Eh.

This episode felt strangely disjointed in spite of being fairly claustrophobic.

Revenge Vampire should have become a Vampire ten minutes sooner into the episode and then he should have killed his crew and THEN felt remorse. We never actually saw him really suffer as a vampire, so the idea that he would follow Angel for 60 years feels entirely implausible. That’s the big flaw.

There’s some serious continuity problems with the way he became a Vampire. You’ve always had to die and wait to arise. The idea that he could be turned so that he could instantly save the submarine doesn’t, well, hold water.

Angel and Spike greeting each other…I don’t know. It’s like they didn’t want to deal with the timeline they’ve set up. But this moment doesn’t quite jive with their reintroduction in School Hard.

Not a great episode but not a disaster. And it wins insane huge brain explosion points for throwing back to The Initiative.

Except that kind of undercuts the whole sense surrounding the Initiative that it was a new, floundering operation in 1999…so I might take back those points. (This is never expressly said but … c’mon.)