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Post by cyclica on Jun 25, 2009 14:29:30 GMT -5
- One or two moments are mildly creepy, namely the scene outside the bank where we first see Ronald (and he gives a word-for-word description of what Melissa had done at the office earlier); and the later segment where his disembodied hands were sneaking under the bedcovers as she slept. I agree, that was one of the more disturbing scenes in the 5 years of the show. - This episode tried hard to be frightening, but was anything but for most of its duration. Besides the two quick moments mentioned earlier, the stalker plot quickly veered into camp – and when a study of voyeurism is unintentionally making you laugh (Ronald spitting his teeth into Angel’s arm – oh dear), you’re in trouble. To think of it, this episode reminded me of “Ted” quite a bit. As well as being written by the same people, both eps suffer from combining two disparate elements into one story, so they end up oscillating between heavy-handed preaching and silliness; failing to become a coherent whole. I never saw this ep as being camp, heavy handed or silly.  - Angel’s physical reaction to the drug Ronald injects him with. I’m assuming it was a sedative that would have killed him via paralysing the cardiac muscle and diaphragm, but it’s not like Angel needs to worry about his heart or lungs failing. It would have been better for him to drop in response to being shot and fake being in pain, and then to have cleanly gotten up when Ronald had left. As it is, it seems that the drug did work (his sweating and blurred vision) despite the fact it couldn’t really damage him physiologically. You're right there, I wish we could have found out what happened after ronald left the room. Did angel just get back up, or slowly recover? |
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Post by partcynic on Jun 25, 2009 17:17:29 GMT -5
I would have liked to know more about that too. From what the author said about his surpassing them all, it was even implied that Ronald had gone far beyond any of the other yogis and psychic surgeons. A bit more on how would have been good.
It's pretty camp - at least in the classic sense of the term (something tries to be serious, fails and ends up being inadvertently funny). As I mentioned, it was the sheer silliness of Ronald spitting out his teeth that did it for me - I can't watch that scene without laughing.
As for the heavy-handedness, Kate's dialogue and Melissa's talk at the end were what contributed to it. The "if she can't stand up to him, he'll kill her every night in her dreams" line is one I've heard countless times on police shows, and the closing "you're a creep who likes pain, but you're really the weak one" wasn't much better. As I said in my review, it's not like there's not truth to those speeches, but it was by-numbers dialogue that smashed you over the head with the episode's theme.
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Post by partcynic on Jun 25, 2009 18:25:14 GMT -5
1x05 "Rm w/a Vu"
Episode Rating = 8
One of the strongest episodes from the first half of the season, “Rm w/a Vu” has some of the best character exploration and development of any edition of Angel, becoming what may be the definitive Cordelia showcase. Although her role on Buffy was excellent, Cordy was never allowed to grow much during her Sunnydale tenure, but “Rm w/a Vu” makes up for this in the best possible way, being full of insight, comedy and drama.
What I Liked about “Rm w/a Vu”:
- Humour. Jane Espenson is writing, and it shows. Almost every scene in this episode is funny, and the jokes also serve to guide Cordelia’s development. If I were to go through everything separately, it would take forever, so I’ll just list my favourite parts: the opening voicemail message (“We help the hopeless”); Angel’s “I had some hope with regard to the phone”; the Cordy/just-showered Angel scene; the peanut butter in the bed (and Doyle’s response); “linoleum glue”; the apartment hunt (“My urination just hasn’t been public enough lately”); Cordy’s “I’m from Sunnydale – you’re not scaring me!” to the ghost; and the perfect ending where she’s talking to Aura on the phone, and Phantom Dennis is messing about.
- Masses of character development. It’s so good that this episode could even serve as a guideline for how to write Buffy and Angel. In 43 minutes (and the confine of a single story – take that, S6!), this ep managed to illuminate who Cordy was as a person, demonstrate how she’d changed her perspective on life, showed her at her lowest and then let her bounce back from it. Everything flowed beautifully, with the episode pointing out her major character flaws, placing her in an adverse situation, and making her sympathetic and powerful without whitewashing or dismissing the negatives in her past. Fantastic work.
