Robin Sachs gets props in the NYT for his work in audiobooks:

I feel the same way about Robin Sachs, a classically trained British actor. Sachs shines darkly in his reading of the Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo’s smart and gritty Harry Hole books. On television, Sachs has had recurring roles as Ethan Rayne in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and as Adam Carrington on “Dynasty: The Reunion.” Which isn’t bad — a gig’s a gig, after all — but it isn’t living the Gielgud life either. As a reader, however, Sachs is subtle and sly: he has a way of saying the word “boss” just as the troubled cop Harry probably would, inflected dozens of ways to get across his attitude toward the particular superior he is speaking with, whether grudgingly respectful, nearly affectionate or oozing scorn. His command of expletives is explosive and sublime. By contrast, Thor Knai, the other actor to narrate a Harry Hole mystery (“Nemesis”), is actually Norwegian and his accent is flawless. Yet his delivery lacked Sachs’ gravelly weariness and what to me felt like a deep grasp of the characters.

I've been watching through Angel again. Tasering him has, like, a 100% success rate, doesn't it?

Mark's review of I Was Made to Love You is up, and I'm just going to set aside his big emotional whammy at the ending, because, well, I do feel bad for him.

But he made this comment about the rest of the episode:

Warren isn’t going to be a single-episode character

Because of Spike's commission of the Buffybot. But also S6, which Mark doesn't know! And then I wondered if, when Warren was introduced in S5, his role in S6 was already planned.

I just watched "Spiral" with Mark, and he was saying that after Joyce, he felt that all bets were off, that anyone could die. Anyone but Buffy.

Ahahahahaha.

I hope you remembered to rot13 your face.

I displayed no reaction! No reaction at all! I just nodded along.

He's also cottoned on to killing Ben, so his options for the finale are to kill Ben, kill Dawn, kill Ben AND Dawn (he seems to think the Key would be dangerous to have around even after Glory is gone), or kill neither one and maybe the cliffhanger is that the world is chaos and season six is CHAOS SEASON.

Also, he's really excited about Willow's badass black-eye witch magic powers. I forgot that she started doing that here.

Also, he's really excited about Willow's badass black-eye witch magic powers.

He really needs to be careful what he wishes for.

No shit. Man. That finale is going to kick his ass.

He really needs to be careful what he wishes for.

Hey now, you know we've all been there.

Hey now, you know we've all been there.

I remember I was beside myself because I thought surely Spike was going to die (or possibly Xander). I missed every big honking clue by four that it would be Buffy (Death is my gift). In retrospect, I kinda wish Spike had died then, but oh well.