And wow am I late 😛 My thoughts are kinda a mess, so please excuse the organization
- "She's on fire!" Cordelia's response is just typical considering her usual responses 😛
- Overall, an enjoyable episode, but clearly not one of the better ones from the series as a whole. Season-wise, it's one of the best
What organization? Oh, that might be what you're talking about...
I love Cordelia's response to that because she uses the word "hyperbole" -- I love that word, and it shows that she's smarter than she lets on (hell, she might be smarter than a good number of the viewers at the time, since how many people actually know what that word means? And I need to stop my rambling.)
I think the fact that this is one of the better episodes in the season is more a sign of how weak the season is than anything else -- I really don't like Season 1, and this rewatch hasn't improved my opinion of it by much -- I'm liking some episodes more, but the bad ones (like the next one) are looking even worse.
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And now it's time for the next episode: Teacher's Pet. I took note of stuff stream of consciousness, but it's barely notes, just... It's because this episode is bad.
Opening dream sequence makes me cringe. Seriously. Then again, this whole episode does. It is not a good episode.
I've been watching Angel so much recently I kind of expected that theme song to start playing. I like the version from season 3 onward better than the one used here. I need to stop harping on this, though -- it will go away eventually.
On a different note, am I insane? I always prefer watching things with the closed captioning on. I mean, my hearing isn't great, but not that terrible. It tells you how bad this episode is that I'm here talking about this instead of actually saying something about the episode...
Also, David Greenwalt wrote this episode? He's capable of so much better, but I think he's stronger as showrunner on Angel than he ever was as writer on Buffy. Not sure what to make of that. Though, he is the guy mostly responsible for Angel as a character, so he does have that to his credit. I don't know -- maybe as we go through this rewatch, I'll get a better handle on things like that. Interesting thing to note is that he and Joss are the only Season 1 writers who were still on the show during Season 3. Tells you something about the quality of the other writers, since there was a drastic improvement after Season 1 and why am I still not talking about the episode? Seriously, it's not good.
Science 109? High school classes using a number system like in college? This strikes me as weird. Also, for the effect she had on the students, I think that they should've cast someone more attractive as the substitute teacher -- that might sound terrible, but I'm just being honest... I mean, looking solely at her chest, I see what they saw, but...
I don't even really have a reaction to finding the headless teacher in the fridge. They would've made that work better if they'd done something with him in previous episodes -- maybe even just a short appearance, but something to make us have a connection with him. Maybe I'm being too overly cynical about the whole thing, but really -- this is not good, and I'm unaffected by most of what happens in it.
Also, dark. Really dark. I think they finally got the money for better lighting in season 2, but this is incredibly dark -- obviously not shooting day for night -- and it just doesn't look good. This is what I remembered being such a problem with Season 1. Video quality is better than I remember, but the lighting in a lot of scenes is just terrible.
Flutie is just... weird... a little overbearing. Though, Cordelia is legitimately funny, so there are at least some good things in this episode.
And the portrayal of education in every TV show and movie I've ever seen, but this is especially bad, but that's down to the character.
I just feel like I have nothing to say. This is such a nothing episode that I... have nothing to really say... I'm kind of running out of things to ramble about -- Wait, thought of something. Xander has this thing about actively trying to sleep with women who are trying to kill him -- until the one time he isn't actively seeking them out, at which point... seriously, this is becoming a running thing -- I can't get through a single episode without something in it making me think of Faith. This is going to be a long wait until Season 3...
And I didn't take any more notes in the episode (that last part was written with something like twenty minutes to go). Wow, that's a sign it really WAS that bad. I just never really had anything to say about this episode.