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Angel: 2x2 Full Reaction

"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been"

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Belle GC

this has been the best episode so far! finally at Buffy-level amazing in my opinion. wow, this episode was just really really good. i love your thoughts on forgiveness. “to forgive is an act of compassion. it’s not done because people deserve it. it’s done because they need it.”

Carol Gonçalves

there won't ever be a moment when i'm gonna watch this episode and not cry at the end, i just love angel and his growth and faith in humanity SO MUCH. great reaction as always, cass!

JBK405

Hey Cass, new Patron! A lot of people point to this episode as where this series really "got it", including some of the crew (Who called it the first great episode of the show). I happen to think they managed to find their feet in the first season, but there's no denying this episode was Something Special. It managed to somehow do a proper period-piece about the manic paranoia of 1950s America -- Red Scare and Homophobia and Racism and Sexism -- while fully incorporating the fantasy aspects of the Buffyverse. That's dang impressive. Somebody already pointed it out above, but Angel actually walked through the lobby of this hotel in the previous episode when he was escorting the pregnant woman. He recognized it and remembers what had happened, which is why he decided to start looking into things in this episode. You might even say that the Powers That Be wanted him to redeem himself, because him stumbling on the hotel was a result of Cordelia's vision of the Prio Motu demon. I have a lot more sympathy for Judy. Not 100% (It's still a horrible betrayal that she did), but they weren't going to 'take her to jail', that was an angry mob that was already physically hurting her. She probably thought they were going to beat her to death right then and there (Which did happen to a lot of white-passing people when they were discovered, not even throwing a paranoia demon into the mix). It still doesn't justify throwing Angel to the wolves to save herself, but it makes it a lot more understandable. FYI, to answer your question "Liam" was 26 when he was killed by Darla and sired as a vampire (1727-1753). The dates are visible on his tombstone in the flashbacks, and you can do the math that other characters give. BTW that's also one reason I've never been a big Buffy + Angel shipper myself. Even ignoring the whole "ageless Vampire" thing, even when he was still human he was too old to be dating a high schooler. But that's a conversation for a different day that we don't need to dig up again here.

Gung Ho

The filming crew wanted a bigger set because the old office building set was too small and difficult to set up scenes it, so they blew it up and got themselves a huge one. The exterior shots are of the Los Altos Apartments building, which is I think a historical building on Wilshire Blvd.