Angel 5.16

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Well, this was unexpected. I didn't think that Fred would be killed off this season. They're running out of female characters pretty rapidly. No more Cordy, no more Fred, no more Eve.

I liked this episode quite a bit. I like Iluria, or whatever her name is. Though I'm sad to see Fred go and even more sad to see Wesley so broken by this, I think I like Iluria's character quite a bit. I would like to hear her story of learning "to walk in this world." And I'd like to see Wes teach her... because he's been so many things in the last 5 years, and perhaps being guide and sensei to this creature will be something that changes him for the better.

There seems to be a theme this year on Angel: purpose. Angel had it, lost it, had it, and had it again. Lindsey tried to take it away, and Cordelia tried to give it back.

Spike's purpose is ambiguous, and this tears at him and an Angel too, for how they are intertwined.

Gunn found a new purpose, but a false one, and now he's made the false part real. Only he doesn't like his new purpose.

Fred had a purpose, but of all the characters, only hers and Lornes has never been questioned, never fundamentally changed. And thus she was the one sacrificed. She was too perfect, and of course Wesley could never be able to keep her once he got her.

Wesley had a purpose: Fred. Now that his purpose is gone from this world...maybe he can find a new purpose in the creature Fred left behind. If he could redeem Iluria, make her into something that betters the world... of course he's going to. As a testament to his love for Fred, who loved this world. And he doesn't want to live with the knowledge that something that used to be Fred is unreparably evil, because he holds her too highly for that fate.

It's a good story tactic.

::sigh:: My poor Wes. Yours is a harsh future.

I guess this means I'm all caught up now, irfikos. :)

Comments

[irfikos.livejournal.com]

my work here is done.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

oui, oui, my friend.

And btw, I adore your icon. I loved that line. ::squees for Andrew the true geek fan's mary sue::

[juliet-demarcus.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it too. I'm really loving this show now...have since "Damaged." I read a few reviewers who said they didn't get it or that it was boring. But I'm fascinated by Illyria and where they'll go with her. I honestly wasn't that fond of Fred, but they made her exit very powerful and sad. And what would the Jossverse be without the angst?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel that sad that she was going-- I won't miss her. But I felt genuinely sad for the way she was going... she did deserve a better death than to be violated and left writhing in undignified agony as her body was hijacked by a demon and her soul demolished in the process. I'm right there with you girl: you don't deserve that death.

Oh well. At least she wasn't alone. And at least Wesley got to rend to her in her final moments.

I found the submarine episode to be kinda boring. And predictable in ways to. But it does go back to that purpose thing... that episode was all about purpose and meaning in life.