- Very nice acting from Charisma Carpenter. She communicates Cordy’s self-centred nature very well, and does an equally impressive job showing her self-doubt and pain later on in the episode. It was a good opportunity for her to demonstrate a bit of range, and she does it admirably.
- The theme. The power of being a bitch was a wonderful concept, and it was impossible not to feel proud of Cordy when she finally stood up to the ghost and told her to get out. It’s nice for a TV show to point out that being polite and accommodating isn’t always the best thing to do.
- The plot. It wasn’t brilliant, but I have a soft spot for a good ghost story, and there were enough twists and turns regarding who did what to keep the narrative afloat. A couple of moments also had a slight creep factor, and I liked the special effect of the face protruding through the wall.
- Another respectable Kate scene. The character works just fine as the briefly featured ‘friend on the inside’.
- Maude was a solid episode-long villain, and her scathing assessments of Cordy hit hard. Attempting to hang her with the wire and then telling her to make a noose with the bedsheets were both quite sinister – you can only imagine how frightening it must have been for the girls she drove to suicide. I also liked her look, with the opaque white make-up being a little stereotypical, but unlike any other ghost we’ve seen on either show.
- Some minor (but decent) development of Doyle. In retrospect, it’s rather sad to hear him promise to reveal more in the future – while we did get that information, it’s hard to believe that the character will only be around for another four episodes.
What I Disliked about “Rm w/a Vu”:
- While its final product was good, most of the Doyle sub-plot left me cold. It wasn’t that it was bad, but the Cordelia material was so good that I didn’t appreciate being pulled out of it to deal with a generic demon collector and his cronies.
- Why doesn’t Cordelia tell Angel about the ghost right from the start? Sure, she desperately wants to keep the apartment, but she knows the supernatural is nothing to be messed with – so why wouldn’t she instantly talk to people who would be both able and willing to help her out?
- Angel and Doyle’s arrival at the apartment to save Cordelia is fortunately timed, since they’re able to get her down from the wire noose just before she asphyxiates.
- How did the collector demons know Cordy’s address? Did they follow Angel and Doyle there – and if they did, wouldn’t they have attacked a little sooner?
Do I like this episode more or less than the last time I watched it?
I would say I like it even more – I’ll call my rating a high ‘8’. “Rm w/a Vu” is a bonafide classic, and one of my favourites for both S1 and the entire Angel series. Few eps can compare with it in terms of matching entertainment value and depth, and it gave deserved expansion to a character (and actress) who’d more than earned the right to tackle such a substantial role.
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Post by cyclica on Jul 6, 2009 14:26:04 GMT -5
Rm w/a vu is one of my favourite episodes of the first season. The main plots are about cordy finding a place to live, only to find out it's haunted, and angel helping doyle out with a demon doyle owes money to. But these plots feel like just an excuse for making an episode filled with great cordy/doyle scenes. Both doyle and cordelia (in seasons 1 and 2 at least) were constantly funny, and we were still learning more about them at this point, still needing some of the gaps filled in. So having an episode filled with humour and insight for my 2 favourite characters was a big treat. Like I said there were a lot of great scenes, like when doyle walked in on angel and cordy and beleived they'd slept together; the 'finding a new home' montage, and the shock ending when it turns out it wasn't the son who killed the mother, it was the other way around. There were also lots of great lines ("I am the lowest of the lowest… and you’re going to want to get my other suitcase out there in the hall” ;D), and a nice insight into cordelia's mind (rationalising her crappy life as 'working for redemption', to some extent). There's even a few subtle references to past eps ("I'm not a whining little cry-buffy"; a mention of cordy's friend aura from 'welcome to the hellmouth'). Yup, this episode is near flawless. Obviously there are gonna be a few little nitpicks, every episode has them (was the face on the wall dennis or his mother? How did angel get to cordy's new home in the daylight? How was dennis able to banish his mother, can ghosts banish each other?) but these are easily overlooked. If I was showing someone who had never watched angel an episode to convince them to watch it, I'd pick this one.  Rating: 9 |
