From Sparklies.org AngelAngel 5x14 - Casting Sides SpoilersBy Rbabe Monday 15 December 2003 The episode opens with a television screen. On the TV is a children’s show "Smile Time." The show has a colorful set, culturally diverse singing puppets...and seems to reflect every possible childhood TV show cliché . Camera pans to a little boy, Tommy, entranced by the show. Tommy is home sick for the day. His mother is dressed for her waitress job, and stops to check Tommy’s temperature. She gets between him and the TV and he moves to keep watching. When his mother leaves the room, one of the puppets stops singing and focuses his attention on the boy. The puppet tells him that he knows what he has to do. Tommy gets up and touches the TV screen, cue creepy music, as the puppet seems to be drawing the life out of the boy. The puppet watches as Tommy falls down. His mother enters the room to say goodbye, and finds him on the floor with a maniacal smile on his face. Much later in the script? A girl, Hannah, is touching the TV screen, and somehow this gives us a glimpse of Angel and Gunn fighting the puppets. The girl is almost drained, but suddenly a white light emits from the TV and she drops down on her chair...dazed, but fine. (I’m assuming Angel and Gunn defeat the evil puppets, and that’s why she is saved). |