{"id":1444,"date":"2012-10-19T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2013-12-08T18:10:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T02:10:30","slug":"mark-watches-angel-s04e21-peace-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2012\/10\/mark-watches-angel-s04e21-peace-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches &#8216;Angel&#8217;: S04E21 &#8211; Peace Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I CAN&#8217;T. I CAN&#8217;T. YOU CANNOT EXPECT ME TO HAVE ANY COHERENT THOUGHTS AFTER THAT.<\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->WHAT THE FUCK. <em>WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NO. NO. <em>no this is NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE!!!?!?!?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OH MY GOD. JASMINE WAS ONE OF THE POWERS THAT BE. YOU ARE FUCKING KIDDING ME. LIKE I KNOW THIS WAS SORT OF DISCUSSED\/REFERENCED BUT I WAS ALWAYS LIKE <em>HAHAHA SHE IS JUST JOKING.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Never in a billion years would I have ever figured out that she was <em>genuinely trying to save the world<\/em>. SHE THOUGHT THE OTHER POWERS THAT BE DID NOT CARE ENOUGH AS SHE DID, SO SHE INTERVENED IN THE LIVES OF THESE PEOPLE SO SHE COULD BECOME A PHYSICAL BEING AGAIN AND THEN SHE <em>SERIOUSLY THOUGHT THIS WAS THE WAY THAT SHE COULD SAVE THE WORLD<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, she is the textbook definition of <em>horribly misguided<\/em>, but I just downright assumed she was 100% evil. How could someone rape, murder, eat, and toy with people in the name of <em>goodness<\/em>? GUESS WHAT <em>THERE ARE PEOPLE LITTERED THROUGHOUT HISTORY WHO HAVE DONE THIS. <\/em>The twist that Jasmine was here to save Earth is one giant slap in my face for trying to assign a black-and-white moral background to her. Is what she did wrong? Oh, absolutely, and I 100% side with Angel here. You cannot force the world to become happy. You cannot violate people&#8217;s consent and call that joy and peace. You cannot <em>eat<\/em>, <em>rape, and murder<\/em> in the name of righteousness. We, as a society, cannot wait for some divine being to come down and solve everything for us. It&#8217;s never going to happen, and if it does, it will make this whole thing <em>totally not worth it<\/em>. And my god, what a powerful message that is. Angel fought for <em>free will<\/em>. He fought for the ability of humans to choose bad things, because that is what makes us human. &#8220;Our fate has to be our own, or we&#8217;re nothing.&#8221; The devotion that Jasmine forced on humanity in Los Angeles was <em>nothing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I LOVE THIS, <em>I LOVE IT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OH MY GOD CONNOR PUNCHED JASMINE&#8217;S FACE OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OH MY GOD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh shit, CONNOR. Where are you going? Oh god, he&#8217;s leaving, isn&#8217;t he? I mean, for real, I feel bad for his character? Like, the writers have consistently made him <em>kind of a douche<\/em> or <em>taken advantage of<\/em> or <em>raped by Jasmine!Cordy<\/em> and it&#8217;s just an endless stream of NOPE and it&#8217;s like his character is aware of this and is like FUCK Y&#8217;ALL, I AM DONE WITH THIS SHIT. On a less meta level, Connor is done with a life of lies, inconsistency, disappointment, and <em>loneliness<\/em>. No matter what he&#8217;s tried to do, he has never fit in anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>OH GOD, WHERE IS HE GOING TO GO?<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all, Gunn made a <em>Galaxy Quest<\/em> reference <em>THIS IS THE BEST REFERENCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE BUFFYVERSE<\/em>. Also, when Jasmine kissed Angel, isn&#8217;t she basically kissing her grandfather? IDEK, THIS SHIT IS FUCKING WEIRD AS FUCK, Y&#8217;ALL.<\/p>\n<p>okay it is 1:34am on October 10th, I cannot be bothered to form any other thoughts besides the following keysmash<\/p>\n<p>;lkaj da;lkfdsl;k da;lkkjl fads;lk adf;lkjks asdd;lk alkja; 908 sa09dff\u00c2\u00a0 asd;lafdsljkfdsa<\/p>\n<p>wait okay it&#8217;s now 6:01am and i have more to say:<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW THE HOLY FUCK IN HELL IS LILAH ALIVE? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? HOW CAN YOU END AN EPISODE LIKE THAT? FUCK. <em>FUCK!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t even understand how there is another episode this season. i don&#8217;t even understand my own identity anymore. or proper capitalization. this show has now ruined me. there is no coming back forever.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve now crossed the hyperbole line into &#8220;mark please go back to sleep, this is silly&#8221; territory so i&#8217;m going to do that.<\/p>\n<p><em>fuck<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>edit: now it&#8217;s 9:07am on the 10th and i just\u00c2\u00a0<em>got<\/em> the title of this episode. &#8220;Peace Out.&#8221; get it??? peace is now gone and it is &#8220;out&#8221; and not here because of jasmine????<\/p>\n<p>help me i can&#8217;t do this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/products\/mark-watches-angel\" target=\"_blank\">The video commission for this episode is now archived on MarkDoesStuff.com for just $0.99!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Links Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You can follow me on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markdoesstuff\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/markdoesstuff\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for any updates and live commentary on upcoming reviews I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing.<br \/>\n&#8211; You should read this\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/10\/hello-mark-does-stuff-community-lets-discuss-things\/\"><strong>very important post<\/strong><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0about supporting Mark Does Stuff!<br \/>\n-\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/category\/the-shoebox-project\/\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve started reading\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Shoebox Project<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0for Mark Reads<\/a>, the first fanfic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153series\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever covered! 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