Angel episode: A Hole in the World
Oh! Oh! Oh! This episode. My poor heart. It starts out poignant, goes to funny, then terrifying, then so sad and then kind of freaky at the end. :'(
Synopsis: When Fred opens up an ancient sarcophagus that is anonymously sent to her, she is infected by a mysterious parasitic demon called Illyria. Angel and Spike learn that Illyria is an ancient demon who existed before recorded time, and they must race to return her to an ancient demon burial ground before she kills Fred and thousands of other innocent victims.
Screen caps from Screencap Paradise. Dialogue from Buffy World.
The beginning was hysterical. Gunn being caught by Wes singing "Three Little Maids From School Are We" from "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan. He's really embarrassed when he sees Wes there and immediately tries to start singing something else.
and ya don't stop with all the ladies in the...gangsta but ... go
Ha! After they have a discussion about the whereabouts of Lindsey McDonald, they decide Angel must be told.
Wesley: Worth checking. Nice work. You should tell Angel.
Gunn: You can tell him. I ain't goin' in there.
Cut to Spike and Angel having a huge, shouting argument. Both appear enraged and frustrated.
Spike: It's bollocks, Angel! It's your brand of bollocks from the first to last.
Angel: No, you can't ever see the big picture. You can't see any picture!
Spike: I am talking about something primal. Right? Savagery. Brutal animal instinct.
Angel: And that wins out every time with you. (in Spike's face) You know, the human race has evolved, Spike! (walks away from Spike)
Spike: (follows Angel making mocking gestures) Oh, into a bunch of namby-pamby, self-analysing wankers who could never hope to-
Angel: We're bigger. We're smarter. Plus, there's a thing called teamwork, not to mention the superstitious terror of your pure aggressors!
Spike: You just want it to be the way you want it to be.
Angel: (yelling) It's not about what I want!
We hear Wesley's voice speaking.
Wesley: (walks up to the office door) Sorry. Is this something we should all be discussing?
Angel: (clearly embarrassed to be caught by Wes, backs away from Spike) No.
Wesley: It just...sounds a little serious.
Angel: It was mostly...theoretical. We...
Spike: (calmly) We were just working out a b- (passionate again) Look, if cavemen and astronauts got into a fight, who would win? (crosses his arms and looks expectantly at Wes)
Wesley: Ah. You've been yelling at each other for 40 minutes about this?
Angel looks down, Spike stares at Wes, still expecting an answer. Wesley looks pensive, crosses his arms.
Wesley: Do the astronauts have weapons?
Angel: & Spike: (simultaneously) No.
*laugh laugh laugh* Video is here.
The later, I love how the issue grips all of Wolfram & Hart.
Fred: But that doesn't make any sense.
Lorne: I just call it like I see it.
Fred: But the cavemen have fire. That's what they live with in their caves. The astronauts should at least have some sort of weapon.
*laugh*
Then the episode takes a turn for the very dark ..... Lorne walks away and promises he'll find Fred for lunch.
Lorne: I'll just look where the sun shines. (sings) You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...
Lorne starts down the stairs and Fred, smiling, starts to sing to Wes in a happy manner: You make me happy-
The instant Fred starts singing, Lorne stops in his tracks and turns back to Fred in horror. It's like a moment in a horror movie because there's just shock and dread as you look at Lorne's face - suddenly Fred coughs up blood and collapses. It's awful.
Later when the team are talking about how Fred is dying, Spike looks agonised.
Angel: Her organs are cooking. In a days time, they'll liquefy.
Spike: (a look of horror comes over his face, then fades to determination) No. Not this girl. Not this day.
I love how much he has come to care about Fred. He is genuinely fond of her and grateful to her for what she has done for him.
Angel and Spike in England looking for the Deeper Well.
If I was into slash (which I am not :) I would have been over the moon at al the slashy bits in this episode. First of all there was the caveman/astronaut fight, now there's hand holding - albeit in order to hold the Thread of Razor-like Decapitating Sharpness.
Spike: Strategy?
Angel: Just hold my hand.
Spike raises an eyebrow, but reaches out to take Angel's hand.
But still.
Spike: (nods) St. Petersburg.
Angel: Thought you'd forgotten.
Hand holding is hand holding ;)
I did love the obnoxious Drogyn of whom you could not ask questions and Spike's incessant baiting of him.