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Post by cyclica on Jul 6, 2009 14:46:49 GMT -5
- Maude was a solid episode-long villain, and her scathing assessments of Cordy hit hard. Attempting to hang her with the wire and then telling her to make a noose with the bedsheets were both quite sinister – you can only imagine how frightening it must have been for the girls she drove to suicide. I also liked her look, with the opaque white make-up being a little stereotypical, but unlike any other ghost we’ve seen on either show. Hmm I dunno, she didn't seem like a huge threat to me. She didn't know cordelia, she would have given the same 'scathing assessments' to all the women who lived in that house, it's not like the insults were directed at cordy personally (though by coincidence they all happened to apply to her, at least enough to affect her). - Why doesn’t Cordelia tell Angel about the ghost right from the start? Sure, she desperately wants to keep the apartment, but she knows the supernatural is nothing to be messed with – so why wouldn’t she instantly talk to people who would be both able and willing to help her out? Because if she told them about the ghost right away, we wouldn't have had hilarious scenes like "It’s a very, very bad trophy!", and "Cordy, it says ‘die’!" "Hey, maybe it’s not done. Maybe it’s ‘diet’. That’s friendly. A little judgmental, sure". Maybe she thought the ghost would hurt them if they knew about it, so she kept the haunting a secret? |
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Post by partcynic on Jul 6, 2009 15:55:46 GMT -5
Sure. But that's not what I was really talking about there. It's just a case of the plot and character development overlapping in a way that makes good sense. Now you're stretching. Cordy's from Sunnydale, and should know very well that the supernatural is not something to toy about with. Besides, how could knowing about Maude put Angel and Doyle in any more danger than the huge amount they're normally in? |
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Post by partcynic on Jul 6, 2009 16:02:02 GMT -5
1x06 "Sense and Sensitivity"
Episode Rating = 4
A passable episode that’s tolerable on its own, but introduces story elements that will hurt the season later on. While my prior opinion of Kate hovered between ambivalence and mild negativity, “Sense and Sensitivity” reveals her to be a total cliché, thereby securing my dislike. In addition, none of the character development here ends up meaning anything, so it’s just left as a comedy show – and while some of it was good, it was too little (and came too late) to save the ep as a whole.
What I Liked about “Sense and Sensitivity”:
- The second half of the teaser, which featured the Angel gang in the sewers. Cordy denouncing Angel’s obliviousness while Doyle was being choked behind her was funny.
- The parts of the ep that developed from the “Angel’s social issues” thread were fairly good, primarily because of Cordelia’s dialogue. The return to office scene (with Cordy and Doyle covered in demon goo), Angel’s half-baked attempts to apologise for making her look at the mortuary documents, and the ‘new shoes’ bit were all entertaining.
- Angel pulling the disguise-self-as-tourist trick to try and stall/catch Little Tony. Seeing him in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts is especially humorous given how out of character it would usually be.
- Lee is a perfect love-to-hate character, being wonderfully smarmy. Ditto for Allen the sensitivity trainer. He had just the right amount of obnoxious condescension to work.
- The last ten-or-so minutes with everyone under the spell, which single-handedly pulled the ep back from the pit it was about to fall into. The cops’ behaviour (“I don’t feel you’re giving attention to your mugger’s feelings”; “I saw a leaf, and I did cry…”) was a welcome tonic after the horrid retirement scene, and I loved seeing super-sensitive Angel. His calling for a hug, telling Cordelia she’s ‘precious’, shame at having used physical violence and wanting to leave a note at the broken window were all hilarious, and “You can be a rainbow… not a painbow” was the ep’s best line by some distance.
