In the immortal words of Mahatma Gandhi:
Jan. 17th, 2003 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi"Jesus motherfucking Christ, it's cold outside."
Yep. Cold I don't mind that much. Windy I can handle. Cold and windy, however, sucks ass. Especially in a city far from any tall buildings. In NYC or Chicago, the wind may be fierce, but the buildings make it much easier to handle. Here, it's nothing but hills and plains, with a few shacks if you're in a civilized part of town. Nothing to keep the freezing wind out.
Anyway, last night was a blast -- I caught a ride with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jet_li_wannabe to game night at chelona and voltbang's, and learned how to play Tigris and Euphrates, which is just an incredible game, and one I really really want to play again. It's a diceless strategy game, and one in which (unless you've got amazing memorization skills) it is just about impossible to know who's winning until the end. A fun time was had by all, or at least by me. And for the record, blueingenue won. We all had lots of fun, and then headed upstairs to help the fluffy gamers with Trivial Pursuit.
Got home, and watched Angel on the Tivo.
So, overall, I really liked this episode. I loved the false twist with Gavin -- make us think that they were pulling an annoying "oh, he's not really dead," before bringing on the zombie plotline.
And I loved how they handled zombies -- slow, basically incompetent, more of a nuisance. Again, they made us feel like there was going to be more of a threat than there was, but in a well-done manner.
Of course, the next question is, why did they all become zombies? I mean, was it because the Big Bad killed them? For the most part, he didn't do anything that looked like he was "infecting" them in any way (Gavin just had his neck broken, for instance). I doubt it was because they were W&R employees -- we've seen plenty of them die. Was it something in the building -- part of the lockdown procedure, maybe? Will we ever know?
A few other thoughts -- who from W&R is alive? Obviously, Lilah is. The Senior Partners are extradimensional, so some of them may well be around. And I can't imagine that some folks didn't manage to escape. The escape passage was known to people as low as on Gavin's level, and since there were two staircases, there's no reason to believe that the Big Bad could have gotten everyone. So is the firm out of the picture, or just licking their wounds?
And if the Big Bad wasn't really after Conner, but rather after the power of the Demon What Walks Like a Brat, what's its ultimate goal? Is it going to head out of the dimension to kill the senior partners or maybe threaten Pylea ("Numfar, do the dance of Oh Shit!")?
Notice that I'm not really talking about the Conner/Cordy/Angel triangle. Because it's stupid and soap-operaish. Ditto the Fred/Wes/Gunn stuff. They just need to kill off Cordy and Wes (and maybe Conner), and rein in the crappy b-plots.
And has anyone really talked about the whole fire-from-the-sky thing? I mean, is it still going on? Has the LA Times noticed anything? Etc?
Anyway, plot holes aside, it was a fun episode. And with the imminent return of Gwen and Faith, the Chicks in Leather Pants quotient on the show is about to go way up, which (of course), only increases the fun factor.
I can't wait to read Strega's recap at TWoP.
Yep. Cold I don't mind that much. Windy I can handle. Cold and windy, however, sucks ass. Especially in a city far from any tall buildings. In NYC or Chicago, the wind may be fierce, but the buildings make it much easier to handle. Here, it's nothing but hills and plains, with a few shacks if you're in a civilized part of town. Nothing to keep the freezing wind out.
Anyway, last night was a blast -- I caught a ride with
jet_li_wannabe to game night at chelona and voltbang's, and learned how to play Tigris and Euphrates, which is just an incredible game, and one I really really want to play again. It's a diceless strategy game, and one in which (unless you've got amazing memorization skills) it is just about impossible to know who's winning until the end. A fun time was had by all, or at least by me. And for the record, blueingenue won. We all had lots of fun, and then headed upstairs to help the fluffy gamers with Trivial Pursuit.Got home, and watched Angel on the Tivo.
So, overall, I really liked this episode. I loved the false twist with Gavin -- make us think that they were pulling an annoying "oh, he's not really dead," before bringing on the zombie plotline.
And I loved how they handled zombies -- slow, basically incompetent, more of a nuisance. Again, they made us feel like there was going to be more of a threat than there was, but in a well-done manner.
Of course, the next question is, why did they all become zombies? I mean, was it because the Big Bad killed them? For the most part, he didn't do anything that looked like he was "infecting" them in any way (Gavin just had his neck broken, for instance). I doubt it was because they were W&R employees -- we've seen plenty of them die. Was it something in the building -- part of the lockdown procedure, maybe? Will we ever know?
A few other thoughts -- who from W&R is alive? Obviously, Lilah is. The Senior Partners are extradimensional, so some of them may well be around. And I can't imagine that some folks didn't manage to escape. The escape passage was known to people as low as on Gavin's level, and since there were two staircases, there's no reason to believe that the Big Bad could have gotten everyone. So is the firm out of the picture, or just licking their wounds?
And if the Big Bad wasn't really after Conner, but rather after the power of the Demon What Walks Like a Brat, what's its ultimate goal? Is it going to head out of the dimension to kill the senior partners or maybe threaten Pylea ("Numfar, do the dance of Oh Shit!")?
Notice that I'm not really talking about the Conner/Cordy/Angel triangle. Because it's stupid and soap-operaish. Ditto the Fred/Wes/Gunn stuff. They just need to kill off Cordy and Wes (and maybe Conner), and rein in the crappy b-plots.
And has anyone really talked about the whole fire-from-the-sky thing? I mean, is it still going on? Has the LA Times noticed anything? Etc?
Anyway, plot holes aside, it was a fun episode. And with the imminent return of Gwen and Faith, the Chicks in Leather Pants quotient on the show is about to go way up, which (of course), only increases the fun factor.
I can't wait to read Strega's recap at TWoP.