Exactly. Though once she's back from the dead, she's remarkably chipper. Not like that other time...

I'm not surprised somehow. But yes, Giles is great early on. Later on it kind of becomes hit and miss with him... at times he's still great (Band Candy is priceless, or his song in Restless, and of course "I'd like to test that theory", but at times he annoys me too.



Oh, it's not that it's particularly poignant or anything, it's just fun. Giles' nightmare definitely has more emotion to it than those of the Trio.

I dunno, I don't find it cheap nonsense that they make vampires unable to do CPR. Dead creatures don't give the kiss of life, makes perfect sense to me. Obviously real consistency would require that vampires were never seen breathing or heard panting (the speaking part you can explain with some mystical thing easily enough, let's not exaggerate with the science or you'd have to go to town on the mirrors thing and the spontaneous combustion in sunlight), but since that's way too hard to do on a TV show with limited budget for special effects, I can live with how they did it. Except for the scene that I seem to recall in which Angel (or Spike?) is held under water and seems to be drowning. That's just ridiculous, considering that vampires' lack of breathing is depicted as one of their strenghts elsewhere on the show (in some fight I saw recently, so most likely Angel S5 or late S4).