i just find sanctuary to be this perfect little bubble wrapped episode. cordelia's not there, which is unfortunate, but i'm actually okay with what's left because it's so tight, and i love so much of what ats and angel do in that one episode. it always reduces me to a pile of flail no matter how many times i watch it, and i particularly like it from a post-b/aer perspective because it's such a "this ship will never work again" episode, though apparently very few people agree with me. but i love that. i really do. also: sucker for the crossovers. no one else likes them, but i love them because they feel like aftershocks. like ripples of what once was. my major complaint with iwry, for example, is that it's just angel and buffy chilling out, but i like sanctuary because it brings in all these different elements of sunnydale and la and makes it explode. i actually wish there had been more crossovers because no one ever deals with the new, grown up cordelia chase and that pisses me off xander harris where the hell are you, but that's why there is fic.