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Hell Bound
Angel fails at feat attempt, as Spike takes his
fourth career gold.
The Line League Angel Conference is bought to you
By Hellmouthhigh.co.uk, you thought you were
obsessed
and Tupperware, a plastic storage box you have to
pay for.
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Hell Bound, written by Stephen S.
DeKnight Total number of qualifying lines
325 Total number of lines 340Played 22nd October 2003 |
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Gold – Spike(88), 29.5
minutes screen time Silver – Fred(76), 25 minutes
screen time Bronze – Angel(62), 18
minutes screen time ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regulars– 4th Gunn(30) – 12.5 mins, 5th
Wes(27) – 13 mins, 12th Lorne(1) Recurring – 8th Eve(7) Guest Stars – = 6th Pavayne(25), 7th
Psychic(9) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co Stars - Glass Woman(7), Armless Woman(4), Hanging Man(2), Bloody
Lawyer(1), Scientist(1) |
Having set himself up for the best five episode
run record, Angel went and blew it with this game, falling short by just five
lines of the required 67 lines, all is not lost for Angel’s record setting
attempt, a score of 74 lines next week will see him break the 444 lines in five
episode record he set back in season 3, but his missed out on his best chance.
Angel went wrong because he ignored the simple Buffy tactics for dealing with a
Spike centric episode, rule 1) talk to Spike, rule 2) talk to the others about
Spike, rule 3) He has a soul now. Whilst mild attempts were made were made at
the first two rules, involving a couch scene and a meeting with Fred, ignoring
the third rule cost him the game, and allowed Fred to come into the game with
this all important stance. Result Fred who obeyed the rules, but didn’t have
the ‘I’m the lead’ bonus took 76, beating Angel for the first time since the
Magic Bullet.
The winner though was Spike, taking his first
Gold medal since Lies my parents told me, and the fourth of his career, as well
as 88 lines. Spike utilised Angel’s mistakes and Fred’s tactics, to great
effect, having conversations with both of them, before taking the risky step of
cutting himself off totally from all the other regulars, and talking only to
Pavayne and the other manifestations. This was indeed risky, as although it
prevented any of the regulars from talking to him and therefore limited their
scoring opportunities, it also gave Spike much fewer people to speak to, and
those he could weren’t looking for deep conversation. However Spike offset this
potential problem, with the simple but genius tactic of speaking to himself,
and carrying on conversations with Fred when she couldn’t even see him genius.
Spike’s form at present is impressive, in fact in the last 5 episodes Spike’s
appeared in he has scored more lines than in any other point in his career,
scoring 245 lines in Chosen(30), Conviction(1), Just Rewards(98), Unleashed(28)
and Hell Bound(88), 2 more than he scored in the Spuffy dominated episodes of
Once More With Feeling through to Gone.
The rest of the players faired less well. Gunn
and Wes focussed on the plot with mild success, Pavayne did well out of Spike,
and utilised voice over to great effect. Most insane tactic award for this game
must go to Lorne, as he ignored not only the plot, but forgot to substitute for
anything storywise to make up for it. Lorne slumped to his lowest ever scoring
game as a result, scoring just one line.
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