Amends

Sep 24, 2006 15:21

This is one of my favortie episodes.  I like it so much that I almost don't want to watch it.

This is stupid, but does it really snow in Ireland?  I mean, obviously, it does.  But don't  you always think of Ireland as being all green and sunny?

Angel has facial hair here.  This opens up the whole "Do vampires grow hair?" conversation.   Clearly, since angel didn't have facial hair when he became a vampire and he does in this episode they do, right?  But he doesn't grow a beard when he's locked up under water by Conner for like 3 months.  Plus, there's always Willow's question about how would he shave.  Thoughts?

I love how Daniel is looking up, praying and Angel looks up where he's looking kind of expecting to see something.

The First was always the most scary big bad to me.  I know that he can't really hurt you, but it's just how you can't really see him, or talk to him, or confront him.  Or fight him.

Hehe.  Joyce is all weird about Giles cause they did it.

Man, I'd be so happy to open up my door and find Angel standing there.  Even if he'd tortured me last year.  Maybe especially if he'd tortured me last year.  But probably not if he'd killed my husband.

So what are your thoughts about why Angel came back?  Did the First really bring him back?  Could the first have brought him back?  Was it Wolfram and Hart?  Of The Powers that Be?

Dream cameos.

Everyone always makes a big whoop about how Jenny touches Angel, but I don't think that she actually does.  She just put her hand really close to his face.

"The thing I remember most was thinking how artful is was."  Another death=art.

"A drunken, whoring, lay-about"  Angel as a man.  Spike was a better man than Angel.  That's one of my favorite topics.  Angel versus Spike and who deserved redemption more.  Spike was a better man, a better vampire, and even better after he got his soul...

Okay, The First as Jenny touches him there.

Bringers are creepy as hell.

Oz just talked about having a dream about being in a play and not knowing your lines.  Like Willow in Restless.  I can't believe that Willow and Oz haven't had sex yet.  Come on!  They' ve been dating like a year.  What have they been doing?

Haha.  It's kind of funny when Angel jumps out Buffy's window.

In this episode, there are three bringers.  There are many more in season 7.

"Alright, I get it!  You're evil!"  I love that line.  This whole conversation.

"Dead by sunrise!!"  Arrrrgh!

This scene with Buffy and Angel is seriously one of the best written scenes in the entire run of the show.  It gets me everytime.  This whole thing is so honest and profound.  Like I just want to quote the whole thing, but "strong is fighting" is like my favorite line ever.

And the snow.  This episode is just a classic example of the forces of Good and Evil fighting for a soul.  It had to be the PTB that made it snow.  This is just a great set up for the entire Angel show.  It's like the whole run of the show distilled.  Which side will he be on?  Is he good or evil?  Which side is he on?  Who are his allies?  He's just a great character.

By the way, I've been watching a little Angel on the side.  It really pains me to say it, but I almost think that I like AtS a little better than BTVS.  it's got more depth really.  It's less black and white and a little more gray, although Buffy is moving a little more in that direction in it's later seasons as well, with Anya and Willow and Spike.  It shifts from being a show where they characters are good but have weaknesses to be a show where the characters are in a real struggle between good and evil and not just externally, but internally. 
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