Seriously, she’d make my top ten list of hottest female Buffyverse characters, without a doubt.
Anyway, this was one of those episodes that was carried mainly by the character interaction. From the beginning, with its fake picnic (Gunn: “We all got something out of this deal.” Wes: “I did get this rather nice pen. It has my name on it…” — that’s the first scene I’ve seen in a very long time where the old Wes really came to the surface again. And that’s nice.), through the sniping and the light bickering of the main body of the episode, and to the cozy little scene at the end. It’s always good to see the friendship parts, too, and not just the conflicts. Also, Angel’s conversation with Nina about how he deals with his more or less internal monster was interesting. Because insight’s cool.
But the whole thing with the werewolf-eating rich people… I understand that they needed a novel backdrop for the whole werewolf scenario, some way to do the werewolf thing and creating something Nina could feel guilty about without pitching her as the villain. But it felt so half-hearted, I have to say that this isn’t exactly their best episode plot.
But the whole’s nice, and that what’s matters. And there’s also some continuity stuff, not only in that it once again turns out that one of “their” W&H employees move in the dark grey areas of morality, but also in the including of all that Spike stuff.
Well, I’d better get on with it. I plan on watching at least two more episodes tonight, before getting a good night’s sleep, because I sat up late last night, playing DnD with the guys I live with (how the hell can I phrase that in a way that sounds slightly less gay? 
), and we’ll most likely be doing the same most of the weekend.
So toodles for now! 
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“But the whole thing with the werewolf-eating rich people… I understand that they needed a novel backdrop for the whole werewolf scenario, some way to do the werewolf thing and creating something Nina could feel guilty about without pitching her as the villain. But it felt so half-hearted, I have to say that this isn’t exactly their best episode plot.”
Really? To me, it made a world of sense. In a universe where werewolves existed and only a small elite knows, there WOULD be someone making some kind of elitist entertainment out of it, and it being a rare exotic food does not seem farfetched at all, it seems stunningly and impressively natural and it impressed me that the writers had conjured up such an idea. (The things that’d be most natural in such different universes are usually the stuff that’s most difficult to think up)
Speaking of moral grey, the episode is a huge step towards the black as Angel tells them they can have his W&H-weasel.
1. March 2007 @ 21:41 ( Permalink )
“Really? To me, it made a world of sense.”
I’m not saying the idea doesn’t make sense; I’m saying that I’m not too thrilled by the execution of it. It kinda felt like they forced it into the episode, just to have some bad guys. But hey, it’s still pretty damn far away from a bad episode.
“Speaking of moral grey, the episode is a huge step towards the black as Angel tells them they can have his W&H-weasel.”
Yeah. And there’s some similar stuff in the next episode, too, when Angel just locks that 18th century evil dude in his own personal Hell. Naturally, in “Unleashed”, he had more of a choice as to what he was gonna do with the “uneasy element”, whereas the Pavayan ( ? ) character had a lot of abilities that prevented Angel from just killing him and sending him to the Hell he deserved. And that doctor guy in ep 3 was of course also on a whole different level, evil wise. Also, it’s not unreasonable to say that Angel provided a substitute for Hell when he couldn’t get the real thing. So I guess there are a lot of differences after all.
But it felt real dark.
Finally. I forgot to mention one thing in the post: In the episode’s final scene, when the Angelettes are all gathered in Angel’s appartement, Lorne remarks to Angel, “speaking of a room with a view” — something I like to think of as a small hommage to all the stuff the various members of the Angelettes have been through together, and possibly also to the two of them who’re not around any more. It’s probably just my imagination, but I think it’s a nice thought.
1. March 2007 @ 22:37 ( Permalink )
I’m probably slow, how does that Lorne-comment refer to Doyle and Cordy?
1. March 2007 @ 22:56 ( Permalink )
Rm with a VU?
1. March 2007 @ 23:21 ( Permalink )
Ahhhhh…
1. March 2007 @ 23:27 ( Permalink )