Ep by ep; The House Always Wins
THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS
The Good; Lorne's performance is wonderful and love Fred's excited squeal. The Vegas stuff is all great
The Bad; The actual story is not that good.
Best line: Angel; "Boy, Vegas was a lot friendlier when the mob ran it!"
Jeez, how did they get away with that? Apocalypses: 5
Angel Clichés In disguise; 8
DB get's his shirt off; 12
Cordy's tatt; 10
Fang Gang in bondage: Cordy: 5 Angel: 12 Wes: 6 Gunn; 4 Lorne; 3 Fred; 2 Connor; 1
Fang gang knocked out: Cordy: 12 Angel: 15 Wes: 5 Doyle; 1 Gunn; 1 Lorne; 3 Groo; 1 Fred; 1 Connor; 1
Kills: 1 vamp for Connor and another human for Angel Cordy: 5 vamps, 3 demons Angel; 41 vamps, 57 and 1/2 demons, 8 humans Doyle; 1 vamp Wes; 13 demons+3 vamps, 2 humans Kate; 3 vamps Faith; 16 vamps, 6 demons, 3 humans. Gunn; 11 vamps+ 11 demons. Groo; 1 demon Fred; 3 vamp Connor; 6 vamps and 1 demon
Fang Gang go evil: Cordy: 2 Angel: 2 Gunn; 1 Wes; 1
Alternate Fang Gang: Destinyless Angel Cordy: 2 Angel: 9 Fred; 1
Characters killed: 46
Recurring characters killed; 8;
Total number of Angel Investigations: 4 Angel, Gunn, Fred, Lorne
Angel Investigations shot: Angel: 11 Wes; 1
Packing heat; Angel uses the guard's gun to kill the casino owners' assistant Wes; 6 Doyle; 1 Angel; 3 Gunn; 1
Notches on Fang Gang bedpost: Cordy: 4 ?+Wilson/Hacksaw Beast+Phantom Dennis+Groo Angel: 5; Buffy, Darla and The Transcending Furies Wes; 3; Virginia, the bleached blonde and Lilah Gunn; 1 Fred Fred; 1 Gunn Groo; 1Cordy
Kinky dinky: Fred in her Lornette costume is a revelation. Hands up who else was thinking what a shame we don't get to see CC in the same? (and Charisma is a Vegas girl after all). Lilah and Wes have some pretty explicit phone sex.
Know the face, different character; 4
Parking garages; 5,
Buffy characters on Angel; 16 Wetherby, Collins and Smith. Angel, Cordy, Oz, Spike, Buffy, Wes, Faith, Darla, Dru, The Master, Anne, Willow and Harmony
What the fanficcers thought; Once read an interesting one where Angel introduces Elvis to the delights of wearing black leather whilst Elvis teaches him karate.
Questions and observations; Angel in pinstripes, interesting look for him. Good enough, especially the musical numbers, glad to have the gang back together and Gunn get's to achieve his ambition, as indeed does Lorne. But you want them to get back to LA and crack on with the season. Wes seems quite happy to take AI's business when they're out of town suggesting he was partly responsible for their lack of clients during the summer. Also Fred seems to win pretty good at the blackjack table which might explain why AI's money problems seem to be over. Weird to hear Andy Hallet's commentary when you know he's no longer with us.
Not much more to say on this one, like Vegas itself it's glossy but pretty superficial. I'm a little surprised the Tropicana let them use its' real name when it is portrayed so evilly but I guess all publicity is good publicity? Of course the Vegas we see is all the best bits of the real Vegas gathered together, if you watch the old series Las Vegas they did the same thing (and watch out for Harry Groener, Baily Chase and Christian Kane). Nowadays of course when I hear Lady Marmalade I can't help but think of Hadyn Panitierre performing it on Lip Sync Battle and still not being able to believe that Eva Longoria beat her. To judge by the commentary the Angel crew appear to have had a very good time on location, finally getting to go outside LA and most taking the opportunity to have a cameo.
Marks out of 10; 6/10