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Season Four

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Deep Down

Prevouslies can be summed up as the life history of Connor
This has to be a either a flashback or a dream. And as it appears to have both a grown-up Connor and Wesley in the same scene with Angel, and everyone's playing Happy Families, I'm going to assume it's a dream.
What on earth have they put in the green beans?
Poor Connor's been palmed off with a wine glass full of milk
I don't like Gunn's little beard. It's like his hair has grown down instead of up.
Cordelia's hair is still horrible, even in a dream sequence.
Ugh god no, I don't need to see that either
I hate it when the dishes you want always end up at the wrong end of the table. All our family parties are like that, Angel just needs to be pushier
Ew grebby decomposing!Angel. Well, it's about time, he's been dead long enough
Connor must be in for while - they've put him in the main credits. But... ah... hey... erm... where? Oh! He's an and, that had me seriously worried for a moment. 'And', that's impressive. Why no Host? Andy Hallett should be there.
Now run over him! Ram the corvette, whatever
Fred inherited the wrist holsters I see. Nice shot.
Nice catch from Connor. Although I know of people that wouldn't be too unhappy if Fred lost her head.
Yes, very cool indeed. What's cooler is that they now have another car. If they're having money problems then they could sell it and use the cash to pay the hotel bills.
The interaction between the three is interesting. Big Brother Gunn!
Any second now one of them's going to call him 'my young padawan learner' and he's going to kill them
I interrupt this fringedwelling to note that the ad for 'Zoe Ball on Film' had a rather adorable shot of Orlando Bloom grinning. I'm so easily pleased.
"Don't remember" Probably because your mind was a sealed vacuum at the time. It's any better now?
Remember when I said I didn't need to see this? Well, I don't need to see this
Angel's going nuts. Hands up who didn't see that coming?
Love the huge sparkly grin when Connor gets to go fetch his weapons
Who would Marissa feed on at the bluffs?
Hey, 'Evil Bitch-queen' is my line! I use that line far too much.
The fact that he helped them on both occasions doesn't mean he's their friend at all
That's rich coming from Fred.
Yuk, I didn't need to see him licked. Neither did I, but I'm getting extremely good at just mentally wiping Lilah from all of these shots
Okay, I have no idea where the new Wesley came from, but I really, really like him. Morally ambiguous Wesley is seriously scrummy, whilst Lilah looks almost vulnerable here. How odd.
Oh come on, it's driving him nuts. Man walks into a doctors with a steering wheel in his boxers, says "Doctor, it's driving me nuts..."
Oh, that's disturbing. You shouldn't open your wardrobe to find that in there. Diminuendo and I have already had a discussion about the logistics of making a cell of your wardrobe and disturbingly, she was quite logical about the whole thing. Hey, you asked, it's not my fault I've got a practical turn of mind. Although on second thought, you wouldn't even need to make the bars, you could just order a loosebox grille from the Robinson's catalogue and cut it to size. Ooh, that's twisted, I didn't quite expect that. And I'll take this opportunity to mentioned how disturbed I am by that how discussion about how you could make a cage in the wardrobe. Just what exactly were you up to over on the other campus? Learning to build fences, stables, sheep pens, the principle's the same
Wesley... I was about to say Justine... there, I think she's going to get her arse kicked is she tries anything. Wesley's instinct really have improved since Buffy haven't they? In fact Wesley has improved since Buffy - can you imagine if someone had told you then that this character would be more than comic relief, that he'd in fact be seriously twisted?
The bucket threat in any other circumstances wouldn't really be threatening but here it is.
Fred shouldn't say 'word' either.
Cool, I've never seen a vampire do that before.
'Tall, good looking, weird hair?' Not so sure about the goodlooking part (he has his moments), but that's a pretty good description of Angel really.
The vampire has the despondent look of someone who's been out-Crouching Tigered. Okay, I put out-Crouching Tiggered there, subtle yet important difference
'You know much he wants to find Angel' Yeah. The answer is not a lot.
Steven the Destroyer doesn't sound much better.
"Beautiful..." at this point I would have yelped in shock and fallen off the roof
Let me see, the silky shirt, the attitude, the giggle, it looks like Angelus there to me. Not sure if he's got the 'Evil Leather' trousers on though. Regardless, this is the point at which I'd be running
Yeeeeuch (neck snapping)
For a man that's technically in a box underwater, Angel has a lot of screen time. Not that I'm complaining.
Bleerraagghh! What? Oh, bleerraagghh!
"Did he have anything?" in that coat, possibly mange
Fred & Gunn If they get any gooier, I'll need a sick bag.
Lilah's looking old here.
It's probably the cheekbones actually. Or the general aura of sex-god-ness. that's always good. Oh god, I just had the best mental image of Sex-God Ness. Do you need an upgrade on your Thistle Whistle for that? An 18 rated Thistle Whistle
Heel, Gavin.
Nice to see Wesley and Justine fully armed with a machine that goes 'ping'
Is Wesley hiring this boat? Where's he getting the money from? Or for that matter the ability to operate the sonar
It really is Action!Wesley tonight. Wes, my hero!
Shouldn't he be wearing gloves to arc weld? Yes, but we don't care since he was wearing his welding shades
Don't worry Wesley, it's not like we could tell that Angel had many higher brain functions anyway.
That is just the best excuse in the world, "I'd take him out myself if I wasn't just a crappy hallucination" I have to use that sometime
Feeding Angel from his arm? I say! That's just chock full of tension.
Woah, excellent!
Oh, that's mean, he can't even pick it up by the hair
I really hate Lilah, but that whole meeting thing was really very cool. Her only mistake was not to get Gavin at the same time.
Growing up in a demon dimension with only Holtz to learn from, so why does Connor have an American accent? Sorry, it was the tom-ay-to rather than tom-ah-to that made me notice that
That's it, comfort the person on the non-frying end of the taser
Oh, she's gonna have to really reach for those keys
Go on, drop him on the steps
Why should Wesley care after what his "friends" did to him?
She screamed less than he did
I've used that tone of voice before.
You've got the taser stupid! Zap him!
"Hallucinated a whole bunch..." Very similar to my Christmas
I don't know, I've wanted to do that to Angel a time or two, and we're not even related
"And taking it" what, like smothering them with a pillow in their hospital room?
They never took Wesley's dartboard down
Cultural!Angel, there's a change.
That's so Cordelia, and the reason that I usually have a book with me wherever I go.

