Guise Will Be Guise

[butterfly]

In retrospect, this episode showcases something that Angel does better than Buffy: allowing the characters to change.

This episode starts off the beginning of Wesley's transformation. After assuming Angel's place, he later takes over as leader, and ends up taking his own parallel journey to Angel. And this is where it's most obviously set up.

This is Wesley's The Zeppo, only, on Buffy, Xander never got to have the kind of development that Wesley got after this. He got his Xander episode, then they went and turned him into comic relief. The same thing that they did to Anya after Selfless, I suppose.

Plus:
"You were in Virginia?"
"That's beside the point."

And I'm running across so much foreshadowing. In Untouched Angel says that his name is just a name. Wesley will also say, "It's just a name." after Angel leaves them.

The Darla/Angel relationship is so much deliciousness.

And I'm thinking of taking a closer look at the baby!plot in Judgement to see how it relates to Connor. ("To me, she's just my daughter.")

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, wow, I totally agree with that.

They've always gone back to normal on Buffy. In Angel, every time that you figure out what normal is, they change it.