Have you tried not to be?
In the film X-Men 2 Bobby (Iceman) tells his parents that he is a mutant and his mother asks him, “Have you tried not being a mutant?”
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Feeling the pain
In To Shansu In LA, Cordelia has multiple visions of people who are in pain. When Angel and Wesley rescue her, she says that she needs to help everyone. In Grave, Willow also feels everyones’ pain, through a powerful spell, but her reaction is not to help, but to destroy …
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Circle of the Black Thorn
The Circle of the Black Thorn was a powerful secret society, whose members were considered to be the instruments of the Senior Partners on earth. Their goal was to enforce Wolfram & Hart’s apocalypse plans in return for power. The Circle’s members were composed of Archduke Sebassis, Senator Helen Brucker, …
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Alec Newman
Glaswegian-born Alec Newman played Drogyn in Angel’s season five. Alec joined the National Youth theater aged 17 at trained at NYT and LAMDA. He has also appeared in The Gene Generation, Moonlight Serenade, Constellation, Staring at the Sun, Four Corners of Suburbia, Enterprise (as Malik), Frankenstein, Tru Calling, Bright Young …
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Drogyn
Drogyn was the keeper of the Deeper Well - the burial place for the old ones - located in the Cotswolds in England. After Fred was infected with Illyria’s essence in A Hole in the World, Angel and Spike sought help from Drogyn, who was an aquaitance of Angel’s.
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Joss’s ideal finale
Joss Whedon jokingly discussed the final battle in Not Fade Away, in SFX Magazine. “Gunn is dead. Illyria keeps fighting. Angel loses an arm. Spike gets Shanshu. And Xander loses another eye, which is funny, because he isn’t even there.”
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If I Ruled the World
When Angel sends his team to enjoy their final day in Not Fade Away, Lorne goes to a karaoke bar and sings Regina Belle’s song “If I Ruled The World”.
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Sherlock Holmes
In the episode Same Time, Same Place, Dawn says, “it’s smellementary!” This is a twist on the famous phrase “it’s elementary”, used by Sherlock Holmes. He was a fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, and featured in many stories in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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Angel’s girly footsteps Goof
I was watching Doppelgängland yesterday and the scene when Angel comes to the library to tell the Scoobies that Willow is dead!
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Moving on…
Dawn says that Riley has been away for a year in As You Were. Riley says that him and Sm have been married for four months, and presumably they had been together a while before that. But, Sam says to Buffy in the graveyard that it took Riley a year …
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Useless guns
In Flooded, when the M’Fashnik demon attacks the bank, Buffy says to the guard while holding his gun: “these things, never helpful”. In As You Were while holding a gun that Riley gives her, she says: “these things, never useful”.
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I have to…
In The Gift, when Buffy realises she has to jump of the tower, she says “Dawny I have to…” This line is echoed in Dead Things when Buffy realises she needs to go to the police after she thinks she has killed Katrina. While in Dawn’s room she says “Dawny …
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Lawyers and Friends
John Rubenstein (Linwood Murrow) and Sam Anderson (Holland Manners) have both played Wolfram & Hart lawyers in Angel and doctors in Friends. John played the doctor who delivered Chandler and Monica’s adopted babies in the episode ‘The Last One’ and Sam played the Happy Days loving doctor who examined Phoebe when …
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Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice, who played Roger Wyndham-Pryce in Lineage, was born in Guernsey. When the Germans occupied the island in 1940, Roy, his mother and brother escaped to England. In 1942, aged 16, Roy joined the Royal Air Force and was trained as a wireless operator and air gunner. He was …
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Roger Wyndam-Pryce
After the destruction of the Watcher’s Council, Wesley’s father, Roger Wyndam-Pryce, came to L.A. to evaluate his son for the role as Watcher in the new Council. Roger was always cold, formal and distant towards his son, and now had additional concerns about Wesley working for a vampire at Wolfram …
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