What I Disliked about “Sense and Sensitivity”:
- Setting Kate on her downward spiral of sucking. Let’s start by playing a quick game of spot the cliché. Let’s see: Kate is a tough officer (ding!) with a dead mother (ding!) and emotionally distant father (ding!) whose mask of cynicism conceals the fact that she’s a frightened child at heart (ding ding ding!) How is this supposed to be interesting, especially to an audience that has been given no real reason to like or identify with Kate as a character?
- Kate’s father. He’s a one-dimensional, hardened cop stereotype with nothing to offer in terms of story. Seeing that he’s apparently been a total ass to Kate ever since she was a child (even going so far as to make derogatory statements about her in front of her maybe-boyfriend while she was standing there), why is she still trying to pursue the relationship? At her age, she should know that however much it may initially hurt, she’s better off staying away from a spiteful man who has never done anything remotely nice for her, regardless of whether he’s her father or not.
- The retirement party scene was awful, with Kate’s speech being melodramatic and devoid of real emotion (the acting is weak too). I cringed through the whole thing.
- The odd ‘character development’. Angel seems to have taken an inexplicable step backward socially after the concern he showed for Cordelia in “Rm w/a Vu”, and the events with Kate and her father have next to no bearing on any of their future interactions. Why bother with it in the first place?
- Wouldn’t a company of Wolfram and Hart’s stature be able to do something a little more sophisticated to bust Little Tony out of jail? The sensitivity plan was rather uncontrolled and had an unpredictable outcome – not things I could see the Senior Partners being fond of. Why not just get a witch to teleport Tony out of the prison; then use an amnesia spell to wipe everyone’s memories clean of his arrest (or even his existence)? Did no-one think that the cops might come looking for him again after he escaped?
Do I like this episode more or less than the last time I watched it?
A touch less (so call my rating an absolute, bottom-rung ‘4’). It’s basically a weak episode with some funny humour tacked on in an attempt to conceal its major flaws. Together with “She” and “The Prodigal”, this is one of the weak links of S1, and I’d drop it lower if I didn’t need the 0, 1 and 2 marks for all of those S3 eps to come.
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Post by partcynic on Aug 13, 2009 11:43:53 GMT -5
As this thread has now been dormant for over a month, I'm going to go ahead and keep adding reviews. I've got quite a back-log now, so I'd like to get them posted.
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1x07 "The Bachelor Party"
Episode Rating = 6
A fun, light-hearted episode that possesses some good character development and a nice message regarding demon variety. Unusually for an Angel episode, almost all of the substance and impact is contained within the first half, with the second being a bit too fluffy for its own good. Perhaps a sub-plot would have helped?
What I Liked about “The Bachelor Party”:
- As is the tendency for S1, the teaser was solid. I liked Doyle’s desperate attempts to get Angel to leave the office, Cordy bragging about her date, and Angel playing the protective father role when the guy showed up.
- Cordy’s reaction to her super-boring dinner, and Doyle’s rescuing her from the vamp attack. Her subsequent chat with Angel was a great scene, with her development coming naturally (although she’s never been as shallow as she’d like to make out). The continuity reference to Xander was a nice touch, as was the hint that she was beginning to see Doyle in a different light.
- Harriet, Doyle’s wife. Surprisingly, she was a really likeable character. TV shows typically paint exes as bitter and nasty, but the interactions between Harry and Doyle were spot-on (especially in their first scene). The initial antagonism between the two was quickly followed by both sadness and mutual respect – I loved seeing her concern for him, and her assurance that she wasn’t trying to hurt him by introducing Richard. I wouldn’t have minded seeing more of her in subsequent eps (since it’s later revealed that she stayed in LA and was keeping in touch with Doyle, perhaps learning of his death could prompt her to honour his memory by helping team Angel on occasions when her knowledge could be useful? I can certainly see her fitting as a three ep per season guest star.)
