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MY OBSESSION WITH AN ANGEL

First episode of season three! WOW! What a premiere! And Cordy's hair! AHHHHHH!!!! It looked good! I love her hair now! And her outfits are coming along nicely! But enough of that ANGEL! OH MY GOSH! He looked good enough to eat! And lighter clothing too! And he smiled! He smiled he smiled he smiled! He looked soooooooooooooooo good! OK, deep breath, moving on to the episode. Interesting storyline. That blond dude said so much stuff! It must've hurt...at least he's healing, you know?, but like, still...it must've hurt. Here are the quotes:

ANGEL: (to Cordy) Get back.

JAMES: Well, this is a new twist in an old snake. Is it possible you care about someone who isn't you?

ANGEL: (glances back at Cordy) Don't worry about her.

JAMES: But if you've changed ... if you're not the same man who screwed Darla and couldn't care less what happened to her...

ANGEL: Where did you hear ... Oh, you mean back in the day. Right.

CORDELIA: (comes up behind Angel, addresses James) He has changed. A lot. He has a soul now and he cares about people.

JAMES: (to Angel) So you might feel something when I snap her neck.

CORDELIA: (backpedaling) Well, it's not like he's losing sleep with the caring.

JAMES: Lucky me, now I can kill the woman you love. (moves toward Angel)

ANGEL: No you can't.

JAMES: Are you forgetting who's the invincible one here?

ANGEL: The woman I love ... is dead.

JAMES: Who are you talking about?

CORDELIA: It happened about three months ago. We try not to say her name too much.

JAMES: You loved someone. (skeptical) With all your heart.

ANGEL: (softly) Yeah.

JAMES: No you didn't. Because if you had, you wouldn't be standing here playing games with me. You wouldn't be able to. Because when she died ... or when some bastard killed her, it would have killed everything in you.

ANGEL: I wouldn't be able to go on living.

JAMES: Don't worry. You won't. (re Cordelia) She won't either.

ANGEL: This your idea of love, James? It's not real unless it kills you?

JAMES: Yeah, what's yours? "It's fun as long as it doesn't cost me anything?" You don't know what love is.

JAMES: You think you won, just because you're still alive? (smiles) I lived. You just existed.

Oh the pain! Poor Angel! EVIL JAMES! Newayz, if I thought THIS was good I had a surprise comin. Last few minutes of the episode. Darla in a bar...Darla talkin to some guy...DARLA PREGNANT! You know what they say "Life's full of surprises."

This episode gets an A+

~That Vision Thing:

OK, this episode kicked ass! And that freaky brain dude! Man, was he nasty! Poor Cordy! Poor, sad, little Cordy. She thought Angel let her stick around for the visions, she never realized that Angel loved her (as a friend) and would do anything for her! Oh man! That part with the guard dude was priceless. Here are the quotes:

Demon: "Hi. - You know you're not supposed to be here, right?"

Angel: "Yeah. What about him?"

Angel looks over to the guy inside the burning cage.

Demon: "Oh, him? Oh, he's supposed to be here. Do you have any idea how monstrous a guy has to be before he gets sent to us? We're a *very* high-end institution."

Angel: "And it's your job to keep him here."

Demon: "Yeah. (Offers his hand) I'm Skip."

Angel takes the offered hand and they shake.

Angel: "Angel. - So, ah, you live in here, Skip?"

Skip: "No. I commute. It's not too bad - about twenty minutes."

Angel: "Uh, what keeps him in the fire?"

Angel: "How come he's not screaming in pain?"

Skip: "Oh, he is. My will prevents him from being heard. I mean there is only so many 'oh my god! The pain! Please make it stop!' that you can listen to before it starts to bug the crap out of you."

Angel: "I see your point."

Skip sniffs: "You're a vampire, right? (Angel nods) How come it smells like you work for the Powers That Be?"

Angel: "Cause I do."

Skip: "And you're here to try to - rescue this guy? (Angel nods) But we're on the same side. Shouldn't you be helping to keep him in here?"

Angel: "I know. I know. Long story. Involves a girl. I don't like it any better than you do."

Skip: "So I really can't talk you out of this."

Angel: "Sorry. I wish you could. I guess we just have to agree to..."

Angel staggers back as Skip hits him full in the face.

