Thank you! Of course, the fact that I have/am/fight against blah blah depression is what makes me understand it better (I don't think I could have if I'd watched it "back in the day");although honestly, I wish I didn't. I wouldn't wish that on anyone - but since it exists, I'm still sort of in awe of the fact that JW, MN & ME chose to go there, and didn't make into something that exists for a few episodes and is "ok all better now". It's a part of the fabric of her personality -and as I mentioned, there's never a possibility (in show) of treatment. Its telling that she makes a visit to a school counselor in a few eps from this (Beauty and the Beasts) but he's already dead while she's spilling her guts about Angel; the only other person she is able to open up to that deeply is Holden in CWDP.

I hadn't seen this ep since I first watched because I'm drawn to the later seasons just as you are and the return of Angel? Bored now (or bored then.) I think I might be able to appreciate it more now?