Summary: Here is the Hellmouth Podcast for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series Season 2 Episode 17 - Passion.(mp3 version here (http://hellmouthpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/HMPC/HMPC0217P.mp3)) The sponsor for the Hellmouth Podcast for May and June is Audible, the leading source for audio-books and audio content. audiblepodcast.com/hellmouth (http://www.audiblepodcast.com/hellmouth) The Book review for this episode of the Hellmouth Podcast was for Kevin Gerard's Connor and the Crossworlds. You can find the book and the author's website at: http://www.conorandthecrossworlds.com/ (http://www.conorandthecrossworlds.com/) HMPC 0217 “Passion” - Buffy The Vampire Slayer * Welcome to the Hellmouth Podcast for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Series, Season 2 Episode 17 titled “Passion” * I wanted to introduce the new sponsor for this episode of the hellmouth podcast, audible.com. * Audible.com® is the Internet's leading provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming. Content from Audible is downloaded and played back on personal computers, CDs, or iPod player. Audible offers content from audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, podcasters, and business information providers. * Audible has over 1,100 Science Fiction & Fantasy titles * over 75,000 titles in total to choose from. Every genre, Audible has it covered. * Get a FREE Audiobook download when you sign up for a FREE trial today! * Go to www.audiblepodcast.com/hellmouth to get your free Audiobook today! * Audible has agreed to be one of our sponsors for the Hellmouth Podcast for the month of May and June and so I tried out their service this past week. * I downloaded the new Dresden Files book that I talked about on the website because it is narrated by James Marsters. * If you are not a book reader, you are a podcast listener tooer then I suggest you give audible a try, and definitely the Dresden files. * Nice site, easy to use and if nothing else try it out get the free audiobook and then if you don’t like the service or don’t like the audiobook platform you can cancel your free trial and you won’t be billed. * If you do decide to give it a try remember to go to audiblepodcast.com/hellmouth. Link on the website. * So that’s enough housekeeping for now, let’s get to the episode recap finally, shall we? * Opening this episode Angelus talks about Passion, he talks about it almost as though it was a predator, animalistic and violent. Obviously this theme fits right in line with everything that happens in this episode. The role of Angelus in this episode is very much one of that predator and in many ways a slave to his passion. Angelus is a slave to his passion for Buffy, not a passion of love but a passion of hate in some ways, it is a passion/obsession that he has for Buffy. Something that Spike, Drusilla, Giles, virtually everyone can see, Buffy included. * Angelus watches Buffy sleep and when she wakes up she finds a picture that he has drawn of her. * Cordelia is very upset by this news, mostly because she realizes that she has invited Angel in her car. Xander has an amusing comment about being doomed to give him and his vamp buddies a ride from now on. * At one point or another in each of these episodes we see Angelus enter Buffy’s, Giles’, and Willow’s home and terrorize them. But not Xander. * There is an appearance by Jonathan in this episode as he comes into the library to find some books. The Scoobies leave to the hallway to avoid being heard in their discussion. * Buffy is concerned about her mom, rightfully so, my first time through the series this was one of the first thing I thought about when Angel had been turned. * Jenny Calendar is working on a way to restore Angel’s soul (Ritual of Restoration). If you remember it was stated in a previous episode that those magiks were lost to her people a long time ago.
