Angel Index

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S. One
S. Two
S. Three pt I
S. Three pt II
S. Four pt I
S. Four pt II
S. Four pt III
S. Five pt I
S. Five pt II

Season Four

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• Do they have to keep showing that bit with Cordelia and Connor. Believe me, once was enough to give me nightmares, the repeats I can do without.
• When exactly did "nuke" become synonymous with 'microwave'
• Put it on the table, please. Lorne isn’t a waiter.
• Lorne can always make me smile with his quips “You wouldn't mind if I ran away screaming...”
• Yeah, most people who run screaming forget little things like shutting the door behind them
• That’s a good impression, actually. “Don’t interrupt me, I’m brooding.” Angel dear, if they didn’t interrupt your brooding sessions, nothing would ever get done, as it seems to be your permanent state of being.
• He’s not researching, he’s drawing 
• No Angel, you sketch better alone
• “I don’t get personal days” - does he get time off in lieu? Supervillains get personal days. Being evil comes with all the perks
• If Angel does find perfect happiness then they’re screwed anyway.
• When does something stop being a trinket and become an amulet?
• She’s developed a white streak in her hair. So, there’s absolutely no comparisons to drawn with Rogue then? 
• That’s not impressive, that’s just contact lenses. 
• When the going gets tough, the tough go to Tahiti. I bet she doesn’t get to Tahiti - she’ll just end up in some guy's apartment with lanterns and UB40.
• Oh look, it’s the Beast again. Yawn.
• It’s getting easier for Connor to think of Angel as his father. 
• “I didn’t want to sleep there without you.” Oh bleuch. I think I just lost my dinner after that statement from Connor. 
• No, it just wasn't a very subtle mutter
• With all that super-stuff you’d think that Cordelia would let Connor cross a road by himself. 
• Oh Connor, it's a super CV, but it still doesn't make the apocalypse your fault
• "Super-tom-peeping," okay, now the Clark parallels are just getting scary
• “We didn’t do anything wrong” - Oh, it was so wrong Connor.
• Oh, it was wrong on so many levels, Cordelia. 
• That was a cool edit
• What about Cordy's visions, wouldn't they provide an answer? I know she wasn't there when the small child pronounced, but she could have meant the group
• Mmmm knitwear! Wesley. It's not quite as nice as the green jumper from 'Are You Now...', but still yummy. I do still wish he'd shave though
• Ooh, sexual research chemistry
• The ancient god Ra! I’m imagining a super 'Stargate'/'Angel' crossover episode with Daniel and Wesley wearing knitwear.
• Cordelia's wearing the same top she slept in
• Yeah, I think they’re doing their best to hide a pregnancy there. Someone agrees with me! Whooo. I'm not feeling quite so silly now
• “The two of you have cornered the market on teenaged snits.” Cordelia has a point there.
• Angel ignores the important ‘I had a vision’ bit in favour of another rant. Typical. Angel is behaving like a child and a wanker at the same time, that's excessive even for him
• "Who was inside you," nice Freudian slip from Angel there
• Technically, Hell's coming to you
• “You’re the leader” - Did they ever officially pass charge back from Wesley?
• Angel’s speech wasn’t as good as Buffy’s.
• Is that channel subscription or pay-per-view?
• “The evil ones can’t pull it off. It gets camp”. Very true Lorne. Leather is usually the clothing material of choice for the bad guys or the morally ambiguous. I love Lorne, I really do.
• Angel missed that class, he was smoking behind the bike sheds with all the other tough kids. Oh lord, can’t you just see Angel struggling through Super-Power school?
• I think the cat-thing's dead. Just a thought there.
• For a moment I thought that Manny was Whistler. He’s very reminiscent of Whistler though. Or it could be just me. 
• Well, the electricity companies are going to start raking it in
• I go bump in the night but that’s because I’m too stupid to put a light on.
• A demon playground, think of the fights over who gets to go down the slide first
• Angel seriously thinking about the lap dance offer for a moment
• That's leather, not spandex
• If by lap dance you mean a solid right to the jaw, sure. 
• Why are they taking him back to the one place the Beast is - isn’t that rather foolish?
• Angel looking suitably embarrassed about the quality of the supreme being he's brought home to show the group
• “Toy surprise” - have the Kinder Egg adverts reached America or is that just an accident?
• Nice digs. It's a bit gothic but very impressive
• “I never pass up a good cliché” Woman after my own heart, there.
• Why does Gwen have a swimsuit edition to hand? Or did she steal it from the butler?
• “They got him” - yes, but they didn’t get the hat! See. I said that bringing Manny was a bad idea, and now he’s dead. Nobody ever listens to me, do they? 
• Locked door mystery? You need Jonathan Creek.
• Cordelia/Columbo I can’t tell the difference.
• Arrrggghhhh my video cut into an old episode of 'ER'.
• It's the Beast. Told you. Why would the Beast knock? Just because it's a hell demon doesn't mean it can't be polite
• Run Connor
• Out the window? That’s going to hurt.
• Let me get this straight, they’ve got ‘The Beast’, straight out of Christian mythology, using Egyptian mythology?
• The Beast sort of reminds me of Skip. 
• Nice, if somewhat creepy, effect with the sun going out. 
• Mr. Burns tried to block out the sun in Springfield, didn’t he?
• Retrieving that orb's not going to be a pleasant job. Unless the demon just absorbs it, like Manny from 'Black Books' and The Little Book Of Calm
• Bringing back Angelus not the best plan ever, but I’m anticipating the leather. Angelus? It’s not going to be all fluffy puppies is it? Still, looking forward to seeing it. Why is it that I don’t find Angel particularly attractive, but Angelus is rather sexy? I’m sick and twisted, aren’t I? If you are, then you're not the only one
• Aww. They have a dedication to Glenn Quinn at the end of the episode. That’s sweet. 

• Oh for goodness sake, anyone who wants to watch is now watching every week. They can stop the previouslies now. Cordy and Connor again. Yuck. Will they ever stop showing that scene? 
• Oh there must be some really stressed out meteorologists out there
• Localised abnormality, wow, rally bad smog. If this is all ‘localised’ then it's not really the end of the world. 
• Permanent darkness will mean huge electricity bills, says the gloomy new houseowner. 
• What facet of his expertise is she interested in exactly?
• Gunn is really not the one to be lecturing on teamwork. Stop talking out of your arse Gunn. Despite all the belittling, distain and betrayal that Wesley's endured, he's never abandoned his friends
• Connor has yet another snit about Angel being Angelus. Sure we’ve all heard it before.
• They mentioned the perfect happiness clause. Wondered when they’d mention that.
• That was rather a graphic description Angel. Lorne’s turned even greener
•  “There is no way to bring Angelus back” - but you could have a lot of fun trying Angel. You make a statement like that Angel, you’re asking to be contradicted. It happened before, didn’t it? 
• That body probably mucked up that carefully drawn design on the floor. Can you not see I'm in the middle of a ritual? Do you know how long it took to get those bones laid out like that?
