Deep Down - What you deserve

[butterfly]

It's interesting that both Fred and Gunn are there for Angel's little speech and they end up killing a man together.

"There's a difference between wishing vengeance on someone and taking it."

And of course, this is the same Angel who tried to smother Wesley with a pillow just last season.

There's a lot of talk about what people deserve in this episode.

Wesley says two key statements - "Everything changes," and "Everyone gets what they deserve."

Those are actually pretty good guidelines for the Angelverse.

Justine commits a crime, pays her time, and gets the chance to be free again.

Fred and Gunn deserved each other, each so righteous, so certain that they were the strong one. And now Gunn is connected to the conduit to the Senior Partners and Fred is flirting with the morally ambigious. They couldn't live up to each other's standards.

Everything changes.

Everyone gets what they deserve.

Just what is it that Angel deserves?

Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Just what is it that Angel deserves?

Exactly. Such a good question, isn't it? And the answer changes every day...

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Right now, I think that he has just what he deserves. As Wesley said, "everyone gets what they deserve". Angel chose the easy fix over the hard, long-term solution (I probably would have done it too, anything to save Connor more pain, but I still think that it was the wrong choice - made for the right reason, but the wrong choice) and now he's stuck in a world that's all about the easy fix.