Buffy 4.8: "Pangs"
Written by Jane Espenson
Directed by Michael Lange
In which Buffy tries to pull the gang together for Thanksgiving dinner, only to be interrupted when the spirits of the Chumash are awoken and seek vengeance…
Status Report
It seems that just about every season of “Buffy” must have an episode centered on some holiday theme or secular celebration. Such episodes are traditionally hit or miss affairs, since there’s only so much a writer can do with the theme of a holiday without getting too preachy or cliché in the process. Earlier in the season, “Fear, Itself” put a capable spin on the Halloween theme, using the situation to establish character arcs that would carry on into the future.
This episode, unfortunately, is the prelude to another crossover with “Angel”, and like the similar episode “The Harsh Light of Day”, it fails to deliver on both necessary fronts. There’s practically no character or plot advancement, and the Angel appearance feels incredibly forced. The rationale for his arrival in Sunnydale doesn’t make sense, and as a result, it all feels like marking time until the meat of the story, which once again takes place in the subsequent “Angel” episode.
At least the episode introduces some information that places much of the topography of Sunnydale into perspective. Apparently there are tons of caverns under Sunnydale, as seen throughout the series, and whenever there’s an earthquake, entire buildings end up underground. Perhaps thanks to the Hellmouth, most of these buildings seem to house something demonic or evil.
This time, it’s the ruins of a mission from 1812, which happens to be the final resting place for many, many Chumash spirits. And the Chumash, of course, are perturbed over the extermination of their people by the Europeans. Xander, having started a construction job as part of his “occupation whirlwind”, finds the place during the initial groundbreaking for a university cultural center.
Since this is the Thanksgiving episode, it’s only natural that Willow take up the banner of speaking for the Native American victims of Western oppression. It seems lost on Willow that Buffy wants to hold a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Perhaps it has something to do with Willow’s desire to think of something other than Oz. At any rate, Willow doesn’t notice that Buffy is feeling more and more isolated from her family and friends.
There is an attempt, early in the episode, to delve into a deeper theme. Buffy, Riley, Willow…they all talk about the idea of home. Just about every character is looking for a soft place to fall in this episode, and it doesn’t always work out for them. The most obvious example would be Angel, who no longer belongs in Sunnydale, and can’t be the one to help Buffy find herself in her new world.
Another interesting example would be Xander and Anya. In a very short time, the two characters have formed a genuine bond, even if it’s hard for the rest of the gang to understand how one relates to Anya. In the end, it doesn’t matter what they think: at this time in their lives, Xander and Anya find something comforting in each other.
With her mother out of town, Buffy turns to Giles as the father figure (and convenient clean-up crew). Giles seems more than happy to actually help Buffy and get involved in her life. While part of that is related to Angel’s presence and warning, Giles has also been sidelined for far too long, and he knows it. He chastises Angel about his lurking, something that is very fair and accurate. Angel’s reason for keeping his presence secret seems more about his own hang-ups than protecting Buffy.
Because of the impression that the relationship between Buffy and Angel needs more closure before Buffy can truly move on with Riley (and the network probably wanted a sweeps event), something of a love triangle has to be staged. So of course, Angel has to see Riley pursuing Buffy while revealing his presence to Willow. It seems odd that Angel would involve so many of Buffy’s friends; it’s almost as if he’s consciously trying to undermine his own reasons not to see Buffy.
The conversation between Buffy and Riley also serves to reinforce the “home” theme, which ties into the Spike/Harmony scene which follows. Harmony tosses Spike to the curb, despite his best efforts, and after the previous episode, there’s no question he deserves such treatment. Still, it’s an amazing turn of events for the character; just weeks earlier, he was a major threat. Now, he’s played for sympathy, and damned if it doesn’t work.
Halfway through the episode, Buffy finally discovers the nature of the Chumash threat. This leads into some truly annoying moralizing from Willow, which feels more like a scene from a “cultural diversity in the workplace” video than a scene for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. It doesn’t help that Willow gets far too preachy about the whole thing. It’s a little crazy for Willow to suggest that they all get together and help the Chumash reclaim their rightful land (especially since they are, as mentioned, all exterminated!).
Her self-righteousness does serve to reveal something important about her character: she’s not afraid to stand up to Giles anymore. Giles used to be her mentor, and his opinion used to mean the world to her. The fragmentation of the Scooby Gang has stripped much of that away; Willow has begun making her own life. In essence, she has begun discovering herself, which is the over-arching theme of the season. Later in the series, this growing rift would become a major source of conflict.
Jane Espenson has a particular voice as a writer, and part of that distinctive style involves punishing the characters in new and ever-more-degrading ways. Xander and Spike take the lions’ share in this episode, that’s for sure. First Xander discovers, thanks to a little research, that he has become the unwitting victim of not one but several deadly infections, including the ever-popular smallpox and syphilis. Xander is overjoyed, as one would expect. (How he managed not to infect everyone else with the smallpox is something of a mystery.)
With everyone arguing and conversation getting snippy, Buffy puts more and more emphasis on her vision of a “perfect Thanksgiving”. This divisive type of situation is exactly what she’s been trying to avoid with the whole holiday theory, after all, and she certainly didn’t want people to start taking sides over whether or not to kill the marauding Native American vengeance spirit.
Things come to a nice boil just in time for Spike to come knocking on the door, after a Dickens-esque scene where Spike looks through the window at a vampire “family” sharing a meal, something he can no longer enjoy. As if being “neutered” wasn’t enough, now Spike is reduced to seeking aid from his sworn enemies. As important as this is from a plot/character perspective, as it begins a journey for Spike that ends in a rather well-considered shift to heroism), it’s salt on his wounds.
It does give Spike the opportunity, however, to cut through Willow’s self-righteous indignation with some cutting logic of his own. It makes sense for Spike to champion the ideals of “manifest destiny”, given the colonial attitude rampant in his human days. While he firmly believes in his point of view, he serves to bring the holier-than-thou aspects of Willow’s argument crashing to ground. He correctly points out, however indirectly, that Buffy and the others are trying to make up for something done hundreds of years ago, and the ones who did the killing felt fully justified at the time.
More than that, it gives the writers a chance to show Giles in a snit, since he said much the same thing and got nowhere. This is played for laughs, but it’s also plays into the fact that Giles has less and less influence over the rest of the gang. His role as mentor has, as mentioned earlier, all but disappeared. It’s determined that the next victim of Hus, the Chumash vengeance spirit in question, will be the apparent leader of those still occupying the land.
Willow, Xander, and Anya all go to warn the dean of UC-Sunnydale, which has less to do with logic and more to do with getting the characters outside so they can help Angel fight off the bad guys once things get serious. It doesn’t take long for that to happen, as Hus and his merry band of pissed-off Chumash crash Buffy’s little party. Quite obviously, Hus sees Buffy as the leader, since she was the warrior previously sent to stop him.
The ensuing fight is fun, largely because Spike becomes an undead pin cushion and tosses out great one-liners throughout the entire melee. Hus and his warriors can’t die and apparently can transform into animal forms (like bears), and yet the fight is rather simple, even as protracted as it is. It doesn’t last long enough to even postpone the Thanksgiving dinner, which of course, takes place at the end. Even Spike gets to stay for dinner, which plays into the “home” theme rather tidily.
Even though the “home” theme of the episode does pertain to the overall theme for the season (knowing where one belongs is part of knowing oneself), it doesn’t quite come together. It’s all there in the script, easy enough to find, but the episode itself doesn’t concentrate primarily on that theme. It comes and goes, supplanted often by Willow’s lecturing and Buffy’s attempt to create the perfect Thanksgiving dinner rather than deal with the gang’s communication issues.
If anything, the Chumash element could have been used more effectively. The idea might have been to tie in the “home” theme with the Chumash desire to take back control of their land; in essence, Buffy and the gang would have been dealing with spirits trying to find “home” themselves. That’s not stressed, and Willow’s stance doesn’t bring it close enough for that logical connection to be readily made.
The true weakness of the episode, however, is the forced involvement of Angel. Why does Angel need to be in Sunnydale for this particular situation? Why does he try to stay away from Buffy, yet do everything but announce himself in the process? Perhaps the answer to both questions can be found in the logic behind the subsequent “Angel” episode. It seems reasonable to assume, from the context of the Buffyverse as a whole, that The Powers That Be (or perhaps just Jasmine, the rogue Power) felt that Angel was holding back, still glooming over Buffy. As a result, they set up a couple of simple tests: see how Angel deals with a threat to the Slayer, and then give him the chance to choose between being a Champion and being with Buffy.
That rationale, if applicable, was never fully communicated on either series, so the whys and wherefores are left open to interpretation. It’s all too easy to assume that the network wanted to use the sweeps period before Thanksgiving to bolster the ratings for “Angel” by pushing for a crossover. While the subsequent “Angel” episode was much better, it betrays a lack of confidence in the spinoff, which would plague that series for the entire first season. Perhaps worse, it made the already troubled fourth season of “Buffy” even more muddled.
Memorable Quotes
ANYA: “Well, I think that’s a shame. I love a ritual sacrifice.”
BUFFY: “It’s not really one of those.”
ANYA: “To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It’s a ritual sacrifice…with pie.”
BUFFY: “Imaginary Xander is quite the machine…”
XANDER: “OK, I’ll stay, but you should go. You might catch it.”
ANYA: “We’ll die together. It’s romantic. Let me get your trousers off.”
XANDER: “You’re a strange girlfriend…”
BUFFY: “I thought I was going to have to use Slayer moves on this one woman who was completely hoarding the pumpkin pie filling.”
GILES: “And at some point, you are going to tell me about the murder?”
BUFFY: “Oh, right…”
GILES: “I’m glad that you’re watch out for her, but I feel I should remind you that she’s not helpless and it’s not your job to keep her safe.”
ANGEL: “It’s not yours anymore, either. Are you going to walk away?”
GILES: “Sorry?”
BUFFY: “We don’t say ‘Indian’.”
GILES: “Oh, right, yes, yes. Always behind on the terms. Still trying not to refer to you lot as ‘bloody colonials’…”
GILES: “What’s all that?”
WILLOW: “Atrocities. I got the full poop on the Chumash Indians and our fabulous buried mission.”
BUFFY: “You said you were going to get fresh ones.”
WILLOW: “Atrocities?”
BUFFY: “They’re gonna be mushy.”
WILLOW: “They won’t be mushy.”
GILES: “I like mushy peas.”
BUFFY: “You’re the reason we have to have Pilgrims in the first place!”
WILLOW: “Are you sure we shouldn’t be helping him?”
GILES: “No, I think perhaps we won’t help the angry spirit with his rape and pillage and murder.”
GILES: “Well, that’s good, but this is why I think we should all keep a level head in this.”
WILLOW: “And I happen to think mine is the level head, and yours is the one things would toll off of.”
WILLOW: “Sarcasm accomplishes nothing, Giles.”
GILES: “It’s sort of an end in itself.”
WILLOW: “I don’t think anyone appreciated the truth of the situation.”
GILES: “Oh, I think we do.”
BUFFY: “This is no good! It need more condensed milk…”
BUFFY: “What are you saying?”
SPIKE: “I’m saying that Spike had a little trip to the vet, and now he doesn’t chase the other puppies anymore!”
SPIKE: “I came to you in friendship! Well, all right, seething hatred…”
BUFFY: “Will, you know how bad I feel about this. It’s eating me up! Quarter cup of brandy and let it simmer…”
SPIKE: “You won, all right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That’s what conquering nations do. It’s what Caesar did, and he’s not going around saying, ‘I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it’. The history of the world isn’t people making friends. You had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story!”
SPIKE: “You exterminated his race! What could you possibly say that would make him feel better? It’s kill or be killed here. Take your bloody pick!”
XANDER: “Maybe it’s the syphilis talking, but some of that made sense.”
GILES: “I made these points earlier, but fine, no one listens to me…”
ANYA: “What’s he like when he is evil?”
SPIKE: “A bear! You made a bear!”
BUFFY: “I didn’t mean to!”
SPIKE: “Undo it! Undo it!”
XANDER: “And you know what? I think my syphilis is clearing right up.”
BUFFY: “And they say romance is dead…”
Final Analysis
Overall, this episode was another struggle for the fourth season. There was an interesting concept of “home” within the episode, but it never became the connective thread for the various plot elements as intended. Willow’s moral posturing was somewhat out of character and annoying, and Angel’s involvement felt rather forced. While very funny at times, this is far from a classic.
