Okay, so ChinlessDrusilla is back on top, Spike's on wheels (Who knew that a pipe organ, if knocked to the floor, would burst into flame?), and Angel got laid and turned into a jerk.

Drusilla is pleased to have her "daddy" (oh, so ick) back, Spike is jealous, and Angel wants to do a psycho trip on Buffy.

At the core of these problems are an early-model Frankenstein and a gypsy curse.

What a weird show this is.

Giles remains completely edible, as does Willow and I'm enjoying watching her falling in love with her cuddly little werewolf boy.

Xander hates everyone, is willing to do Cordelia, is in love with Buffy, and exhibiting a mountainous ration of sour grapes over Willow's affection for another. Could this character be any less attractive?

Giles is wonderful. Did I mention that part yet?

But, sad to say, I'm just not getting any slash vibes from this show.

I'm told that Giles is slashed with Ethan but my brain doesn't want to go there. I can see Ethan living a life of sleazy once-offs under cover of darkness, but not Giles. (I can see him going down the path of sex, drugs, and evil magic in his misspent youth, but not today. Maybe the slashers are writing the two of them in their youth or something. Whatever.)

It's also my understanding that the unlovable Xander is slashed most often with Spike and I'm thinking that even the undead would show better taste, okay? I don't even want to know how people envision these encounters coming about.

Maybe I'll look at it all differently when the characters grow up a little, who knows? I find it hard to contemplate high-school kids sexually in a fannish sense (or, really, any other). Makes me go all squick and stuff.

I wonder how long a fannish obsession lasts without the fuel of slash? I've never really had a slash-free fannish obsession. It's an interesting experience.

I like EvilSpike. He's interesting. Multi-dimensional, and much more so than Drusilla or Angelus.

I wonder how they wrote Spike-in-Slayer-love on the show? I really haven't seen more than three or four of those episodes and I wasn't paying that much attention at the time. I wonder if there's a contingent of fans who think his later obsession Buffy ruined the character? I wonder if it did?

Having now met both Angel and Angelus, I'll admit I'm curious to see the ensouled version of Spike. (Maybe the actor playing Angel wasn't sure of how to play the part or something, I'm not sure, but I find myself mentally referring to his before-and-after-evil personas as "ham and hammier" and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I don't get that same feeling about Spike.)

I still want to know how come some vampires can pass for human and some lurch around the dark streets grunting and losing parts of themselves on the pavement.

I am totally buried at work today so I'm blogging. That's just so typical of me.