• Mmm. Rough and tough Wes. Which is a nice change after watching him in Sharpe last night ('Sharpe’s Waterloo' to be precise.) 
• Extracted? Like a really big tooth?
• Why is Cordy the only one who gets a wardrobe change? That coat? She’s definitely pregnant
• "Not dead yet," that's the kind of victory I'd celebrate every day. Everyone should celebrate their non-deadness. 
•  I’m sensing some bitterness from Connor there. Grow up and stop with the tantrums. Aw, a teenage temper tantrum from Connor. Connor's on a little happy trip since, as it turns out, he really isn't the one responsible for the apocalypse
• “Get over it” - Connor and Angel, in one brief discussion, sum up the transition from teenager to adult.
• That’s not a plan, that’s a man in a series of red tea towels.
• I was about to ask how many different teas they have in that kitchen, but then I realised that I could offer a guest a choice of eleven. And eight different types of coffee
• Wesley very sensibly checking that the shaman can put the soul back when they're done. Not a part of the plan you'd want to overlook
• Presumably they're not counting the drug-induced Angelus
• May I just say that releasing Angelus is going to be a very bad and stupid thing to do? I just want to get that in now, to save time later. 
• Cordelia desperately trying to find her way around the whole “Angel is stupid” thing there, and failing miserably. Angel, Angelus is much smarter than you, face it. He’s also sexier than you. The leather trousers I think. 
• They're only ahead of you because they started first
• I need to be smarter. Make me evil
• You can almost see the light bulb go above Angel’s head when Cordy talks about Evilness increasing the IQ.
• Ten by twelve? That's very roomy. I don't think my flat's that big
• What calls is he making? I’m curious. 
• That’s serious bars there.
• Angel tries to protect the womenfolk. It’s quite sweet really 
• Connor agreeing just a little too readily there.
• I love the stress on the ‘if’. 
• Mmmm Welding!Wesley.
• Does anyone else get the feeling this is a really bad idea?
• Shouldn’t you at least demand the shaman take off the headgear?
• Well, they were some strong manacles weren't they?
• When they talk about seeing what the magic man had on him, that wasn’t quite what I envisaged. That amount of tattooing had to have hurt, surely? Oh that must have stung, and taken the make-up guys forever to write. 
• “Hang on, the next chapter’s somewhere on the.., euuw, I’m not reading that!”
• For a moment I thought they were talking about ‘Bosch’ and wondered what a company that makes household goods had to do with anything. And then I thought it was Bosch Mad and I had visions of rampaging washing machines. I really must get my brain debugged. It’s Bosh M’ad if anyone's actually bothered, which translates as Tooth of Light 
• “A sword under the city” - a needle in a haystack then. 
• Poor old Wes always gets the blame. I seem to remember Angel agreeing to go along with it. (Angel yells at him for finding the magic guy who tried to kill Angel). And why the hell did he apologise? I was so annoyed at the time.
• Strictly speaking, it's the first time Wesley's had need to apologise
• That's Angelus isn't it? That or Angel's got really snippy all of a sudden. I swear I saw the Angelus smirk just then.
• Am I the only one who thinks Wesley was right when he took Connor away? 
• The little lanterns they’re all carrying are so cute and dinky. They look like the ones we’d use when camping.
• "A hundred points..." One of which happens to be conveniently located beneath Los Angeles
• Watcher Wesley would have got everyone killed here.
• Hee. That little quip of Cordelia’s “I knew you two would get me into trouble someday” At that point, I got nostalgic for the days when it was just the three of them.
• I would be completely useless at the non-bell ringing. Surely it doesn't need all of them to wriggle through the gauntlet. It only takes one person to pick up a sword
• Ooh. Well spotted there Wesley. 
• Ah ha Wesley sticks his tongue out when he’s concentrating - I always said it’s a sign of intelligence.
• A booby-trapped dead end. that's just the best practical joke ever
• Oh poor Wesley, that must have hurt. I wasn’t expecting that.
• Is anyone else getting a “Last Crusade” feeling about this episode? Granted, this one they’re pressing the wall, not jumping on the letter on the floor, but still. All they need now is for a big stone ball to come hurtling towards them.
•  I got curious about the other antediluvian Patriarchs, and I looked them up. “Antediluvian” means ‘before the flood'. Those Patriarchs, according to Genesis in the Old Testament are: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech. After him, it’s Noah and the flood.
• Wesley sensibly getting someone else to push the booby trap this time
• Where’s the light source from in this room?
• Was anyone else thinking Excalibur with the whole sword being pulled by a worthy wielder? Or is my brain misfiring again?
• Swords in the stone maybe
• "Things are starting to look..." Really bad
• I don’t think that's a healthy colour for a dimension portal, somehow. 
• A long, flappy coat is not sensible attire if you come across as many random fires as Angel does. 
• “What if we had?” Then the show becomes “Wesley” or, God help us, “Connor” and we move on.
• You've told him twice already you ditsy wench
• This is sweet, but so not real. It must be a mystic joke or something. 
• I don’t think Connor’s too happy there. You’d think Cordy would have learned, a) to check no one is watching when she does that, and b) not to let apocalyptic moments prompt passion.
• I thought father/son love triangles were the domain of ‘Trisha’ only. 
• Connor and Angel channeling their inner cavemen “ Me want woman. She Mine.” Honestly.
• This is an utterly fabulous fight sequence in the booby trapped room. Isn't it fantastic? Oh my god, I'm turning into Orlando Bloom...
• That really is a beautiful sword
• Gunn gets to play with the new toy. Love that bit, "My bad..."
• The Beast has coconuts? Now I'm picturing it running along making imaginary horse noises
• Angel decides that he can do the ‘Inspirational Speech’ just as well as Buffy. 
• Also it's because if the powers, the super strength and the magical weapons...
• It was so nice seeing them all as a group. I got quite misty eyed for a few moments. In between rolling them at Angel’s speech that is.
• That was easier than Angel was expecting
• I liked how Wesley just quietly got on and made sure everyone else got safely while Angel fought. Showed the trust in place at that point.
• Bugger!
• “Kicking your stony ass.” Considering Connor was bought up in a different dimension he’s picked up the lingo quite well. That's not his "ass" that's his head
• Erm, was anyone else expecting this Beast blocking out the sun arc to run for three or four more episodes? It cannot possibly be that easy. I smell a rat somewhere. 
• I’m not believing this father/son bonding crap for a second.
• Love the huge pile of ash
• Oh look, the sun’s coming out, the Ministers of Grace are all re-united as a team. So sweet I may have to be sick.
• All through the tender speeches and kissing I expected him to turn
• That's the best 'it was all a dream' trick I've seen in a long, long time
• Gagh! Hair! What has she done to it? Crikey, was the curly perm caused by the shockwave or did Cordelia actually stop in the middle of averting the apocalypse to get her hair done
• Perfect happiness? Hello? This is bad on so many levels. I’m sure I’ve seen this happen before in an episode, and it never ends well.
