We are late getting to our Angel episode this week. Everyone has these sorts of weeks where everything crops up at once. Dentist and doctor appointments, big projects at work, meetings and car tune ups and it goes on and on. If we make it to Thursday night (we’re off on Fridays and Saturdays), it will be a miracle.
Which is kinda how our friends on Angel are feeling. This week’s episode is another gloom ‘n doom episode. We have Gwen, the electric girl, show back up, which is cool. She’s cute and a good spot of sexual tension for Angel. Makes things lively. One of Gwen’s clients gets killed right in front of her by — you guessed it — the Beast. And we see him take something out of the guys chest. Wha?
It’s very plausible that Gwen would seek out Angel after that experience. As she says, he’s the weirdest person she knows so he probably can explain if the world is ending. And yep, according to Fred and Wesley (who are too chummy for Gunn’s liking) the world might be sorta ending. The people being killed (well, not all the people) are living totems of the Sun god Ra. It’s pretty cool as a story. Some of the five carry actual objects within them — which explains what Gwen saw.
It is interesting to see the pain between Angel and Cordelia. Um, maybe interesting isn’t le mot juste. What I mean is it seems real. I still prefer Buffy over Angel, but the writing is great on both shows. They are both confused and hurt and not wanting to be vulnerable. Now, in the light of day, so to speak, I wonder if Cordelia can explain why she slept with Connor. The heart is a strange thing and it was maybe just the wrong set of circumstances that came together that night.
People make mistakes; sometimes they make big mistakes. The key to moving past a big mistake is to look at it as objectively as possible and then move on. You can’t change the past. You can only affect the now. It is what Byron Katie talks about in her books. The story Angel’s telling himself (maybe, how should I know?) is that he is forever and ever unlovable. Is that true? As Katie would say, Can he absolutely know that he is unlovable?
