Angel 5x08 Destiny again

[oyceter]

Squeee!!!

Ok. Am done now.

But seriously, I kept thinking Eve was getting naked and she was going to be Lilah underneath somehow! Then I thought she was going to crawl into bed with Lilah (Lilith and Eve sleeping together has a good sort of resonance for me). Someone (shadowkat67?) had a good point about Lindsey always being associated with the Shanshu prophecy, and now that's he's turned up, it's also finally become the center attention for the first time in forever.

I so thought Spike was going to turn human. I still think he might (see my post-Chosen post).

So awesome being a long-time viewer! Many past episode references -- the entire thing with Buffy, Spike coming up from behind Angel to whack him with a giant metal rod, of course all the flashback eps, the tension in S2 in the triangle of Angel-Spike-Dru, the Yoda thing. Also, Gunn going mad and strangling Eve and Fred clocking him with a fire extinguisher: Billy. I kind of wish Wes had been there to see what he would have done. I didn't catch that Sirk was the guy Lilah picked as Wes' guide in Home, but another cool little detail. More prophecy mistranslation, more Angel distrusting prophecy and destiny. Spike, the grand screwer-upper of destiny. The "toner" in blood reminded me of Conversations with Dead People.

I shivered when each vamp pulled the most painful thing he could say about Buffy out. Somehow, I think Buffy would kick the crap out of both of them for that.

I really liked the Gunn and Spike vibe. Wonder if all that unseen bonding was in the bathroom?

Eve needs to die. Preferrably as a sacrifice to the higher powers who are hopefully manipulating her and Lindsey. If not, she needs to stop expositioning. Generally, I save yelling at the TV screen to Alias, but the boy's roommate must have thought I was nuts, because every two seconds: "Shut UP, Eve!"

I also liked really small things, like how Dru was wearing the same lacy gloves she wore in LMPTM.

I wonder if Angel is thinking in the back of his head that Wes mistranslated the Shanshu prophecy and somehow betrayed him again without meaning to. Guh.

I need to get Eve/Lilah out of my head. Really.

Apparently, this post isn't more coherent by much at all!

Comments

[oyceter]

Yeah! I think it's the only Eve story I've encountered so far. Very creepy, and it probably planted the idea in my head.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most people just want Eve to go away, so she's not exactly racking up the fics. I kinda wanna write an Eve fic (working in the Angelverse as we knew it before "Destiny" -- nice of them to give us rerun season to come up with 18 million possible theories which will of course all be proven false), partly because i'm feeling intrigued now (though doing a beginning of time Lilith/Eve fic is a completely different and in fact more appealing idea) and partly because i like a challenge. That last statement is a bit ironic since i have been avoiding my schoolwork all week :)

[oyceter]

Well, she is pretty annoying right now =(. It's kind of sad because there is such giant potential (that I think they're putting in now with Destiny, woo!) and I want to see if there is a relationship between Eve and Lilith/Lilah, etc. etc. And oooo fic! Hee. Schoolwork is somehow never quite as fun as fandom, strangly ;).