Angel: "...disagree."

Tee hee hee loved that dialogue. Newayz, I loved the ending (I seem to be loving the endings of all the episodes lately). Specially when Angel told Lilah "Don't you came at me through Cordelia ever again. You play that card a second time and I'll kill you." And it seems that Darla's baby is somehow protected. And it's true! Angel IS the daddy! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! Crazy! Episode get's a B+ cuz it really showed how much Angel cared for Cordy, still I had higher expectations of the episode. Heartthrob made me raise my expectations.

~That Old Gang Of Mine:

Oh wow....This episode was just wow....Total metaphor for alot of things. And Wesly demonstrated that the members of Angel Investigations should REALLY take their jobs seriously. I give the episode an A+.

Wouldn't it be funny if Angel actually joined the gym...tee hee hee. Sorry, I was just mentally picturing him with all those mortals, he could totally wow them by like, lifting a billion pounds...not really a billion but you know what I mean! By the way, this goes to show that not all old people are good! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I knew it all along! Sorry, back to this world now. And that whole "Did I ever tell you you're a beautiful woman" crap PISSED ME OFF! What a jerk! Angel was right, the reason the STUPID EVIL guy's heart was weak was because he never used it! Ooh! You know what was funny though? How the fake Angel thought he was gay and then thought that he was in a relationship with Wesley, who he thought was Fred. Funny funny shit! And Angel, first with the baby and then with the heart beat thingy! AWWWWWWWWWW that was soooooo touchy feely, it first made me think he'd be a great daddy and then I realized, he better be, cuz Darla's on her way. Oh! And poor Fred! I felt so sorry for her! EVIL OLD MAN! ARGH! And then the big finish, Angel finds out Buffy's alive. This episode was A+ material.

Awww! What a cute episode! The members of Angel Investigations never had parents like Fred's! That's so sad! And then when they were like trying to describe the parents and they were all at a loss of words and they all wished their parents were more like that. It was also really really sad! My Gosh! Poor Fred! She wanted to avoid her parents because if they were real then all the slave thing would be real too! Poor girl! Sad sad episode. And then there was the great plot twist, cuz you know, I figured her parents were evil evil people! But no, Fred was just scared. I guess now that she knows it was all real and she can no longer deny it, she can move on, you know?, start the healing process. Give the episode an A.

Angel: "Force the other guy to counter and he'll open himself up something like this. We'll go half-speed until..."

Angel puts his sword away.

Cordy: "No need, I got it. Three years of Varsity Cheer Squad, I only ever had to be shown a move once."

Angel: "You know, Cordelia, handling a lethal weapon is a *little* different from shaking a pom-pom."

Cordy: "Ready! O-kay!"

Cordy comes at Angel with the sword full-speed, ending with him up against the wall the sword inches away from his throat.

Angel: "Easy - Ha, ha - Go team."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a funny opening! I'm a cheerleader myself (first year though, seeing as how I'm a freshman.) so this was especially REALLY funny to me. Newayz, that was it for me. That was the only part I laughed about. The rest of the episode scared the living shit out of me. It wasn't like Angel, you know?, it wasn't about demons or vamps or anything like that, it was alot scarier than that, it was about real people. It was scary because I knew people like that existed and there were really terrified wives who tried to hide around the house. And there are really evil evil men who think like Wesley was thinking. Oh Gosh...yea, that was scary. And Lilah, her character is really getting deep and I'm starting to actually like her! I know, I never thought the day would come, but wow! She was awsome. Apart from all that deep stuff I thought it's awsome how Cordy and Angel's relationship is developing. From this episode on, I'm a total Angel/Cordy shipper! They HAVE to hook up! Give the episode an A+. Definitely an A+, it was soooooooooooo deep! I loved it!

We're introduced to Holtz. Weird little fellow. Big with vengeance. Oh wow! Man! Fred was so funny!

Fred: "When I see you and Cordelia sparring Kye-rumption always comes to mind."

Angel after a beat: "Me and Cordelia."

Fred: "I know. She's such a hero, with the visions and the courage. It's only natural that you and she would be drawn to one another. - Oh! Plastic flowers! (Hurries over to one of the vases) My favorite! They never fade, you know."

Angel: "Oh, whoa, wait a minute. There's nothing going on between me and Cordelia."