• He just said “Buffy”, right? BUFFY! He yelled BUFFY at the crucial moment! I laughed so much at that point, I’m an evil, evil woman.
• Hah! I knew it! Hah! Two for two tonight!
• You bastards. Bloody hell, I fell for every damn second of that dream sequence. Oh, that was so cool. It had me completely fooled. You what!?! This was all in his brain? I suppose it would explain a few things.
• Angelus is back, I recognise the laugh
• That maniacal laugh is not helped by the giggle. 

• Connor’s fight doesn’t seem to be going so well. Although nice shot when he threw the stake.
• “Tourists” Aren’t they just a nuisance sometimes? I always feel like doing that to tourists too. 
• Angel's soul in a jar is pretty, I think that it'd look nice in my living room.
• Do you think that if they really tried they could have found a more fragile vessel for Angel's soul? Oh, I just know I'd fall over something and smash that bottle. Put the soul receptacle down.
• Hee. It’s a Soul in a Safe. How does that work? At least they put his soul in a safe, although personally I would have put it in Camp David. (Katty)
• I thought it was puppies nailed to the door not to walls. Or was that just a Valentines Days special?
• Is it wrong to be excited at the thought of an episode with Angelus? 
• Don't worry Wes, Even Angelus can't be that much smarter than you
• Well, the singing's pretty terrifying for a start. The sound of Angelus singing 'The Teddy Bear's Picnic' is both hilarious and slightly disturbing. Damn him! I'm going to be singing 'The Teddy Bears' Picnic' all night now. Well, there’s yet another childhood memory twisted. Not quite sure of the reason why Angelus is singing ‘Teddy Bears Picnic’ Very creepy. “If you go down to the woods today.” Even the fingers are Angelus’
• Angelus singing is kinda sexy... God help me. (Katty)
• There’s a nice shot of Boreanaz at the end of the credits in a gorgeous burgundy shirt. It’s either new, or I just didn’t notice before. Looks rather yummy there. There's a shot of Wes in a tuxedo that I don't think I've seen on the credits before either 
• "Why the long face?" Bone structure? There's an aardvark joke there that I just can't seem to nail down
• Boreanaz always seems to be having fun playing Angelus, rather than Angel.
• “To be one on one with the legendary Angelus” - Having him locked in a cage whilst you’re one on one with him probably helps increase the high.
• Ooh, Sean Astin directed this! I wonder how that happened.
• His first what? I genuinely can't hear what he says then. "My first nun", just like "My first day at school", and similar rites of passage. Oh, First Nun, of course (I have to admit here that I was reading Tobin's fringedwellings at work today and proceeded to yell that out loud to a luckily deserted stairwell)
• Hee. Angelus commented on the whole ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ motif in the last episode. At least the writers are admitting it was ‘inspired’. That was 'Last Crusade', not 'Raiders...'
• “Requisite phallic sword”. Looks like Angelus can fringedwell quite nicely himself. Don’t think I could have put that any better.
• It's easy to forget how distressingly insightful Angelus is
• I can't help imagining Angelus trying to split the fringedweller group up by picking on our insecurities. "Well, yes we know all that. Do you want us to go away for a few minutes? See if you can come up with something more cutting?"
• I wonder if they use different make-up on DB for Angelus. I'd swear he's genuinely better-looking than Angel
• Mmm, chocolate-covered cherries. I'm against the kitchen counter part though, it's not just unhygienic, but it's got to be really uncomfortable. Especially if you're me and the kitchen counter practically comes up to your chest
• I love Wes' look when Angelus talks about how much he loves and wants Fred. (Katty)
• Oh, Gunn's bald head. Sorry, I was having series follies for a moment. Less of the imagery there please - I know exactly what Angelus just insinuated and it wasn’t a picture I wanted.
• “He distorts everything”. Yes Cordelia, it’s called being a Bad Guy.
• I adore the mind games between Wes and Angelus, they’re so twisted.
• I’ll sit with you Wes!
• Wesley's doing pretty well with the mind games
• I bet that wasn't all Lilah sucked. 
• That was a very good impression of Cordelia. Hee. Cordelia's not quite so yappy now
• The crack about Connor's stamina was just low. Okay, that really was mean, funny, but mean

• Love Lorne's subtle hand gesture

• "Who's a guy got to kill to get a drink?" Anybody he wants, really.
• Gratuitous Shakespeare reference!
• Gunn really should stand up for Fred even though that is what Angelus wants. (Katty)
• Just how much eyeliner is Fred wearing?
• Good comeback from Gunn. Actually, Angelus can get as much as he wants, or could if he wasn't in a really big cage
• I'm a bit disappointed that there's no leather trousers.
• Fred obviously didn’t pay attention in waitressing self defence class.
• When Angelus grabbed Fred, did anyone else flashback to the scene with Willow and Angelus in the corridor at Sunnydale High? It just seemed to be a strangely familiar pose.
• Thud, over like a felled tree. Timber!! Don't you just love that?
• Poor Wes saves the day again, by doping Angelus and still doesn’t get any thanks. Fred and Gunn are really starting to peeve me. 
• That shirt should drown Connor.
• Wouldn’t you button the shirt up before you put on the spring-loaded sharp objects?
• “Everyone still looks at me like I’m the one who's connected to the beast” - No, everyone looks at you because you walk into the middle of their conversations. 
• Of course Connor doesn't care if everyone knows. The apocalyptic rain of fire was the only thing stopping him hiring a sky-writer 
• Wow. I bet Gunn doesn't kiss like that
• I thought Wes had more taste than that. I’m disappointed in him now.
• That's a whole lot of nothing
• And Angelus gets to bask in his little glow of manipulative evil
• Wes and Gunn in a pissing contest. Over Fred? C’mon. She has a point - it really isn’t the time. Fred needs to go have a sit-down and a cup of tea, leave these two 'till they've gotten the posturing out of their systems
• Can't they see that they're playing into Angelus' hands? 
• Don't stop them! Damn, I so wanted to see those two fight it out
• Okay Wes, that was out of line
• There’s a really twisted rapport between Connor and Angelus - this is exactly what Connor’s always believed him to be. 
• “Doesn’t it freak you out that she used to change your diapers?” -That is a very good question. It sure as hell freaks me out
• Oedipus complex. Like we haven’t been saying that for weeks. Credit to Angelus for the Greek drama reference though
• Hey Connor really did get Darla's brain
• Love the painted red line. 'No sane people past this point'
• Oh Angelus, a Mustang's not nice, it's okay, Lex's Ferrari is nice. But I would take the car over Cordy if I were him. (Katty)
• “What’s a better ride than a Mustang?” Such an open ended question there. 
• Brain is debatable. 
• “We’re out of time. We’re out of ideas” - But luckily they’re not out of Cordelia and her dubious sexual morality. 
• “Higher power dust” - Well I’ve never heard it called that before.
• A brief glimpse of insightful!Connor there
• Wes got all protective of Cordelia there. Aww.
