Angel 5.20 "The Girl in Question"

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Whatever people's complaints about the characters being out of character are, I just don't understand.

People's complaints about the Spike/Buffy/Angel love triangle, I don't understand either. As I have pointed out in comments to others' entries, the whole point of bringing up the stupid triangle was to MAKE FUN OF IT.

The episode was supposed to be funny, and it was. Don't take it for any more or less than that.

If you didn't laugh and find it homoerotic when Spike and Angel fought in slow-mo to Dean Martin's love song, then maybe your laugh engine is broken!

David Fury said Spike and Angel are the couple of the year here. It isn't really about Buffy. It is about Angel calling Spike 'blondie bear' and Spike calling him 'little mama' and them hugging on the Vespa. It's about Angel touching Spike's legs, Spike touching his arm, the two of them shoulder to shoulder in the doorway, the two of them trying to get drunk together. The arguments that sound like the affectionate needling of an old married couple.

And for the last time, Andrew SO cannot be dating those girls.

Yes, I wish that Xander or some other well-dressed, tux-wearing man had been behind the door when Andrew opened it.

Still, Andrew is as much cookie dough as Buffy is.

Andrew needs to date two women at once now, then maybe two MEN, etc., until he finds out what he really wants.

And those girls could have been a lesbian couple, there to pick him up to meet his cute man. A double date. Don't say it isn't possible!

And if he was dating them, so what? He deserves to experience various things before he settles down with Xander!

For a second there, seeing the two women, I thought Jonathan would be so jealous; they were so reminiscent of Jonathan's Superstar twins, and maybe Andrew felt a twinge of guilt that he was living Jonathan's life after murdering him.

But then he was probably OK with it, because he has to move on with his life just as Spike and Angel and Buffy need to, he cannot achieve redemption and live a happy life if all he does is wallow in guilt.

I have already re-watched the episode twice, and still thought all the funny lines were funny. So there.