Fred: "Nothing but Moira."

Angel: "Who's Moira?"

Fred: "Moira is the gut physical attraction between two larger than life souls."

Angel: "Ha. No, there is no attraction. Cordelia is a friend. Someone I work with. That's all."

Fred grinning: "See? You're being chivalrous. Because you 're a hero, just like her. You got Kye-rumption!"

Angel: "Stop using that word!"

Somebody has a CRUUUUUUUUUUUUSH! That Angel/Cordy scene was priceless! Amazing! Here are the quotes:

Cordy after a while: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Angel: "Ah, no reason."

After a moment Cordy gets up and walks past Angel to pour a cup of coffee.

Cordy: "Okay. It's getting creepy now."

Angel: "I was just thinking about things. - People. You know. How they relate. Take you and me for instance. We're very different. *Very* different. Obviously (points at Cordy) human (points at himself) vampire. (points a Cordy) Woman (points at himself) man...pire."

Cordy: "Has someone been putting vodka in your blood?"

Angel laughs: "See? You're funny! And I, well I get off a good one every once in a while, but you..."

Cordy, sipping her coffee: "Angel, are you trying to say you love me?"

Cordy: "I love you too."

Angel: "You do? When did this..."

Cordy yells towards Wes open office door: "Angel loves me. I love him."

Angel: "Oh, my god!"

Cordy: "You guys love us and we love you."

Fred, Wes and Gunn chorus: "We love you Angel."

Cordy: "They were all saying it earlier. Just in case this prophecy comes true and we all die. - You're not gonna wanna hug, are you?"

Angel clears his throat and sits back shaking his head: "No."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Funny ass shit! And then Oh God! Just when things were going so well Darla appears! ARGH! Forget Angel and Cordy, right now it's all about Angel and Darla. And dang! but the whole Cordy being protective of Darla thing was really stupid! But I guess she learned her lesson. Oh wow! The kid is human! Not just that, Holtz is here, NOW, how can that be? Give the episode a B+.

We learn more of the Holtz thing. Poor man! Still, my theory stands he's big with vengeance and now he's here. Here's an obvious question, I wonder what's gonna happen? Duh! He's gonna go after them and become the season's big bad! You wait and see. So Gavin's been spying on Angel, WHAT A SICK TWISTED MAN! I hate that guy! I loved Lindsey! How could they replace him with this stupid, walking, talking, pathetic little thing! ARGH! Wolfram and Hart is EVIL! Oh, and they know Darla's pregnant, gee I wonder what they're gonna do about it? They're gonna go after the baby, get it slice it open and then see why he came to exist! EVIL PEOPLE! Linwood is a piece of shit! Screw him! And we finally find out how Holtz got to the 21st century...goody. Darla was funny though. Tee hee hee. The whole scene at the hospital cracked me up. OK, glad Holtz hasn't teamed up with Wolfram and Hart, if only that idiot knew how easily he could kill Angel if he teamed up with the lawyers. And OH MY GOSH! Angel came face to face with Holtz. Why the hell did they cut the episode?! ARGH! I need to know what happens! This episode was mostly filler, you know, giving us info and stuff, nothing big happened so I give it a B.

The intro was the funniest thing ever, and the "Previously on Angel" totally summed it up.

Wes: "Now it's up to us to protect Angel's unborn child. - Darla, we're trying to take you out of here. Relax. The trick is to breathe. Something like this: (Wes demonstrated short panting breaths) Heh, heh, heh, hoh, hoh, hoh, heh, heh, heh..."

Darla: "I! Don't! (Sits up and sends all four of them flying backwards, away from the car, morphing into her vampface) Breathe!"

Hahahahahahaha! Darla's funny. But Oh My Gosh!!! Angelus and Darla were so cruel to Holtz. They turned his own daughter, for cryin out loud! They turned a vampire-hunter's daughter into a vampire. Oh Gosh! EVIL! But Angelus seems like a saint compared to all these lawyers! Geez! Evil people man! They turn on each other! AHHHHHHH! Darla was crying in the car! tee hee hee "Hormones" hahahahaha! Figures, why would the evil demon tell Holtz Angel had a soul, what terrified me though, was the way Holtz reacted to it. Brrrrrrrrrrrr. Poor Lorne! Caritas is blown away just when it was getting back on track. All those dialogues between Angel and Darla got me teary eyed. But if I thought that was it, I had a whole new thing comin. OK, here comes the saddest part of the episode...the ending. I cried. I seriously cried. BY the end of the episode I honestly loved Darla, she couldn't have killed herself! Couldn't have! It was so sad...Darla's gone now... :o( Lucy's sad. Here is the dialogue:

Darla is standing on top of a building looking over the city below, her hands cradling her pregnant belly.