Writing: 1/2
Acting: 2/2
Direction: 2/2
Style: 1/4
Final Rating: 6/10
Directed by Michael Lange
In which Buffy tries to pull the gang together for Thanksgiving dinner, only to be interrupted when the spirits of the Chumash are awoken and seek vengeance…
Status Report
It seems that just about every season of “Buffy” must have an episode centered on some holiday theme or secular celebration. Such episodes are traditionally hit or miss affairs, since there’s only so much a writer can do with the theme of a holiday without getting too preachy or cliché in the process. Earlier in the season, “Fear, Itself” put a capable spin on the Halloween theme, using the situation to establish character arcs that would carry on into the future.
This episode, unfortunately, is the prelude to another crossover with “Angel”, and like the similar episode “The Harsh Light of Day”, it fails to deliver on both necessary fronts. There’s practically no character or plot advancement, and the Angel appearance feels incredibly forced. The rationale for his arrival in Sunnydale doesn’t make sense, and as a result, it all feels like marking time until the meat of the story, which once again takes place in the subsequent “Angel” episode.
At least the episode introduces some information that places much of the topography of Sunnydale into perspective. Apparently there are tons of caverns under Sunnydale, as seen throughout the series, and whenever there’s an earthquake, entire buildings end up underground. Perhaps thanks to the Hellmouth, most of these buildings seem to house something demonic or evil.
This time, it’s the ruins of a mission from 1812, which happens to be the final resting place for many, many Chumash spirits. And the Chumash, of course, are perturbed over the extermination of their people by the Europeans. Xander, having started a construction job as part of his “occupation whirlwind”, finds the place during the initial groundbreaking for a university cultural center.
Since this is the Thanksgiving episode, it’s only natural that Willow take up the banner of speaking for the Native American victims of Western oppression. It seems lost on Willow that Buffy wants to hold a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Perhaps it has something to do with Willow’s desire to think of something other than Oz. At any rate, Willow doesn’t notice that Buffy is feeling more and more isolated from her family and friends.
There is an attempt, early in the episode, to delve into a deeper theme. Buffy, Riley, Willow…they all talk about the idea of home. Just about every character is looking for a soft place to fall in this episode, and it doesn’t always work out for them. The most obvious example would be Angel, who no longer belongs in Sunnydale, and can’t be the one to help Buffy find herself in her new world.
Another interesting example would be Xander and Anya. In a very short time, the two characters have formed a genuine bond, even if it’s hard for the rest of the gang to understand how one relates to Anya. In the end, it doesn’t matter what they think: at this time in their lives, Xander and Anya find something comforting in each other.
With her mother out of town, Buffy turns to Giles as the father figure (and convenient clean-up crew). Giles seems more than happy to actually help Buffy and get involved in her life. While part of that is related to Angel’s presence and warning, Giles has also been sidelined for far too long, and he knows it. He chastises Angel about his lurking, something that is very fair and accurate. Angel’s reason for keeping his presence secret seems more about his own hang-ups than protecting Buffy.
Because of the impression that the relationship between Buffy and Angel needs more closure before Buffy can truly move on with Riley (and the network probably wanted a sweeps event), something of a love triangle has to be staged. So of course, Angel has to see Riley pursuing Buffy while revealing his presence to Willow. It seems odd that Angel would involve so many of Buffy’s friends; it’s almost as if he’s consciously trying to undermine his own reasons not to see Buffy.
The conversation between Buffy and Riley also serves to reinforce the “home” theme, which ties into the Spike/Harmony scene which follows. Harmony tosses Spike to the curb, despite his best efforts, and after the previous episode, there’s no question he deserves such treatment. Still, it’s an amazing turn of events for the character; just weeks earlier, he was a major threat. Now, he’s played for sympathy, and damned if it doesn’t work.
Halfway through the episode, Buffy finally discovers the nature of the Chumash threat. This leads into some truly annoying moralizing from Willow, which feels more like a scene from a “cultural diversity in the workplace” video than a scene for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. It doesn’t help that Willow gets far too preachy about the whole thing. It’s a little crazy for Willow to suggest that they all get together and help the Chumash reclaim their rightful land (especially since they are, as mentioned, all exterminated!).
