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4.20 Sacrifice Lorne: "Speaking of moot, what about us? Anyone else feel like the last feisty wife in Stepford?" Names are magic, as is blood. But discovering one magical weakness in a supernatural foe is too fairy tale for me. "Maybe it was embarrassing, like Hester or Peanut." Rumpelstiltskin is my name? Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice? I'll try not to feel too disappointed until I see how it plays out. Jasmine, a.k.a. the Devourer, is eating five people at a time now. Her healing and communication powers are accelerating along with her creepiness factor. I'll admit at this point that she is much scarier than Glory, probably because Gina Torres can act rings around Claire Kramer. Sorry about that, Claire. Angel is very much the fearless, heartless leader guy here, giving the tough orders, grimly beating up Connor (I never get tired of that), and ready to sacrifice anyone to save the world, including himself. Angel said at the beginning, "Someone who knows the truth has to live through this," and Wesley said it back to Angel before Angel left for Dimension X to seek out Jasmine's true name. Will Angel return in time before one of the gang dies? Speaking of which, did Jasmine eat Cordelia? Probably not; Cordelia is too important a character to die in such a pointless way, and she is physically Jasmine's mother. Jasmine said that Cordelia is "where I want her to be," so maybe Cordelia is in another dimension or something. I honestly thought Connor would at least question Cordelia's disappearance, but it's like it didn't happen. Jasmine is working hard on Connor, which could be very bad. Fred was right and Angel was wrong; they should have taken Connor along, even if they had to bind, gag, and blindfold him. Okay, nitpicks. L.A. is a huge city that runs into a lot of other cities. What are the odds that Gunn is going to run into someone he knows in the sewers? And Gunn said Randall Golden stole Gunn's car; I thought Gunn was very poor and only had a truck that he literally sold his soul for? And while I'm bitching, how come Gunn and Fred had to stop at an extremely urgent moment and talk about murdering the professor? Bits and pieces: -- David Boreanaz has been looking better in the past couple of episodes. What did he do, take up yoga or go on the Hollywood Diet? Maybe he has a shot at a big movie part. Whatever it is, I like it. -- Gray Davis is dissolving his administration tonight? Please, Jasmine, fly to Washington immediately. And if I'm going to make a political comment, let me add that it was nice to hear Lorne mentioning the current appalling media bias. Hear, hear. -- The skitter critters were more gross than scary. Yuck. But the skitter critter dimension was cool-looking. I'm looking forward to seeing more of it. -- Lorne got a lot of great lines here: "I hear good things about Belize," "I ever tell you I suck at sports?" Loved him explaining demon prejudice to the sewer gang, too. -- So where should Jasmine build her temple? Disneyland? Universal Studios? Hollywood and Highland? The Santa Monica Pier? -- Is it me, or does "Love is sacrifice" sound a lot like "Death is your gift?" Two out of four stakes. Is there really only two more to go? Billie |
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