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1.2 Lonely Hearts

Angel: "Are you maybe in need of some rescuing?"

I enjoyed this one. Maybe not as much as the first episode, but it had its moments. There was a certain pathos in the way everyone in the bar kept talking about how much they hated singles bars ("You don't look like you belong here -- that's a compliment, by the way"); the way they kept talking, a bit sadly, about trying to make a connection. Although Angel was the personification of evil at one time, I thought he had a certain air of innocence to him. It made the tawdriness around him look tawdrier. (Is tawdrier a word?)

So Kate the "self-flagellating hypocrite slut" cop is probably the love interest for Angel that we heard about? Hmmm. I'll reserve my judgement. She's sort of too Barbie-pretty for me, although she has great eyes.

Doyle is cool. I like Doyle. I like Doyle with Cordy. I like Doyle with Angel. Think of the possibilities.

One thing bothered me; we've been told twice now that Angel can never have sex, because if he has an orgasm, he'll change. I had thought that it was the fact that he loved Buffy and achieved perfect happiness having sex with her that changed him, not just the sex itself. Orgasm doesn't automatically mean perfect happiness, right? I don't like the idea that our hero can never sleep with anyone, ever. But it is certainly an interesting plot device.

Poor Angel. Like Garbo, he just wants to be alone. He likes to mope in the dark. I'd like to mope in the dark with him.

Bits:

-- The Batman references were fun.

-- Loved Cordy's apartment, and Doyle's and Angel's reactions to Cordy's apartment.

-- "I'm a ... veterinarian." Now that was out of left field.

Quotes:

Doyle: "You need to chat people up a little more casual like. You know, hi, what's your name? How's life treatin' ye? What's that you say? Minions from hell gettin' you down?"

Doyle: "They're messages I get, you know from the higher powers, whoever they may be. You know, it's my gift."
Cordelia: "If that was my gift, I'd return it. I mean, you get those headaches, and you do this bleah thing with your face."

Kate: "Well, I'll tell you what. I can go wherever I want, and you can go to hell."
Angel: "Been there, done that."

Cordelia: "I've met a lot of demons, and slime aside, not a whole lot going on there."

Kate: "You're telling me you're an investigator?"
Angel: "More or less."
Kate: "Where is your license?"
Angel: "That's the less part.

Cordelia: "That is so high school. Cordelia wears bras. Oooh, she has girlie parts."

Doyle: "Yeah, well, we put together that list of eviscerating demons that you asked for. We actually narrowed it down to three or four."
Angel: "I saw it. It's a burrower."
Cordelia: "It's a donkey?"

Cordelia: "It's a parasite. It moves from body to body. And when it leaves one for the next, not going to gag here, but the first one goes kaplooey pretty fast."
Doyle: "Yep. Curdles like cream on a hot day."
Cordelia: "I believe I covered that with nondairy kaplooey?"

Okay, how about a two out of a possible four stakes for this one?

Billie

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