Where to begin?

I think, that I might actually beging with the best part of the episode, which is spite of the hilarity of the Angel plot is the very last scene, and the preceeding scenes which lead up to this one. Because this, this is where what I have been waiting for since the end of season 2, finally happens. This is where my favourite character finally experiences that things go his way, one of the first times during the show that he’s actually happy. And that he experiences this with one of my other favourites is just a bonus.

Related to this one, final scene, are a whole bunch of other small scenes. The first one, where Angel talks to Wes about Nina, and Wes comments that Angel can be quite dense, refering to Angel’s failure to see the signals Nina sends out — and then Fred comes into the room and Wes acts just as dense; this is both painful and hilarious at the same time. Second is a scene where Wes and Fred is watching “Smile Time”, and Knox enters with two coffees, one of which he gives to Fred and then acts embarassed that he forgot to bring Wes one. Following this scene is a, well, a follow-up to an earlier scene, as Fred asks Knox to go, on the pretext that at least one of them should be awake enough to run the lab the next morning. The rivalry between Knox and Wes in this scene is so apparent it almost corporealises, and I guess that, added to his professional concentration, is one of the reasons why Wes still fails to pick up on Fred’s subtext. Or would-be text, if he hadn’t interupted her. More painfully funny stuff. Finally, there’s the short scene in which they try to shut down the Nest Egg, and are ambushed by that weird puppet whose name I can’t remember at the moment. R something. Or L. Anyway, this time it’s Fred who saves Wes’ life by shooting a would-be killer. Fun parallell.

Just too bad things won’t last very long for them. :cry:

Then there’s obviously the whole puppet thing, and how being a puppet amplifies Angel’s emotions, especially the eager ones. Or so I think; the way he throws himself around Fred’s waist when she tells him there might be a way to turn him back, seems a little out of character for Angel. Even though he naturally is distressed at the moment, and distressed people are more disposed towards acting strangely, I guess. And to lend some not really needed, but still appreciated, comic weight to the episode, even though he’s a felt puppet stuffed with synthetic cotton, Angel is fully capable of beating Spike to a bloody pulp. Yay.