Angel: "You always did love a view."

Darla: "Look at it. Listen to it. Can you smell it? This world. This horrible world. Why would anyone want to bring a baby into it?"

Angel: "To make it better, maybe?"

Darla: "Or to destroy it finally."

Angel: "Why is it everyone insists on planning my son's future before he's even born?"

Darla turns and walks past where Angel is standing.

Darla: "Alright then, how's this? It doesn't have a future. Not with me."

Angel follows her: "Darla..."

Darla: "Angel, I can't have this baby."

Darla: "I can't let it out. I-I can't."

Angel: "Okay, not sure you have a lot of choice in the matter..."

Darla: "Look, I know. It wants to come out. I can feel it. It's ready. It's just - I can't let it. I can't let because... because..."

Angel: "You love it."

Darla: "Completely. I love it completely. I-I-I don't think I've ever loved anything as much as this life that's inside of me."

Angel: "Well - you've never *loved* anything, Darla."

Darla: "That's true. Four hundred years and I never did - till now. - I don't know what to do."

Angel: "Well, you-you'll do the only thing that you can do. - You'll have it. You'll have it and then..."

Darla: "What? We'll raise it?"

Darla: "It's impossible."

Angel: "This whole thing is impossible, Darla, but it's happening."

Darla: "What do I have to offer a child, a *human* child, besides ugly death?"

Darla: "You know it's true."

Angel: "No. What I do know is that you love this baby, our baby. You've bonded with it. You've spent nine months carrying it, nourishing it..."

Darla: "No. No, I haven't been nourishing it. I haven't given this baby a thing. I'm dead. It's been nourishing me. These feelings that I'm having, they're not mine. They're coming from it."

Angel: "You don't know that."

Darla: "Of course I do! We both do. Angel, I don't have a soul. It does. And right now that soul is inside of me, but soon, it won't be and then..."

Darla: "I won't be able to love it. I won't even be able to remember that I loved it. (Starts to cry) I want to remember."

Angel pulls her against him.

Angel closes his eyes as he holds a crying Darla.

Darla: "You won't let me hurt it, will you? You'll protect it, right? From me, I mean."

AWWWWWWWWW!!!! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!

Angel: "Hi. How 're you doing?"

Darla: "He finally stopped kicking."

He leans forward and lays one hand on Darla's belly.

Angel: "I guess he figured he finally got your attention. - You called him a 'he.' (With a slight smile at Darla) I think that's the first time you've ever done that."

Darla: "He's dying. (Angel's smile melts away, but he refuses to look away from her) Isn't he?"

Angel after a beat: "No."

Darla: "You lied much better when you didn't have a soul. - I can feel the life slipping away from me."

Angel: "Then don't let it. You have to fight for this. - Please."

Darla: "I don't know how. My boy. (Strokes her belly) My darling boy. - I told you I had nothing to offer this kid. Some mother (there are tears in Darla's eyes) can't even offer it life."

And here's the ending:

Angel half carries Darla through it.

Darla: "No. No. Go on. I can't. It doesn't matter anyway."

Angel: "I'm not leaving you, alright? Easy. Alright. (Pulls out his keys and tosses them towards the others.) Go get my car. It's out front."

He lowers Darla to the ground and crouches down beside her.

Cordy makes move to join him.

All of them turn and hurry off (Lorne is holding to pieces of cardboard over his head to keep some of the rain off himself), but after a few steps Fred stops and runs back to crouch beside Angel and Darla.

Angel: "Fred, go with them."

Fred: "It's okay. They'll come back for us."

Angel takes off his jacket and slings it around Fred's shoulders.

Angel to Darla: "You're gonna be okay."

