How interesting

I just watched the AtS season 1 episode "She," and girlwithjournal is wrong about it. There are, in fact, two parts very worth watching. Yes, of course the dancing is one, Angel is absolutely hilarious, as is Wesley. But the other is Angel's description of the Manet painting. And then the very interesting idea that Baudelaire and Angel might have had a fling; one can see the possibilities of Angel sleeping with and torturing Baudelaire in such a fashion that Le Vampire was produced:

Toi qui, comme un coup de couteau,
Dans mon coeur plantif es entrée;
Toi qui, forte comme un troupeau
De démons, vins, folle et parée,

De mon esprit humilié
Faire ton lit et ton domaine;
— Infâme à qui je suis lié
Comme le forçat à la chaîne,

Comme au jeu le joueur têtu,
Comme à la bouteille l'ivrogne,
Comme aux vermines la charogne,
— Maudite, maudite sois-tu!

J'ai prié le glaive rapide
De conquérir ma liberté
Et j'ai dit au poison perfide
De secourir ma lâcheté.

Hélas! le poison et le glaive
M'ont pris en dédain et m'ont dit:
«Tu n'es pas digne qu'on t'enlève
A ton esclavage maudit,

Imbécile! — de son empire
Si nos efforts te délivraient,
Tes baisers ressusciteraient
Le cadavre de ton vampire!»


"Oh, and Baudelaire was actually a little taller and a lot drunker than he's depicted here." -Angel, "She"

Birthdays

It seems that Cordelia Chase doesn't know her own birthday. Evidently, she thinks she has my birthday. (OK, I'll explain what I'm talking about.)

In "The Prodigal," Cordelia tells Angel that she's going to program the new security system code as her birthday. Later, she punches in the new code and says "oh-five-two-two"; i.e., May 22. (Sound familiar, anyone?) I was a bit surprised at this, of course, and decided to check it up on the web. But no, the web gives her birthday as some point in January. I went to look at the shooting script, and lo and behold, it gives her line as "Oh-One, Two-Two." On the other hand, I was pretty damned sure that I'd heard a five. So I went to look at a transcript of the episode. You know what it says? "0-5-2-2."

Yes, I'm a dork. But I'm a happy dork, so leave me in my nice cocoon, please.