Expecting
Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by David Semel
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Beth's Synopsis
Angel's office at night. Cordelia's putting her lipstick on, using a window as a mirror, when Angel speaks from behind her, scaring her into smearing her lipstick down her cheek, since there was no reflection to warn her he was there. She says she hopes she's too young and too carefree for a heartattack. "Would it kill you to hum a little tune when slipping up on people?" Angel says he doesn't hum. They discuss Cordelia's unique filing methods--Mrs. Benson was filed under P. Or is that an F? Or an R? Turns out it was an F, because she's from France. She was a pain; that's the French for you.Wesley drops in. He was patrolling in the area with his new Bavarian fighting axe when he thought maybe Cordy had had a vision and they might need his help. Angel says they're evil-free, then Wesley reveals his true evil purpose for dropping by--he wants to lure them into a game of Word Puzzle 3-D. "Gee, Wesley, I'd love to, but unlike you I'm not in my eighties quite yet," is Cordy's response. Wesley starts to make a snarky remark about Cordy's plans to "shake her booty" at a trendy night spot, but as he does, Cordy's two beautiful and well-dressed friends walk in and suddenly he's jealous. One of them compliments his axe, which gets him flustered, which ends with the axe accidentally embedded in Angel's wall.
The ladies give Wesley an odd look. Serena tells Cordy they're late. Cordy asks them how she looks, and they say "Like Daisy Duke does Los Angeles." Oh, wait, that's what I said. They say she looks fabulous. (Note to Cordy--when beautiful LA girls tell you you look great just before going to a club with you, it really means you're going to make them look good by looking so bad standing next to them.) "Wilson won't be able to take his eyes off you."
"Who's Wilson?" Angel wants to know. He's Wilson Christopher. No, Wesley, not the ethno-archeologist from Brandeis. The fashion photographer from LA. This is his third date with Cordy. And Wesley's whole "Hugh Grant thing" is really starting to grow on Serena. As they discuss that, Angel moves over to talk to Cordelia. "So, you've been seeing someone. How come I haven't met him?" "Because I'm ashamed of you, not to mention how you'd embarrass me by giving him the third degree."
"Your boss could give me the third degree any time," the blonde, Emily, responds. Cordelia looks like she's about to say something, then suddenly falls to the floor behind the desk as she's hit with a vision. Angel and Wesley cover, knocking stuff off the desk and telling her to get it and engaging the ladies in a conversation about the club they're going to. Finally one of them invites Angel along, but he says he thinks he might be busy.
Cordelia's vision flashes across the screen. Angel makes a bad joke and Wesley laughs a little too loudly, putting his arm around Angel in his version of an attempt to act nonchalant and carefree (Note to Wesley: take acting lessons.). Serena looks at the blonde. "The good ones are always gay." Wesley drops his arm as Serena reminds Cordy they're late.
Angel turns to Cordy, who's climbing up from behind the desk. "So, that client I'm supposed to be meeting tonight. What's he like again?" She describes the vision as best she can with her friends there, writes down the address she saw in her vision, and leaves. Angel picks up the paper and heads for his coat. Wesley starts to babble about the possibility of Angel maybe needing help. "Not that an evening alone with World Puzzle isn't plenty exhilarating in it's own right--" He stops as Angel hands him the address, giving him the goofiest (yet oddly endearing) grateful look as he follows behind, stopping for his briefcase and his axe. After he falls over trying to get the axe out of the wall, they leave.
They get to the address and Wesley barges in the door. Angel gets stuck on the porch, since he hasn't been invited in. "Don't move a muscle, demon spawn!" Wesley yells, brandishing his axe and a crossbow. An old couple watching TV stares back at them, barely even looking shocked at the invasion. He starts grilling them, asking the lady where she lays her eggs. In the cellar? In the bedroom? Angel looks around outside and through a window next door sees an egg hatching. He calls Wesley off, covering by saying, "Yes, that's right, termites lay their eggs anywhere, such as next door." Wesley backs out to the door, still holding the axe and crossbow on the couple, and sees the egg hatching as well. He apologizes to the couple about their door before following Angel to the house next door. The couple just looks at each other.
They kill the demon with a lot of hacking, thudding and screaming, and with Wesley getting thrown out the door in the process. They walk out coughing, breathing heavily (well, Wesley is), and covered in gore and dust. Angel says if that's the baby that just hatched, he wouldn't want to meet one who's older. Wesley agrees, adding his thanks to the absent Cordy for sending them to the wrong house. "Another five minutes and that thing would have been loose in the world." Angel says it all worked out.