Ground State

Previouslies: short summary? Cordelia ascends, Angel descends.
That is a *pink* coat. You know, I think I had one like it about the same time.
Evil teacher? Or is that too much of a cliche in this series?
That's very 80s make-up on the mother
Where are the kid's suitcases?
Mrs Thorpe cleverly slaps Gwen's hand to stop them from touching
That's a game show challenge waiting to happen, how to eat a yogurt with a plastic spoon, whilst wearing snow-suit mittens
So, the girl's like a mini-Rogue? (as learnt from the film. Not read the comics)
*Lightening Strikes* Now, who used to use that expression? I'm sure it was a kid tv programme.
Why dust bunnies?
What about poor Phantom Dennis? Who's going to keep him company?
Blipverts (the rapidly changing shots to change the scene) we haven't seen those for ages!
What's Gunn doing behind that TV? I've wired, rewired, cabled and uncabled videos, TVs, DVDs, speakers and satellite boxes with every connecting lead known to man and I've never got them to spark like that. Of course, we should always switch of the mains before moving any cabling...
Who did they not show in that picture?
Bitter Fred - she's mad! (not the foggiest what it refers too though. I think it's a diatribe about Connor, plus telling Dennis cordy isn't coming back)
When did Dennis learn teleportation? We never saw those books whizz past Fred's head
"You get back and they're not there" this happens to me every day, I don't even have to leave the room. All I do is turn round and whatever I've put down has invariably vanished
Oh, Wesley. Sniff. Picture of the three. I want the original trio back.
Wesley: Rogue Demon Hunter. This time it's real. For some reason action!Wesley isn't as sexy as I thought he would be. Perhaps it's because I keep picturing him green and animated in a tartan tam o'shanter and a smoking jacket
I get the feeling that Wesley really doesn't want Angel's help.
Where does Wesley get his gang from?
Not to mention feeding you
Bless him, Angel needed all that time.
It's. All. About. Angel.
Well that's fine then Angel, never mind. 'We're ok again'. Well, you might be Angel, but y'know you tried to kill the man, but you'll forgive him? I don't think that's quite how it works.
Aww, Wesley's willing to help Angel find Cordy though. Ambiguous Wesley is fun to watch.
It's amazing how many demons live in LA.
"Unholy fruit basket" from the blasphemous greengrocers
That thing with the hand on the back of the neck is creepy. Made you look, made you look!
That 'demon' is an unholy combination of the Master, Darla and Gollum. *shudder* I really like Dinza, there's genuinely something supernatural about her
Why would he be seasick, he was on the bottom
"I know all that is lost." Maybe Dinza could tell me where my copy of the 2004 GCSE Specifications is because as far as I'm concerned one of my pupils has eaten it.
Angel's got 'more to lose'. Well, I wonder what that could be. That hint is as subtle as a ton of bricks.
Tight red leather. Catering to a particular demographic there, possibly?
"Do you see nipple?" Not in that shot, but in the one before we could
That girl reminds me of a cross between Lilah and Faith. What's the betting its the little girl in pink, all growed up?
Where do I know that guy that's employed Gwen from? I don't know. I think he looks like someone who used to be in 'Home And Away' or 'Neighbours', something like that
One more zero at most
Yup. thought so.
I though Fred's drawing was a cactus. That's not what I thought it was, and from the look on Gunn's face, that wasn't what he was thinking either
Fred's pulled an all-nighter. That brings back memories (stumbling across the bridge to the Hugh Owen Building to hand in an Essay, followed by sleepwalking to the H.O. Library to drop the books back in. Then a crawl up the hill and into bed for the rest of the day. Good times!)
For a physicist, Fred's drawn some very poor diagrams. I don't think she's even used a ruler
The armed guards shouldn't be too much of a problem
Never underestimate the power of the flip chart - the basis of many a presentation around the world.
So that is counting the crazy-making death shroud incident
"Operation Chance In Hell", that's cheerily realistic
The first two times I saw this I was convinced Angel said 'parasols'
I wonder if Angel remembered to pack a lipstick
Rough n' tough Wes. Drool.
"The walls are soundproofed" that's much more difficult than fitting the bars
Kinky.
Flipping 'eck! Nice roll from Lilah, making sure it's Wes who smacks the back of his head on the floor. Although considering what he's about to do, perhaps concussing him isn't the best idea
Lilah and Connor? Ick.
Almost everything is harder than it looks on 'Batman'
Nice to see Angel's as subtle as ever. However you'd have thought that ripping out the security system should have set off some kind of alarm
Poor Fred, the only brain of the operation.
I don't get that. Where's she viewing the camera picture?
'Please let my Cellmate be gentle'. heh.
That's a powerful aerosol.
Gwen is very Lara Croft-like. So, we've started off by channeling X-Men, now we're on 'Mission Impossible'
"What are you, seven?" That's giving him too much credit. Try three
'Fibbing is lying, only classier'. I think I may take that as my new motto.
Television physics. Oh dear
She's an outcast from 'Mutant X'
You think they'd have gotten over the 'girls don't beat people up' thing by now
Gunn's not looking too healthy there
Grab her by the ankles and get her to zap him again
Love the shake as she jump starts her own hand
Poor Connor. If you asked me what he deserved for dumping Angel in box at the bottom of the ocean, I'd have suggested a Ferrari
More like decapitating them dead
The sarcasm and healthy hatred between Angel and Lilah always amuses me. He's got an agenda with Lilah but I'm not sure what it is yet.
Evil errands? Like Lilah has to pop out and buy some washing-up liquid and invade Poland?
You might want to shower, too. That smelling thing has to be a little disturbing for Angel. Eww. Although blackmail can be a wonderful thing.
Love Gunn's fascination with his ECG
Doesn't mean he swallowed it, remember President Bartlet "Are you taking them or are you just carrying them around in your pocket?"
Fred is really tiny compared to Gunn. Fred shouldn't stand sideways, it's just not right to be that thin.
Fred's over-reacting a little there. He's not dead, not even mostly dead. And she's playing the martyr card, which bugs me.. 'I have to do the planning'. Well, dear, that might have a little to do with the fact you told Wes never to come back. Suck it up.
Gwen getting her priorities straight
Oh, I think she's been doing it right. This is actually a really badly done fight scene
Oh god, television biology too. I think I'm going to cry
No, Lex has much less hair. Also, Elliot doesn't have the sexy overbite
"I'm not exactly the poster boy for normal" But he is Master of Understatement.
He should have let Gwen get in one good kick whilst Elliot was down
"What are you, deficient?" Ohh, where to start. Funny line though, she sounds so exasperated! I like it when we only get three seconds of Cordy per episode. She's funny, but has no time to be annoying

