Angel 4.20 Sacrifice

[thebratqueen]

Okay, gotta admit I'm so deep in the land of spoilers that I can't say much at all without giving the game away. So we're stuck with random comments.

GAH! TEXT!!!!!!

DUDE! Okay, one of these years I'm going to do an essay on "What is slash?" for all my slash-imparied friends but here's a primer: When Wes and Angel are constantly two inches apart from each other, and then both of them flip a bitch at the thought of someone hurting the other, and they're practically kissing while Wes is saying that Angel's the only one who can survive and Angel's hesitating and Fred realizes that it's because Angel's heart's getting in the way and when she calls him on it he looks at Wesley, THAT would be slash.

Ben Edlund as a writer - gives good Angel, Gunn and Lorne, not bad with the humor, actually not that great at Wes though. But I couldn't tell if that was because he doesn't know Wes or because he unfortunately got the job of Captian Exposition with this episode. I mean there's only so many plot devices you can juggle and make it look natural. Wouldn't hate it if he came back next year though.

People possessed by Jasmine, esp the kid at the end = creepy.

Scene transitions felt very choppy but again given the nature of the episode I don't know how it could've been done differently.

Liked seeing old Gunn again. Good directing on him and the kid too.

I think when Angel acts like Brian Kinney I fall in love with him all over again.

Again an entire episode without Charisma's acting and again, like Kim on 24, the episode's overall quality is improved by it.

Line of the ep: "Soccer mom, twelve o'clock!"

Look of the ep: Oh come on, like I have to tell you.