BEAT THAT WITH A STICK

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“Angel” continues with a strong follow-up to its season opener, and the two Cordy closes are almost as fascinating as this season’s first two Buffy Kill-A-Slayer openings (and hey, did anyone else know that was Sarah Michelle herself playing her short-lived soul sisters? No wonder their movements were evocative of Slayers. They were both her.)

However, an open question regarding “Angel” is bopping around here at Casa David. Lightning Lass literally jumpstarted Angel’s heart last night, sending them into a passionate embrace (thereby establishing once and for all that the heart is the source of love, rather than the brain or…elsewhere.) But we’re unclear as to whether it was temporary or not. Is Angel’s heart still beating?

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9 comments on “BEAT THAT WITH A STICK”

  1. Rogue eh, Lightning Lass, started Gunn’s heart and its still going. I’d say that Angel’s is also still beating.

  2. Well, there’s quite a bit of debate about who’s playing the Slayers-In-Training. I’m not sure where the SMG-is-playing-them line came from, but not everybody agrees with it.

    As for Angel’s heart, he speaks of it in past tense at point in the episode, so I think it was temporary.

  3. As to Gunn’s heart — she essentially shocked his heart back into its natural rhythm. She jumpstarted it, but it continued on its own. Angel’s heart hasn’t beat for centuries; shocking it did cause the muscles to contract, but its like defibbing a corpse — the muscles contract and then go back to being inert.

  4. It was a nice change of pace to see someone super-powered on the show who was not aware of all the other “freaks” like her running around.

    A nice touch.

    I have to wonder if Gunn’s brush with death was the big death that was reported for one of the regulars this season.

    Bobby

  5. OK, concerning this “Are those POtential SLayer” being played by SMG:

    This info was pulled from SPOielr SLayer:

  6. It may be my imagination, but there appear to be small homages to comics in both Buffy and Angel in recent episodes. On Buffy I thought I heard Willow refer to one of the people teaching her to control her magic as “Harkness” (Agatha Harkness?) And on Angel a child who is a “freak” (mutant) is taken to a special school (Xavier’s Academy?) (Since the girl grows up to be a professional thief, perhaps this is during a period when Emma Frost is in charge?)

  8. Maybe you should have given a spoiler alert, but I don’t recall the show making any suggestion those girls we see killed in the first two episodes of Buffy were in fact slayers. I hope you haven’t spoiled anything!

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