The House Always Wins

Christ, these previouslies are getting longer and longer. Just watch the damn TV show people!
Neither Angel nor Cordy are even close to being as funny as Spike
'Yes Ma'am' scene duly completed, Connor rushes off into the darkness of the night
Connor isn’t good looking.
Connor didn't need help
Of course he skulks when he's not brooding. Skulking involves movement, and Angel wasn’t moving.
'We don't know where we're going'. Do you ever Fred?
So, not quite Tibet. Unless there’s a new theme hotel that’s been built. Tibetan monks love to gamble, it's easier to cheat when you wear robes
I'm sure the credits have changed again. Or possibly I just paid a little more attention than normal this time.
I’ve been to Las Vegas! It was noisy and hot and boring, because I wasn’t allowed to play on the slot machines, not being 18 at the time. I had a run in with an armed security guard because I got lost on the casino floor. I was navigating by the big red shiny car on a podium but I was naïve in assuming that there was only one red shiny car in the casino.
Hmm, Gunn doesn’t have any hair, and Angel’s is quite firmly congealed into place, but why isn’t Fred’s hair blowing in the breeze?
Angel name-drops for the first time. Although who Bugsy Seigel is, I don't know. These stories from Angel are all very good, but Las Vegas is in Nevada, and Nevada is mostly desert, which means that it’s very hot and sunny. I know, because we had to drive through the appropriately named Death Valley to get there. My point is, does this sound like the best place to be if you’re a vampire?
Lorne in the casino Tropicana? Ooh, so many Wham! jokes I could make.
Lorne and discreet don't always go together.
Finally Lorne gets his own cabaret
Oh, I've missed Kermit, I mean Lorne. Sorry
Is that “Green” song an adaptation or something, because it’s not very good. And you call yourself a Muppets fan. Angel looks completely befuddled by it.
I bet he says that to all the crowds
Lornettes! That’s so cool! Although that body paint would get annoying after a while.
Lady Marmalade! I love this song.
Stealth Karaoke. I like it
Lorne works the audience but goes right past Angel and the M.o.G (ministers of grace - Hamlet quote (Angels and ministers of grace defend us), not my idea much as I'd love to take credit it belongs to Strega @ TWoP). They look suitably miffed.
Angel's second name-drop - Sammy Davis and the Rat-Pack. Anyone who remembers a night drinking with the Rat Pack didn't do it right. The only pack of rats he knew well were the ones he was eating out of the sewers
Lorne has groupies. I find it rather amusing.
Hmm. Lorne's in trou-ble
Ad break Hey - BattleStar Galactica!. End of digression during the ads.
I don't remember Pylean women looking like that..
Don’t hit Lorne! He’s a sweetheart!
Cages and bars are not normally a good sign.
Oh look, it’s Wesley’s “Oh yes, yes, yes Ma’am” scene.
Wes would never burn his pot roast, he's bright enough to turn the oven down
"Why are you still here?" Can you not see I'm trying to have phone sex?
They really are going for as twisted a relationship as possible between the two, aren't they?
Angel's funny when he tries to turn on the charm.
He may appreciate it, but she won't appreciate being fired!
Cordy's fun when she's bitter.
Fred and Gunn are nauseating when they start sweet-talking.
'This place was so much friendlier when the mob ran it.' I'll class that as half a name-drop, as no specific name was mentioned.
Please tell me that's Gunn in the stockings...
Damn, I was expecting a good comedy moment then
Fred in disguise? You have got to be kidding me. Plus, she sucks at improvisation.
Wow, I didn't think that Angel had enough brain to bother with a rinse cycle let alone a wash
Lorne's channeling his inner Bogart in that outfit.
And again nobody considers getting some big guns
How can they tell about Angel's soul? Is there some kind of litmus test?
Which Apocalypse? He's helped prevent one and tried to create another
'Weirdo Law-firm in LA'. Wonder who that could possibly refer to.
That's clever, but how do they know which chips are which?
The best way to get out of a crowd is to start a conga line
That is a very cool party trick of Lorne’s.
Credit to Fred for running that fast in those heels
Gunn must have left a huge footprint on the door of that car. Angel's going to be furious
That's a handy skill Cordelia has there. Do you think she could manipulate the Lottery, so my numbers come up this weekend?
Does he get the whole $300,000 in quarters?
"What do you mean, Flash Gordon approaching..?"
He is getting it all in quarters! They're going to need one hell of a big bucket
"I'm not stupid" I'm not going to dignify that with a remark.
