Just the nicest jaunt down mammary lane I've taken for
awhile (love those period costumes).
We have broody Angel drawing Darla over and over again. We have a deeply conflicted
Julie Benz, who -- as a human -- tries to bite Lindsey, who she informs wants
to screw Angel.
Darla: I'm not the one you
want to screw, though.
Lindsey: Wha ... ?
Darla: It's him. Angel.
* Antsy shippers everywhere spontaneously plotz *
We have Holland Manners lying to everyone. We have CORDY!!! We have Wes. We
have Gunn, who is smarter than all of them. We have ACTING CORDY, whose
"sister Darla" is living in ... yep, she tracked her down -- in the
Valley, and Cordy: "why go there unless you have to?"
We have Spike belching after eating a wagonload of Gypsies [peh! Gypsies are
feelthy people, let us speak of them no more!].
We have Angel saving the World's Cutest Baby™, as seen on
TV (how impossibly cute was that baby -- come on?!) We have Angel whippin'
around a few W&H minions saving Darla and we have Darla running out the
front door in search of a sire.
Man, that was one FULL episode. Good times, good times.
Lived up to the motto: Speak in a breathy baby voice and men everywhere will
fall all over themselves to
* help * you
Darla's riff on how humans get what they want vs. how vampires get what they
want was a lovely bit of psychology and a nice piece of writing. Julie did some
of her best work in this one, imo.