"This time," Wesley reminds him. He admits it's not his place to say, since Cordy works for Angel, but she should really pay more attention to her duties. Angel says she's young and has had a lot to deal with lately, with Doyle's death and the visions. Wesley says that they're not in the real world, that demon hunters have a higher calling. 'If she wants to go gadabouting with those doxies--" Angel cuts him off with, "I think they liked you." "Really?" Wesley says, completely diverted onto the subject of the two ladies.
Cut to the club. Serena and Emily are with their two guys. Emily says she's bored and Serena says Cordelia isn't. Cordy's comfy on a couch with Wilson, talking about LA and how hard it was coming there. He's making her feel special and looking sensitive vulnerable and insecure in the process. Yeah, he's a good guy.
He takes her home, where he continues to be a great guy. She gets flustered, and he kisses her. He says he'll call her tomorrow, but she invites him in. He accepts, and she shuts the door and dims the lights, but as she walks off, they go back up. She dims them again, and again they go back up. She admits her dating game is rusty, and he suggests music. She turns on something slow and sexy, which is immediately switched to a polka as she walks away. Cordy blames the whole thing on the wiring as she turns off the radio and offers Wilson some tea.
In the kitchen alone, Cordy tells Phantom Dennis to knock it off. This is the one guy she's liked in a long time and if Dennis ruins it, she'll kill him. "Alright, empty threat, you being a ghost and already dead and all, but I'll do something worse. I'll play Evita around the clock...the one with Madonna!"
Wilson hears that last part and asks who she's talking to. She says her ghost, then says she's kidding and that the apartment's great, but things are always breaking, and since she has no one to complain to she talks to herself. Wilson kisses her, and they end up in bed.
Next morning, the sun comes up and Cordy's in bed alone. It's 10:47, and she's late for work. She has trouble sitting up though, and when she takes the covers off she sees why. She's very, very, very pregnant.
The commercial break serves as a time passing break. When we come back, she's still in the bed, looking rather traumatized. Angel and Wesley are walking up to her place. Angel asks what time it is and Wesley says it's a quarter past noon. Angel left two messages with her, she should have called by now. Wesley wonders what to do when they get to the door and there's no answer, but Angel doesn't have to think. He walks right in.
She doesn't answer when he calls her name in the living room. They walk into the bedroom and see her sitting up, looking very pregnant and are both rather stunned themselves. Cordy says she wants to wake up now, but she doesn't seem to be. She's crying as she tells Angel what happened. Everything that happened was normal, and completely safe.
Angel asks if she's talked to Wilson, and she says no, she hasn't talked to anyone. "What would I say? I had a really great time. I think you left something at my place?" She thinks she's being punished, but Wesley says no, she's not, and they'll get to the bottom of this. Angel makes her dial Wilson's number and waits to talk to him, but the number is out of service. Angel tells her that Wilson's not answering right now, but they'll get to the bottom of this. She's not alone. She says that's sort of the problem, and asks them to leave her alone. When they leave, she cries again. Dennis floats the tissue box over to her and covers her up with the comforter.
Out in the living room they find out that Wilson's home and business phones have been disconnected, and he's basically impossible to trace. They think he might be a kind of demon who can only reproduce by implanting a human woman with his seed. The human mothers rarely survive the birth, and the ones who do wish they hadn't. And if Cordy's that pregnant in one night, she could give birth at any second.
Angel tells Wesley to take Cordy to the doctor for a prenatal exam. Meanwhile Angel's going to find Daddy. Angel goes to the club Cordelia was at the night before and talks to the bartender. The bartender tells him Wilson and his friends hang wherever Serena tells them to. He asks if Angel's Cordy's boyfriend, and Angel says no, he's family.
Wesley and Cordy are waiting in the doctor's office, posing as a married couple. Cordy's getting cranky. The doctor does an ultrasound and says it's twins. No, there's a third hearbeat. And another. "Five, six...oh my God." Cordy wants to know what's wrong, and the doctor says it's nothing, but he'd like to draw a little of the amniotic fluid. Wesley, who can see the screen showing the ultrasound, gives Cordy a very sick look.
Angel gets to Serena's apartment and finds her drinking heavily--and also very, very, very pregnant. She says she hopes the alcohol hurts the baby.
Back to the doctor's office. The doctor draws the fluid and hands the needle to the nurse. The fluid starts eating through the needle, and through the floor. Wesley's face is even more sick and shocked than before. He thinks they should find Angel, but Cordy wants to know one thing--do the babies look healthy?