Angel name drops for the 3rd (and a half) time - Elvis and Priscilla. This whole 'My Life In Vegas' thing is bullshit isn't it? I bet Angel's making it up
Crikey, Angel looks short
'I gotta pee'. Long car journeys - there's just never enough service stations are there? Have I mentioned how much I missed Lorne?
Ooh. Cordy! Is it me, though, or does it look that C.C. has a bit of a 'bump' there? I thought she was looking a little less twig-like than normal
'Who are you people?' Oh dear. That can't be good.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Let me see, van in dodgy part of town, what’s the betting vamps attack them?
They called the undead RAC?
See
That's a nice touch with the cigarette lighter. Very nice! Well done Connor! This is why I never developed a catch reflex
Angel has a quick sanity check, he's had hallucinations like this before
There's not much of 'me' to remember, Cordelia. Unfortunately we remember Cordelia. Swap you
Fred thinks Cordy might have amnesia? What clued her in on that one? Could it possibly be the fact that she appears to have lost her memory?
‘I don’t need a... Not yet’ what exactly is meant by that then?
That is the stupidest looking wave.
That's wrong. The first thing anyone does when they hear their voice on tape is say "That's not me, I don't sound like that."
Fond of Fred's pregnant mime
‘I want to go home.’ That may prove somewhat difficult. Oh! I hope someone remembers to go tell Phantom Dennis that she's back. Wow, is she going to freak when she meets Phantom Dennis
"Maybe you'd remember" ...because we were magically enchanted into almost having oral sex?
Cool, she got the Yearbook. I think that Cordelia might want to forget Sunnydale High.
They got together to sign yearbooks after graduation?
Loved the commentary on the hair.
The picture of Angel and Cordelia with Connor is rather cute.
Ugh, drool.
Moral of the story: If you’re going to hide the blood, clear up all the drops too – they’re just as likely to freak people as the jars.
That’s probably not the kind of conversation that you’d want to overhear.
Since when is actual baby blood purple and jelly-like?
See, you should have come clean straight away
Nice to see the fighting skills weren’t forgotten with everything else. Cordelia got good at that martial arts stuff. No, I don't remember her being that good before she ascended either
I love Cordelia's jump to her spy conclusion.
I think I'm going to stick with 'Angie'. It suits him
I’d love to have listened into Angel’s explanation of Connor.
Nun fear can do that to a girl. Trust me.
Absolutely adore the total chick fight between Cordy and Lorne
They call him Lorne because it's his name, why else?
‘Maybe we haven’t been 100% truthful’ wouldn’t have guessed.
I think Lorne's got the right idea "Sea breeze?"
She sang that at the talentless show in Sunnydale. ‘Greatest Love Of All’? Spare me.
I don’t think the future’s going to be all that good from the look on Lorne’s face.
What colour do green demons go when they're nauseous?
Gunn is such a sidekick, and should just accept it. No, Gunn's more of a henchperson
‘It’s that bad. Goodnight’. Lorne gets all the best lines.
‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem.’ Having now read the poem (Yeats, 'The Second Coming') that title comes from, believe me, things aren’t going to be pretty.
That’s it! No more nipple shots! I know Wes is a sex-god, but I don’t think I can cope with any more of his chest. Has Alexis been waxing his chest? I'm sure he's a lot less hairy than usual
They’re very cuddly today. That cuddling looks far more sexy than them doing anything else.
You said relationship! You said relationship!
There's something significant about this dollar bill that I'm just not getting. Why make him sign it?
That's a cool mouth thing on that demon.
Cordy has a Jack O'Neill moment. "Ya think?"
Quoting Revelations is usually a sign that Armageddon’s on its way.
Excellent onion metaphor
I was always terrified by stuffed animals like that when I was little
That's a mental leap for Cordy, "You're Angel's son"
She's still wearing something after all that athletic sex?
Why not shut that door?
Love the lighting on Wesley's eyes
Cordy looked young there.
Fred helpfully circling them on the map
Love the snare by the door
Connor manfully resists the urge to look smug
All three of the original trio are divided from each other. How depressing.
Wes has been taking brooding lessons from Angel.
Oh, poor Lorne. He should learn some ninja-type moves.
That’s right, assume it's Wesley. Again. Grrr
Double-crossing cow! Oh, that's why she left the door open. I don't know why Wesley looks so surprised though. They both know that they're screwing each other for information.
Lilah trying to help – the jury’s out on that one for the moment
‘It’s never simple is it?’ In a word, Wesley, no.