- Excellent backstory and development for Doyle. While coming out of the blue, the marriage plot told us a lot of interesting things about the character, and allowed us to see his more grown-up side (commencing his final arc for “Hero”). It was a smart touch to have Harry be accepting of Doyle’s demon ancestry while he couldn’t cope with it, and his desire to see her happy despite his own jealousy/bitterness was touching.
- The dialogue has picked back up after the last episode’s problems. I can’t necessarily recall any laugh-out-loud moments (besides Cordy beating on demon-Doyle with the tray and the shrimp fork bit), but the ep was a good time humour-wise. The Angel gay jokes also work really well.
- Continuing the not-all-demons-are-evil concept. That type of narrative was fine in Buffy S1, but it’s good that the show’s universe is becoming more nuanced. It makes sense that demon-human interbreeding may have weakened aggressive demon tendencies over generations, and that these hybrid demon varieties may have no problems with people, or at least be uninterested in causing destruction.
- The ‘ingesting past love’ thing was cute, since it made a kind of sense.
What I Disliked about “The Bachelor Party”:
- As mentioned before, it’s rather unbalanced. All of the interesting stuff happened at the start, so by the time the titular party came around, the episode was dragging. The story should have had a sub-plot, or else been a sub-plot itself; either of which would have allowed for faster pacing and fewer opportunities for boredom to set in.
- Richard. He was a passable character, but much too dull to make sense with Harry. I understand that the writers wanted contrast between he and the ‘wilder’ Doyle, but that didn’t mean they had to strip him of all personality.
- Given the supposed importance of the brain-eating ritual to the demons, why were the demon-women just allowing Cordy and Harry to go sifting through their books? Wouldn’t they have been a tad suspicious as to what they were doing, or at least have encouraged them to join the group activity instead of sitting off on their own?
- Doyle in the weird box-thing was just silly.
- The ending was pretty weak, finishing the ep on a fake-dramatic note that did nothing. It’s odd that Doyle’s vision shows Buffy fighting the solitary vamp from the start of “Pangs” instead of Hus (the actual threat). Also, shouldn’t Doyle have already known what Buffy looked like? You’d have thought that whenever the Powers that Be filled him in on Angel’s past and sent him off on his recruitment task, they’d have given him some accompanying visions so he could see what happened for himself.
Do I like this episode more or less than the last time I watched it?
I’d actually say more – and enough to change my grade from a five to a six. The plot and pacing could have done with some refinement, but the dialogue, wit and character development are enough to comfortably see the episode through.
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Post by cyclica on Aug 13, 2009 17:25:47 GMT -5
Yeah, sorry I haven't been posting here. It's just that I'd been on a buffy/angel marathon since last july, and by the time I finally finished with 'not fade away', I felt pretty tired of watching btvs and ats. I thought I could review based on memory, but to get a better, more in-depth review I'd need to actually watch the ep first, and I've been a bit too tired of the show to do that. :-\
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Post by partcynic on Aug 14, 2009 14:25:31 GMT -5
Don't worry about it. I'll post at a rate of about 1 a week - feel free to comment on my reviews if you want, and you can always do one here or there if you feel inclined to. |
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Post by cyclica on Nov 20, 2009 19:04:05 GMT -5