Spike: So, you two know each other. (Drogyn glares at him) That was a statement. I already know that you do.
Drogyn: I'll tell you as much as I can. The old ones were demons pure. They warred as we would breathe-endlessly. The greater ones were interred, for death was not always their end. Illyria was feared and beloved as few are. It was laid to death in the very depths of the well... until it disappeared a month ago.
Spike: Someone took it from under your nose a month ago, and you didn't miss it 'til now? That makes you quite the crap jailer, doesn't it. (Drogyn glares again) Also a statement.
Then later:
Drogyn: It's been freed-the demon's essence.
Spike: Yeah, it's been freed. Why do you think we're here?
Drogyn glares at Spike, who is sick of this and starts throwing questions at Drogyn in an obnoxious manner.
Spike: And what's your favourite colour? What's your favourite song? Who's the goalkeeper for Manchester United? And how many fingers am I holdin' up? (Spike holds up his index and middle fingers in a rude gesture) You wanna kill me? Try. But I don't have time for your quirks.
No more humour in the episode though. Angel makes the agonising decision to let Fred die because in order to save her, millions would have to die.
Fred's death was so sad. Unlike a lot of Celluloid Deaths, she didn't go quietly into the night - she didn't want to die. She resisted every step of the way. She wasn't offering words of comfort to Wes that it was her time to go, it wasn't his fault, she was moving on and blah blah blah. She wanted to live, she was trying to hang on and she was such a fighter. Her final words were so awful:
"Please, Wesley, why can't I stay?"
After Fred dies, her body transforms into Illyria. I think Illyria is really pretty and I adore the whole blue-hair look - but the downer is that for some reason she looks a bit like Dannii Minogue after her plastic surgery :P
Illyria stands up, her hair, eyes, and the edges of her face are blue. She looks down at her arm and hand to examine them, she flexes her fingers.
Then she says: "This will do."
*sigh*
Why does Joss Whedon like killing off all my favourite characters? Fred reminded me of the Willow I used to like when she was sweet, awkward, geeky and smart - before she went all weird, Wicca and borderline evil. It's so goofy though because even though the actress gets to stay so I should be happy, I can't help being really sad that they killed off the character of Fred! :P
Synopsis: When Fred opens up an ancient sarcophagus that is anonymously sent to her, she is infected by a mysterious parasitic demon called Illyria. Angel and Spike learn that Illyria is an ancient demon who existed before recorded time, and they must race to return her to an ancient demon burial ground before she kills Fred and thousands of other innocent victims.
Screen caps from Screencap Paradise. Dialogue from Buffy World.
The beginning was hysterical. Gunn being caught by Wes singing "Three Little Maids From School Are We" from "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan. He's really embarrassed when he sees Wes there and immediately tries to start singing something else.
and ya don't stop with all the ladies in the...gangsta but ... go
Ha! After they have a discussion about the whereabouts of Lindsey McDonald, they decide Angel must be told.
Wesley: Worth checking. Nice work. You should tell Angel.
Gunn: You can tell him. I ain't goin' in there.
Cut to Spike and Angel having a huge, shouting argument. Both appear enraged and frustrated.
Spike: It's bollocks, Angel! It's your brand of bollocks from the first to last.
Angel: No, you can't ever see the big picture. You can't see any picture!
Spike: I am talking about something primal. Right? Savagery. Brutal animal instinct.
Angel: And that wins out every time with you. (in Spike's face) You know, the human race has evolved, Spike! (walks away from Spike)
Spike: (follows Angel making mocking gestures) Oh, into a bunch of namby-pamby, self-analysing wankers who could never hope to-
Angel: We're bigger. We're smarter. Plus, there's a thing called teamwork, not to mention the superstitious terror of your pure aggressors!
Spike: You just want it to be the way you want it to be.
Angel: (yelling) It's not about what I want!
We hear Wesley's voice speaking.
Wesley: (walks up to the office door) Sorry. Is this something we should all be discussing?
Angel: (clearly embarrassed to be caught by Wes, backs away from Spike) No.
Wesley: It just...sounds a little serious.
Angel: It was mostly...theoretical. We...
