Or…Angel’s fight could be extended to Buffy.
Which I think is the main reason the show is so good this year. Just when we started getting annoyed with the beast - whammo - dead. On BtVS it would have lasted for two more episodes.
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Having worked in media for 25 years, I can easlily say that one thing that’s a problem for many radio DJs, journalist, columnists, authors, writers, producers and directors is that they have nothing to say, no story to tell. The writers of Angel have a story to tell and moves it along, which Buffy used to have, but doesn’t anymore. The main themes of the first seasons of buffy is easy to find:
S1. Puberty, getting more and more independant from your family and fitting in with friends.
S2.First love, first sexual experiences, how you can only find true love if you let your guard down, but how it also makes you vulnerable.
S3. Coming of age. Taking command of your own life, instead of drifting aimlessly.
S4. Moving away from home and taking your first steps in the adult world.
S5. Realizing that the problems you had back in school is small and not very important, when faced with real adult life. You look back and realize that paying bills on time is more of a headache, than having a date for Saturday, which was the main concern not too long ago.
I realize that what I write about S5, is what’s generally thought of as the theme for S6 - Life as the Big Bad. In reality that happened in S5. There has been great, stand alone episodes in both S5+S6, but all in all, I can’t find a story. Maybe the theme for S6 was addiction, as played out with Willow and magic. How, when your own your own, away from parents, your tend to try things that were not done before. It sucked. Having Buffy flip burgers to pay the bills didn’t work either. That phase was played out with Xander getting an apartment.
Q.E.D. - The writers of Buffy doesn’t have a story to tell anymore.
Now don’t come and make me ramble about the themes of the four seasons of Ats. That needs more thinking. 
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I think we’re being a little hard on BtVS, honestly. I don’t know, I didn’t join BtVS ranks until early last year, and used FX to catch up. Unfortunately I have no such recourse for Angel, but I’ve been watching since about February and the show has been fantastic, I agree.
This episode was killer. The blood and flesh magic reminded me of Clive Barker for some reason, though I can’t remember which book. Anyway, excellent stuff.
I know I’m bumping this from page three now, a little late, but I tape the eps and watch them on Saturday (this week will be an exception). I wonder if the praise we sing for Angel now will vanish next season… after the end of S5 BtVS it seemed the show had nowhere to go, and I think that is still true (though I didn’t dislike S6 or 7). And this is a rather apocalyptic story arc on Angel, much more reminiscent of Glory than of Acathala (whatever, B S2 end).
Where do they go from here?
I still want to know what the deal is with her touch causing peoples flesh to rot, like the first guy that attacked her. It seems to me that it might be an idea they toyed with, but have since dropped.
Do we have any evidence that Conner getting dosed with Cordy’s blood had any effect? Perhaps, as a parent of Jasmine, he’s immune. Or does his troubled emotional state (before he “shares his pain” with Jasmine) indicate that something magical did happen to him with the Cordy blood thing?
I think it’s only when she actively requires to be healed that she rots the flesh of humans. Recall, Jasmine was cut by the vampire in the bowling alley and she was bleeding. To heal quickly, she absorbed whatever she needed from the “crazy guy” of the hospital, which resulted in only part of his face being rotted away rather than completely devouring him.
And I think we have a winner. That’s it, of course.
Do I get a prize? Perhaps a Great Sword? 
I am of the opinion that he’s seen her this way the whole time, which would be strange, but I could see it. There’s nothing to “cure” in him at all.