“Pangs”
A little Angel-series back story to make this episode make more sense first. At the end of the last episode of Angel before this Buffy show, Doyle (who is kind of a psychic) had a vision of Buffy being in danger so of course Angel rushes off to save her. Ok first of all, Buffy is always in danger, it’s kind of in her job description and second of all, Buffy doesn’t need saving Angel. Go home I’d rather look at Spike.
So anyways, we begin with Angel being a creeper again and watching Buffy from the bushes. *Sigh* He’s like herpes, you may not see any sign of him for a while, but he’s never really gone.
There is some sort of groundbreaking occurring and all that I can think is WHY ARE THE VILLAGE PEOPLE THERE?!
Buffy is the cowboy, Xander the construction worker, and some Indian will show up soon.
Anya, being her strange self, says weird things that in reality are quite true. Thanksgiving is a ritual sacrifice, “To commemorate a past event you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice. With pie.” Willow hates everything that Thanksgiving falsely represents, while Buffy just wishes that she could have a stereotypical Thanksgiving with family.
Xander does the sexy digging things and ends up falling in a big hole. And his penis gets a disease from that hole. That’s why you use protection Xander.
And Angel stalks Buffy again. Seriously dude, it’s time to let go.
Since Buffy is having a sad about her mother leaving for Thanksgiving, so she decides to do a traditional dinner with all of the gang herself. I’m pretty sure she doesn’t even know how to cook soup.
Anya goes to check up on Xander who is apparently dying because he has pants on so Anya decides to remove them. It’s sweet and slightly disturbing when she says, “Then we'll die together! It's romantic.” Xander being the weirdo that he is finds this all too endearing and declares Anya his girlfriend.
So apparently some spirits have been released that have an ear fetish, where they enjoy cutting said ears off of people. Willow and Buffy investigate and discover that the Chumash Indians are somehow involved.
Buffy is preparing dinner at Giles and runs off to buy more groceries when Angel steps out of the shadows to discuss the “danger” that Buffy is in with Giles. I’m glad Giles points what I’m thinking the whole time “I feel I have to remind you, she's not helpless and it's not your job to keep her safe.” Then Angel retorts with, “BUT I NEED TO WATCH HER GILES. DON’T YOU GET THAT? WE ARE SOULMATES AND IF I DON’T WATCH OVER HER EVERY WAKING MOMENT SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN TO HER” Then Giles goes to court to get a restraining order.
My favorite scene from this episode:
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Spike pathetically looking in at other vampires eating while he starves. So sad. L |
While out getting groceries, Buffy runs into Riley so Willow goes into the coffee shop. Angel thinks that it’s appropriate and not creepy at all to announce his presence by grabbing Willow and covering her mouth.
Willow questions Angel’s choices in hiring Cordelia for his “private investigation” company. Yeah, we all know that Angel is in expert in that since he’s a STALKER. Seriously though, I am upset that he freaking stalks Buffy like this. I think I’m more upset that people think they have some epic romance when in reality its unhealthy in a million different ways just like Edward and Bella. Oh, and he questions Willow about who Buffy is talking to because it's totally his business.
Buffy has a nice normal conversation about family and home with Riley. I love how we see an immediate contrast in their relationships. Whereas with Angel, everything was drama drama drama, with Riley they are just two people talking.
While trying to get answers from a priest about the Chumash tribe, Buffy runs into one of the Indian spirits who turns into a flock of freaking crows. She tells Giles what happened and I don’t think I ever noticed this line before since it’s just in the middle of a paragraph Buffy says, “I like my evil like my men: evil.” Well, the first step is admitting that you have a problem, Buffy, so at least she’s realized it.
Giles and Buffy discuss whether it’s right or wrong to kill these spirits when they are only avenging the death and destruction of their tribe and their land. Willow comes in to point out how the white man is bad for stealing everybody’s land and because of that we must all now have mushy peas.
Now we get to see the fun of Thanksgiving. Willow and Giles argue like families tend to when they get together and Buffy ignores it while trying to continue to cook. More “family” shows up with an extremely sick Xander and Anya taking care of him. Giles solution is my favorite and beyond hilarious, “Let’s give him some land I’m sure that’ll clear everything right up”.
With all of this family arriving, we have another surprise guest for dinner. Nope not Angel, SPIKE! Having nowhere left to go, Spike decides to be best buddies with the people that he has been trying to kill for 2 years. And for some reason unbeknownst to me, they decide to keep him as a pet instead of killing him. It doesn’t make sense to me, but I’m sure glad it worked out this way. Yes he offered information on the "secret military group", but that's not really enough for me to keep someone that tried TO MURDER ME SEVERAL TIMES alive.
Everyone continues to argue about how to handle the Chumash Indian situation. Willow is quick to point out all the bad things that European settlers have done, while Giles dismisses most of it. Buffy says she feels bad, but they are killing people now and it needs to be stopped. “Two views on America's history are presented by Willow, supporting Native Americans even when they killed people, and Giles and Spike, who champion the other side of the debate, Giles stressing the futility of symbolic revenge and Spike arguing the equal futility of guilt.” My favorite point of view is Spike’s: “You won! All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do! That's what Caesar did, he's not going around saying "I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it"! The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons, you massacred them, end of story!”
The Chumash Indian spirits attack Giles, Buffy, and Spike at Giles place while Xander, Willow, and Anya are off attempting to get answers from people. They run into Angel who whines about everyone thinking he’s evil. Maybe it’s the whole stalking thing, just saying. Angel calls Giles and discovers they are in trouble so he assists by getting the rest of the Scoobies bicycles. Seriously.
Hilarity ensues with Spike still being tied to a chair and getting shot with arrows. Angel and the Scoobies assist from the outside, but nothing has an affect on the Chumash. Then things go from bad to worse.
Buffy is able to kill the Chief Indian spirit, and everyone is able to sit around enjoying Thanksgiving together. They are reminiscing and enjoying each other's company when just like old times, Xander ruins everything by letting Buffy know that Angel happened to be there. Uh-oh.
A quick continuation of the story onto Angel. Buffy goes to LA to
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Sarah's Notes
- Hi Angel! I love how you think so highly of your ex girlfriend that you feel the need to run and protect her from harm. What are you going to do, kidnap her and have your family watch her while you hunt like a certain other vampire we know? I'm very much with Kali on this, the stalking needs to stop. If I wanted to watch a relationship like Edward/Bella in Twilight, I'd go seek some therapy. Stay out of my Buffy!
- Anya keeps imagining having sex with Xander which leads Buffy to saying my favorite line: "imaginary Xander is quite the machine"
- Angel's kind of a dick to Willow. He's able to stalk Buffy and ask who she's with but she can't ask him anything? Seriously?!
- "I'm a great cook, in theory--I've eaten a lot" lolz
- "I thought you were going to get fresh ones" "Atrocities?"
- "Omg Xander you look like death" "You didn't bring rolls?" It's so funny how preoccupied Buffy is with cooking throughout this whole episode.
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