Angel: "I couldn't help but notice
the goats. Lotsa goats. Goats, many."
And that's not the only Buffy reference we got tonight. I've always thought of that
as a line she would say, y'know? Sounds like her a lot.
No fan of both shows could possibly miss the parallels between Angelus
awakening in Buffy and what we just saw at the end. Although I'm pretty sure
Darla doesn't provide anyone with Perfect Happiness™. Unless she's charging for
it, anyway.
I wonder what Darla was after with that glove and that ring. What did she think
she was going to accomplish? Defeating the Senior Partners? Then the question
we need to ask ourselves is this: Why?
I loved the reference with Denver, the bookstore guy, btw. He looked plenty old
enough. People are pretty well preserved in California. Maybe he had work done.
I also loved how Angel denied having been of any help. Very cool. Oh, Angel,
you help in your own way.
But the most shocking thing of all ...
I think Mr. Nasty may have been right.
* record scratch * WHA???
No, really. In direct response to this program, what Holland Manners said in
the lift, I think Jasmine stood poised to erase all evil from everyone's
hearts. She could've won. She could've beaten the Senior Partners. Everything
could be so wonderful.
* Mr. Nasty – a long-established Jasminion from tv.com – leaps pantlessly
around his home, whooping *
She, as a Rogue Power, could've decided it was time to manifest on Earth and
eradicate the evil of the world. And then who cares who's dead, so long as the
Senior Partners are no more.
It was a singularly dishonest way of going about it. If, instead of wasting
time playing with her puppet minions, she'd have just eaten all of them and
sent out glorious waves of love, she might have done it.
Except that there'd have been all of that evil in her heart, the pride,
the unstoppable ambition, that big, big temple, the work she left unfinished in
the Blue World.
I don't know. It has raised a great deal of doubt in my mind. I don't know what
the world would be like without any evil, and I don't think I could know,
because I'd probably be eaten and dead ...
Actually, scratch that. I'm very happy she was punched through the head. Kudos,
Connor.
And you can stop the cavorting mid-prance, Mr N. I was just funnin' ya.
Wesley: "Things are going to get better for all of us."
Well, we can see why he doesn't get the visions.
I'm gonna miss Kate. I'm the single member
of the Kate fan club, but I just love that girl. She was so completely broken
up by everything. It's really too sad.
Now ... why did the demons kill the Sharps? That seems unnecessary. They
could've bred the heck out of them. Extraneous eyes all around.
As for the review ...
OK, that's a Senior Partner, right, materializing in this realm? Joss had no
idea what they were, did he? DAMMIT Joss, the SECOND you thought of a Senior
Partner you should've figured out what it was. Later a "Mr.
Suvato" gets mentioned, and that just seems really unlikely if we're
talking about the "Wolf, Ram and Hart" all the rest of the time.
How'd they miss Darla at the ceremony? Even if it's just vampire detectors,
they should've been chattering like mad.
Angel: "In the larger sense, I don't give a crap."
Holland, so good to see you again.
Holland: "It's always something, isn't it."
Well, with you around, absolutely.
Holland: "We have no intention of doing anything so prosaic as winning."
"Redefinition" was a great title. People's lives were redefined --
Wes broke up with Virginia (it was that video from the fund-raiser wasn't it.
It got back to her, I'm sure of it), Kate got fired, Gunn left everyone (what
the hell was he up to all day?), Lilah has no reason to ever trust
Lindsey again, Darla was going for redemption on some level or another (for
whatever reason), and The Game was redefined.
Welcome to hell, ladies and gentlemen, with hate and evil in all of our hearts,
making us do things, making us write bad checks and screw farm animals.
The devil makes us do it.
Bull. However, interesting theory, no?
Holland: "If there was no evil in people, they'd all be angels."
One moment please, however, quick redirect: Duh.
* sigh * Ah well. As Angel said, "None of it matters."
So then you bed a vampire.
Meh, I think he'll probably be OK. How 'bout you?