hey, it's that girl! (Supernatural edition)

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So part of the schtick of Supernatural is that every monstrous/demonic/ghostly/horrid event they investigate somehow involves a young and beautiful potential victim that one or the other of our boys finds themselves strangely drawn to. (Well, it is a WB show.) This means that the show is a bonanza for guest-starring roles for every actress you've ever watched on any other television show ever. I mean, I knew this, but I have now watched three episodes in a row (thanks to without_me who has kindly sent us the whole season, eee!), and I am three for three on "OMG, that's...!"

The Pilot episode? OMG, that's CARMEN!
Dead in the Water? OMG, that's Fred!
Phantom Traveler? OMG, that's Laura freakin' Cadman!!!

As the years go by, I increasingly feel like all my fandoms are one big honking fandom that just runs new episodes on all different nights and networks.

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Fred Burke (played by Amy Acker) was on seasons 3-5 of Angel. She was a mad genius physicist who'd been held prisoner in a demon dimension and rescued by Angel, then went on to be a huge fucking nuisance via her part in a fairly bitter love triangle with Gunn and Wesley. She dated Gunn for a season or more, then when they split it sort of looked like she and Wesley were becoming soulmates and whatnot, except then her soul was eaten and her body was possessed by a demon-goddess named Ilyria, who was actually much cooler than Fred ever was. Much angst ensued. She was the mama of the traumatized boy in Dead in the Water. I always liked Amy Acker well enough (she actually reminds me frighteningly of a young woman who works for my dad, also named Amy, though that's neither here nor there, is it?), but Fred's blantant Mary Sue-ishness and the fact that all of her stuff took place during the later, badly written seasons of Angel conspired against her character, IMO. Anyway, now I'm just blathering. *g*