• Angelus was in Prussia in 1789? The real action was going on elsewhere.
• To Vienna via Prussia? I'm sure there was a more direct route that Angelus could have taken.
• That looks like the set of ‘Wormhole Xtreme!” "Aliens off the set!"
• I thought they’d pensioned off that stupid wig. I suppose we should at least be thankful that they haven’t inflicted the accent on us again.
• Not even Angelus could pull off that ruffled lace necktie. Wasn't there a moment when he was getting dressed and he thought, "I'm the most evil being in the world, I strike fear into the hearts of every soul I meet, I create havoc, death and mayhem on a daily basis, what's it to be today, the polka dot silk or the ruffled lace?" 
• That was a grim freeze frame. That shot of Angelus getting whacked in the nose was funny.
• Now we’re adding Nordic mythology to the mix. 
• You can find priestesses in the Yellow Pages? Fantastic, it really is invaluable. Maybe there are magic properties to the Yellow Pages.
• "It's open." That bodes ill
• Eww. I see dead people. 
• Maybe the Beast checked the Yellow Pages too
• I hated the shot with the kid and the blood spattered teddy bear. That was quite upsetting. But oooh. I just got the ‘teddy bears picnic’ reference. It was a big surprise. This has been planned.
• Eww, I did not need to just see Connor throw up! (Katty)
• And Connor, very politely, waits until he’s away from the pristine lawn until he throws up. If this was 'Farscape' we'd have seen all of that vomit
• Thank you Wesley. Finally someone who understands what an accelerator's for
• Good move Connor, excellent use of a car door
• “Baby toe souvenir” - And Angelus finally comes up with a way for Angel Investigations to break even. 
• Angelus undone by the small print
• It’s not going to be that easy
• That safe's going to be empty. Oh, and that wasn’t predictable. I told you the little glass bottle was a bad idea
• OK, so which of them stole the soul? Somewhere out there is a really pissed-off burglar who was expecting cash

• Is that Shaman playing Yahtzee?
• Yup, another ritual ruined. You'd think the guards would have learned to get out of Wesley's way by now
• “Must acquire better Gods” - A mantra for us all. 
• Wow I wouldn't have thought to go to the Shaman to find the soul (Katty)
• "I might have been able to discern it if you hadn't come in here throwing dead bodies in my magic circle..."
• “Being evil is wrong” And you’re taking the piss. 
• I could hear the cheer when they finally produced a flamethrower. Happy now? Hah! Flamethrower! At last! Not inside the hotel Gunn
• “Darth Vampire” What’s with the Star Wars references today?
• How can Angelus hear them?
• I object to buttery.
• God no, not the accent, anything but the accent! Hmm. Thinking about it, maybe it’s one of his refined torture techniques, guaranteed to reduce the victim to tears. The only women who fell for Angelus' brogue were laughing too hard to stand up
• Does this hotel even have door? Padlock on the sewer access? An alarm system?
• Why would Lilah want to display “awe and reverence” towards Angelus? Normal reactions are either giggles or screams. Or drooling at the leather trouser, satin shirt look. Awe and reverence don’t come into it. 
• Angelus has a point, how is he so clean?
• No, usually evil means piranhas
• Did he even track down the people who'd phoned in sick but were actually having a sneaky day at the beach?
• Lilah and Angelus... Just thinking about all the ways that an alliance between them could go wrong (Katty) 
• “The one thing you’re not good at” - I think I missed something. Is Gunn referring to her kissing? Because that would be quite a cheap shot. 
• Gunn should have tranked Lilah too.
• Oh come on Wes, how fast can a woman with a gut wound run?
• The thought of Lilah living in the sewers amuses me (Katty) Lilah took going ‘underground’ literally then. Ooh And Wesley just said what I said. Bonus. 
• Is it the echo or is Wesley’s voice suddenly much lower?
• I'm a big believer in "I'm fine" when I'm not, but even I couldn't pull that off with a bleeding stomach wound. 
• “Great minds” Unfortunately, the second part of the proverb is “Fools seldom differ”. Not that it applies particularly in this instance as I think they’re both clever and quite well matched, but I thought I’d mention it. 
• Lilah obviously got the publishers draft. 
• “Pan-dimensional black-market” - Ebay then. I wonder if the pan-dimensional book shop has the new Katherine Kerr in paperback yet?
• Oh come on Wes, shave. There are electric razors, and everyone needs a hobby
• Minions should be able to have their own minions, sub-minions perhaps
• "The Beast has a boss." Angelus discovers alliteration fun
• "How could you survive this long being so retarded?" It's a question I ask myself at least once a day. I think I've just been out-fringedwelled by Angelus.  How much did I love the fringedwellingness of Angelus today? I have so missed Angelus 
• Out-fringedwelled twice in fact. Does this mean Angelus is a bona-fide fringedweller?
• Actuate? Is that a word?
• Yeah, it's the size of his horizon that matters
• Oh, I dispute that. Angel is that stupid
• Ooh, quality response from Gunn. Let me answer that question with an intensely hot burst of flame...
• I would have set fire to him again for calling me "Chuck"
• A big yay! for the Orb of Thesulah. I’ve missed the Orb of Thesulah 
• Watch Wes refraining from bursting into his happy dance.
• Ouija board? well, they've tried everything else
• “Succubitch” Lorne’s getting some good lines tonight as well. That is an insult I’ll have to remember.
• Some actually called her ‘Saint Cordelia’! Hee. She has been acting holier-than-thou lately, I’m glad someone cast it up to her - the smugness was getting irritating,
• Don't punch her in the face, go for the stomach. Honestly, could Cordelia have said that line any less convincingly? I hate to agree with Bitca about anything, but CC really is dreadful in this episode
• “You don’t have hope” - Cordelia is rubbish at the meaningful speeches.
• I would never trust anyone whose eyes did that. 
• Sounds like Angelus might swing that way after all.  I had never considered Wesley/Angelus slash before! You can hear the whirring of the fan-fic authors' minds going into overdrive.
• Ooh, ninja evil. Digging up graves, they deserve to get attacked (Katty) 
• I'd stab it a few more times just to be on the safe side
• Looks like Fred's managed to fit in a quick shampoo and set as well. Maybe she was ground zero on a Herbal Essences missile strike
• Part-removing duty. Gunn and Connor get all the sucky jobs
• Lorne's on good form today. I love Pissy!Lorne.
• ‘All hat and no cattle’, is that a phrase? I could only think of one other person using it and that would be CJ. Spike uses it at some point doesn't he? I seem to remember a very long and complex discussion about how to diagnose a deficit of cattle (Cattle deficit, treated by a specialist in Rumatology (sorry, cow joke)).
• “Braid my hair and call me Pollyanna” Hee. The delivery of that line cracks me up every time. It’s the gleeful glint in her that gets me. I think they should do that anyway, it's going to really piss her off after the third or fourth time. Well, she's done the hair-braiding part before. I doubt Wes was calling her Pollyanna at the time though
• See even Angelus knows that using black magic to restore his soul won't work! (Katty) Willow used black magic to restore his soul the first time. She said she'd been dabbling in the dark arts for fun. Angelus is just worried that it will work. 
