Spike and Angel: Behind the Mayhem… + a new format! — “Destiny” : The Rant

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Warning: Spoilerish to the amount of 10.

Howdy folks. It is I, your webmaster. I have a new format going for “Rants from the Crypt”. Every Thursday I will chat it up with Eric to bring you our rant review for each episode. I hope you like the new format. Eric and I always talk about the episodes the day after, so I figured why not try something new. So here it is…

Matt: So “destiny” was awesome. Loved the fight scene, didn’t love the lack of Dru….kind of disappointing. Loved seeing Lindsey again.
Eric: Yeah, the Lindsey thing was cool.
Matt: I wouldn’t really call it, as some have, ‘the greatest episode ever’…but it was a good one.
Eric: Nope, but it did kick ass.
Matt: Now i’m wondering how long they plan on doing the Lindsey storyline.
Eric: So lindsey sent Spike the amulet and flash package right?
Matt: Maybe not the amulet, the senior partners probably did.
Eric: Lindsey is working for………The Second Evil.
Matt: But Lindsey sent the the flash to piss the senior partners off, he did it under their noses.
Eric: The crash into the door was hillarious
Matt: Yeah, and Sirk was cool.
Eric: Also gunn saying ‘I miss Wes’.

Matt: And I think Fred has been in enough battles the last 3 years to be a little less gullable than that with Eve.
Eric: You never know, she could be a double agent.
Matt: My point is, even if eve IS a double agent or NOT one, Fred should be less “aww, poor baby” to someone that her instinct led her to believe is hiding something and MAY be more evil than what she’s appearing to be.

Matt: What about the fight scenes with Spike and Angel?
Eric: I loved the Angel spike fights.
Matt: The fight scenes were, for lack of a better phrase, penis size contests.
Eric: Starting with the hand in the sunlight flash back it was pull up your legs and prepair for the pissing contest.
Matt: Exactly…Although they were awesome, you just felt that there was a “buffy loves me, not you” point to it.
Eric: Spike was very calm on the Buffy subject, he could have ripped on Angel bad for that.
Matt: Oh yeah, tossing Angel through the table when he mentioned that Buffy couldn’t love Spike because he wasn’t Angel…he took that REAL calmly.
Eric: Compaired to what I would have done. I have thrown people through tables for bringing me the wrong drink.
Matt: Well, you’re a violent man. More-so than a vampire at times. Let’s not bring up the mic stand incident again.

Matt: Gunn finally did something interesting than stand there and act like Johnny Cochran for once this season. Choke that bitch!

Eric: Also I think that Angel was suprised that Spike didnt Stake him.
Matt: Yeah, but maybe he’ll realize that Spike IS a champion, even though I hate to admit it myself.
Eric: I think what got Angel thinking is that HE would have staked Spike, but Spike didnt stake him.
Matt: Spike needs to start being a champion 24/7 though, and stop slipping into the ‘really could care less, oh wait, now I care again’ schpiel. That bits getting old, he’s been doing that for 3 years now.
Eric: Spike is still plagued by his persona
Matt: I know what you mean, Spike thinks he has to be Mr. Bad-Ass-Don’t-Give-A-Crap.

Matt: I don’t know about you, but I wanted more Dru than what we got. Here they had been hyping her return all week, and we got what seemed was 3 scenes, and about a total of 2 1/2 minutes, out of 44. That’s not much of a return. Instead of hyping Drusilla, they should’ve hyped the fight.
Eric: True dat. Although the whole scene where Angel was sleeping with her was done very poorly. They made her seem almost as if she didnt know what was going on.
Matt: Yes, and may I say, we didn’t need to see him grinding.
Eric: …or panting. I was like ‘William, stake him now’.
Matt: See, this was written by Fury, who is so used to working on Buffy where sex is hardcore and graphic…he probably didn’t think twice about the panting and grinding. Angel’s ass gyrations almost blinded me.
Eric: I dont think my dog will ever recover.

Matt: And now we come to Lindsey…You just knew something was up when Eve walked through the door with wacky symbols painted on it. Thank Joss for Christian Kane…a villian I have always dug.
It was about time.
Eric: Personally I wished it were Caleb. That would have fucked with everybody.
Matt: Caleb is having problems sewing his crotch back together right now.
Eric: Nope, he bought the handy stitch thing he is all done now. I know for a fact. My Brother used to date his sister.
Matt: well, wasn’t he lying in sunnydale when the place blew up? Or did both halves of him get up and crawl out of there?
Eric: He was picked up with the amulet.
Matt: Interesting.

Matt: Anyway, I loved the Lindsey scene. I love the idea of, “he can hate on everyone”.
Eric: …And get funny tatoos.
Matt: Exactly.

Eric: It also seemed that they thought Spike would kill angel.
Matt: I didn’t get that.
Eric: Eve said something about it went well, Spike didnt kill angel, but the partners are still in the dark or something. I don’t know.
Matt: Wow, what great dialogue. Sounds like Fury.
Eric: I would have to re-watch the end…and you are an ass licker.
Matt: Lest we hope it isn’t Angel’s ass gyrations that have spellbound me.

Matt: Ok, now for the ratings (out of 10)….

Matt’s Rating: 8.8
Eric’s Rating: 9.0

Overall: 8.9