At Serena's apartment, Angel is asking her about the guys. She says something wasn't right with them--their money smelled really bad. And sometimes the guys were jumpy. But everything's fake in this town, and you stop asking questions after a while. Serena has no one to help her. All three of them didn't--the guys seemed to like that. As he asks where to find Wilson and friends, she has a labor pain.
Cordelia is having one at the same time. Wesley helps her into Angel's place and has her lie down on the bed. Cordy says he's afraid of what's inside her, that he thinks it's horrible. He says he has to have time to formulate a theory, but she's not listening. "There's seven of them," she says. "There's seven of his children growing inside of me. They're talking to me. They're talking all at once. I can't understand." She's sounding more and more insane, and she's very concerned for the well-being of the babies. They could be okay, even though they're not human. Angel's not human. Neither was Doyle.
She falls asleep, and Wesley turns around to find Angel standing there. Angel tells him he found Serena, and she's also a victim. Wilson and his rich buddies are all in on it--four of them, maybe more, he's not sure. Wesley shows him the ultrasound results. With at least seven babies, and who knows how many women have that many, someone's raising an army.
Angel searches for a gun club through the yellow pages--Wilson and friends hang out at a gun and cigar club. He's going to look for them, and tells Wesley to try to narrow down what kind of demon this is. If they can find a way to terminate the pregnancy without hurting Cordy, that's great. If not, they need to know what to do once the babies are born. They walk by the kitchen to see Cordy gulping down blood from Angel's refrigerator. "I don't think I've ever realized just how disgusting that was," Angel says. Cordy walks by them, saying, "I was hungry," as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
Angel sneaks up behind Wilson as he's practicing with a gun on a paper target. He tells Wilson he's a friend of Cordelia's. Angel realizes Wilson is human and just the link between the demon and the women. They fight more, since Wilson refuses to talk, and Wilson's friends show up.
Wesley's back at Angel's, researching the demons using the picture from the ultrasound. Cordy comes over to him and sees the picture of the demon Wesley's discovered is the father. Cordy stares at the picture, and Wesley says they can stop it now that they know what it is. She belts him with the book twice, saying that he's not going to hurt her babies. No one is going to hurt her babies.
At the gun club Angel is explaining the plot. Jason, Serena's boyfriend, fills in the blanks, despite Wilson's telling him to shut up. Wilson gets a gun and shoots Angel, then gets surprised as Angel vamps out and attacks all of them, beating them all without any problem. After he throws Wilson through a window, he steps on the little weasel's face. "Now you're gonna tell me what I need to know."
Cut to Cordy, walking in a dazed state toward a place that looks like a warehouse. Serena and Emily join her, as do other women. There are six of them total.
Angel calls his place from a pay phone. Wesley finally wakes up from the belting Cordy gave him and answers the phone. As Angel takes the bullets out of his chest and stomach, he tells Wesley that Wilson and friends aren't the fathers of the babies. Wesley says he knows. It's a inner-earth demon of some kind, a Hacksaw Beast. He says Cordy ran off, probably to meet with the demon. Wilson told Angel where they built the shrine and that Cordy must be linked telepathically with the babies and by them, the father, which is how she knew where to go. They figure out that all they have to do is kill the daddy demon, and the pregnancies go away.
Wesley looks up how to kill the demon and is not encourage. "I don't wish to use the words impossible to kill, but fire won't kill it, decapitation won't, and it's really huge." Angel asks him if he can shoot straight.
Back at the factory, Cordy and the other women are all wearing white gowns. They climb into this pit of really foul smelling liquid. Wesley sees her in there and orders her to come out of there. In fact, all of them need to get out of there right now. She says they serve their master.
And their master has arrived. "Who is the interloper?" he demands. "Wesley Wyndham-Price, rogue demon hunter," Wesley says, putting on his bravado face and raising his fists. "And I'm here to fight you, sir, to the death. Preferably yours."
He continues to put on a good show, then starts to talk to the demon as much as he can, looking around for some sign of Angel. Just as the demon says enough talk, Angel shows up, rolling a canister of something. He picks it up and throws it to the demon, who catches it. Wesley shoots the canister, marked "Liquid Nitrogen" and it sprays all over the demon.
As the demon dies, the women all start screaming and holding their stomachs, as the pregnancies are terminated and they come to their senses and climb out of the liquid. Cordy heads for the nearest large, swingable object and hurls it at the demon, shattering it into a million pieces. As it falls, she comments, "I really hate dating."