• Gunn looking as though he'd rather have something a bit more substantial than two feathers on a stick
• If this method was reliable, Giles would have discovered it in season three of 'Buffy'. 
• I'm sharing Connor's scepticism. That's not Angel, it's Angelus.
• “Resouling” I’m still not convinced that that just worked. And what was with the song choice? Should I be getting a Butch and Sundance reference here?
• Have we ever actually verified the PTB? 
• Why does Cordy want Angel out of that cage so badly? (Katty)
• The Powers need a hero pretty bad? Desperate is more like it, they picked Angel
• “Obi-Wan” - I never had Angel down as a Star Wars kind of person. A few years ago Cordelia would never have made a 'Star Wars' joke. If Angel is Obi-Wan, does that make Connor Luke or Vader?
• Told you! See, second big faker of the week. There’s the Angelus smirk. I guess Angel is Vader then. 
• Wonder how he fooled Lorne?
• That should have tipped Fred off, Angel's not exactly the hugging type
• I must try that excuse for getting out of the coffee making. I think I have an inner meglomaniac.
• I told you reviving Angelus was a bad idea. 
• I feel a joke about Wesley's unfeasibly large stake coming on
• That must have been a statistical analysis to savour
• Angelus is smart going back to the hotel. I mean if I were an evil vampire I would want to kill two of the most (at times) annoying people that I know. (Katty)
• Nice shooting there Lilah. Pity bullets don’t really affect Vamps. 
• He could have caught Lilah by now. She's evil yes, but still slow (Katty) 
• Could Lilah just run into one of the hotel rooms and announce that she was moving in?
• Lilah may not look tough now, but you get into a slanging match about shoes...
• "He's going to kill us!" No Lilah he wants to braid your hair while you tell him your feelings on totalitarian societies (Katty)
• Ooh, didn’t expect that. They’ve just killed one of my favourite characters. Waaaah. Don’t kill Lilah, - she’s funny.
• I can’t help saying ‘I told you so’ about those eyes. Ooh, Cordelia, if I hadn't been reading spoilers I wouldn't have seen that one coming. Well alright, Cordy's evil. She must have been retaining evil since she stopped cheerleading and it lost it's natural outlet. 

• That previously was so long I'm ready for a commercial break now!
• Lilah looks pretty dead there
• Wes looks devastated.
• What's wrong with finding a hospital?
• They are so dumb. Can they not see that Lilah was stabbed too? (Katty)
• They all look very upset considering she was a sworn enemy. Ahh, but she was *their* sworn enemy.
• Cordelia’s using the patented smirk of evil. If we hadn’t seen her kill Lilah, that would have been a give-away that she was up to no good. So Cordelia actually knows she's evil, it's not some kind of split personality thing?
• “Guest starring Stephanie Romanov” - Although not for long. 
• They just happened to have some giant-sized sheets of industrial plastic handy?
• Shouldn't Cordy have a bandage on that leg?
• To whack your ex?
• All they need is for Connor to move into the lobby
• "Birth Of A Notion" I love Lorne
• No, it's Cordelia's fault
• “Powers that sit on their be-hind.” Gunn seems a little peeved as well.
• Beheading someone personally, the ultimate way to show you care. When Wesley volunteered to extra-kill Lilah the word necrophilia crossed my mind and now I’m disturbed.
• I wouldn't worry, vampire Lilah will probably be as ineffectual as the human version.
• Why are all vampire bars seedy? Why aren't there any upmarket ones?
• The star-struck Vamps are funny
• Is it just the camera angle, or are there midget vampires?
• "The rumours are true..." I really am gay!
• Only certain pieces.
• Oh come on, one autograph's not too much to ask
• I’m not sure you could strangle that demon. By the time you found the neck the moment would’ve probably passed.
• Angelus is full of himself.
• As Wes unwraps his new toy, he wonders where exactly he should be inserting the batteries.
• She has to come back to life, she can't get a credit just for being a corpse
• The dead body is now talking, and moving. Slightly disturbing. Okay... Walking, talking Lilah hallucinations. Is Wesley cracking up just a little? Personally I would scream my friggin' head off if a dead person I was about to decapitate started talking to me (Katty) 
• Damnit, I can't tell if he's wearing leather pants
• "Go with", God, I hate that phrase.
• I hope Lorne can read his own handwriting, otherwise there's going to be problems.
• “No blood root” - Have they tried the back of the top cupboard? You can usually find whatever culinary item you need in there, even if it’s a bit out of date.
• “A flying shluck” - As the youngster, has Connor been made to speak polite swear words? 
• Connor vowing to kill his father. Wow what not a surprise (Katty)
• Oh, that was a cheap trick from Cordelia to keep Connor in the hotel
• Have they considered polka dots, or stripes?
• This should be a spin off series: Prisoner Cellblock Slayer 
• Nice to see there's no shortage of black eyeshadow in prison
• Could they have have picked a more butch lesbian?
• That’s funny, because Wesley is usually a devilishly handsome figment in my head. 
• He really is sexy nowadays isn't he?
• Oh, wouldn't it be funny if it did
• Hooray!
• He really did want to save her ‘soul’ didn’t he? This scene gave me a bit of lump in the throat. Especially just after he gets up the nerve to actually chop her head off. 
• Does he have to chase the head across the floor now?
• Yep, that silhouette really is too funny to be frightening
• Is that knife a giant Beast toenail clipping or something?
• I think Angelus is going to be sadly disappointed in the big brain department
• Is that the Aretha Franklin version? Soul Angelus
• “I don’t like being kept in the dark… figuratively speaking.” Angelus is fringedwelling again. 
• Ooh, flunky's good. Angelus calling the Beast a lackey and flunky is hilarious! You can tell the Beast just wants to kill him even though he can't. Hey I'd push his buttons too! (Katty)
• I think I’ve said it before but CC is rubbish at being evil. This is just so hard to buy into when CC's idea of acting evil is to wear black cherry lipstick
• Once he's pulled off his head, Angelus will already be in pieces, he'll be dust
• That demon is made of rock and yet the kissing is still not as disturbing as Cordy & Connor. I though kissing the Beast was possibly even more unpleasant than kissing Connor. Oh, that’s just disgusting. I didn’t need to see that. 
• Mr Green in the lobby with the candlestick...
• I can't change it back, I haven't got the receipt anymore.
• Brownie points for "maelstrom" 
• You know, the whole ‘Faith’ bit would have been more of a surprise, if that stupid woman on Sky hadn’t said about it during the last ad-break for ‘Buffy’. Honestly, you try to remain un-spoiled and they do that. Granted it’s not as bad as the infamous advert for The Gift, but Grrrr (end rant)
• But still, FAITH! This should be good.
• We, erm, kinda screwed up a little...
• There's some good sound work here
• Love the way that Faith just decides to help and gets on with it - no dithering, just break the glass, grab Wes and through the window. “5x5” indeed.
