Predictable? Were they watching the same episode?

Invisible Green | May 13, 21:14 CET

The article at Bureau42 made a vague comparison to season 3. What in the world were they talking about?

electricspacegirl | May 13, 21:51 CET

Maybe Enemies? From Buffy season 3? Best guess I had about that comparison.

k8cre8 | May 13, 22:06 CET

Neither article mentioned something that's been bothering me: Where was Lindsey? Jail? When/how did that happen? Did we know that already, or, like Angel and his sudden new bedmate, did it just kinda happen in between an episode? (I know we'd met Nina twice before, but we never saw Angel and her in bed, which, when you think about what a big plot point Angel having sex has been in the past, seems like a strange thing to show so casually.)

fraying | May 13, 23:14 CET

The Lindsey-in-handcuffs thing did throw me a little, too. There may have been a minute or two of explanation that was cut for time. (If there wasn't, there probably should have been. At the end of his last appearance, it sort of seemed like he and Eve were free to go.)

As for the Angel-having-sex thing, they've mentioned it, when Angel himself was addressing doubts about his relationship with Nina. A moment of true happiness is what turns Angel bad, and while it'd be nice to think that'd happen every time he got lucky, the odds are it won't. (He had sex with both Darla and Eve, after all, and he never became Angelus then.) True, there's an episode in the first season ("Eternity") where all it takes for Angelus to emerge is a hit of a euphoric drug, but little inconsistencies are bound to pop up. I think they've stayed true to the basic ground rules.

And, keep in mind, part of why they showed Angel in bed with Nina was so we'd think he'd gone bad, since the whole episode was sort of about that.

unreality | May 14, 00:44 CET

In "Underneath" Angel says something like "I'm not your hero, I'm your warden" to Lindsey. I figured that means he's going to lock Lindsey and Eve up somewhere. Would have been a bit careless to just let him walk anyway.

If anything this episode reminds of season 2, it's all about the choice of fighting the good fight or fighting the war.

Elo | May 14, 01:04 CET

Elo-- Good Point. I was re-watching Blood Money yesterday after watching Power Play, and the discussions that Lindsey and Lilah have with their W&H boss about Angel and the Apocalypse(s?) are very insightful to this season.

k8cre8 | May 14, 01:08 CET

Thanks, Unreality. I actually hadn't thought of the bed scene as part of the theme, I guess because it was such a tender, clearly non-evil, moment.

fraying | May 14, 01:17 CET