This is perhaps Angel’s finest moment, the moment where he shows how great a man is. He sacrifices his own happiness, the best day of his life, his actual life, the opportunities to have a life, Buffy — everything — to protect her. And when he returns from his second visit to the Oracles, and he tells Buffy what he’s done, he doesn’t even mention the price he’s paying, because he’s too concerned with comforting her.
This has got to be one of the best episodes of season 1 — maybe even the best, and one of the best of the series. I can’t come up with a single thing to hold against it at the moment.
And now I need some Ane Brun to comfort me. “I keep rubber bands around my soul / to keep it from falling”. “Rubber&Soul”, “My Lover Will Go” and “Temporary Dive” all seem as if they were made especially for this episode… 
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Yeah, first time I watched this? I thought “good enough episode, but oh, why did they have to do that horribly cheesy and unoriginal trick where they can do whatever they wan’t because they can just time-warp it back into continuity afterwards, that’s so boring.” Second time I watched this, I’d seen “Buffy”. Second time I watched this, I cried.
12. October 2006 @ 13:50 ( Permalink )
Yeah. And when they set some rules for the time-warp in the beginning of episode 9, that wasn’t a problem any more, either.
12. October 2006 @ 22:04 ( Permalink )
They did? Don’t remember that, elaboration, please.
12. October 2006 @ 22:17 ( Permalink )
Woops, my bad. It was episode 10, after Doyle died, and Angel visits the Oracles to make them resurrect (God, I love HoMM :P) Doyle. They reply, first of all, that such an act would belittle Doyle’s sacrifice, and that they only made an exception for Angel and Buffy because he did it to save her, and to be able to save more people, whereas his request to them about Doyle was an expression of selfish needs, or somesuch.
12. October 2006 @ 23:19 ( Permalink )
Ah. I’d forgotten about that. Thanks.
12. October 2006 @ 23:22 ( Permalink )