Spike: (calmly) We were just working out a b- (passionate again) Look, if cavemen and astronauts got into a fight, who would win? (crosses his arms and looks expectantly at Wes)
Wesley: Ah. You've been yelling at each other for 40 minutes about this?
Angel looks down, Spike stares at Wes, still expecting an answer. Wesley looks pensive, crosses his arms.
Wesley: Do the astronauts have weapons?
Angel: & Spike: (simultaneously) No.
*laugh laugh laugh* Video is here.
The later, I love how the issue grips all of Wolfram & Hart.
Fred: But that doesn't make any sense.
Lorne: I just call it like I see it.
Fred: But the cavemen have fire. That's what they live with in their caves. The astronauts should at least have some sort of weapon.
*laugh*
Then the episode takes a turn for the very dark ..... Lorne walks away and promises he'll find Fred for lunch.
Lorne: I'll just look where the sun shines. (sings) You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...
Lorne starts down the stairs and Fred, smiling, starts to sing to Wes in a happy manner: You make me happy-
The instant Fred starts singing, Lorne stops in his tracks and turns back to Fred in horror. It's like a moment in a horror movie because there's just shock and dread as you look at Lorne's face - suddenly Fred coughs up blood and collapses. It's awful.
Later when the team are talking about how Fred is dying, Spike looks agonised.
Angel: Her organs are cooking. In a days time, they'll liquefy.
Spike: (a look of horror comes over his face, then fades to determination) No. Not this girl. Not this day.
I love how much he has come to care about Fred. He is genuinely fond of her and grateful to her for what she has done for him.
Angel and Spike in England looking for the Deeper Well.
If I was into slash (which I am not :) I would have been over the moon at al the slashy bits in this episode. First of all there was the caveman/astronaut fight, now there's hand holding - albeit in order to hold the Thread of Razor-like Decapitating Sharpness.
Spike: Strategy?
Angel: Just hold my hand.
Spike raises an eyebrow, but reaches out to take Angel's hand.
But still.
Spike: (nods) St. Petersburg.
Angel: Thought you'd forgotten.
Hand holding is hand holding ;)
I did love the obnoxious Drogyn of whom you could not ask questions and Spike's incessant baiting of him.
Spike: So, you two know each other. (Drogyn glares at him) That was a statement. I already know that you do.
Drogyn: I'll tell you as much as I can. The old ones were demons pure. They warred as we would breathe-endlessly. The greater ones were interred, for death was not always their end. Illyria was feared and beloved as few are. It was laid to death in the very depths of the well... until it disappeared a month ago.
Spike: Someone took it from under your nose a month ago, and you didn't miss it 'til now? That makes you quite the crap jailer, doesn't it. (Drogyn glares again) Also a statement.
Then later:
Drogyn: It's been freed-the demon's essence.
Spike: Yeah, it's been freed. Why do you think we're here?
Drogyn glares at Spike, who is sick of this and starts throwing questions at Drogyn in an obnoxious manner.
Spike: And what's your favourite colour? What's your favourite song? Who's the goalkeeper for Manchester United? And how many fingers am I holdin' up? (Spike holds up his index and middle fingers in a rude gesture) You wanna kill me? Try. But I don't have time for your quirks.
No more humour in the episode though. Angel makes the agonising decision to let Fred die because in order to save her, millions would have to die.
Fred's death was so sad. Unlike a lot of Celluloid Deaths, she didn't go quietly into the night - she didn't want to die. She resisted every step of the way. She wasn't offering words of comfort to Wes that it was her time to go, it wasn't his fault, she was moving on and blah blah blah. She wanted to live, she was trying to hang on and she was such a fighter. Her final words were so awful:
"Please, Wesley, why can't I stay?"
After Fred dies, her body transforms into Illyria. I think Illyria is really pretty and I adore the whole blue-hair look - but the downer is that for some reason she looks a bit like Dannii Minogue after her plastic surgery :P
Illyria stands up, her hair, eyes, and the edges of her face are blue. She looks down at her arm and hand to examine them, she flexes her fingers.
Then she says: "This will do."
*sigh*
Why does Joss Whedon like killing off all my favourite characters? Fred reminded me of the Willow I used to like when she was sweet, awkward, geeky and smart - before she went all weird, Wicca and borderline evil. It's so goofy though because even though the actress gets to stay so I should be happy, I can't help being really sad that they killed off the character of Fred! :P