I'm watching on Hulu, so no commentary for me! I also almost screamed at the screen when Cordy told Buffy to not wear anything black, chiffon, or spandex "because that's my thing" and then next scene showed up in light blue silk while Buffy was wearing a slinky LBD and there wasn't even a glare.

In his DVD commentary for this episode, writer/director David Greenwalt says that when he wrote the episode he thought that he had invented a great demon name, Machida. He later realized that he had been inspired by the word Makita, which he had seen written on the drills carried by the show's grips.

AHAHA! LOL. I heart the internet

on becoming 2...how does Buffy know Drusilla killed Kendra? Cordelia was already long gone, Giles and Xander were out cold, Spike didn't know yet....

ye gods, how i love this show.

wait, and did Spike just knock Dru out with a choke hold? I thought it was pretty clear these vampire don't breathe...hence Angel surviving on the bottom of the ocean.

And their hearts don't beat, so it wasn't from blocking off the carotid arteries either. Joss and Jeff really fell down on that scene.

Instead of stopping her via choking, they should have had Spike throw a bunch of rice or mustard seeds at her feet and convince her she had to stop and count them all.

Choking Dru prevents her from talking, so then she can't vent the crazy and it builds up enough to knock her unconscious.

That almost makes sense. Well, it makes sense enough. Most of my Dru these days is from randomly caught Angel eps.

good spin, strega. that works for me.

There was also the time The First Evil (I think it was) tortured Spike by repeatedly holding his head underwater. My ex handwaved it away by saying that since they're dead, there must be gases of decay building up inside them, and instead of breathing good air in, they have to breathe bad air out. He based this on something Joss once said: that what comes out of Angel won't make the trees grow. What happens if they don't and how this fits with Angel being trapped in a small box underwater for months, I don't know. I ran out of handwavium about that point.

I'd just as soon Joss' understanding of biology and science in general never have anything to do with emergency medical care I'm in need of. Since Angel demonstrably can draw breath even if he doesn't need to, he'd be somewhat better at CPR than a living human being since the outgoing breath would have the same amounts of oxygen and CO2 as the surrounding atmosphere. (Though I suppose the trade-off of having your chest compressions performed by someone who's accidentally snapped doorknobs off in his hand might outweight the good...)