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I keep wondering if I'm the only person who was watching Angel explain his New Deal to the crew and all the while wondering,

"But he's still evil! He killed Aragorn who 'held him as a brother'! And he's not telling them this! That seems pretty damn evil to me! Don't trust him guys!"

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[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I wasn't thrown by it. I don't think Angel's evil. I think Angel's damned himself -- if he wasn't damned already -- and forced himself to do a terrible thing in order to not make all this for nothing. Not unlike Giles in The Gift. True, Ben was nothing to Giles, but OTOH Angel at least has the comfort of knowing that Drogan would have approved the mission if he knew of it, and that he'd had a longer life even than Angel already. Doesn't make it right -- nothing makes it right -- but doesn't to me make Angel evil either, just because the act was.

As for not telling the gang -- stupid, yes. But I think it's that "I don't want to burden you with the painful info" thing that Angel *always* does -- with Buffy, with Connor, with Nina. He told them the essence -- he was doing bad things to get into the belly of the beast, he hadn't done it to anyone they personally loved.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

That habit of his of not telling is annoying.

I don't know if I'd compare it to Ben, though. As long as Ben existed Glory was still a threat to all the world... Dagon wasn't. Giles taking out a mostly-innocent because he is a threat to other innocents (ALL other innocents) is different than killing a comerade as an acceptable sacrifice.

I do see how Dagon might have agreed to sacrifice himself for the cause, but that's not something other people get to decide for you. No no no no no. It was an evil act. Then again, he seems to be willing to do a lot of evil to get in with the other evilers to blow everyone up.

No no no no. Not acceptable. Does not compute in brain.

Then again, Angel's hardly the nicest person in the world or the most compassionate.