• Holy crap, I hope that wasn't their car
• Oh, that so wasn't Wesley's hairline on the guy that bounced off the car.
• Okay I can understand that jump out of the window not hurting Faith but Wes should have been hurt a hell of a lot worse (Katty) 
• Nope, the skills don’t look rusty at all.
• Nice to see Faith's learned some discipline and efficiency whilst she's been away
• “Like riding a biker” - Class. I don’t want to know, do I? 
• Is Connor practicing, or have they got the invisible man up there?
• Love the "Hold my own" joke
• Don’t you love seeing Connor being put in his place by Faith? And he’s so got the hots for her. I think Connor's just fallen in love again.
• I love the annoyance in Angelus’ voice when he finds out it's Faith. 
• I know Buffy's a bit busy, but Dawn didn't mention the threatening cryptic phone call from Angel?
• A little bit of innate Englishness, as Wes stops and lets Gunn go first
• “You deficient?” - Well, now you come to mention it 
• "No good to me." Ahh that's what I've been saying since he came back out of the other dimension (Katty)
• Conner and Faith fighting and Faith beating the crap out of him... Priceless (Katty) 
• “I’m a murderer” - Threatening violence and revealing a criminal past is really the only way to control teenagers. 
• Faith and Wes are a darker echo of Buffy and Giles, I think I like it. 
• “Tell-tale clue” Or a big-arse sign. 
• Someone's been watching CSI in prison
• Oh that’s nice and thoughtful, a welcome banner. 
• Considering Angelus’ sidekicks used to be Darla, Spike and Dru, he’s really gone down in the rankings if those two are all he can muster. 
• "Let's eat." What, you're not having starters? Aperitifs?
• Wow, a "Speed" reference from Angelus.
• Faith seems a lot more focused now, less of the anger, more of the concentration. 
• I admit, I giggled when Faith went flying across the room. Wheeeeee! Wow the Beast really beats the shit out of Faith! (Katty) 
• Have they tried using paper? That usually beats rock
• It's going to sting now
• Oy! Sky, change the screen back! I don’t care about 'Scrubs' at the moment, I want to watch the fight! Sky made me miss Wesley in fight-mode. That’s unforgivable. 
• The Beast has hooves. I don’t know why this amuses me, as traditionally the Beast is cloven hoofed, but it does.
• Faith still fared better than Angel, Gunn, Wesley and Connor. 
• There's always that bit between your shoulder blades that you just can't quite reach
• I should duck if I were you, in case of shrapnel
• I do love the look on Angelus' face while the Beast is exploding from the inside (Katty)
• I’m still confused as to why Angelus would kill the Beast, Wants to be Top Dog again I guess. Which would confirm Wes’s theory that they needed Angelus to defeat him. Coolness. 
• The sunlight looks odd now on 'Angel' - you get used to all the action happening in the dark. If this had happened at night it would have been a huge anti-climax
• Beastie Boy? I didn't see any purloined VW medallions
• Hah! That's smart. Me, I would have just been lying on the ground giving up (Katty) 
• Connor’s still drooling over Faith. “And they call it puppy love...” Nice to see Connor impressed with someone who isn't Cordelia
• “A weakness for Slayers. You’re definitely his son.” Snerk, and also snigger.
• I take it you all heard the cries of “I told you so!” echoing across the land? It’s so nice to have theories vindicated. She has however been visibly pregnant long before she slept with Connor. 
• Is anyone else thinking “the father will kill the son”? Well I am now... I had a whole long theory about that.  I've forgotten most of it now, but it all came down to it being a self-fulfilling prophecy.  It could be Angel killing Connor as a kid, it could be Angelus killing Connor now, it could be Connor killing Cordy's demon spawn... You get the idea?
• “How could...” - The sex education curriculum probably wasn’t up to scratch in Kortoff.
• Charisma Carpenter actually had a little boy, if I remember correctly.
• Oh god please not again. I second that remark

• I take it they’re back at Wes’s apartment? 
• Is the dripping blood really necessary? This is symbolic of something isn't it?
• Fine and dandy, she’s obviously in blooming health Wesley. Of course not!
• Dreadful, Wes doesn't even offer to get her some fresh towels
• Faith, that’s going to sting like crazy in the shower. Although the repair bill for the wall might sting Wesley more. Luckily Wesley's excellent DIY skills will allow him to rebuild the wall and repaint the shower with little trouble. Just as long as they haven't discontinued the tiles It’s a known fact that if you’re trying to match something, it’s always discontinued, or out of stock with no known due date. I speak in my professional capacity, as I worked in the DIY store in Aber while at Uni. I still have nightmares about the time I worked Easter Saturday… So glad I’m not there anymore. 
• I never thought of blood as something that needed a cocktail shaker
• Angelus is holding court again. He’s getting to be a little bigheaded.
• So not a vicious attack rabbit then?
• That was a mistake, Mr. Big Horned man.
• Angelus starts to hear voices, and he doesn’t look too happy about it. It's unhealthy to fear scary voices, so good for Angelus (Katty) 
• Cordelia is sounding a bit rough these days. Heh. The bad guy sounds like Mr Deep voiced film trailer man. Well, that’s a new spin on things. 
• Hooray, Andy Hallett! He finally gets the credit he deserves. Whoo hoo! He deserved to be there a long time ago
• "Warm and soft." Does that mean inside Cordelia? The voice isn't coming from the baby is it?
• “Quit preaching to the guy who ate the choir” Not that it seemed to have any effect on his singing skills whatsoever.
• Angelus doesn't seem to be disturbed by the "sweet boy "endearments coming from the obviously male voice
• That’s right, Connor, she’s lost a lot of blood so pillow her up a bit more. Connor, sweetheart, she's pregnant, not going into shock
• Angelus is annoyed that he’s lost the reception to the voices in his head. Perhaps he needs to go out of the building and walk up and down outside to get it back... grumble, Aberystwyth sea front, mumble...
• Connor's all protective and smothering. It’s endearing in a way.
• “Our Family” Oh bleurgh. Please, I’m trying not to think about that. 
• I did wonder if the kid was going to be evil, looks like I could be right
• Angelus isn't scared of you, prepared or not
• Did anybody else think Fred’s hair looked distinctly Princess Leia there? 
• They have to be wondering what in the world Cordy is doing up there. (Katty)
• That was a snide remark about Gunn not getting any
• It’s nice to see that Gunn is as squeamish about Connor and Cordelia as we are.
• Ah, Fred is playing “If I Was A”. It’s obviously contagious 
• No, I wouldn’t believe Angelus because he hasn’t hurt her, just intimidated her. 
• Okay if Angelus wanted to know everything Fred had found out then he should just look at the table 'cause that's everything they know (Katty)
• Why couldn't a genuine talisman be made in China?
• Fred doesn't look right using a gun even if it's just a tranq gun (Katty) 
• I can understand the spell throwing Connor backwards, but throwing him clean over the balcony?
