Angel (TV Series) Time Bomb (2004) User Reviews

Illyria

[Joxerlives · 7/10 · 26 April 2012]

The Good; Great performance from mad Wes and lovely scenes between him and Gunn making up

The Bad; In any show featuring time travel it's always a bit of a cheat to kill characters knowing you can just click your fingers and bring them back.

Best line; Marcus; "Curing cancer Mr Pryce?" Wes; "Wouldn't be cost effective. I'm sure we make a lot of money from cancer" Marcus; "True, the patent holder is a client"

Jeez, how did they get away with that? The Breathren want to feed their baby messiah consecrated urine and panda meat. I'm not sure which is worse?

Apocalypses: 5

Angel Clichés Subverting the Hollywood cliché; evil demon Fell Breathren all paternal (and rather camp?) about the coming baby. They also like organic cola.

In disguise; 8

DB/JM get's his shirt off; 19,

Cheap Angel; 8

Fang Gang in bondage: Cordy: 5 Angel: 15 Wes: 8 Gunn; 8 Lorne; 6 Fred; 5 Spike; 6

Fang gang knocked out: Cordy: 15 Angel: 20 Wes: 10 Doyle; 1 Gunn; 4 Lorne; 8 Groo; 1 Connor; 1 Faith; 1 Fred; 7 Spike; 5

Kills; Cordy: 5 vamps, 3 demons Angel; 48 vamps, 72 and 1/2 demons, 5 zombies, 12 humans, one werewolf and one cyborg Doyle; 1 vamp Wes; 16 demons+5 vamps, 5 zombies, 4 humans, 2 cyborgs Kate; 3 vamps Faith; 18 vamps, 6 demons, 3 humans. Gunn; 11 vamps+ 15 demons, 5 zombies, 1 human. Groo; 1 demon Fred; 3 vamps+ 14 demons, 5 zombies Connor; 16 vamps, 5 zombies, 4 demons, Jasmine Spike; 21 vamps, 12 demons+1 human+one parasite

Fang Gang go evil: Cordy: 3 Angel: 3 Gunn; 1 Wes; 1

Alternate Fang Gang; Cordy: 4 Angel: 12 Fred; 3 Wes; 1 Gunn; 2 Connor; 1 Lorne; 1

Characters killed: 2265

Recurring characters killed; everyone but then they come back 12

Total number of Angel Investigations; 5, Angel, Gunn, Lorne, Wes, Spike

Angel Investigations shot: Angel: 15 Wes; 2 Spike; 1

Packing heat; Wes; 13 Doyle; 1 Angel; 4 Gunn; 3 Fred; 5

Notches on Fang Gang bedpost: Cordy: 5 ?+Wilson/Hacksaw Beast+Phantom Dennis+Groo+Connor plus possibly the Beast Angel: 6; Buffy, Darla, The Transcending Furies, Eve Wes; 3 definite; Virginia, the bleached blonde and Lilah, 2 possible, Justine, Fred Gunn; 2 Fred and Gwen. Fred; 1 Gunn, 1 possible Wes Groo; 1Cordy Spike; 3-Buffy, Anya, Harmony

Kinky dinky: Gunn suggests they keep Illyria in a leash. Spike refers to 'Dear Penthouse'.

Captain Subtext; Illyria says that adaptation is compromise and Spike teases her about learning and the Internet. Again, we see why humans rule the world and demons don't.

Know the face, different character; 7

Parking garages; 10,

Guantanamo Bay; Suspicion of each other has started to pull AI apart, they don't trust each other anymore?

Buffy characters on Angel; 17 Wetherby, Collins and Smith. Angel, Cordy, Oz, Spike, Buffy, Wes, Faith, Darla, Dru, The Master, Anne, Willow and Harmony. POSSIBLY The First Evil, Andrew.

What the fanficcers thought; . Angel travelling in time used by many fanficcers to rescue characters from all sorts of trouble.

Questions and observations; Wes suggests they keep Illyria as an asset and he's to be proved correct. Jamie Bergman of course is Mrs Boreanaz and a Playboy Playmate. Has she turned up in Bones yet? Anyone else worry that Wes is slowly becoming Illyria's high priest? Marcus suggests that Angel has gone from front runner in the earning stakes to back of the pack, a hint of Angel's history at the WB? When did the 1000 year war begin? Anyone else think that Illyria reminds you of Lady Gaga? Jim Jones was a religious cult leader who led his followers into mass suicide in the South American jungle.

