#angel S5

[vampandvisiongirl]

PSA: CANGEL

"You're welcome" aired on Feb 4th, 2004 (which happens to be the same date "Waiting in the Wings" aired 2 years earlier). WE ARE APPROACHING 20 YEARS SINCE "YOU'RE WELCOME"

Almost 20 years since the last time Angel & Cordelia Chase graced our screens.

Pass it on. @cangelgifs

[herinsectreflection]

It's interesting how Caleb describes Faith as "the Cain to [Buffy's] Abel", positioning her as Cain - the elder, jealous of and murdering the younger. When each of them use sibling terms to refer to each other, they position themselves as the elder but accuse the other of jealousy against them, and are unable to admit their own jealousy. Buffy calls Faith her "bestest little sister" and accuses her of trying to steal her life, because she is jealous of Faith's rapport with her friends and security in being a slayer. Faith describes Buffy as "dressed up in big sister's clothes" and accuses her of wanting to be just like her, because she is jealous of the love and safety that Buffy has in her life. