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[doyle]

Soul Purpose
"Came up the Gulf Stream..." I didn't realize till I rewatched this episode that Angel's dream of the autopsy foretells Fred's death - and maybe she's not Fred here but Illyria, removing his internal organs, destroying (flushing) his soul and leaving "nothing left. Just a shell". Not entirely sure what the raisins or the pearls mean, though I suspect the bear is a Harvey Birdman shoutout.

I still can't figure why Lindsey's calling himself Doyle, unless he's hoping Spike will tell Angel and this will ring bells that things are not right.

"Can't be a marathon man with all your yammering." Hmmm. And Spike stealing Angel's past as well as his future?

Angel sans shoes...

Wesley sounds alarmingly like Arnold J. Rimmer when he says, "Deserves to get what they've always wanted." Angel with the mailcart, becoming Numero Cinco (Five brothers - Lorne walks away, leaving Angel, Spike, Wes, Gunn, Illyria? And one survives?)

No idea if there's a significance to the fact that Lorne keeps playing Clementine.

Eeek. Fred, Wes and Gunn together at a dark table. "We paid blood for this." Gunn as the White Room panther (I wish more had been done with the kitty) Harmony and Lorne together, the two who got away.

Five of them again, in - heaven? Spike conspicuous by his absence.

It says something that even having seen the whole season I can't work out what most of this means, if it even means anything...

Underneath

The Wes/Fred dream is my single favourite scene in the entire series.

- You have a visitor.
- I thought I was in isolation.
- Whose fault is that? Tell me a joke.
- Two men walk into a bar. The first man orders a scotch and soda. The second man remembers something he'd forgotten, and it doubles him over with pain. He falls to the floor shaking.... and then through the floor and into the Earth. He looks back up at the first man, but he doesn't call out to him. They're not that close.
- Yeah. You always know where you are.
- It's my particular skill.
- This is only the first layer. Don't you wanna see how deep I go?

The first time I heard that exchange I just burbled incoherently about fractals and Mandelbrot sets and the fact that she goes *all the way down* because there's always another level of complexity. Then there's the man remembering the thing he'd forgotten, and the tie to the mindwipe.

Lindsey's hell is very Edward Scissorhands (or Wisteria Lane.)

Damn, I love my show.

Comments

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Not entirely sure what the raisins or the pearls mean, though I suspect the bear is a Harvey Birdman shoutout.

http://vrya.net/bdb/clip.php?clip=5079 , leading to http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pearl+necklace&r=f . At least, that's my interpretation.

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

The "came up from the gulf stream" is also a Jaws reference, as is the license plate, which always made me wonder a bit, that image of a dead shark... the way in that movie they're looking for evidence that the shark killed someone and didn't find it. Which again brings us around to the emphasis on what they don't find in Angel's autopsy...

But I got nothing on the raisins.

No idea if there's a significance to the fact that Lorne keeps playing Clementine.

Ooh. There's that lyric, "You were lost and gone forever"... feels like a warning.

I wish more had been done with the kitty

Me too. Such a great image.

Five of them again, in - heaven? Spike conspicuous by his absence.

Hadn't noticed that before, but yeah. Originally I'd interpreted it as Angel's "family," which Spike is clearly not at this point - he's being pegged in the episode over and over again as a replacement for Angel, not a companion or friend... but maybe that's part of it, too? Angel couldn't be there, relaxing in the sun, unless someone took his place?

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

The repetition of the 5 alludes to the ending of the show, where they all raise their hands in support and go out fighting together. It probably also says something about the only ones being left alive are the non-humans, but I don't remember exactly where.

Much of the stuff she pulled out of Angel was for joke references, pearl necklace is sexual, shark/license plate alludes to Jaws, but I would bet the raisin is like the shriveled heart thing.

I love this season. Sniff.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

I forget who pointed it out when the episode aired (I definitely didn't see it on my own) but you've also got Angel's soul being taken out as a dead little fish, in the same episode that goes back and quotes Buffy's "I kill my goldfish!" line from The Prom. Hmm.

(P.S. Hi, I'm adding you to my flist, 'cause I've been meaning to do that. If I didn't suck at feedback, I would've told you how much I enjoy your fanfic a while ago.)