Angel and Hell
POSTED BY: Dewrastler
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 14:24
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Originally posted by Dewrastler:
Actually I've never really watched Buffy, just caught a few episodes. That's the cause of my lack of background knowledge and why I was asking. To everyone who has replied, thanks for the help you have been able to provide. I'm glad I'm not the only one confused.
I would say that if you are interested in Angel & his backstory and motivations, you should watch some Buffy:
he was a regular character/love interest throughout the first three seasons so we slowly learn more and more about him....
then there are a few cross-over episodes (you must have noticed Buffy shows up a couple of times in Angel's first season? Well he comes to her show in corresponding episodes of her 4th season).
And then finally in Buffy's 7th season at the end (right around the end of Angel's 4th) he makes one last appearance there, just to reaffirm that inspite of other complications he has never forgotten Buffy.
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originally posted by Rugbug:
Heh, I always thought the subtext was less about losing your virginity and more about sleeping with the guy who then turns bad.... Guy gets sex and then takes off, doesn't call, "goes bad".
oh I agree with you, in fact in Joss' commentary he said he didn't want to 'punish' Buffy for losing her virginity....
of course personally I love the contrast of Angel going 'bad' with Parker in BtVS S4, when Buffy's second boyfriend ever ends up being even worse!
poor girl, she just can't win.
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Ok, in Btvs, The First Evil takes credit for bringing Angel back from hell. Then proceeds to try to make him Angellus again. When Angel decides to kill himself, we see The First saying "not my plan, but it'll work", or something to that effect. Then of course Buffy talks Angel out of killing himself and there's the freak blizzard that stops the sun from coming out and crispy frying him.
So it's never explicitly stated who brought Angel back. There's a couple theories I have, and evidence to support both.
Theory 1: The First brought Angel back. The First could have brought Angel back in an attempt to turn him evil, in order to have him assist the evil side in the apocalypse (remember the Shan Shu prophecy, Angel's a major player, but it doesn't specify which side he's on).
Theory 2: The Powers That Be brought Angel back. The PTB could have brought Angel back to keep him as a major player in the good side of the apocalypse. The First wouldn't have cared for that, so it tried to screw up the PTB's plan and make him evil, when it failed, it was ok with Angel being dead again.
So you can decide which theory you like better, or even come up with your own, but yea, that's what I came up with.
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