Supersymmetry

Oh, so near and yet so far! At least Gunn has made it onto the Naked Table now.
He's listening to Gunn and Fred have sex?
Nice hatbox
Oh Connor, nice shot! Good one Connor.
Where has she been discovering this concept? Does Angel have an explosion-proof quantum lab where the pool used to be?
'There’s somebody at the door, there’s somebody at the door,’ Let see if anyone gets that reference
Wesley has nice floors. I have a new-found respect for a nicely sanded floor after watching Lizard sand mine this week. I have a nice sanded and varnished floor too, although it was not without its mis-haps. Dad managed to sand through the pipe in the corner of my room, necessitating a visit from a plumber. Still the floor looks fabulous
I hate it when people sit and look at presents
I have no idea who either of those two people are
Nice escape from Angel
All this physics talk makes me feel like I’m back in my old house. Do you know how difficult it is to be one of two historians sharing a house with 4 physicists and a geneticist?
Ah, classic physics lecture hall seats, with the traditional truly hideous upholstery. Those walls are nowhere near as bad as the Main Physics Lecture Theatre in Aberystwyth. Actually the worst paper of all was in Lecture Theatre B. I was once taken in there specially to see it, and it truly was hideous beyond belief
"Ah the theory of everything. Is it comprehensive?"
It's happened to Angel three or four times before now
Oh, of all the things that could have gone wrong...
Finally! Naked Gunn (there's a joke in there somewhere)! Although he could sit up a little more and drop the duvet. And do it in shot
Okay, there is no reason they should have been hiding that this long
I did the lean!
That's not fair! She passed the test, she should get the grade
Why is Angel reading that comic backwards?
That's sweet, "chatty rooms"
Fred channels her inner librarian.
Sorry, not buying the whole Fred-vengeance thing. Oddly I felt sympathetic towards Fred for once. Although the vengeance is far-fetched I agree.
Angel giving helpful flaying advice
I like the way Fred's trying to see over Wesley's shoulder but can't quite reach and has to settle for looking round instead
The old Cordelia wouldn't have kissed somebody with hair as bad as that.. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. I could have lived for ever without seeing that.
Those are impractical sleeves for a demon hunter
"We need to talk" Poor Connor hasn't figured out what a bad phrase that is
If she was going to shoot him she would have done it by now
Yikes! That I wasn’t expecting! (Gunn and the neck-snapping. You can get rid of this bracket, but I though you’d appreciate knowing the context!)
She's taking the crossbow to bed? Now that really is kinky

