Hm that's really interesting. I always found the voice over in the end of passions to be written alright but the line reading by Boreanaz to be a bit hammy. The voice over being there at all really sticks out as a bit strange

Passion is a tremendous episode. I can only think of 3 other episodes in the season I think is better; Lie to me, Becoming, Innocence.

Spike is like the one thing that 10, 15, 20 and 27 year old me can all agree is really freaking cool. Me and my friend used to watch a lot of the early seasons of Buffy and we would literary throw our hands up and yell "F*** Yeah" each time we saw that Sunnydale sign being run down.

Yeah, I always had a little problem with the same thing. I figure Angelus envisions this post-demon invasion world to be friendly to him and not outright kill all the humans so that he still had something to feed on. Something like "The Wish" universe only across the entire world.
Or he figured Buffy would stop it and…

I think Angelus works so great when they focus on him hurting people just to watch them hurt as his primary motivation. A villain that doesn't care as much about winning as he does about hurting our main protagonist makes for great drama.

My favourite big bads.
Angelus exhaling smoke after drinking from the cigarette smoking woman is like the coolest thing ever.
Don't think too much about the logic of that though

Right you are. My favourite part is the slow motion walk towards the camera shot which they use in both episodes, I love how the context of whichever show you are watching makes the shot feel different. Spike and Drusilla's high point contrasted to Darla and Angel's low point.

At least we got the Angel episode "Reunion", where some of the family gets together. I think there's even a The Master cameo in the episode preceding that one, "the trial" I think?

I always felt that master deserved a better season to be the big bad in. How important the master and Darla are to the mythos of the series is so conflicting to how easily and quickly they are discarded in season 1. I guess most of their back story was retconned later

It's only really the first season of Angel that has any crossover to Buffy, after Buffy got on UPN it got harder to cross over.
There is not a lot of worth watching the shows intertwined I think, they work a lot better watching a season of Buffy then one of Angel (other than season 4 of buffy and season 1 of angel,…

Every week is Buffy week.
And every day is lesbian lover's day.
These are the things I know for sure.

But we can all agree that the season 7 axe is a top notch accessory, right?

"Eugene doesn’t like freshly made potato chips. Eugene is an idiot."
When the biggest reaction the show gets from me is disbelief in someones potato chip preference.

The second comment is gold though

The rare Internet comment that makes me feel younger instead of older. Thanks

They're like the points in Whose Line Is It.
I weirdly keep track of both of them anyway tho

You are being way to logical. If we made it easy for people to change their minds/attitudes and didn't spend time chastising them afterwards, where would we be?

I'm sensing some hostility against Fallon in here

I seem to recall a lot of people not liking the lawyers and the trial at the end of the season. I don't know why though, I liked the whole season.

More nightmares about small yellow busses flying into my ear incoming