Ramblings from the 'goblinn

I tend to watch episodes (or more often, check screencaps or transcripts or shooting scripts because it's faster to google than to queue up a DVD) dealing with specific things I need to reference, like the layout of the Summers' living room or exactly what the Shroud of Rahmon looked like. I don't very often use specific episodes to check on relationship dynamics as a whole. I guess because I see the relationships as cumulative things, so you can't get a truly complete picture by looking at only one or two episodes, no matter how definitive they are. I do check for specific interactions - like once when I had to write a particular conversation where I wanted to show that Angel was acting in a certain way because he equated the current situation with Buffy with his failure to save Darla from being vamped again, I went back and spot-checked a lot of the Angel/Darla interaction in S2.