• Hey! “Toodles” is my line. 
• No! Don't kill Wes... Please!!(Katty)
• Faith looks pissed off she couldn’t get to Angelus, but was conflicted as didn’t want to risk Wes. Is it me, or do Wesley & Faith have some chemistry going on a twisted level?
• Phew, thank God for Gunn (Katty)
• Ugh, morning sickness. If pregnancy wasn’t demeaning enough, you have to throw up too.
• Cordelia standing there thinking "How the hell did I miss that?"
• "Supergirl" would have smacked him the second he got close, charm or no charm
• They really should find out if the real thing exists or not
• No, the way to defeat an animal is to be smarter than he is and waiting with a steel trap or something
• I turned away for a moment and just looked up to see Angelus sitting in the chair looking studious. Hee. I like the glasses, they’re a nice touch.
• Anyone ever reading my notes would have to get through the doodles. You should try reading Lizard's sometime
• I can hear my friend’s voices in my head sometimes - not in the insane sense, but in that I know how they would react to certain situations. Usually, it must be said, with a sarcastic remark or a burst of laughter. I have a little voice sometimes, usually saying "See, I told you that would happen..."
• Ahh Cordy has the soul... Damn I should have figured that out before now (Katty) 
• I wish Cordelia would make him wear the leather trousers. 
• It was the no demon violence thing that let you live, not Angelus
• Sadly time-travel's not an option
• Wesley's really good
• Gotta love the demon's change of heart
• Wesley quite clearly down but not out
• I love Connor’s check for the incipient vampire-ness. Vampire Ness, that’s a new one. 
• “You’re a daddy”. Like I said - please don’t remind us of that fact. Although Connor does look all nervous, excited first time father. Bless.
• Stop with the kissing. Please. 
• That girl in the bar is umm, different (Katty)
• Oh Christ now we have Wes stabbing people. The writers are determined to make everyone have evil in them this season aren't they? (Katty)
• "These aren't the vampires you're looking for..." Sorry, there was just something in the way he said that
• “I didn’t hear anything important, just something about a ring and the end of the world...” 
• Why is Faith getting upset about the druggie girl getting stabbed? She is a murderer, so why is she getting upset over a flesh wound (Katty)
• Oooh, I knew the torture thing would come up eventually. It's about time the torture issue was addressed - I thought it had slipped by too easily last week. 
• He should have had those framed, they'd have looked nice
• Ooh a big warehouse, I sense a fight coming on (Katty)
• They still work well together as a team now. 
• Ouch!! Wes has been falling a lot lately hasn't he? (Katty)
• Of course men like guns, they’re just penis replacements.
• Eww. I could have done without the "lie still" remark. I second that. Big ewww.
• Did we see Faith catch that knife then?
• The fight all round the scaffolding is well done, if a little stylised.
• She's not like him. She can go into the sun, and love someone, and see herself in a mirror, and not make a big puff of dust if she ever gets stabbed through the heart with a stake... (Katty)
• A slayer-strength foot to the groin would have gone down well here
• She should have known he was going to try and do that (Katty)
• Notice how she tilts her head for him to just bite right in. She even keeps her hair on the other side of her head. (Katty) 
• Oooh. Next week’s episode looks as though it’s going to be good. Do we think it’ll be the original grudge match? (Cordy V Willow)?

• The first part of this episode is all previously! I quite like the long previouslies because they give me time to run around looking for a pen. I quite like the way the previouslies actually merged into the beginning of the new stuff.
• Ooh sneaky, that was a clever thing to do. I like that - lateral thinking from Wes and Faith there.
• Luckily that was the instantly depressing, coma inducing kind of drug, not the kind that makes you go wildly hyper-active for twenty five minutes before you crash
• No Faith you didn't kick his ass, the drugs did. (Katty)
• Brief flash of Tuxedo!Wesley in the titles. Has that shot of Wes sword fighting always been in the credits? I only just noticed. It’s yummy.
• Presumably Gunn just wants Connor to help with the heavy lifting, it's not like he can do anything if Angelus does wake up
• “Wes called, I went” It’s about bloody time you trusted him. 
• I'm just going to stop even trying to fringedwell Lorne, 
• Wesley seems to be carrying Faith easily, which means that either Eliza Dushku is stupidly light or that Alexis Denisof is stronger than he looks. I'm kinda hoping for the latter
• Everyone is reacting very quickly to binding Angelus but only Wes and Lorne are helping Faith... Oh wait there's Fred. Never mind. (Katty) 
• Any particular reason for the slow-mo? Slow-mo. Mind-melding methadone mojo anyone? That shot of Wes carrying in Faith was very slo-mo and stylistic, I liked it. 
• Blood on his breath? What breath? Last time I checked, vampires don’t breathe.
• Lorne’s really reading the riot act with Wes isn’t he?
• Of course Faith knew the risks, and I doubt  very much that Wesley could force her to do anything. Besides risking her life to kill vampires is kind of her job, doing it via drugs instead of just getting her neck snapped is just a change of M.O.
• Ooh, hormonal!Cordelia
• Of course Connor's infatuated with Faith, she out did him t he two things he respects most, brute force and violence
• Cordy really is bitchy! If I had Connor always protecting me I'd be scared as hell. (Katty)
• Yeah Cordy you are out of whack and if she says that her, Connor and the baby are special one more time I'm going to scream. (Katty)
• Crazy pregnant lady also losing most of her acting abilities. 
• Orpheus. That was the Greek poet who tried to rescue his love from the Underworld wasn’t it? So who’s Eurydice?
• No! It can’t be opium, the alliteration won’t work. 
• We should’ve guessed about Wesley and the drugs. There is no other explanation for the beard. 
• It’s an appropriate name for the drug does ‘leave you there’. If I remember the myth, he looked back too soon and she was banished back to land of the dead. Hope that’s not the case here! 
• Is that ship supposed to resemble the "Titanic" because it really does. I was having "king of the world" flashbacks which was really unnecessary. (Katty)
• Uh-oh, dodgy wig and accent alert! Accent! Take Cover. They’ve got the wig of doom back out of retirement again. 
• Phew, he’s a non-talking flashback. 
• At last, somebody admits that they’re in a flashback! I can't believe she gate-crashed his flashback, 
• That's a very good definition but not really the whole definition. (Katty) Actually, the definition of insanity is; “Relatively permanent disorder of the mind” (Collins dictionary). Which makes you think really...
• Hang on a sec, what is he doing in the flashback?
• Go Faith, "My incredibly simple ruse..."
• Where's Michael Aspel and the big red book?
• Faith lived in a prison before this there has to be some kind of lack of hygiene there. (Katty)
• They're shoving the soul where exactly?
• At least Faith has a theme planned for her death, even if it is as naff as “wind”.
• Chicago At least the hair looks better there 
• Oh my God, a puppy! Is that in payment for the one he nailed to the wall that time? "You just rescued a puppy!" Oh, god Faith is never going to let that one go. It’s the “Dude!” before “ You just rescued a puppy!” that really clinches it. Faith sounds positively gleeful as she realises the amount of potential blackmail material she now has. 
