Wow. Another entry in the same month? Can it be?
Spoilers Ahoy!
I’ll be the first one to admit that I didn’t see the Angelus biting of Faith coming. And it might have been a dramatic climax to this week’s episode if the beginning part of it hadn't been so friggin’ boring. The entire episode felt like one long piece of exposition – or maybe it was a giant commercial to sell the Angel S1 box set – for Faith’s original episodes from the first season. I did enjoy the Wesley dialogue to Faith about never forgetting what she did to him. Wesley’s been a piece of work all season so the reason why he said what he said was OK, but I really would have rather known that he said it because it's been needing saying for years.
Hopefully, with all this candor, we’ll get an Angel/Giles conversation before Buffy goes bye-bye at the end of the season.
Digression aside, back to this week’s episode…
That Angelus bit Faith [to turn her?] was kinda neat. Looks like we’re finally going to see how Joss’ vampires do their thing and get to be who they are. Unfortunately I don’t see where this is going to have much impact on Angel when his soul is restored. This would have been the most devastating, self-loathing act that S1 Angel could have ever done, even worse than nearly draining Buffy. The show has come a long way from a study of 3 people who can’t forgive themselves for their pasts; mainly because when the Creative Team yanked the ‘demon of the week’ formula that propelled S1, they also dispensed with Angel’s purpose. After saving Kate from suicide, his talk with her let the vampire off the hook remorsewise.
I won’t go into the Cordy arc or how Connor is being wasted. [Just how many times did she cup his face?] I know, I know; it’s all about the Faith arc for right now evn though I actually think the high point of this episode was the moment between Fred pining for her relationship with Gunn and Gunn knowing that he will never be the dreamer that Fred allowed him to be. Fred & Gunn have always been magic.
Next week? We get Willow, everyone’s favorite Save-the-Dayer. Oh, boy. Watching this season has been giving me the same feeling as reading bad fanfic except that I can’t close my browser on canon.
Spoilers Ahoy!
I’ll be the first one to admit that I didn’t see the Angelus biting of Faith coming. And it might have been a dramatic climax to this week’s episode if the beginning part of it hadn't been so friggin’ boring. The entire episode felt like one long piece of exposition – or maybe it was a giant commercial to sell the Angel S1 box set – for Faith’s original episodes from the first season. I did enjoy the Wesley dialogue to Faith about never forgetting what she did to him. Wesley’s been a piece of work all season so the reason why he said what he said was OK, but I really would have rather known that he said it because it's been needing saying for years.
Hopefully, with all this candor, we’ll get an Angel/Giles conversation before Buffy goes bye-bye at the end of the season.
Digression aside, back to this week’s episode…
That Angelus bit Faith [to turn her?] was kinda neat. Looks like we’re finally going to see how Joss’ vampires do their thing and get to be who they are. Unfortunately I don’t see where this is going to have much impact on Angel when his soul is restored. This would have been the most devastating, self-loathing act that S1 Angel could have ever done, even worse than nearly draining Buffy. The show has come a long way from a study of 3 people who can’t forgive themselves for their pasts; mainly because when the Creative Team yanked the ‘demon of the week’ formula that propelled S1, they also dispensed with Angel’s purpose. After saving Kate from suicide, his talk with her let the vampire off the hook remorsewise.
I won’t go into the Cordy arc or how Connor is being wasted. [Just how many times did she cup his face?] I know, I know; it’s all about the Faith arc for right now evn though I actually think the high point of this episode was the moment between Fred pining for her relationship with Gunn and Gunn knowing that he will never be the dreamer that Fred allowed him to be. Fred & Gunn have always been magic.
Next week? We get Willow, everyone’s favorite Save-the-Dayer. Oh, boy. Watching this season has been giving me the same feeling as reading bad fanfic except that I can’t close my browser on canon.
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