Reader, it was that bad.

Also:

A picked up on "no weapon forged" right away and began speculating if you could strangle the Judge with a rope, or use something sharp that's not usually a weapon, a la the cymbal beheading in The Harvest. It may or may not be relevant that they are in rehearsals for Clue at the moment. (Buffy, in the mall, with a rocket launcher.)

Drusilla remains, now and forever, my absolute favorite.

I was just telling a friend today about my Buffy board friend's kid's first time watching and how much fun it is to play along. Specifically mentioned looking forward to the Angelus reveal!

Sunnydale Clue is a fun idea! Some choice locations and weapons, although I’d be tempted to limit the “suspects” to actual Slayers…hm

(autocorrect wants to make that Sunnyvale. That would be a very different game. In my head it’s all automalls and ghosts of orchards, I’m sure that’s not accurate anymore)

Poor Jenny.

IOHEFY was a big hit (and deservedly so).

Watching S2 at this pace (as opposed to over weeks of broadcast time) really does hammer home the extreeeeeeeeeemely slow burn of the Angelus plotline. Three of the most legendarily evil vampires in American/European history and they mostly just sit at home staring bitchily at each other for like, WEEKS.

And that's a wrap on S2. Becoming Pt 2 is still such a marvelous gut punch. That final 15 minutes or so is just...gaaaaaaah. This show, you guys. It's still so good.

Okay, now I'm wanting to rewatch.

Aeryn was pretty upset about Kendra, but did clock that there might be another new Slayer called now.

In the scene where Angel first sees Buffy in LA, they were skeptical that Angel would know how to drive (which...yeah, there's no plausible explanation for when/why/how he would have learned that from living in squalor in Manhattan for almost a century.

(I'm now picturing a deleted training montage of Whistler taking Angel out to a parking lot in New Jersey every night and patiently explaining to him which pedal does what and how to follow traffic signals on the highway)

(Spike knowing how to drive is less mysterious because (a) Spike canonically likes stuff that's in the world - of course he would want a cool car and (b) driving is a lot easier if you can't die and don't care if you kill anyone else.)

I quote "I can't wait to tell all my friends, they don't have a rock this big" ALL THE TIME and finally, my references will be appreciated by all members of the household.

I'd imagine Angel had learned to drive at least by the time he was doing his James Dean cosplay in 1950s Los Angeles. Remember, we later learned that it wasn't one continuous rat-catching sulk from being cursed by the Romani to 1997. He had periods of greater interaction with society, then something would happen to make him hit bottom again. Lather, rinse, repeat.