It kicked the mythology in the teeth.

So some people say. I didn't take it that way. I saw it as an entirely warped view showing how WRONG Angel and Spike's views of Buffy were. Which I agree with - Angel was stuck on Teen!Buffy, and Spike knew Dark!Buffy.

I didn't mean to argue that you were blind and deaf, Hec. The book would have been hard, were that the case, although I suppose not impossible.

I have been so irritable lately, that "I'm sorry" seems to be a mantra for me. But if I did offend, I'm sorry.

howling "Piiiiiiillllottt" to an unforgiving wind.

Especially with Moya being on the far side of a wormhole and all.

he briefly returned to “Angel” to direct its brilliant Italy-set antepenultimate episode, “The Girl In Question,” but really hasn’t been heard from since.

Having seen the episode, I don't regard his keeping quiet for a while as a big mystery.

So some people say. I didn't take it that way.

That's 'cause you're all wrong-headed and stuff.

Other than two talented writers saying goodbye to their toys and having fun doing it, I get nothin' from that episode of any real value. It's placement in the season was late and unpleasing in terms of the arc, and the message you're getting had already been pretty well delivered in earlier episodes without the use of handy anvils. (Well, okay, there were some anvils in Soul Purpose. But still. Fewer than in TGIQ.)

I want to ban someone. ita, can I ban someone? I never got to ban anyone before.

Heh. You can ban me. I've never actually been banned. It's one of my life's ambitions, like skydiving without a parachute and machine-gunning Running with the Bulls at Pamplona.

Actually, machine-gunning the bulls at Pamplona sounds much more sensible.

Dont' start wit hte banning, trust me. I've been involved with a banning kurfuffle in one of my othe threads. That way lies madness.

I actually liked the Illyria posing as Fred for Fred's parents part of the episode. Might be just me, but I find it makes a pretty good, if short, episode just by fast forwarding through the parts with Angel and Spike in them.

Other than two talented writers saying goodbye to their toys and having fun doing it, I get nothin' from that episode of any real value.

"Ciao."
"Ciao."

It's placement in the season was late and unpleasing in terms of the arc,

This is the episode's greatest deficiency, which I personally do not hold against it.

and the message you're getting had already been pretty well delivered in earlier episodes without the use of handy anvils.

I don't begrudge anvils in a farce. Besides, it gave us "Ptooey, we'll speak of it no more!"