Darla: "No. No, I don't think so. Once he's gone, I won't be okay. I won't be okay at all. - I don't know what I'll be. - Angel... Our baby is gonna die right here in this alley. - You died in an alley, remember?"

Angel: "I remember."

Darla: "I wanna say I'm sorry. I wanna say it and mean it, but - I can't. - Aren't you gonna tell me it's okay?"

Darla: "No? It's really not, is it? We did so many terrible things together. So much destruction, so much - pain. - We can't make up for any of it. You know that, don't you."

Angel after a beat: "Yeah."

Darla: "This child - Angel, it's the one good thing we ever did together."

Angel lifts Darla's hand between both of his and pressed it against his lips.

Darla: "The only good thing."

Angel buries his face in his hands, still holding onto Darla's, takes a sobbing breath.

Darla: "You make sure to tell him that."

Darla is holding one of the splinters of wood and buries it in her chest, gasping. Angel lifts his head and stares as Darla turns to dust.

Where Darla was there is now a naked human infant lying in the rain, crying.

Holtz steps into Lorne's bedroom with flames flickering all around him. Lifts his crossbow and looks around.

Angel carefully gathers up the baby.

Holtz steps through the hole in Lorne's wall into the alley. Lifts the crossbow and aims it at Angel as Angel slowly stands up, cradling the crying infant.

Fred hands Angel's jacket back to him and he wraps it around the infant.

Holtz is watching them over his crossbow.

Angel slowly turns his head and sees Holtz.

For a moment they just look at each other.

A Grapplar appears at the mouth of the alley behind. Angel looks from it to the baby (that has quieted down) to Holtz.

Angel's car pulls up behind two Grapplars at the other end of the alley and Wes gets out.

Holtz slowly lowers his crossbow, still looking at Angel cradling the infant against his chest.

After a beat Angel slowly walks past Holtz, Fred clinging to his right arm.

Holtz watches as Angel and Fred pass between the two Grapplars.

Sahjhan: "Do it! Now's your chance. Do it! Finish it while you still can! You can't just let him walk away! Not now! Not after what you swore to me!"

Holtz watches as Fred and Angel get into the car.

Holtz: "I swore that I would show no mercy. (Watches Angel's car drive away) And I won't."

The episode gets an A+.

*OK, I was watching an old tape of Buffy (the first episode to be exact) and well, something hit me. If Xander and Willow were Jessy's closest friends, how come none of them cried when he was turned. I mean, hey, I dunno abouch u but if one of my friends was turned into a vampire I would pretty much MOURN HIS/HER DEATH! Doesn't that sound more logical?

*I also watched The Pack and something else seemed pretty odd to me. Well, Giles said that the possessed person would end up remembering what had occurred during their state of possession, this face was later on confirmed by Xander. Well, if I was possessed I'd feel pretty weird, if I was possessed and had eaten an actual live pig I would have been completely freaked! Xander didn't seem to mind it at all. But hey it was just a pig no biggie. Imagine if you had actually eaten your principal how freakin disturbed would YOU be????!!!! However, we see no side effect, we don't see the pack getting any counseling and we don't see them going psycho looney after they have eaten a live person!!! Boy, isn't it strange how they didn't breakdown or go crazy?

*OK, I just watched I ROBOT, YOU JANE. Question: Why, or should I ask how, does Moloch learn to speak English?

*In the episode ANGEL, (when Buffy comes to her room with the bag of food) why does Buffy expect Angel to be in her room?

THE EPISODE ARE YOU OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN

*Quotes from Are You Or Have You Ever Been:

"It's just blood Judy, It's all just blood."

"I'm not one thing or another, I'm nothing."

"I know what that's like."

Awwwwwww!!!! Did nebody else feel like hugging Angel and just give him a shoulder to cry on? I know I did.

*You know in the scene wen the hotel ppl are trying to kill Angel (they end up hanging him). You know, he COULD have fought off all those ppl if he wanted to. He was just so betrayed ("an unpleasant side effect of betrayal" as Giles would say) by Judy. He had made a friend and she had stabbed him in the back. Poor Angel!!! (another MUST-HUG-ANGEL moment)

*Did anyone notice how Angel almost cried when Judy died? awwwww (this episode was full of must hug Angel moments)

*Question: Does paranoya increase with age?

*And the priceless ending. Wesly is hilarious!!!