Tangent 21 - Angel Season Three, Episode 8: Quickening

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Keenangel

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11:45
Mar 08 2002

Angel Season Three, Episode 8: Quickening

What did everyone think of this episode?. I liked the flashbacks, getting a glimpse of Darla and Angelus's true evil.. at least his Irish accent sounded a bit more believable..

The Hyperion is being bugged?.. how long before the gang find this out?... not long methinks.

Angel's face when the baby was revealed to be human and a boy

Oh, and i laughed when Angel made the "skitter" remark when Darla started having contractions..

I felt cold when the supernatural obstetrician, or whatever he was called tottered into the Hyperion with the two cages, one for mummy and the other for baby... ick... and again with the ick when the reason for his tottering walk was because he had bird's feet rather than human feet! :eek:

It was an okay episode with an excellent ending... with Darla's waters breaking and Angel meeting up again with Holtz (I love his voice by the way) I think essentially it was a filler episode, building up to future eps.. but i can't wait til next week's episode!!!!

(Edited by Stoo 04/04/2002 23:24)

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Joolie And yet somehow I can't seem to care....

I liked the look on Big Dave's face when he said "Did you hear that - our baby's special"!!!

I must say I'm enjoying Angel more than Buffy lately, I had a conversation with Mr Joolie all over the last 10 mins of Buffy but Angel was watched in near silence

Posted: 12:40 Mar 08 2002

head2head 'Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, I drink, therefore I am. '

I'm really enjoying Angel at the moment...I think that they are doing a great job with this season. There were some brilliant moments in this episode, mainly the one where Angel finds out that his child is human and it fianlly hits him that he is going to be a father.

The arc with Holtz looks like it could be very interesting...how is he going to deal with the fact that Angelus has a soul ?? Hmmm...

All in all, a really good episode, although I was really annoyed that they left it where they did..she was about to have the kid !!! *grumble*

Posted: 17:51 Mar 08 2002

Incandenza It's not a zero-sum game.

Silly, but fun.

Wolfram and Hart seem to be somewhat less competent than they used to be as are ninja assassins and vampire cults.

I could imagine some christian types getting a little bent out of shape by the idea of a miracle conception etc etc.

And someone's going to have to clean that car!

Posted: 09:06 Mar 09 2002

Wobag Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so...

This was the first ep of Angel this year that really did it for me, a real sense of danger, and of scope, i just worry from what i hear that this will kind of go on and on and not really go anywhere, often in retrospect episodes either gain or lose significance.

I loved the ninja who lasted 5 seconds and the vampire cult is a nice way of bringing vampires into the picture that actually means something (one think absent from buffy and angel in recent years, exlcluding main characters).

Im not sure about Holtz, maybe its the actor but I im not sure I buy him ... yet.

Posted: 12:45 Mar 09 2002

Yally Don't kill anyone until we get back to you!

Ok, this is really, really bugging me. How did they know it was human? Is this some kind of magic ultra sound that determines species/demoness? Gunn got it right when he said 'You mean it's humanoid?'.

Posted: 20:03 Mar 09 2002

Keenangel *Fourteen phonecalls a night??!!*

We're talking about the baby right?... because in "Offspring", when Angel and Darla fought in the arcade, Angel put his hands on Darla's stomach, and he felt a heartbeat and sensed a soul.. which is why he didn't kill Darla there and then like she wanted. In "Quickening", Darla had an ultrasound, which announced the child to be human, and a boy

Apart from that, nobody knows what role Angel's child will play in the arc... i suppose we'll find out as the season progresses

Posted: 20:20 Mar 10 2002

ROMBA

I thought this was a good episode. LOL at Fred not knowing vampires have super hearing.

Posted: 09:17 Mar 11 2002

Astronut What I wouldn't give for a lasso and some crazy glue...

Yeah, this one is a bit of a giggle - it will be interesting to see where the pregnancy arc is going, especially in parallel with Holtz.

I suspect Wolfram & Hart's lack of competence is probably due to them not realising who else is involved at this point - Holtz and his allies were completely unexpected. And W&H are reactive here, not proactive...

I'm not sure, but I think I counted at least 7 apparent factions: the heroes, Darla (definitely a faction in her own right), the Vampire Cult, the Demon Cult (now the voice mail was funny!), Holtz and his "friends", Wolfram & Hart, the assassin (and his client - that set-up/knock-down gag was hilarious - reminded me of an old X-Factor comic). I dare say the assassin is connected to the Demon, who could well be associated with one of the others (Holtz?), but I thnk Angel's problems are just beginning!

Posted: 12:07 Mar 11 2002

Red "A world of No!"

A fantastic episode. I almost felt quite sorry for Darla. Almost! She must be pretty confused at the moment. Can't wait to find out 'what happens next'

Posted: 13:31 Mar 11 2002

Yally Don't kill anyone until we get back to you!

by Keenangel
We're talking about the baby right?... because in "Offspring", when Angel and Darla fought in the arcade, Angel put his hands on Darla's stomach, and he felt a heartbeat and sensed a soul.. which is why he didn't kill Darla there and then like she wanted. In "Quickening", Darla had an ultrasound, which announced the child to be human, and a boy Apart from that, nobody knows what role Angel's child will play in the arc... i suppose we'll find out as the season progresses

Yeah, but all the ultrasound does is show that the baby is humanoid, not human.

Posted: 20:13 Mar 12 2002

Keenangel *Fourteen phonecalls a night??!!*

I'm guessing here... but would a humanoid not have a soul or, dare i suggest it.... a heartbeat???...

Posted: 20:34 Mar 12 2002

Yally Don't kill anyone until we get back to you!

Yeah, but they knew about the soul and heartbeat long before the ultrasound and weren't sure if it were human or not. Why does looking human suddenly make it human? It could be some whole new species of demon for all they know. Ok, so the plot calls for it to be human, I just nit pick too much for it to be good enough explanation

Posted: 12:54 Mar 14 2002

Julz "As God once said, and I think Rightly.." (Margaret Thatcher)

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Posted: 16:28 Mar 31 2002

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