Here Angel get's the idea for the story arc in the last few eps.

Marks out of 10; 7/10 I think the Illyria storyline drags on too long

The Breaking Apart of a Shell

[Samuel-Shovel · 8/10 · 11 June 2019]

In "Time Bomb" Illyria frees Gunn from the suburban hell dimension. After her return, she starts acting a but funny. Angel asks Wes to find a way to destroy Illyria if need be. Meanwhile Gunn is back to work negotiating the birth of a child from a human mother to a demon cult that will regard the baby as their king.

Illyria's location in time is continually being changed as she jumps back and forth between events, replaying timelines that have already occurred before jumping back to others. The shell of Fred can no longer contain the god's aura and soon Illyria is doomed to explode. Wes finds a way to zap her of her power. He saves her life but now she is no longer anywhere near as powerful as her days of yore.

Illyria was always a bit of a wildcard in her brief time here and she seems to be reigned in. I'm sure at some point during these last few episodes she'll try and regain her lost power but for now she seems to be more of a normal person. If we had more time, she could have had a similar arc to Anya perhaps.

Angel's decision to give up the baby at the end of the episode was intriguing. Is it all a misdirect on his part? I know he's trying to focus on the current Apocalypse but no one knows what that means or entails, including Angel. I can't see him abandoning a child like that unless he's got some kind of trick up his sleeve. Either that or we just witnessed a monumental character shift.

Another great episode.

[m-47826 · 8/10 · 19 March 2022]

The previous ones, especially Origins, were not something to rave about. But Time Bomb is a really interesting episode, where we learn more about Illyria and its weaknesses. To end with the gang stripping Fred's shell of its powers. Having Gunn back was handled smoothly, and the storyline about the demons surrogate, ended in a dark but satisfying way. Bringing perfect closure to the episode's arc. Some of the lines delivered throughout were so insightful, it was as if writers were entities from other dimensions, observing what makes humanity so flawed and fickle. And I like that about the show. It was a lot more relevant than the commonplaces passing as thoughtful thoughts, we are forced fed with these days.

It's not murder if you say yes

[SleepTight666 · 10/10 · 13 June 2007]

It's not murder if you say yes - One of the most visually stunning episodes of the series and Amy Acker gives one of her most memorable performances. The whole time traveling thing was done brilliantly, with some amazing cinematic scenes and Xmen-esquire writing. My favorite scene is when 'Illyria' kills the entire gang, although I admit that it went too quick for comfort, it was still somewhat shocking. The B-storyline wasn't as amazing, but I think it worked very well, 'Gunn' is back and gets a case about a young woman (Played by Jamie Bergman whom is David Boreanaz' wife) Her baby is going to be sacrificed by some demon cult, 'Angel' gives the child to the demons at the end of the episode which is an important move to the final two episodes. 'Wesley' finds a way to drain out 'Illyria's energy to allow her to live. The episode was quite dramatic too, I loved 'Illyria's last line - Touch me and die, vermin. Excellent episode. WESLEY: Does it sting you... my betrayal? ILLYRIA: Betrayal was a neutral word in my day, as unjudged a word as water or breeze. No. Or perhaps... I am only bothered because I am bothered. WESLEY: That sounds very close to human. ILLYRIA: Motes of dust. Mayflies who die so soon after they're born they might as well not live at all. WESLEY: Now, now. Manners. (10 out of 10)

Final Scene

[maxmossey · 25 March 2009]

I've looked around and I don't know of anyone else having caught this yet, but the final scene of this episode seemed extremely reminiscent of the final scene of The Godfather. Angel makes what seems to be a cruel, uncharacteristic decision, leading the Fell demons into his office to sign the contract for the rights to Amanda's unborn child, and shutting the door behind him, all while a very confused Gunn looks on, not knowing what to think. It goes by the Godfather scene almost right down to how Angel and Gunn are standing when it takes place. It also leaves you with the feeling that Gunn isn't as sure anymore how well he knows, or how much he can trust, Angel, just as Kate was left outside Michael's office.