ANGEL
S4x09 –
Long Day’s Journey
Review by Terry J. Aman
They block out the what now?
As Ra conducts his journey across the sky, the silliness reaches crisis levels.
Gwen arrives and by and by they discover there's only one totem left alive. They
put him in a safe place and Cordy kills him. Oh, I mean, she finds a way to get
the Beast in there and he destroys Manny and gets away with the Orb. Um, I mean
… the Beast got in there himself and killed him. That’s right. That’s what
happened. Roiiiiight.
Now, normally when this sort of thing happens we've been given a little more
backstory. As viewers, we're just watching Cordy break down a little with the
craziness and the suspicion.
We don't yet know that she's evil. We don't find out for sure until the Lilah
pokeage in "Cavalry." And we never really find out why. Jasmine the
motive force, Jasmine the thrall, seems to be a much different being with much
different priorities than Jasmine the Presence.
The story, what the Beast does, isn't even a little bit possible. I don't know
how large that whatever-it-must-be over L.A. is, but it's very troubling and
very silly and the sooner they get rid
of it, the better.
So, the darkness, and the chaos, and the Beast. I've got a nutty idea -- let's
bring Angelus into the mix.
Oh, for the love of gardening ...
Oh, and if the effect was localized in L.A., the "meteorological
anomaly" should've been following the sun around in the sky. As it was, it
was always noon and the effect always looked like it was covering the whole
sun.
Well, probably it means something
truly wonderful is coming. 