Cut to Angel's office. Wesley's cleaning Cordy's desk, and Angel brought her some magazines. They jump up as Cordy comes into the office. It's only been two days; she didn't have to come back so soon if she wasn't ready. Wesley points out that he's been helping Angel while she was gone, prompting Angel to say, "Of course, if you're ready to come back...."
She says she's fine. She had a great audition for crackers today. Angel and Wesley get very enthusiastic about crackers. Cordy says the producer was really nice, and they're going out to dinner tonight. The guys are hesitant about that. "He is so sweet!" she gushes. "He says all I have to do is let him impregnate me with his demon master's seed and I've got the part."
The guys realize she's teasing them as she says she's fine. She's a lot stronger than those losers thought. Angel says she's starting to learn that. She says she learned that she has two people she trusts absolutely with her life, and that was something she didn't know before. Wesley wipes away a tear, blaming it on allergies.
I wasn't sure I liked this episode that much after my first viewing. Now that I've watched closer, there was a lot of character information and development in it that really made it much better than I'd originally thought. There was the standard demon world story, of course, and the helpless in danger and in need of Angel. And there was Joss's "Sex is bad" message that crops up from time to time in Buffy. He never fails to point out that sex has consequences, and I'm continually amazed by the way he uses larger than life events to point out the realities of real-life issues.
"I liked this ep. I did. Parts of it were quite funny, some were touching, I
didn't see all of it coming, and that shot of Cordy drinking blood in front
of the fridge was one of the scariest/funniest things I've seen in some
time." -- Kiki
"The 'sex is bad' message on this show (and I'm counting it as part of Buffy)
has just tripped my tolerance limit. Yes, it's a horror show, whose
metaphors and subtext are aimed at inflating normal fears and badness to
funny/terrifying heights. And I know they can't exactly come out with
something in support of 'illicit' sex with that kind of set-up --- it would
get as exaggerated as the 'sex is bad' message and draw twice the criticism
from all the groups who are always too ready to diss TV.
But this is way past stupid, now. Not one of the Slayerettes has been forced
not to 'pay' for having sex, except for Willow. . . . . I'm not protesting the set-ups as shown. They all make sense. And God knows,they're effectively done. It's just... I'd like some balance. Maybe I'm asking for too much. But wouldn't it be cool, if just *once*, something
really positive came out of someone having sex?" -- Kiki
"I know Joss is into consequences. Fine. Good. Show some good
unexpected consequences from sex for once, man. Not everything has to be a
freakin' message to the masses; sometimes it *can* just be entertainment,
the same way sex can be fun, sometimes. I want to see someone's kiss de-rat
Amy; I want to see Dennis have a date (or, well, hear it) and get to move on
to the light because of it; I want Wesley to develop a spine after a night
with some punk leather rocker from La Jolla. Anything!" -- Kiki
::sigh:: I *really* liked the fact that the Buffy group had a strong,
self-assured virgin. But the first date Cordy has after high school and
... well, we won't go there. Have Joss & Co. ever gone on one date that didn't end 'ribbed or extra lube?'?? " --abby
"I'm not convinced from what we saw that Cordelia *was* a virgin as of this
episode. She was too comfortable letting the guy come in, and although she
said she hadn't done this in, well, ever, I got the idea that she meant
'hadn't had anyone over to her place in a one-on-one dating, young single
woman living alone' kind of situation. That's a very different thing than
losing your virginity in the back seat of the car with some high school boy.
Plus, she told Angel it was "normal. everything was normal" -- how could she
even try to say it was normal if she had no frame of reference? Denial?
Maybe. I'd have thought she would have at least sheepishly admitted it was
her first time if it was. They've never presented her either way. She didn't sleep with Xander -- but
that could have been because she couldn't ever quite get past the idea that
she was lowering her standards. Or it could be because he was the first guy
she actually *felt* something for so she held back. She said in Phases 'We
came here to do things I can never tell my father about because he still
thinks I'm a... good girl.' And that's the closest we have to any kind of
hint that she wasn't a virgin -- and first season Cordelia (and early 2nd)
dated around a *lot.* So it's believable that she did have at least one
encounter. --MB, responding to abby
"I guess I figured she was just another girl who used a rep whether it
really was her or not. She needed to be Queen C, and if that meant saying
you had the most experience, well she would. And she could have been
experienced without doing it. At that age, how many guys would've said
nything to cover their own inexperience?" -- abby, responding to MB
"There was a line in City Of when she was talking to Russell Winters that
made it sound like she almost might kinda sleep with him if he could help
her. So it's not totally beyond belief that she (as MB said) had sex in
high school before we knew her, and slowed down on that aspect of her life
when she started gaining more self-respect. We went from
early-first-season-Cordy who (as I said in my comments on Never Kill A Boy)
went through guys like Kleenex, to Prophesy Girl where she was sincerely
falling for Kevin, to her relationship with Xander which (again as MB said)
meant more to her than she was willing to admit. When she stopped holding
herself so cheaply, sex was more of an issue.