Her self-righteousness does serve to reveal something important about her character: she’s not afraid to stand up to Giles anymore. Giles used to be her mentor, and his opinion used to mean the world to her. The fragmentation of the Scooby Gang has stripped much of that away; Willow has begun making her own life. In essence, she has begun discovering herself, which is the over-arching theme of the season. Later in the series, this growing rift would become a major source of conflict.
Jane Espenson has a particular voice as a writer, and part of that distinctive style involves punishing the characters in new and ever-more-degrading ways. Xander and Spike take the lions’ share in this episode, that’s for sure. First Xander discovers, thanks to a little research, that he has become the unwitting victim of not one but several deadly infections, including the ever-popular smallpox and syphilis. Xander is overjoyed, as one would expect. (How he managed not to infect everyone else with the smallpox is something of a mystery.)
With everyone arguing and conversation getting snippy, Buffy puts more and more emphasis on her vision of a “perfect Thanksgiving”. This divisive type of situation is exactly what she’s been trying to avoid with the whole holiday theory, after all, and she certainly didn’t want people to start taking sides over whether or not to kill the marauding Native American vengeance spirit.
Things come to a nice boil just in time for Spike to come knocking on the door, after a Dickens-esque scene where Spike looks through the window at a vampire “family” sharing a meal, something he can no longer enjoy. As if being “neutered” wasn’t enough, now Spike is reduced to seeking aid from his sworn enemies. As important as this is from a plot/character perspective, as it begins a journey for Spike that ends in a rather well-considered shift to heroism), it’s salt on his wounds.
It does give Spike the opportunity, however, to cut through Willow’s self-righteous indignation with some cutting logic of his own. It makes sense for Spike to champion the ideals of “manifest destiny”, given the colonial attitude rampant in his human days. While he firmly believes in his point of view, he serves to bring the holier-than-thou aspects of Willow’s argument crashing to ground. He correctly points out, however indirectly, that Buffy and the others are trying to make up for something done hundreds of years ago, and the ones who did the killing felt fully justified at the time.
More than that, it gives the writers a chance to show Giles in a snit, since he said much the same thing and got nowhere. This is played for laughs, but it’s also plays into the fact that Giles has less and less influence over the rest of the gang. His role as mentor has, as mentioned earlier, all but disappeared. It’s determined that the next victim of Hus, the Chumash vengeance spirit in question, will be the apparent leader of those still occupying the land.
Willow, Xander, and Anya all go to warn the dean of UC-Sunnydale, which has less to do with logic and more to do with getting the characters outside so they can help Angel fight off the bad guys once things get serious. It doesn’t take long for that to happen, as Hus and his merry band of pissed-off Chumash crash Buffy’s little party. Quite obviously, Hus sees Buffy as the leader, since she was the warrior previously sent to stop him.
The ensuing fight is fun, largely because Spike becomes an undead pin cushion and tosses out great one-liners throughout the entire melee. Hus and his warriors can’t die and apparently can transform into animal forms (like bears), and yet the fight is rather simple, even as protracted as it is. It doesn’t last long enough to even postpone the Thanksgiving dinner, which of course, takes place at the end. Even Spike gets to stay for dinner, which plays into the “home” theme rather tidily.
Even though the “home” theme of the episode does pertain to the overall theme for the season (knowing where one belongs is part of knowing oneself), it doesn’t quite come together. It’s all there in the script, easy enough to find, but the episode itself doesn’t concentrate primarily on that theme. It comes and goes, supplanted often by Willow’s lecturing and Buffy’s attempt to create the perfect Thanksgiving dinner rather than deal with the gang’s communication issues.
If anything, the Chumash element could have been used more effectively. The idea might have been to tie in the “home” theme with the Chumash desire to take back control of their land; in essence, Buffy and the gang would have been dealing with spirits trying to find “home” themselves. That’s not stressed, and Willow’s stance doesn’t bring it close enough for that logical connection to be readily made.
The true weakness of the episode, however, is the forced involvement of Angel. Why does Angel need to be in Sunnydale for this particular situation? Why does he try to stay away from Buffy, yet do everything but announce himself in the process? Perhaps the answer to both questions can be found in the logic behind the subsequent “Angel” episode. It seems reasonable to assume, from the context of the Buffyverse as a whole, that The Powers That Be (or perhaps just Jasmine, the rogue Power) felt that Angel was holding back, still glooming over Buffy. As a result, they set up a couple of simple tests: see how Angel deals with a threat to the Slayer, and then give him the chance to choose between being a Champion and being with Buffy.
