Real Time Commentary on Tonight's AtS

[shipperx]

1) Illyria and the petrie dish. That was kind of funny.

2) Testing Illyria might get someone seriously hurt. Angel: I'll get Spike to do it. Wesley: Good.

Watch it, Wesley! More of that and I won't be grieving long when you bite it!

3) Angel telling Wesley, "Fred's dead. You're alive. Start acting like it" was good.

4) Dad. Hell, I feel sorry for Angel.

5) Gunn torture. Ewwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6) Ooh! Spike looks good, tonight.

7) Spike/Iilyria are funny together.

8) Why does Edlund write Spike like the artful dodger?!?!?!?!!!! A slightly DIM artful dodger... who Wesley is mean to?! (um... Edlund was the writer for this one, wasn't he?)

9) Heh, to Hamilton "I'm not a little girl and you and I won't be making love on that couch any time soon."

10) Ooh! I LIKE Hamilton "Your raging psychopathic son!"

11) Nice touch with Connor saying "My parents are liars and I'll never trust them again" so lightly. . . when that's what he always accused Angel of so horribly.

12) Angel gets to play cool hero for his son. . . just what he always wanted.

13) It's a commercial and I'm still resenting the way that Edlund writes Spike. Glad this is his last shot at writing Spike. Blugh! I hate it when they make Spike sound like a guttersnipe. And I hate that they are making me resent the way Wesley treats Spike. Wesley, you're losing pity points!

14) Back from commercial to Angel's dream come true with Connor thinking he's cool. Oops! Dashed. Connor runs to his "Dad's" rescue.

15) Do I look 500?

16) Bwha! "You make out with other vampires?" "Well... uh... not any more.

17) Spike still talks like a guttersnipe... and having the shit beaten out of him by Illyria. Not lovin' this. (and am I sick for thinking he's turned on when he calls Ilyria a harlot?)

18 ) "She can selectively alter time... and I think she can talk to plants." LOL!

19) Illyria: "I'd like to keep Spike as my pet." Bwhaaa!

20) Wesley looks P.O.'d with Angel.

21) Sirus is kind of icky!

23) Whoa! Who dressed Harm? Sluts-R-Us?!

24) Illyria: "Spike is resting." LOL.

25) Okay, as icky as Sirus is, I simply CANNOT think that Angel's deal to mindswipe Connor is supposed to be good. . . and yet Connor gets the happy ending? WTF?

26) Orlon Window looks kinda like a votive candle.

27) So last week they don't leave men behind. This week they don't give into blackmail... oh, guess now they do.

28 ) Poor Gunn is getting Bring on the Night treatment.

29) Gunn resists temptation. *sob* I'm gonna miss Gunn. *sob*

30) Angel's getting his dream of training Connor.

31) You know, even in a new life... Connor STILL doesn't wash his hair!

32) Angel fixing Connor's collar is cute.

33) LOL! Still like Sajahn. "Thank you mortal, in gratitude I grant you 3 wishes." "Really?" "No, just messing with you."

34) So Illyria has her little musing on people being the sum of their memories, then Wesley not accepting her though she does have Fred's memories, and now Connor is losing because of lost memories. I'm sensing a theme.

35) "Is this your 30 pieces of silver?" asks Wesley. Nice confrontation. But wasn't Lorne, not Illyria, supposed to be with Wesley in the sides?

37) Sajahn: "Prophecies are overrated." So true. So true.

38 ) "Was Fred your price?" Wesley is very, very angry.

39) Angel: "You have to trust me." Wesley: "I can't"
Okay, so Edlund makes up for poor Spike writing with excellent Wesley writing. (still resent the way he writes Spike as a goof though).

40) Wesley montage of the seasons. Nice. Ooh, and there's Lilah!

41) Oh yeah, Connor got his memory back. He has that psycho killer look again.

42) Still with are the memories make the person. . .or do they?

43) So if Illyria got all of the unaltered memories... did she get MORE Fred memories from this?

45) Wesley you're a SERIOUSLY unhappy man. Damn, if anything he's more suicidal.

46) I'm feeling sorry for Angel again.

47) Boy, Lorne may as well have not shown up for this ep.

49) Trailer... eh. Too confusing to be of much use.