In LA, she scared, insecure, without any support but Angel. She's just
lost Doyle, and she's had something seriously freaky happen to her. In a
moment of weakness, she looked for some comfort -- and ended up 8 1/2
months pregnant." -- Lizbet
"...what Kiki said earlier, about being annoyed that
sex=badness. I was thinking about it, and really it's impulse=badness.
Everytime one of the Scooby gang did something on impulse. ('Amy, cast me
a love spell.' 'I wish Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale.') the
consequenses were awful. . . . Now, then, compare this to Oz and Willow. They didn't even consider having sex for a long time. When Willow was feeling guilty about kissing Xander
(another impulse that had disasterous results) she tried to come onto Oz,
and he told her to wait. They had an over-a-year-long relationship before
they made love, and nothing bad happened. (Until Veruca.)"
"Was it *ever* actually said on the show that Cordy was a virgin? *We*
assumed she was, I believe, in our discussions...but I don't think that was
ever stated. And from the way she talked to
photographer-demon-worshipper-guy, it didn't sound like it was her first
time. She certainly didn't act like, or say anything to indicate, it
*was*...so my assumption is that it wasn't." --Gina, in response to abby
"Right there with ya, Abby. Except that it was never a fact, only a theory.
Unfortunately. And a theory that I think has been soundly disproved,
because the way Cordy made the invitation rang completely wrong for it to
be her first time, but felt right on the money for an already sexually
active woman deciding to take the plunge with someone she'd been seeing for
a while. At least they *did* pay lip service to her having been seeing him for a
while--Serena's comments indicated it *wasn't* their first date. Still and all, *grump*."
--Val in response to abby
"Ouch. Sheesh. Harsh. It wasn't her first date out of high school, and it
wasn't even her first date with this guy. Grant you, I think sleeping with
someone on your third date might be a little soon but a) Cordy is, at most,
19 and b) he *was* playing the absolute 'perfect man'."
"In LA, she scared, insecure, without any support but Angel. She's just
lost Doyle, and she's had something seriously freaky happen to her. In a
moment of weakness, she looked for some comfort -- and ended up 8 1/2
months pregnant."
"I'd have thought she would have at least sheepishly admitted it was her first time if it was. "
"All that said, I'm still a little disappointed, too, like Abby is. However
'unrealistic' Joss & Co. consider it that there are virgins over the age of
17 out there, I can honestly say that only *1* of about seven close female
friends of mine had sex until they were at least 21. Which had nothing to do
with them being unattractive, crazy, religious, or prudes; they just wanted
to do it right. Most of them didn't meet guys they trusted and loved until
they were well into college, or beyond it. It would be nice if someone on
this show, which so closely mirrors our thoughts and feelings in other ways,
was able to mirror this rather cautious aspect of some of our experiences
too, wouldn't it?" -- Kiki
"< grumble > Well, we can assume, I guess, that Amy's still a virgin. She's
been a rat for a year, and before that, she was her mom for three months.
She's had fewer opportunities. < g >" -- Kiki
"Grant you, I think sleeping with someone on your third date might be a little soon but a)
Cordy is, at most, 19 and b) he *was* playing the absolute "perfect man"."
"Everytime one of the Scooby gang did something on impulse.
('Amy, cast me a love spell.' 'I wish Buffy Summers had never come to
Sunnydale.') the consequenses were awful."
"I think most any show uses sex/dating/relationships for crisis
(unless you're doing a neck-of-the-week-we-don't-care-about). In
Buffyville, all crises are overinflated and demonic. I don't see them
using that in dating/sex/relationships notably more than in
everything else in Sunnyhell. A little more, yes, but it's a potent
sort of mix and provides many volitile situations. I don't thing Joss & co are actually pushing a 'sex is bad'
message here, or even necessarily an 'impulse is bad' message.
