"Damage" (1/28) w/spoilers and complaints
POSTED BY: SpikeSpiegel
UPDATED: Friday, January 30, 2004 03:26
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When Spike said that both he & Angel were innocent victims once was an "Ah-hah!" moment for both hubby and myself. What a great episode...
BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."
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Sigh. Mild spoiler in that I badly paraphrasse the teaser for next week's 100th episode.
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Originally posted by Stillshiny:
I was all over this episode. ... It's all about great story-telling.
Mm, but lengthy soliloquies in which, say, Wesley has to say, say, "Yes but we all know that Cordelia slipped into a coma after being forced to give birth to a goddess-demon named after a flower, who tried to hypnotize the world, after Cordy apparently ascended to be a power that is, which is what we call the distant godlike forces of justice in the world."
I mean, Andrew going over what a slayer is at that meeting was embarrassing. It ended with Angel saying, "Yes, we all know that." He should've then looked straight into the camera and said, "But maybe some of you didn't."
And I notice that the show started without a "Previously on Angel" montage. Perhaps a one-minute intro at the start of the show would obviate the need for a lot of that exposition. Could've covered the W&H takeover, what a slayer is, Spike's new hero role, the whole shebang. And the lost exposition would've left time to actually deal with the barely-mentioned Eve subplot and Spike's utterly absent "new friend" "Doyle."
Next week's exposition should at least be entertaining, since the next-week clip showed Cordy saying stuff like, "And let me get this straight, Spike's a good guy now?" and such.
"Bang."
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I didn't have screaming hissy fits for the lack of Christian Kane. I'm rather surprised.
Oh, to the person who didn't see the first two seasons: Get them. Watch them. You need to know Lindsey's motivation. (He's the guy who called himself "Doyle" and got Spike on his "righteous" path) He's an awesome character and had a fabulous stint in S2.
As for the episode, the psycho Slayer was just a wee bit predictable, though it did make for a good episode. I knew it was going to be a just turned Slayer when I heard the first thump on the metal door. Once we got past the psych hospital with ZERO security and a staff who haven't read the new HEPA rules (about a year ago there was a *huge* patients bill of rights passed that has an enormous impact on the amount of confidentiality that is expected...) I actually loved it.
Nothing about Spike's hands being cut off didn't make sense. It made *perfect* sense to me. Dana was reliving her nightmare and exacting revenge on the person who hurt her, or on the person who she thought had hurt her. Nothing superfluous about that. I actually have a very low tolerance for gratuitous violence and that wasn't gratuitous. Yes, it was disturbing. It was *supposed* to be. Hence why it was so good.
I LOVE that Buffy & Slayers don't trust Angel! I sure as hell wouldn't.
Why would Giles trust Andrew? Desperation is a part of it. Have we so quickly forgotten that the entire Watchers Council was killed? You have to start somewhere and since Andrew did help in the big battle. It's also because if Buffy now trusts him, Giles will.
Grrrrr!!!! I's SO PISSED!!! I didn't get out of the room before my husband started watching the trailers for next week! I HATE knowing too much! Only saw the eyes open, but that's WAY too much information for me.
A rethink of my Lindsey theory: Perhaps what Eve meant by him "fixing the race" does not mean diverting the senior partners' attentions on Spike. Perhaps it means he wants to make sure that instead of the "vampire with a soul" fighting on one side or the other, that EACH side has one....Hmmmmm...
--Kala
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Just a question
Do you think Cordy might remember Connor ?
The possibility rather excites me, would make for a great story
" Thats not fair !!!!
I didn't even have a soul when I did that!"
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