Since I'm not getting to sleep:

[butterfly]

I'm going to talk some more about Angel.

First off, someone at TWoP said that the demon reminded them of a praying mantis and I totally agree.

The MantisDemon says that "Love is sacrifice."

How many 'sacrifices' did we see in this episode?

In the category of sacrificing yourself we have:
1) All of the Jasmanics willing to give their lives.
2) Angel staying behind to let the rest of the gang escape.
3) Connor fully submitting to Jasmine (and in related news, Angel officially gives up on Connor. Ouch).
4) The rest of the gang staying behind while Angel hops it over to the Mantis Dimension.

And in the category of sacrificing other people:
1) Jasmine's actions with her followers.
2) The blood and flesh magic that the MantisDemon was doing.

Maybe the difference that they're showing between humans (and Lorne) and demons (and Jasmine) is that evil chooses to sacrifice other people while good will sacrifice itself first? And that brings back memories of 'Buffy' Season Five.

Comments

[jic]

"Why don't you go dead?" Hee! Loved that line.

Re:

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that demon was pretty amusing.