• If I was unconscious I would not want someone I hardly knew to stroke my hair, even if it was Lorne. 
• Hello, why did she arrive? Excellent timing Willow- almost as if it was scripted. Willow’s entrance would have been a lot cooler if Sky hadn’t shown promos with her in. Although I was looking forward to seeing her in the Angel-verse.
• “Handsome yet androgynous son” That’s actually a pretty good description of Connor by Willow. Connor is not so much androgynous as skanky. 
• Did Willow just try and make a "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" joke there 'cause if so she failed terribly. (Katty)
• "Somebody stop me," yes do. What the hell is she wittering on about? Well, it started off appreciating the increasing manliness of Wesley. Included in that was the sparkle in Alyson Hannigan’s eyes as she rubs it in that she gets to go home with him every night...
• Why don’t they ring each other more? You would have thought they would, even if it was just to pool information. And in this case, telling Willow before they remove the soul she re-cursed him with would have been a good idea.
• This scene with both Fred and Willow babbling confirms that Fred was their attempt at having a Willow-like character, wasn’t it? Fred’s like diet Willow. Willow makes Fred more interesting.
• What makes anyone think Willow would want to catch up with Cordelia? 
• Willow's smart right? So why can she not tell that Cordy's pregnant? (Katty)
• It’s about as complicated as dropping the jar on the floor... oh, there’s the idea in Willow’s head. Nice to know I’m one step ahead of the genius witch.
• The catch-up conversation between Cordelia and Willow was fun. Cordy was just itching to stab Willow, wasn’t she?
• If Cordy wanted to kill Willow she didn't need to ask for the water, she could have just flung the knife at her before she left the room. (Katty)
• Aww Lorne is sweet singing to Faith. (Katty)
• Arrgghh the hair - It’s Aliiiiive! Agh! Seventies Angel is hideous! Yaaggh! That's the scariest wig I've ever seen and I've seen seven seasons of 'Highlander', and I include what they did to Jim Byrnes in 'Hamlet'. And it’s ‘Mandy’ as well! Oooh, it’s so bad it’s good. And just how awful was the wig? I thought nothing could be worse than the patented period flashback wig, until I saw the feathered hair on that one.
• I love Angelus’ pain at Angel’s lousy taste in music. 
• There were concerts?
• Hmm, flashback-having Angelus is strangely unsexy for some reason
• Angel may be big on the power ballads, but Angelus is obviously the fan of daytime TV
• That buzzing is annoying  (Katty)
• Imagine if all the jars in the world did burst... I'd be sweeping up coffee grounds for months
• Foetal pigs are grim. Foetal animals are only fun if you can name them after your science teacher and then dismember them (look, whatever gets you through a dissection without throwing up okay?)
• The one-upmanship between Wesley and Willow is very funny. “I’ve been evil.” “No, I’ve been evil!” Wes is never going to win the ‘who went darkest’ though is he? / 
• Evil Top Trumps: Would “flayed alive” beat “girl-chained in closet”? 
• That was a great double-take from Wesley. 
• Nice to see Willow is freaked by the closet cage as well
• There's nothing wrong with eating him if he's already dead? I mean really. (Katty)
• Why is Faith bleeding? (Katty)
• Again with the inappropriate touching of the unconscious girl.
• “How long?” - Oh about 20 minutes unless it’s a two-parter. 
• Wes looks pretty tormented as he watches Faith.
• Fred looks really stupid, prancing in the background with the bell.
• Willow’s quite sly isn’t she?
• “Marble of Doom” I want one of those, they look rather fun.
• I love magic sequences on these shows for some reason.  (Katty)
• Ha, Cordy bit her tongue. Also why does Willow make the hotel shake? How does that help her in her fight against the master? (Katty)
• Do they know that black-eyed Willow is not a good sign?
• So how come Willow refuses to use her magic back in Sunnydale, but she's quite happy to unleash it all here?
• Please, no Dylan Thomas, even in parody. 
• Rat!
• Such a stupid wig on Rat eating!Angel.
• “There's something evil rising in the hotel.” Yes, Connor it’s called the mother of your (alleged) child. 
• Cordy, they're a band of demon hunters who've done everything from being sucked into hell to facing the apocalypse. They're not going to be scared by a bad special effect
• Connor unwittingly saves the day. Did Connor just prove himself to be useful for once there? I’m shocked.
• The whole Angel/Angelus fight is good.
• It’s a good job Angel had long straggly hair in the 1980’s otherwise they’d have no way to hide the double’s face. 
• Everyone regrets the Manilow concerts
• Cordy likes beating up Connor doesn't she? (Katty)
• I like Cordelia's neatly disguised revenge with the vase
• Could Connor be any more of a sucker?
• Yay! I think the Orb of Thessula may be my favourite character. 
• I swear, I have a paperweight that looks just like an Orb of Thesulah, which is kind of ironic since Giles was using his as a paperweight.
• Oh Fred, icky doesn’t cover it. Gross, disturbing and just plain wrong also work.
• Oz was better at the Latin than Fred 
• I wonder if Willow will get possessed like she did last time she re-souled Angel (that freaked me somewhat)
• I like Connor's hand-on-chin thinking pose
• Angelus is wonderfully snarky about not getting enough attention.
• Well, she’s got the black eyes of the fairly dark mojo (as compared to the black hair of the really bad stuff), so we’ll take that as a yes. Less of the shouting this time though.
• There’s a big puppy rescue in the sky? I’d kinda hoped there would be no need for any puppy rescues in the afterlife.
• Soul transfer has changed in the last few years. It now looks like one of those Goa'uld zapper things. 
• Shut the door Faith!
• And we say good-bye to Angelus once again!! He hung up his leather pants for now... (Katty)
• Somehow Connor seems less than thrilled by his father's sudden resurrection
• Angel - on the balcony He’s brooding again. What a surprise.
• I wouldn’t have been so quick to let Angel out considering last time. 
• Oouhh Faith going to Sunnydale. Maybe she'll go crazy again and kill Dawn ( I'm allowed to hope!) (Katty)
• Faith’s going to Sunnydale - it should be interesting. And at least it appears she’ll have Willow on her side. I can see Buffy being a little miffed that her ‘I’m the only one’ speeches won’t work quite so well when there’s a second slayer about.
• Yes he did
• Funnier in a dead language, that's never a good sign
• Ah Fred was meant to be coming on to Willow, I was wondering if my subtext radar was on the blink. “I’m seeing someone” - Fred doesn’t look like that was a shock. Maybe she’s used to rejection. Fred and Willow? Dear God no. Besides the lack of chemistry, the thought makes me shudder.
• Aww, the little hug with Angel and Willow (who’s now re-souled him twice!) is rather sweet. He owes her a lot really.
• Very good advice there from Willow. Did I not say that earlier?
• I’m assuming that evil music was to introduce the horrific beady top? Strangely, she looks less pregnant in that top than she has for most of the season