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🕑 Added 2021-12-18 20:40:00 +0000 UTC2x13: "Happy Anniversary"
Next: Buffy 5x13 on Tues/Wed (gonna post here instead of Sat bc its Christmas. I will try and see if I can post that day too, but I still have... a lot to do before sat 😅 of course, i waited till the last minute for presents)
This is the Host's world, we're just living in it <3 UGH I love the Host so much... I didn't know I needed a whole episode with the Host and Angel trying to save the world from a scientist that wants to make time stop so his girlfriend doesn't break up with him... BUT I LOVE IT. Seriously, wasn't expecting much if we got another "breather" kinda episode, but this one just worked so well to also dive into Angel's character :')
Really enjoyed this one, and hope you all do too!
Comments
Koz
Wednesday.
Leon Hardt
Very true!
Cameron Rayburn
is there gonna be a reaction today?
bewildered
I do truly enjoy Angel/The Host and (Angel) Investigations in this episode. They are charming beyond belief, and The Host is especially iconic. His line about the single note is brilliant. That being said, the physicist's plan to "freeze time" was a murder-suicide just as surely as if he had pulled out a gun and shot his GF in the head at his moment of ecstasy. The fact that it was bloodless does not change the fact that he intentionally chose to end her life. And for what? Planning to break up with him. No, it wasn't *kind* of her to allow him to go through with the anniversary dinner and gift and sex, but it was not in any way equivalent to his decision to murder her. This would all be fine as a story element (murder-suicide over romantic disappointment being so common as to be cliche) if it were not presented by the narrative as a sympathetic and reasonable decision. We hear the physicist singing his sad lonely songs, see his heartbreak as he overhears his girlfriend's conversation, focus on his disappointment when he is unfrozen and he gets dumped...and then he and the show's hero share a commiserating beer at the end. Would Angel have shared a beer with him if he'd tried to shoot his girlfriend in the head and missed? It's nauseating. I have a deep and abiding love for many of the characters on Angel, and I could listen to Andy Hallett as The Host forever, but the show's narrative treatment of women is deeply problematic--as we've seen before--and this episode encapsulates that.