I enjoyed cordy so much in 'killed by death', it inspired me to go watch an angel ep. So here's my review of sense and sensitivity. I dunno though if I'll continue with the angel reviews, it could take up a lot of time doing both angel and buffy reviews at the same time. Upon rewatching... it was as boring as ever. There were a few funny scenes, my favourite being one at the end when the cops are back to normal, and one says 'morning', and another replies 'yeah right'. And cordy and doyle provide a few laughs, such as cordy complaining about angel ignoring her feelings at the start, oblivious to doyle being strangled by a tentacle in the background. And I liked seeing kate telling cordy to give doyle a chance, and cordy freaking out when doyle says kate is starting to make sense. But aside from those scenes this ep has much less cordy/doyle humour than the rest of s1. And I didn't find 'sensitive angel' to be especially funny either. Some of his lines were just annoying (you can be a rainbow and not a painbow). We got to see the first appearance of lee mercer... but who cares? He's not interesting. The main plot about sensetivity was ok, but unfortunately it was kate who was the focus of the episode. We got some back story on her... but again who cares? Her father doesn't make jokes with her, yawn. Maybe its that I know she won't be on the show after season 2, but I just can't become interested in her character. And all her scenes are such a drag. The first few minutes before angel appeared were like watching some cop drama (which isn't my thing). This wasn't a terrible episode, it just wasn't engaging. I give it a 3. Nitpickings- - I liked angel pretending to be 'herb saunders' from baltimore, but I have to ask- where did he get that hat and shirt? He was in disguise because kate wouldn't have arrived in time to catch big tony, but if time was a factor, angel wouldn't have gone out and bought those clothes. He must have had them with him in the car. For some reason. - After angel becomes sensitive, he runs into cordy and doyle who had followed kate to the police station. But if kate went inside, what were cordy and doyle doing standing around outside? - And what was kate doing inside? If she was looking for her dad you'd think she would be asking people where he was, not just sitting at her desk. Why didn't she go to his house, why would he even be at the police station? - Angel comes up against three or four guys with shotguns, it's pretty amazing none of the good guys were killed. And what happened to the other ten or so prisoners who were now working for big tony? - In the last scene, angel again bends the 'no sunlight' rule. I guess it's ok to be in a sunny room just so long as you are inside. |
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Post by cyclica on Nov 20, 2009 19:18:52 GMT -5
...and “You can be a rainbow… not a painbow” was the ep’s best line by some distance. Well I'm glad you like it, but to me it's the worst line by far. Every time I hear it I find it grating. - The retirement party scene was awful, with Kate’s speech being melodramatic and devoid of real emotion (the acting is weak too). I cringed through the whole thing. Me too. Why not just get a witch to teleport Tony out of the prison; then use an amnesia spell to wipe everyone’s memories clean of his arrest (or even his existence)? At this point in the show we had no idea that W&H were capable of such things. But looking back, yes they could and should have found a better way to get him out. Together with “She” and “The Prodigal”, this is one of the weak links of S1, and I’d drop it lower if I didn’t need the 0, 1 and 2 marks for all of those S3 eps to come. I'd rate this episode lower than pretty much any episode of season 3. I'm curious now as to which episodes you thought were worse than this. |
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Post by partcynic on Nov 21, 2009 10:10:37 GMT -5
Bear in mind that I dislike most of S4, and actively loathe 95% of S3. I found that pretty much everything pertaining to Gunn, Connor, Angel/Cordelia romance, Groo's return, Holtz and Jasmine sucked far worse than "Sense and Sensitivity" could ever hope to.
