I re-watched the episode again this morning, and I don’t think Angel was signaling anything to Wesley or Fred with the text-reading. Angel wouldn’t have risked Wesley saying aloud “I think Cordelia is up to something” when Cordelia was right there.
Lucky bastard-- where do you live. I’m in Vancouver, and drewcosten must be in Ontario, where the ep did not air on city’s junior affiliates.
Yup, in Toronto.
Well, according the the NewVR’s website this ep is going to play next tuesday at the scheduled time, so looks like we’re gonna be a week behind up here unless next week is scheduled to be a rerun.
I think I pinpointed exactly when Angel knew Cordy wasn’t herself. It was when she was about to tip the coffee over onto the reconstructed translations. It’s been well-estbalished that Angel has a preternatural awareness of precarious coffee cups. In the first season alone, there’re at least three different times that Angel meets someone in trouble and shows off by grabbing a dropped coffee cup before it can hit the ground. Clearly, he noticed Cordelia toying with the coffee cup and deduced the sabotage she was planning.
I’m not saying I want to be a vampire, but damn, that would be handy skill to have.
I guess it pays to live in the great white north. I’m in Yellowknife, but I’d assumed the satellite feed was the same in all of the west. That’s if you think of the NWT as the west I guess.
I don’t think that it was a hidden message in the text. If Angel was reproducing the text from visual memory, then he doesn’t know the language. And pretending not to know the language and hiding a hidden message is a little too complex, expecially compared to dragging Wes, Fred, and Lorne off into a corner and planning something whe Cordy is playing with Conner.
robertliguori: It also assumes that whatever it is that is possesing or otherwise mimicing Cordy can’t read whatever language it is they’re passing notes in. I think he was doing exactly what he said he was doing. Further, I suspect this is a setup for an extradimensional book-buying jaunt in a future episode, as Angel and the gang go looking for other unexpurgated volumes on other planets.
I think Angel knew as soon as Cordy appeared on the stairs. I mean, hell, if “I didn’t want to be a distraction” isn’t a lame excuse to not tell anyone about a mystical pregnancy, I don’t know what is.
I loved Lorne’s reaction when he saw Cordy. That was hilarious.
God, I want a dress like that one…
I was a bit upset by Gunn making love with Gwen. I really hoped that he and Fred would reconcile. After he nearly caught her kissing Wesley and freaked out, then after Fred made the “I want to go back to the way things were before” speech, I really thought those two crazy kids would get it back together. Oh, well, maybe now she’ll get together with Fred. (slashy thought- with all the parallels I’ve been drawing between Wesley/Lilah and S6 Spike/Buffy, Wesley/Fred would look an awful lot like Buffy/Willow. At least it would from where I’m sitting.)
I thought Cordy’s dress was horrible.
Mmmmm…Electro-Girl. Mmmmmm.
And…ummmm…the other stuff was cool too.
Except that he knows that Wesley is smart enough not to.
Darn, hamsters used my reply for nesting material.
Go Gunn, he proves he can kick ass, and knows when to not kick ass. Not just acting suave, being suave. Gwen could be good for him, showing him that he’s more than just muscle, which is clearly his assigned role back with the gang. Still, he should end up back with Fred. But for now, Gunn and Gwen works.
I liked the continued use of Lorne’s secret messages. First Fluffy, now this peach of a demon. And I think Angel was trying to goad Cordy into reckless action by calling the Beast’s boss dumb. Not sure when exactly he figured it out.
—Still, he should end up back with Fred.—
Yeah, that wasn’t a completely lifeless relationship with no chemistry even before they murdered Sidel or anything.
Wes and Fred 4EvA!