Brilliant!
Faith is salvaged to salvage Angel from Angelus.
I'm very disappointed, however, in Angelus' nose.
Angelus, instead of using his magnificent nose and keen eye for carnage, tracks
the Beast by beating up demon bar patrons. And once he finds the Beast, Cordy
is standing right there with it and he ... can't smell her?
That thrall of hers is getting to be a little too full-service.
Wesley has an excellent conversation with Lilah, and then with Faith. It's cool
that Faith feels the tug of her calling sufficiently to break out and address
Angelus.
And what a great reintroduction to Faith in this episode. "Like riding a
biker." And Wes saying "Five by five" when Faith asked him how he
was after falling tree stories onto a car.
Cordy kissing the Beast was absolutely unnecesary.
And I loved the "carpet fiber" Angelus left for them. "Welcome,
Faith!" indeed.
It's cool Angelus killed the Beast. I'm glad someone did. Not at all certain
why he killed the Beast -- it might have been a because he could thing. It
could be a shoop thing, but of course Angelus is not a vampire with a soul so
I'm not sure it counts.
Here it is, from S1x22:
The SHOOP
> The Beast
Cordy faced in an alternate reality in Reseda in "Birthday."
> The
vampire with a soul, once he fulfills his destiny, will shoop -- become human.
"It's his reward."
> He has to
survive the coming darkness, apocalyptic battles, a few plagues, and several --
oh, not that many -- fiends that will be unleashed.
And, according
to W&H, the vampire with a soul will also play a major role in the
apocalypse, but they don't know what, so they're trying to make him dark so
he's fighting on their side.
Theoretically, he fights on the side of good to achieve his reward. But say
he's playing a major role in the apocalypse and at a critical juncture he
becomes human, somebody kills him and that's how they avert the apocalypse.
Hmmm ...
Angelus is useless to W&H -- no soul, just another vampire. Angie is closer
to the mark -- ensouled but still dark.
None of them are especially useful to Jasmine. So again, what the hell
is she doing? All she did by releasing Angelus is make Angel more dangerous and
unpredictable than he might be -- making him all the more likely to defeat the
Beast (unless she honestly thought they'd build an alliance and work together
and how is that in line with any of her sinister plans?)
Oy, she's so hard to read. Maybe she's not evil. Maybe she's just wacky.
Powers? Anything?
Powers That Be: * sip *
Erg. Arg.
I liked Faith's interactions with everyone. And her very clever breaking of
that window and letting the sunshine in, to give herself time to recover.
That's, I'm guessing, why Angelus left, instead of just hanging around til the
sun went down.
Is it wrong that when Faith was fighting Angelus that those little effort
noises she was making sounded ... like other noises?
Hot noises?
Does that seeem right to you?
JASMINE WATCH: That kiss between Cordy and the Beast was creepy. But somehow,
her smooch with Connor at the end seemed even creepier.