control, and both Angel and Angelus are total control freaks
Didn't we go through this whole holding back/holding on thing with the not-a-swami?
It’s always the village square, never the village triangle or dodecahedron.
They have no idea how to film a fight sequence when they're not having to hide the inability of the actors. They've spend so many fights trying not to show how bad the actors are that when you get Alexis who actually can swordfight they completely obscure quite how good he is. And you can (just about) tell from this, and from 'First Knight' that he is very good indeed
Nice move with the sword, princess.
I wondered if they were going to own up about the resultant social chaos their actions would cause. The answer is yes, but they’re not going to hang around to sort any of it out.
How come they assume Gunn knows all about this?
How the hell do they get the Plymouth out of Caritas? Very, very carefully. Or with a really big spanner. What, you mean Angel carried it?
"It's Buffy." Not any more!

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