They're just dedicated to two things-- everything having actual
serious consequences, and every crisis being huge and demonic--
that together mean that they are, largely, 'doomed' in the romance
department." -- Dianne
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Beth's Review
I did feel a bit hit over the head by Angel's constant sneaking up on people. It was used far too often to be subtle, and didn't really lead anywhere in my opinion. He's stealthy, but we knew that. Let's move on.
Characters:
Wesley
I love the male sidekick hero-worship on this show. First with (*sniff*) Doyle being so obviously in awe of Angel in so many ways, and now with Wesley being as giddy as a schoolboy just for being allowed to help. It's obvious that Wesley's lonely, and it's nice to see him more humble, even with his transparent attempts to look so superior from time to time. I look forward to seeing him start to accept his role on this evil-fighting team bit by bit and to him finally realizing he has a place there. And getting a little more backbone.
Angel
Interesting insight into his character. When the bartender asks him if he's Cordy's boyfriend he says no, he's family. And I guess that's how he sees Cordy. And how he saw Doyle. He probably sees Wesley as the new adoptee. People who can't always take care of themselves but who can help him take care of others like them. And people who mean a lot to him.
Cordelia
What can I say? She went through hell, and proved how strong she was in the process. Now if she'd just get a fashion consultant who wasn't born in a hay barn, she's be almost perfect.
Relationships:
Again I'm thinking solely of the family issue. Three people who really have no one else and have formed their own dysfunctional family. It's sweet.
Best Moments:
Wesley and Angel fighting the demon baby. It's the first time Wesley's been active in a demon fighting like that and come away on his own two feet that I can remember. It was cool to see the male bonding moment after, and to see Wesley revert to his normal insecure self with a need to be liked when the topic turned to Cordy's friends.
The moment when Angel and Wesley found Cordy. It was so honest, with none of the sarcasm or falseness that they, like everyone else, display on a regular basis. It was the moment when true family feelings were most obvious between the three.
When they killed the demon. Again Wesley showed no signs of backing down, without being out of character (he was looking for Angel rather desperately). And he didn't miss when he shot at the canister. He's turning into the third person their team really needs.
At the end, when Cordy says what she learned. It was a sweet moment saved from being saccharine by Wesley's silly emotional reaction.
Rating:
It wasn't the best episode ever, but there was a great deal of character development there, and for that I'll give it a 3.75 out of 5.
SunSpeak
"But they got to know each other first. I was kinda annoyed that for them
it was a world's ending, let's calm down by sleeping together thing. But
it at least showed a couple growing and learning about each other before
they have sex. And Cordy and Xander found you could do a lot nd not
technically sleep together. Though, they also knew each other very well
first. This season is all about sleeping with people before you really now them."
"And paying, and paying, and paying.... Which adds up to a *duh* for some of
us, but hey, maybe the under-18 set need the moral lesson. :P"
--Lizbet, abby, Kiki
"Sorry, I'm still rather peeved with certain assumptions some of the
writers have (one stating so on the Board), about youngish people and
sex. The fact that everyone seems to *have* to have sex is really
annoying. (Well, except for Doyle.) I kept hoping they would have done something interesting with the plot. Like make it Dennis' baby. (Less cheezy than Callisto.) And, like Betsy, I thought that guy was bad... it was the smile. Normal guys aren't that good at the 'look ma, I'm being sincere' smile."
"It wasn't as creative as I would've liked to see. Straight Rosemary's Baby
ripoff, including the surrogate. But the execution of it was fun." -- Lizbet, abby, Kiki
"So why do we have to go through every few weeks a Cordy's lost her
confidence episode? Sure the producers wanted to do Rosemary's Baby, but,
couldn't they have done it to Kate? " -- Lizbet, abby
"I don't know about *that*... but the thing is, your first time is supposed
to be (although a lot of times it isn't) special. One way or the other--
it's memorable. Given the big deal Joss made of Buffy, Willow, and Xander's
'rites of passage,' I tend to think that this wasn't Cordy's first time. Not
enough of a big deal about it." --MB & Kiki
"And what is this three-date rule? IT came up on Charmed, too. I go on three
dates, I decide whether I want to smother the guy or see him again, I don't
decide about sex that fast! Jeeeezz.." -- Lizbet, Kiki
"See, Joss doesn't trust impulses. I bet he dated his wife for five years
before he proposed. People can have good impulses --- if they're not morons to begin with! : > In
the case of the Buffy crew, they're adolescents, of course their instincts
suck. I wish someone would have one positive impulse work out, though. :>" --Lizbet, Kiki
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