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Angel 5x21 - full reaction

🕑 Added 2024-01-05 17:00:14 +0000 UTC

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Stargazer1682

Kind of like Buffy season 7. Who's the final Big Bad? Why, the First Evil, of course. How do we stop it? 🤷‍♂️ We'll do a thing that's sort of like a plan, but not really a plan and sort of stumble into something we weren't expecting, but it means we won... somehow...

Connor Blake

Personally I think Angel as a show having the restraint to NOT make its finale killing the unkillable senior partners makes it a much more realistic, nuanced interpretation of what the real-life struggle against evil and corrupted power looks like, compared to much more shallow shows like Supernatural; which essentially has the same exact story every season where some ancient evil comes back in a human vessel, they talk to it for 15 episodes and then find some ancient weapon that's the only thing that can kill it. Angel's season 5 of "can you change a system from the inside or does it just corrupt you and hurt you and your loved ones?" is a far more compelling and adult plot-line to explore.

Connor Blake

I actually really enjoy that the climactic finale of the show isn't taking down all of Wolfram & Hart or the senior partners, because they're not even people or demons; they're evil incarnate. You can't kill them, and I think if the show tried to, like, make a senior partner come down to earth in a human vessel or something, it would be a little silly (like what Supernatural does with all its villains) and go agains the show's premise; which is that "the good fight" never ends. It's everyday and it's tough, but it fighting it makes the world a better place worth living in. Sometimes right is right, regardless of the outcome.