To wrap up: This episode shows how fun the show can be when the action and dialog are character-driven. When things are plot-driven, you end up with leaden exposition about ancient banshees and portals and Scottish power plays or whatever the hell. It's frustrating, because they have good characters who don't get to be the moving force behind the stories nearly often enough. All in all, though, it was a mostly fun episode, and even the bad parts weren't aggressively bad.

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