Angel TV corrections

Quotes

Angel: All this time, it was you, wasn't it?

Cordelia: Took you long enough to figure it out. But nice turn with the Lorne bait. You know, there was a time I would have seen that one coming eons before it ever crossed your tiny little mind.

Angel: Because you're so clever.

Cordelia: On a scale of you to me? Pretty damn.

Mistakes

When Angel and the others infect Connor with Cordy's blood, Gunn rips open Connor's shirt. In the following shots, the shirt closes and then opens again. See more...

In this episode, Cordelia makes a reference to "self-destructing tapes and a dossier". This is a reference to the 1966 TV series Mission Impossible, which featured self-destructing tapes used to send the main character on his assignment. An interesting fact is that Mission Impossible regulars Martin Landau and Barbara Bain are the real life parents of Juliet Landau, who played Angel's former love Drusilla during season 2 of Buffy. See more...

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Angel (1999) - 39 corrections

starring Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Andy Hallet, Charisma Carpenter, David Boreanaz, J. August Richards, James Marsters, Mercedes McNab, Stephanie Romanov, Vincent Kartheiser (add more)

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Cordelia says in the episode 'Awakening' that she has encountered the real Angelus when he changed in Sunnydale, but during the episodes after Angelus changed in season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer she never actually saw him, just heard about him. [She further clarifies in Awakenings that she saw everything he EVER did (as Angelus) in "virtual wide screen sense surround sound during my tenure in floatyville". She saw firsthand what he was like. Also, on Buffy, Cordelia spoke often of the badness of Angelus. Cordelia did actually meet Angelus in the BTVS season two episode "Killed By Death".]

In the episode Deep Down in Season 4, Angel keeps panting and gasping for air after being rescued by Wesley from his box in the ocean. This is not possible as Angel does not breathe. If he needed air he'd have suffocated long before. [From the buffyguide.com FAQ; 'Vampires do not need to breathe air in order to stay alive. However, like food, vampires do breathe and can do things that require breathing, like talking or smoking. If a vampire is deprived of air for enough time, they will pass out from 'suffocation', but there has never been an incidence of a vampire dying from lack of air. Also, when a vampire breathes in air, *something* happens to it that makes it unusable for CPR, which is why Angel could not save Buffy in Prophecy Girl.']

In 'Orpheus', Willow mentions that the restoration of the soul was the first spell she did. Back in season 2 of BTVS, however, she did several spells before that, for example revoking Angel's invitations in 'Passion' or her attempted exorcism in 'I Only Have Eyes For You'. [Williow actually states that re-ensouling Angel is one of the first spells she learned, not the first spell she did.]

Corrected by Maria Santos

In the Buffy episode 'The Prom' Angel mentions that he never drinks coffee as the caffeine makes him jittery, yet he drinks coffee in quite a few Angel episodes. It's unlikely a 243-year-old would change his habits in the space of a few months. [Perhaps sometime after The Prom, Angel discovers decaf. It's possible, especially for someone so old who didn't seem to "get" Buffy (or women in general) 90% of the time, to not be up to date on coffee. He makes other changes - he takes up smoking in the fifties flashbacks of season two, gives up smoking for the entire time we know him prior to halfway through season two, takes up smoking, and then gives it up...again.]

Five By Five (series 1)

In 'Five By Five', during the scene where Angel tries to work out where Wesley is being held hostage we learn that the man Faith beat up at the start is still alive in the hospital and that it's his apartment she's staying in. A couple of scenes later Angel bursts into the apartment to save the day, but how is this possible without an invitation? If the owner is alive, he should be barred from entering, even if the owner isn't actually in the apartment. [The apartment's owner dies at the moment Angel finds himself able to enter. Once he's dead, the place is no longer an inhabited residence, and the restriction doesn't apply.]

Time

When Faith breaks down and cries at the end of "Five By Five", we see Wesley drop his knife, and it falls in slow-motion to his feet. Thing is, in the long-shot right before the credits the knife is nowhere to be seen. [The knife falls to the right side of his right foot. In the long distance shot this side can't be seen, only the left side of the foot. So the foot blocks the sight.]

Angel finds Faith by tracking her to the apartment of the man whose wallet and keys she had stolen. The problem is that it seems unbelievable that the police wouldn't have used this method to track down Faith themselves. There is no sign of the police until after the disturbance of Angel and Faith fighting gets them interested. [Faith stole the guys wallet which probably had his ID, and she assaulted him. It is likely that he was unconcious when the police went to question him.]

In The Dark (series 1)

How do Angel and the gang know that Marcus has the gem? Spike didn't realise until after they had all left the warehouse, and none of them saw Marcus take the ring. [Doyle throws the ring across the room behind Spike's back, so even if Spike didn't see Marcus taking the ring, Cordelia and Doyle (looking over his shoulder) could well have seen it happening. Just because they don't show it to the audience doesn't mean it didn't happen.]

