Gunn: "I'm so glad I hooked up with
the two of you. It's entertaining.
Development: ANGEL SAVED THE WORLD!
For physics demons, they're pretty
dumb. Inside that bubble, they've put an end to all humanity, yes, but all of their
activity as well.
And time within the bubble isn't supposed to move at all, right? So what
happens with the spinning of the Earth and its orbit around the sun? It
shouldn't take any time at all for that bubble to be crashing through the
ceiling and hurtling through space as the entire planet glides silently away.
But the field stabilizers are moving too ...
What it should look like is it should trace a time bubble arc consistent with
the point defined at the event horizon.
Or else ...
If it only works at the point of the stabilizers, it's only going to create a
bubble large enough to encompass the machine, and that would hang
forever motionless in space. We could wave at it every year, except that the
sun is continuing in its course around the galaxy, so it would be a good ways
away by the time we came around again.
Or, once the power source was interrupted, it would shut down and everyone
inside would fall like about a centimeter. Even so, there'd probably be a pile
of rubble or something similar where the bubble had been, so destabilized would
the inside be.
How does a physics grad student schooled in the subtleties of a relativistic
universe overlook such glaring concerns?
Wesley: It's simple, really; you just sift the clues until the solution pops
out at you.
Wesley's summation was well-written. Clearly whoever wrote that has been
jonesing to write that forever. It was cool that they solved the case
beyond the case. Good team!
Cordy: We'll do it! We'll do anything!
Virginia: Oh, that's … so sad.
The physics were good, but sadly reminiscent of one of those new episodes of
"The Outer Limits," which were written by, oh, whoever was hanging
around. Or to quote Pearl: "It stars no one and features nothing." If
the demons could just morph the equation like that (and this timestop thing
would fill every blackboard in California, but only after it had already filled
all computer memory, looseleaf notebooks, hotelroom walls and blank CDs
available) why hadn't they done it before?
Yutzes. I guess maybe no one had ever gotten close enough to the truth before
then. It'd probably be like asking your dog to balance your checkbook.
"What the ... ?"
Lorne: The acoustics in this place!
Lorne was fantastic throughout. The pipes on that boy! And the Lubbock demons or
whatever they were: "Agh! Run away! It's the attack or the endless stream
of John Kerries!" (nothin' but love, guys). I'm pretty sure Kerry's a
regular poster on the 'Tome as BingBoi869. The tracking down of Karaoke Boy
was a lot more sensible than I'd remembered it. That was a nice bit of
reasoning on the part of the writer -- trail through a bunch of karaoke bars. I
couldn't think why, otherwise, Lorne had never seen him.
Angel: "That's right, he's a demon. You'd better watch out or he might,
y'know, talk your ears off or something."
Angel's spiritual ennui was well thought out. It made a lot of sense in the,
um, 50 or so words they devoted to it. No one is beyond redemption. He saw
Darla reach out and touch it, hold it in her grasp. He darked up too quickly in
my opinion.
Observations: The physics: Obviously someone's been reading. They had to invent
Fred or else someone was gonna just explode. And they didn't turn the show into
a string of math. I like that they tried to include it though. I love physics.
More observations: That sorta Tina Fey type character crushing on Physics Boy.
"And if you say it, I'll push your face into liquid nitrogen." and a
number of other good lines. Whoever was scripting this really missed writing
for Cordy.
Summing up, I did enjoy this eppy, a lot more than I did the first time I saw
it. There were things, but they're nitpicky. Ultimately, Angel Investigations
is on its way, Angel's coming out of his funk, and the show is heading back
toward reconciliation. Bumkicky.