Cordy: "You have great taste! You
have ... a gay man's taste. And that's saying something! Clothes! I have
new clothes!" * random giggling *
Ah, old friends.
I love the themes in this episode. And the ... oddness. So, is it worse
to find out your best friend's a vampire than it is to find out she's gay? What
messages are we sending to the next generation?
Harmony. Cordy with a crossbow at her throat and her heart. A flick of a finger
could've made S5 ... just the tiniest bit less loopy.
Harmony: "Cacaphony. That's pretty. What does it mean?"
Lorne said Cordy would show Harmony her destiny. She really didn't. Unless she
got inspired to be an office manager or something (possible, I suppose).
All those vampires in the secretary pool. Those vampire detectors at W&H
must be going nuts all the time.
Cordy letting her live was a little weird. But so is Harmony's evil. We all
remember the Harmony gang, right? This was a strangely different Harmony than
sauntered out of Spike's crypt in – was it Triangle? I forget episodes.
I think it's entirely possible that Harmony Kendall had more soul than James
Brown. Either that, or her sheer vapid cluelessness shackled her demon in a way
few others could.
Harmony was OK in this eppy. She got Angel all hot for blood again –
interesting that it's so near the surface.
And the office situation was such a pretense. Angel's the Alpha. Wes respects
it and Gunn resents it and Cordy's trying to act disinterested, but there's no
way that awkward dynamic can possibly last.
Meanwhile -- fun eppy. The pyramid "duck worshiping" motivational
cult thingie was pretty good (although vamps running from that fight was just
wrong – they started running before the first vamp bit it, so to speak). And
when the key fell and they dusted that vamp, it looked more like a sprinkle of
talcum powder.
Oh well, time for one final thought:
"Touching! With the hands!!"