Marcus and Angel have a fairly full on battle under the pier, starting with them both jumping off the end of the pier, and ending with Marcus dusted. How is it that they didn't attract any attention from the people on the pier, or the kids who we afterwards see on the beach right next to where they were fighting? [Maybe it was the classic denial coming into play in LA; people pretending nothing's happening because that's easier to take than what really is happening. Also, a lot of the fight took place out of sight, so maybe the people lost interest when they couldn't see what was going on anymore.]

Lonely Hearts (series 1)

Angel decides to talk to Kate about the demon and calls the Los Angeles Police Department for her. At this point in the series, he hasn't been told her last name, and Kate could be short for Katherine, Karen, or Kathleen; yet despite the fact that the LAPD employs thousands of officers, several of whom must have one of those first names, he is put through to the right Kate. He can't have read her name off her badge from across the room in the 4 seconds she had it out either, because vampires in the Buffy Universe can see well in the dark, however, they don't have telescopic vision. [Angel could have described her to the person on the other end of the phone & got through that way.]

Time

Kate uses her real first name while she is working undercover to catch whomever is killing people from the nightclub. According to a friend in law enforcement who checked her facts with officers from two different agencies, this would never be allowed. [Well, Kate is a pretty common first name, so as long as she wasn't using her real last name, nobody would know that she is a cop.]

City Of (series 1)

Doyle says that he's not a vampire, because he walked freely into Angel's house. But that rule does not apply to other vampire's houses, since there is no one living who owns the house. [Just 'cause Doyle's half-demon doesn't mean he knows that vampires don't need to be invited into other vampire's homes.]

Corrected by MoonFaery

Angel puts his fingers to Tina's neck wound as if to check for a pulse - however since he was able to enter her apartment without invitation he would have known she was dead. If not checking her pulse, then he was just dipping his fingers in her blood which seems out of character. [Angel is inspecting the wound on her neck to try and determine how Tina died. He got blood on his fingers when checking the wound completely by accident.]

In a scene toward the end of the episode, when Angel is walking to Cordelia's house, he is walking in the sunlight. Vampires can't be in the sun. [It's twilight, the sun hasn't fully risen yet and isn't a threat.]

Redefinition (series 2)

Joss Whedon's Laws for killing a vampire have been broken or ignored in this episode. The 3 ways to kill a vampire in the show are either: stake to the heart, burning the vampire, or decapitation. However, Angel manages to burn Drusilla and Darla from head to toe, yet neither of them die. In previous episode some vampires were killed by just a little bit of fire. [Darla and Dru are two exceedingly powerful vampires, and while it seems like they're on fire for a long time because of the slow-motion, the reality is that they were only alight for a few seconds before being doused with water. The only time we've seen vampires burn up faster than this is in direct sunlight, which affects vampires differently than ordinary fire.]

The Trial (series 2)

In "The Trial" Angel tells Darla that, if he turns her, his soul might transfer onto her - he doesn't know for sure. However, in a later episode ("Why We Fight", season 5) we see him turning Lawson in 1943, after he got his soul. While the soul made Lawson less evil, he was still filled with the bloodlust of a normal vampire, without Angel's conscience. Therefore, Angel already knew that his soul wouldn't transfer enough to stop Darla becoming a monster. [Angel lets Lawson go from the sub, telling him that if they ever meet again, he'd kill him. He reminds him of this when Lawson steps into the offices of Wolfram & Hart 50 years later, som presumably they haven't met since then. Angel wouödn't have know much about Lawson behaviour during the short time he was a vampire on the sub. He didn't kill anyone, nor did he try to.]

Benediction (series 3)

Holtz has Justine kill him by puncturing his neck to make it look as if Angel bit him. When Connor finds them, there is very little blood coming from the wound, which WOULD be the case if Angel had bit him because a vampire DRINKS the blood, so what did Justine do with it all? [Unless you hit a major artery like the jugular, a puncture wound to the neck will leave some blood but not gobs of it - ask any ER doctor. The ice pick probably hit Holtz's spine severing the nervous system; after all, it's not like Connor's going to do an autopsy.]

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A New World (series 3)

Connor's stake cannon has 3 barrels, all of which are assumed to be loaded, when he arrives. During the episode teaser, he fires one stake from each of the three barrels. After the credits, he fires two more stakes from the top barrel and one from the right. Of course, he hasn't stopped to reload and it's obvious that there is no room in the simple device for more than a single projectile and the launching mechanism. [The shot is off Connor for a long time after he fires the first stake (as it follows the stake across the room and shows Groo and Gunn starting to charge) and Connor can move at incredibly fast speeds, so it's possible he reloaded the device during that space of time, which would explain why 4 stakes are fired from a device that only holds three.]

Time

At the end of the last episode, Conner Killed a demon the second he arrived, and it fell to the ground. In this episode which picks up EXACTLY where the last one left off, there's no sign of the thing. [We know that certain demons combust after being killed (EG. Vampires turn to dust). Obviously this is one of them.]

Offspring (series 3)

In a flashback to Rome, Holtz appears wearing sunglasses - surely they didn't have them in the 18th century [Actually, the first sunglasses were invented in 1752 by James Ayscough.]

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