Spin The Bottle

Lorne’s singing ‘The Way We Were’. Is that supposed to be foreshadowing? It certainly ominous enough.
"A time of magic alright, and there's nothing more unreliable or annoying than magic" There seems to be a theme with both Buffy and Angel - although I don't know whether it's Magic sucks or growing sucks. Either one's valid based on what we've seen
I never knew Lorne was a smoker. Or is that the set catching fire?
Connor's developing his father's hunch
He wasn’t yelling.
"I don't want to answer questions I don’t have the answers for". Angel, if you wait until you know something, I can’t see you actually answering all that many questions.
"You were my dearest friend and I want that back". Sniffle.
So, Cordy remembers general trivia but none of the important stuff about herself as an individual. Hmm
Angel has a very loose grasp of the term 'we'
Never say that Lorne... Ah well, at least he's capable of learning
I still don't know why Andy Hallett isn't on the titles
It's called a clock Lorne
Wes really is getting all the cool gadgets isn’t he? Love the sword/stake gauntlets, he’s been taking inspiration from early Angel episodes I think. That blade, although very cool, is just too close to the wrist for my liking. I have a thing about wrists. I like it, although I'm a little worried about the implications of Wesley wielding a Witchblade
Heh. Lorne had obviously been prepared for an argument to get Wesley to help. Nice to see that if one of the gang needs his help he’s there. Go Wesley!
And yet more naked Gunn. Is it possible they're making up for the past two years? Naked Gunn! I’m just dying to find a joke for that.
"Symbols on the floor, that always goes well". Master of understatement there, Gunn
Lorne re-waxed his parade?
Ooh, dishevelled Wesley is rather attractive in that suit. Dishevelled!Wesley is always attractive
And Henry didn't know they knew it... Lorne’s commentary on the tension sums it all up nicely. They don’t talk to each other anymore.
Angel, turn around. Angel was so giving her the once over in the towel there. It wasn’t even subtle.
Connor's eighteen, a throwaway comment, but worth noting down in case he takes after his Dad, who can change his date of birth at will. They just mention that so we know it's legal when he gets laid
Aww, Gunn feels like he’s just the muscle. Still, its nicely defined muscle. Yes, we saw the muscle last week and it was very nice
Oh it takes no brains to kill somebody. It takes brains to cover it up.
Oops, Wesley inadvertently puts his foot in it. Still, he wasn’t exactly to know what Gunn actually did, was he? Gunn, both you and Angel told her you wouldn't help her take revenge
It's not that Wesley doesn't have muscle, it's just that he likes to save it for when he runs out of weapons
Wesley’s a bit like Wolverine here, but without the lycra, obviously.
Okay, weird comment warning, but does anyone else find this little scene incredibly sexy?
What happened? Well I seem to remember he had his throat cut and his friend tried to suffocate him with a pillow and... Ah, thank you Wes. I’d be bitter too.
The Host is just dying to play spin the bottle really. I wonder who gets to end up kissing?
Dignified sprawl from Lorne there.
They’re all completely high. Love the cheesy Ravi Shankar (and I know I've not spelt that right) hippy music
High School Cordy - how we’ve missed you. I like Cordy better as a bitch
‘Hello Salty Goodness’. I do believe that’s what she said the first time she saw Angel as well. Only then, he wasn’t interested.
This is ' Tabula Rasa' redux isn’t it? Still it’s pretty funny so far.
The Watcher Academy's in Hampshire? I wonder where
Wes, darling, you might want to re-phrase what you said there. Or am I just being twisted again?
Deeply, deeply funny as the watcher is, I want sex-god!Wesley back
It’s no good Angel, the accent just isn’t coming back. The Accent Police took it away for questioning.
They can't go out the way they just saw Angel come in? And I can't believe nobody bothered to try the door
Although, if watcher Wesley is going to shave, then he can probably stay
Cordelia’s reaction to the hair cut is classic.
Sorry Cordelia, your hair is atrocious.
Seafaring? Oh, I can just see Gunn with a little parrot and the eyepatch
I love Wesley’s thought processes. Incidentally, being Head Boy (or Girl) is an honour and a privilege and a gigantic pain the backside all at the same time.
Wes’s fighting skills seem to have regressed along with the rest of his memories – he’s a klutz again. Oh poor Wesley, where has his cool gone? Still, Alexis is excellent at this comedy stuff.
I've said this before, the Devil has better hair
Connor finding out you don't get anything for free nowadays
Who exactly is Lorne talking to here? Is this a pour out your soul to a deserted room thing because I could have sworn we've heard an audience a few times?
Gaffer tape holds everything. I think my house is held together by gaffer tape.
Yet another truly bizarre historical reference. Why would Marie Antoinette be enthusiastic about beheadings?
And Sea-breezes. Do Sea-breezes count as a food group?
Lorne not impressed in the slightest, is he?
Hmm, Wes, that trial you’re talking about reminds me of something. Come to think of it, wasn’t that the reason his character was actually introduced?
I swear to god Wesley's making that word up
I was about to say Cordy hadn't missed out on much, but her Prom did involve dancing with Wesley and I'd want to remember that
Oh that really annoys me, which idiot left their radio on when they went downstairs?
Angel’s invisibility panic is hilarious.
Angel’s a dork sometimes. I have no idea what this comment was in reaction to, but it’s still a valid statement.
I think Sky screwed up the products joke, there was meant to be an ad break there right?
Have we seen these kitchens before?
Fred, shut up, you’ve obviously been watching far too many episodes of 'The X-Files'. The conspiracy theory is getting annoying now.
Well, they say traffic in LA is hell.
I can just see Gunn storming back in a few days when he's had a chance to check the dictionary
Angel realises there’s a bit of a problem as his hand starts to smoke...
Love Lorne's despairing, "Again!" Lorne is rebelling against a season theme here.
NO! S*** sorry, my cable's been on the blink all day and when Angel hit Lorne I thought it had given up for good
Swear to god I could see her tonsils
Connor's heard that line before...
I think Connor may try to kill Angel. Again. Yawn.
I like Fred's hiding 'till it all goes away plan
Oh, good shot with the frying pan
Oh goodness, we’re even getting the patented depressing ending from 'Tabula Rasa' as well.
Things are about to go terribly wrong, aren’t they?
Being cheated on by your own nightcap, now that's a really bad way to end an evening