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Post by cyclica on May 23, 2010 7:57:14 GMT -5
Bachelor PartyThis is the first big doyle episode (the other being hero), where we finally get some backstory for the character who up till this point has remained somewhat mysterious. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most boring episodes of the show. Even the characters themselves seem to be bored at times. Also, it almost feels like two seperate episodes stuck together, as the 'doyle meets harry & richard' plot doesn't even start until almost halfway through the ep. The episode starts with cordy going on a date with a boring guy, while angel and doyle have a pretty standard fight against some vampires, the only interesting moment being the revelation that doyle is stronger in demon form, but doesn't like to fight like that. There's also a scene where doyle finds a publicity photo of sarah michelle gellar, dah I mean buffy. It's a setup for the end of the episode, where he has a vision of her, and the show needed to establish that doyle knows who she is and what she looks like so he can recognise her. We also get some nice progress on the cordy/doyle relationship, when he rescues her from a vampire, and she begins to see him as someone who 'doesn't have zero potential'. But just as she's about to ask him out...bam! His ex-wife shows up! What follows are a series of scenes which provide plenty of backstory for doyle (he was married young and got divorced, he worked as a teacher and in a soup kitchen, he never knew his dad and only recently discovered he was a demon), and some nice character development, as he discovers harry was ok with his demon side, and "she didn't leave because of the demon in me, she left because of me". The first time I watched this ep I loved it, as I was hanging on every new revelation. But watching it again today, it's more apparant that the plot moves at a snail's pace, and if the revelations are no longer a surprise, there's very little to enjoy. It doesn't help that there's so little action or threat, aside from one breif moment when angel discovers richard was a demon (which we already knew, since we've seen him in 'anne'  . Things start to pick up once the bachelor party starts. Everything goes smoothly (not to mention monotonously) until the guys put doyle in a box and tell him his brains are about to be eaten. It's pretty amusing how they all act like this is the most normal thing in the world, and can't understand why anyone would object to having their brains consumed. It's an interesting spin on the concept of having 'good' demons, that even when they appear friendly, they still do things that humans would consider 'evil', like murder and cannibalism. Anyway, angel rescues doyle, harry leaves richard, and the angel gang go home. Whereupon doyle has a vision of buffy in trouble, which leads into the buffy episode 'pangs'. Notice though that the vision doesn't show any native americans, she just seems to be fighting some guy. There is a fair amount of humour in this episode, like when richard sees angel for the first time and mistakes him for doyle; doyle telling angel he doesn't want any scotch, but then proceeds to drink out of angel's glass; porno pictionary (which was more weird than funny) and the scene where cordy hits doyle when he's in 'demon mode', only to be concerned when she sees him in 'human mode', looking beat-up. Overall though the main reason to watch this ep is the relevations and insights into doyle's past. And unfortunately this means the ep really looses something on repeat viewings, especially given how slow the pacing is. It's not a bad episode, but it's one I only watch during marathons. I give it a high 3. Complaints- - At one point harry says she's studied demons in places like kiribati, togo and uzbekistan. Not that there's anything wrong with that line, but I do have a bit of a problem with establishing demons as being so global. It's one thing to say that they'd be in sunnydale, or they'd all choose to come together in LA, but having demons all over the world makes it harder to buy that they exist without the public knowing about it. - Richard wanted to open a box, so he went to get a knife, turned into a demon, and returned. No wonder angel thought richard was evil, I mean is there any other reason why he suddenly reveal his demon side? - During the dinner scene everyone acts surprised that doyle will be attending the bachelor party, but moments later the announce it's part of their customs that he be present.
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Post by cyclica on May 23, 2010 8:24:22 GMT -5
- Harriet... I wouldn’t have minded seeing more of her in subsequent eps (since it’s later revealed that she stayed in LA and was keeping in touch with Doyle, perhaps learning of his death could prompt her to honour his memory by helping team Angel on occasions when her knowledge could be useful? I can certainly see her fitting as a three ep per season guest star.) I would have liked to see her again too, though it might have been a little odd for her to return if doyle was no longer around. And besides, they brouht in wesley to fill in the 'demon expert' role, I doubt there would have been much for her to do. - Doyle in the weird box-thing was just silly. Agreed. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that box was originally a prop from another show, and they didn't have time to repaint it. - The ending was pretty weak, finishing the ep on a fake-dramatic note that did nothing. It’s odd that Doyle’s vision shows Buffy fighting the solitary vamp from the start of “Pangs” instead of Hus (the actual threat). Oh that's who she was fighting. Yeah the PTB really screwed up there. What if angel had shown up, killed that one vamp, and gone home? Also, shouldn’t Doyle have already known what Buffy looked like? You’d have thought that whenever the Powers that Be filled him in on Angel’s past and sent him off on his recruitment task, they’d have given him some accompanying visions so he could see what happened for himself. I had forgotten he had already seen visions of angel's past life. I guess the photo scene was added in for the benefit of those of us who are forgetful. |
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How is it that he is able to detatch his body parts? There was no supernatural explanation, beyond saying ronald had studied with 'psychic surgeons'.
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