That rationale, if applicable, was never fully communicated on either series, so the whys and wherefores are left open to interpretation. It’s all too easy to assume that the network wanted to use the sweeps period before Thanksgiving to bolster the ratings for “Angel” by pushing for a crossover. While the subsequent “Angel” episode was much better, it betrays a lack of confidence in the spinoff, which would plague that series for the entire first season. Perhaps worse, it made the already troubled fourth season of “Buffy” even more muddled.
Memorable Quotes
ANYA: “Well, I think that’s a shame. I love a ritual sacrifice.”
BUFFY: “It’s not really one of those.”
ANYA: “To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It’s a ritual sacrifice…with pie.”
BUFFY: “Imaginary Xander is quite the machine…”
XANDER: “OK, I’ll stay, but you should go. You might catch it.”
ANYA: “We’ll die together. It’s romantic. Let me get your trousers off.”
XANDER: “You’re a strange girlfriend…”
BUFFY: “I thought I was going to have to use Slayer moves on this one woman who was completely hoarding the pumpkin pie filling.”
GILES: “And at some point, you are going to tell me about the murder?”
BUFFY: “Oh, right…”
GILES: “I’m glad that you’re watch out for her, but I feel I should remind you that she’s not helpless and it’s not your job to keep her safe.”
ANGEL: “It’s not yours anymore, either. Are you going to walk away?”
GILES: “Sorry?”
BUFFY: “We don’t say ‘Indian’.”
GILES: “Oh, right, yes, yes. Always behind on the terms. Still trying not to refer to you lot as ‘bloody colonials’…”
GILES: “What’s all that?”
WILLOW: “Atrocities. I got the full poop on the Chumash Indians and our fabulous buried mission.”
BUFFY: “You said you were going to get fresh ones.”
WILLOW: “Atrocities?”
BUFFY: “They’re gonna be mushy.”
WILLOW: “They won’t be mushy.”
GILES: “I like mushy peas.”
BUFFY: “You’re the reason we have to have Pilgrims in the first place!”
WILLOW: “Are you sure we shouldn’t be helping him?”
GILES: “No, I think perhaps we won’t help the angry spirit with his rape and pillage and murder.”
GILES: “Well, that’s good, but this is why I think we should all keep a level head in this.”
WILLOW: “And I happen to think mine is the level head, and yours is the one things would toll off of.”
WILLOW: “Sarcasm accomplishes nothing, Giles.”
GILES: “It’s sort of an end in itself.”
WILLOW: “I don’t think anyone appreciated the truth of the situation.”
GILES: “Oh, I think we do.”
BUFFY: “This is no good! It need more condensed milk…”
BUFFY: “What are you saying?”
SPIKE: “I’m saying that Spike had a little trip to the vet, and now he doesn’t chase the other puppies anymore!”
SPIKE: “I came to you in friendship! Well, all right, seething hatred…”
BUFFY: “Will, you know how bad I feel about this. It’s eating me up! Quarter cup of brandy and let it simmer…”
SPIKE: “You won, all right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That’s what conquering nations do. It’s what Caesar did, and he’s not going around saying, ‘I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it’. The history of the world isn’t people making friends. You had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story!”
SPIKE: “You exterminated his race! What could you possibly say that would make him feel better? It’s kill or be killed here. Take your bloody pick!”
XANDER: “Maybe it’s the syphilis talking, but some of that made sense.”
GILES: “I made these points earlier, but fine, no one listens to me…”
ANYA: “What’s he like when he is evil?”
SPIKE: “A bear! You made a bear!”
BUFFY: “I didn’t mean to!”
SPIKE: “Undo it! Undo it!”
XANDER: “And you know what? I think my syphilis is clearing right up.”
BUFFY: “And they say romance is dead…”
Final Analysis
Overall, this episode was another struggle for the fourth season. There was an interesting concept of “home” within the episode, but it never became the connective thread for the various plot elements as intended. Willow’s moral posturing was somewhat out of character and annoying, and Angel’s involvement felt rather forced. While very funny at times, this is far from a classic.
Writing: 1/2
Acting: 2/2
Direction: 2/2
Style: 1/4
Final Rating: 6/10
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