Apocalypse Nowish

Angel's still in denial that everything's ok.
A haunted toilet is pretty bad though
“Chocodiles” sound fantastic.
Sounds like 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' to me
Oh, it doesn’t look anything like a Crocodile!
Maybe Cordelia could write him a note
Ahh! Tim Curry! Sorry, bad 'Legend' flashback
Okay, that's the second time in half an hour that there has been unpleasant morphing. It has to stop
So, was that Cordy's dream or was it real or what, with all the hidden demony thing? I'm so confused this week.
I sympathise with Lorne. I have very similar conversations at work.
This is weird, I'm finding dork!Angel oddly cute
Gunn's getting all domestic. How sweet. Gunn is imagining more than a bathroom in their future, right?
Gunn has rat fear. Eww! I jumped a foot in the air when the rats started pouring out from everywhere. And I warn you now, I seem to be using the 'eww' expression frequently in this set of fringedwellings. Mystic teleporting rats, just what every over-sized bathroom needs. I just missed the last minute or so because rats appeared and I had to hide under the duvet
Lilah, this is pathetic. Either you love him or you don’t, so you’re either jealous or you’re not. Make up your mind, woman. Nice crack about the hips, though. I adored the 'Fred' impression that Lilah did. Freaking Hilarious! She looked scarily like Britney Spears though. I know I've said some bad things about Lilah over the years, and I'm taking none of them back, but this is fantastic "If I pray hard enough and eat all my vegetables I just might have hips."
Oh come on Wes, she knows you inside out
The relationship is gloriously twisted between the pair of them.
Doesn’t Gunn look happy at the thought of a bubble bath? That was an alone, getting clean kind of bath, not a sexy, scrubbing each other's backs kind of bath
Wise advice for life from Lorne.
I love Gunn's telephone manner. Please state the nature of your manifestation
Alphabetising weapons is a waste of time. Categorise by sharpness. Alphabetically is no use. There will only be Axes, Knives and Swords.
What's the other ten percent?
You know things are getting worrying when Connor comes to Angel for help. Hey, that's strange, he doesn't usually use the door
"Angel..." It's not you, it's me?
Oh no, actually it is him, well, kind of him
Cordelia really needs to wear a bra under that top
Lorne's rather cute when flustered.
I love the exploding birds. Kamikaze sparrows, that's a very bad sign. Birds used to do that on our conservatory all the time, mostly Sparrowhawks, the House Martins used to trick them into it. Also, birds don't go splat like that, I don't care how fast they're flying
I'm telling you, Charisma Carpenter is pregnant, there's a bump there they're trying to hide, I'm sure of it.
Not just 18, it's called being alive
Connor can work the bashful look quite well.
It's like a cross between Tim Curry and the shit demon from 'Dogma'
Ouch. Connor, you really have to learn to duck
Sorry, the horns on the Beast are too much like pony-tails for me.
Is the guy playing the beast the guy that played Skip?
How many friends does Fred have for Gunn to call?
Wesley wondering if that comment could possibly be aimed at him
Angel's thinking and logically too? It must be a sign of the apocalypse.
Well spotted there Gunn - he's not just muscle, like he thought. Nice interaction with Wes when they put aside their animosity for the greater good.
Gunn is obviously one of those people who are good at jigsaws.
Those papers must have taken ages to draw
"Fire and destruction", so basically they've found out that it's bad? That seems a lot of work for a blindingly obvious conclusion
The Square of Fire on that appears on the map when they plot locations - I assume that's where it's all going to kick off?
I squicked myself out as this point by noticing that Connor's actually pretty well muscled (at least from a distance) and looking strangely attractive. Somebody help me please.
Ooh, Powershot there of the four boys.
Eww. Dead people in piles. Lovely.
Quality 'Jaws' reference under pressure from Lorne
He broke Gunn's axe!
Oh Crud. They'll sting a bit
This bit with Wesley and the guns in slo-mo was very 'Matrix'-esque I thought. Also very, very cool. Tooled up!Wesley just looks wrong.
Now reload, Wes, although the shotgun's good too. Where did Wesley pull that shotgun from? He must have buy his jeans from the same place Richie did.
Ewww. The shot of Angel's neck and the blood and the blood tricking from his mouth was disturbing.
That was a gross gurgle from Angel with that thing through his throat.
It's a fire demon isn't it? Why don't they water it
The 'Square of Fire' shot of the bodies flaming and the fireballs starting to fall was impressive.
Looks like a rain of fire.
Oh please don't let this be headed where it looks like it's heading. Just No.
But to replace all that I'm gong to give you the chance to get laid?
If this is all going off in LA, surely Sunnydale would hear about it? I maintain the two things are going to turn out to be linked in someway.
Gunn and Wesley looking very close there. What was that about subtext? Gunn's not looking healthy there in Wes's arms. I agree about the subtext!
Lilah's looking scared and vunerable. This is a bad sign.
Nice to see Cordelia made shaving her legs a priority when she descended
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. Still. Just. No. Can somebody pass the wire brush, I need to scrub that last image of the pair from my brain. Particularly since they both have the same hair right now, and for a moment there I wasn't sure which one was which. I really didn’t need to see Cordelia and Connor in their strangely bored lovemaking session, but I bet Angel needed to see it even less.
Hey, isn’t the flammable vampire scared of going out in the rain of fire?
That was a pretty fabulous episode

Habeas Corpus

Cordy/Connor - for some reason it didn’t register last week but Ick Ick Ick.
Crud, Angel’s seen them. And it still squicks me.
I would just like to say that having sex with anything you held as a baby is just plain wrong.
There was something faintly comic about all that off screen violence from Angel there.
Love Angel's little temper tantrum
Meteorite damn it, meteorite
Only in America would you need a government warning about not going outside in the rain of fire.
“Fire from the sky” - Yes but it probably merits a certain degree of panic.
Wesley needs a hug too. I'll hug Wesley
Cordy looks freaked. Hmm, Cordelia had an “Oh my God, the world didn’t end after all” moment. Note to self; never rely on the apocalypse.
She’s right, Connor has the happy puppy look down to a fine art.
Well of course he's a happy puppy, he's just had his first orgasm and he thinks that the pretty girl is as in love with him as he is with her. What was Cordy expecting? Hang dog?
Ooh. Here it comes - this is the point you feel sorry for Connor as the fateful words are said.
Oh Cordelia you utter bitch. Ouch, “You’re very special”, he is so dumped. He just doesn't realise that she means special as in 'needs'
Dumping someone because the world didn't end is the cheapest, nastiest excuse for shoving someone's heart in a blender that I've ever heard
Lilah, he’s only going to feel better if you’ve got some after-sun lotion in your bag.
I think Lilah had been genuinely worried about Wes. She looked so relieved to seem him safe.
And now Wesley's at it too. Wesley decides that as he's returning to Angel & Co. then he doesn't need casual sex any more. Hey, does this mean he's going to start shaving again too?
She looks devastated when he tells her it over and means it this time. Mind you he’s pretty upset as he tells her. It’s all rather sad. I’m such a sap, aren’t I?
Lilah goes back into bitter mode.
That’s it Lilah, leave with a parting shot.
Nice to see that in the middle of the apocalypse, someone's taken the time to put fresh flowers on the counter
The night was fine, the morning however was more difficult
I do like Lilah’s phone.
Good coffee's a lot harder to find than you might think
Lilah - bitter and logical, Fun combination to watch.
Hee. Loved Lilah’s comment regarding the apocalypse if caused by the new threat, rather than Wolfram & Hart. “We’ll save a few bucks”
He’ll probably have sex with you Lilah.
They’re calling it “the Beast”, well that’s subtle. Anything else they want to use from the Book of Revelations while there at it?
It’s fun seeing Gavin as Lilah’s bitch. Gavin is petrified of Lilah, isn’t he? It’s hilarious.
A 9mm? Come on Lilah, Surely W&H can provide a bazooka for situations like this
How come there is only blood on the bits of paper and not on the floor?
No, sorry, The Beast just isn’t scary with those horns.
In an emergency never take the lift!
Lilah retreats, Connor goes off after the beast. I think I’d be following Lilah, myself.
Oww.
It's never a good sign when something that nasty knows your name
Before I realised it was Wes in the background, I though it was Lindsey for a moment. My brain got very confused trying to work out exactly why he chose to come back at this moment in time.
Wes plays hero again. He’s been doing an awful lot of that lately.
Is that cupboard full of toilet paper?
That fall isn’t going to do her sucking gut wound any good.
Why did Lilah wait until after they were out of the impenetrable building before informing Wes that Connor was in there? Better late than never, I suppose, at least she’s trying to be helpful.
Knock it off Charles
A pothole to hell, that really is a good incentive to keep the roads in good order
Nice touch with the exploded birds still smeared over the lobby doors
One of these days he's going to show up with some good news
Wes and Angel get straight to the point, whilst all Charles seems to want to do is channel his inner bitch. It’s really starting to get on my nerves.
“There’s lots of things that I don’t understand” Oh Angel sweetheart, we know.
I love Lorne’s firm “I’m staying here” attitude.
“Don’t even know most of the questions.” Bless you dear, we get that you’re thick.
Angel displays his usual tact with Cordy and Fred
The jump was to remind everyone he is in fact a vamp, wasn’t it?
The whole ‘flashlights in murky corridors’ is all very 'X-Files'-ish.
Wesley is navigating by the dead bodies.
If that was the cupboard Wesley left the building through, then where did they come into the building that means they're only walking past it now?
Substitute blood for flesh and Connor’s just about right. Ooh, I think that was Connor's first fringedwelling. "Like you."
The zombies are unnerving. Oh, I hate zombies
Well if Gunn knew they were zombies then why did he bother to ask?
I've forgotten, how do you kill zombies? Oh there we go. I would go for the decapitation option with everything but hydras
I don’t understand the whole ‘white-room’ thing. I think I missed that episode.
Aha, I spy an attempt to make Fred useful.
Gunn putting Gavin out of his misery was a nice touch.
Since when did Angel get a photographic memory? He’s been alive for 200 years, wouldn’t he have finished the film by now?
That was a less than convincing "oh no" from Fred
The Tim Curry-Beast has giant Hobbit feet!
It's gathering evil, I wonder if she's a good thing of power now
I didn’t actually catch what the little girl was saying. Was she trying to help?
Lorne’s suspicious look at his drink when the group suddenly flashes into the lobby is priceless. Lorne watches his drink carefully and thinks, “Too many or not enough?”
It means Evil Red Riding Hood wasn't well enough armed
“Now take your new boyfriend...” - My sentiments exactly.
Angel is an astonishingly large twat isn't he
There we go Cordy. You'd think she'd have figured out all the snippy remarks sooner

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