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4.1 Deep Down Angel: "What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then, I've been stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so a few months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. A kind of an M.C. Escher perspective." This episode was way over the top. It was riveting. I absolutely loved it. I don't know what I enjoyed more: Wesley keeping Justine prisoner in his bedroom closet? Fred zapping the crap out of Connor with a stun gun? Perhaps it was Lilah decapitating Linwood by remote control; one can only hope that Gavin is next. Or maybe it was Angel throwing Connor out of the hotel? Actually, it was probably a combination of all of these things. What fun. :) Wesley continues to be the most fascinating character on this show. He somehow captured Justine (I wonder what he did to get information out of her?), figured out what happened, acquired a boat, found and rescued Angel, and even fed Angel his own blood when he probably should have just fed Justine to him. And he did all this while continuing to carry on a torrid affair with Lilah. Why? Does Wesley still care about Angel, or did he just do it to inconvenience Wolfram & Hart? Could it be that Wes is planning to take Wolfram & Hart down, all by himself? I sure don't know, but I'm loving it. Go, Wesley, go. Gunn seemed to be getting closer and closer to figuring Connor out, but basically, he and Fred spent the entire summer spinning their wheels. If it had been up to them, Angel would still be deep down there, wouldn't he? Fred, who was doing so well with staking that vamp in the beginning and zapping Connor later, blew it by bitching out on Wesley. Did anyone even say, "Thank you for saving Angel, Wesley?" Will Angel forgive Wesley now? Those hallucination scenes were terrific -- even the unexpected love scene with Cordelia, which had some real emotion and charm. I noticed that two of the hallucinations ended with Angel killing someone he loves -- first Cordelia, and then Connor. Connor I can understand, but why Cordelia? Bits and pieces: -- Alexis Denisof got a better spot in the credits, and he deserves it. Interesting coincidence; he has the same spot his real-life girlfriend now has on Buffy. -- Fred: "Mr. Big-hit-in Vegas is too busy Danke Schone-ing the tourists to care about us ... He's lost the mission, bro." Gunn: "Well, we're about to lose this whole place, and you know you can't say 'bro.'" -- Lilah to Wesley, post-sex: "That didn't suck. Well, maybe just a little bit." -- Wesley to Justine: "We all get what we deserve. You and Holtz deserved each other. You two have so much in common: pain, loss, a deep-seated lack of anything approaching humor..." -- Gunn: "His nickname back in Quor-Toth was 'the Destroyer.' And unless you put 'Conan' in front of that, I'm guessing it's not a good sign." -- Lorne: "I've been booked out the wah and past the zoo; if I get any hotter, they'll have to stamp me out." -- Lilah: "I'm not sleeping with him for information." Linwood: "Please don't tell me it's the chiseled jaw." -- Linwood: "Are you actually telling me that you went over my head?" :) -- What exactly was Lorne referring to with that Fluffy remark? Inquiring minds want to know. -- A starved vampire will hang on indefinitely but will lose the higher brain functions? We didn't know that, did we? -- In the new season's hair report, Connor's is longer, cleaner, and better cut; Angel's is darker and shorter (how did that happen under the ocean?); Wesley's is also shorter, but he had access to Supercuts and Angel didn't; Fred's is getting way too long and straight (enemies can grab your hair, Fred!), and Gunn seems to have some fuzz on his chin now. -- Lilah looks a little tired to me. Maybe it's all that wild sex with Wesley. The Angel premiere was actually better than the Buffy premiere. Four out of four stakes, Billie |
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