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What it dooski! Here's my UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Angel Season 1 Episode 19 "Sanctuary " REACTION!

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Salv Mancuso

Yep 100%. Incredible two parter.

Timothy Nikiforovs

Been waiting on these 2 all season. Knowing about Faith's redemption arc definitely affects repeat viewings. I think we all thought it was too good to be true the first time. Before I get into it, I gotta say I fuckin love the Wolfram & Hart lawyers and their little dynamic. Probably my favourite scene was when Faith is rearranging the guys face and Lindsey just casually rearranges their dinner reservations. Too funny. I think these 2 were also rather important episodes in Wesley's development as well. He was willing to try and help Faith until she attacked him and Cordelia, and it's understandable that he was just done with her at the point where she had him tied up and was torturing him. I think however when he ran out in that alleyway and saw what a broken mess she was and dropped the knife, that he had a moment of realization of just how much the watchers council fucked up the slayers in general and Faith in particular(cruciamentum anyone?). They took someone with an already troubled childhood and only made the whole situation worse. Ultimately though, Wesley really did step up and show a huge degree of both loyalty and maturity here. He was able to look past what she put him through and see that she needed help, and didn't even think twice about having Angel's back. Gotta give credit where it's due. Faith of course could never simply go free. Granted Angel(us) has done far worse than Faith for a LOT longer(AFAIK Faith has only killed 2 people, 1 being an accident, the other being 1st degree murder), but as messed up as Faith is, she's still human. Angel and Angelus are essentially different people, so Angel has a much better excuse. Still she could have run again, but she owned up to her past. Definitely a huge step in the right direction. And now on to the real dramatic meat of the episode. The Buffy cameo. Not gonna lie, I couldn't stand Buffy here, and I get chills every time I watch Angel tell her off at the end. To be clear, I completely understand Buffy being angry(furious even), and I completely understand her having zero faith(😎) in Faith being genuinely reformed. I'd completely understand if she stormed in there demanding she be turned over to the police. Buffy went there for revenge, plain and simple, and refused to even consider Angel's point of view. Also don't know why she was so shocked that Angel hit her back. I mean she punches and gets punched for a living, and she could have handled him grabbing her arm in any number of other ways than slugging him. If you're going to hit someone, expect to get hit back. The man clearly believes in equal rights.....and lefts. The line that really stood out though was when she said if Faith apologized she would beat her to death. Regardless of what Faith did, that's not a good look for anyone. Again, I'd be furious and incapable of trusting Faith in her shoes as well, but preventing someone from expressing remorse so you have an easier time hating them, that's not something you do and claim to have the moral high ground. But beyond that, what really ground my gears were the petty barbs, about how she hasn't murdered anyone or how she can trust Riley as opposed to Angel. Even after Faith turned herself in she couldn't let it go. Frankly her behaviour in that last episode was petty, vindictive, manipulative, and downright childish. Good on Angel for not putting up with that nonsense.

Brent Justice

So it is not public knowledge that slayers and demons exist, the general public doesn't know, I'll just leave it at that.

Brent Justice

Ok finished both reactions, I'll just put my post here for both of them. First of all, thank you for the reaction, glad you enjoyed it and are enjoying the show. This two-parter is, IMO, where Angel really picks up. Up until now, it's been good, but this is the turning point IMO where it gets great. It feels like they finally have a direction for the show. I really don't have much to say about this two-parter that hasn't been said already, Timothy said it all very well. I guess I'll just emphasize that I felt Angel was definitely in the right here and was doing the right thing. He was right all along and could see something the others could not. His experience has taught him something the others don't have. If he was allowed to get through to Faith the first time, none of this stuff might have ever happened. He was almost completely thwarted this time as well, but thankfully it worked just enough that Faith saw the light basically. But I do believe Angel was the driving force here. Wesley's and Buffy's methods were not the correct route to save Faith. Angel said it best when he said he's in the soul-saving business, and that is what he is doing, he fought so hard for Faith, and that is absolutely amazing. I foresee a close bond between Angel and Faith after all this, it would make sense. For a character introduced on Buffy, to see her be redeemed on a spinoff, and become important, is pretty amazing. She transcends two series. OH, and yeah Buffy came there for vengeance, that was her goal, and Angel correctly called her out on it.

Teth

Love these two episodes. I think the show does a good job of truly making you think Faith is irredeemable, while still keeping her behaviour understandable. That scene with her and Angel at the end of the last episode is really powerful. It makes sense that Angel would be the one to get through to her. Not because they've both done bad things, but because they've both felt overwhelming guilt over the things they've done to the point where they wanted to die. Neither Buffy nor Wesley have that experience. I'm most excited about Wolfram & Heart finally stepping up to the plate! They're the best villains in the buffyverse.

Timothy Nikiforovs

I love how the W&H lawyers simultaneously hate each other and maintain a polite, professional relationship. Any real lawyers watching this show must have felt personally attacked by W&H.

Timothy Nikiforovs

Also to add, I laughed when you said "go back to your own show", but thinking on it, that's basically what that scene was. This is where the 2 shows really diverged. Buffy has this format of introducing a "Big Bad" each season and the team gathers intel, sabotages plans, fights minions, and has a final showdown at the end. Angel is establishing itself as a different show altogether(which isn't to say there won't be enemies to defeat), with a much heavier focus of redeeming lost souls.

C J

I absolutely love this ending for Faith. She can break out of prison at any time, nothing would keep her in if she didn't want to be there, so it is purely her decision to stay incarcerated and become a better person. Will she do it? Time will tell, but I think this was the only way to resolve her story.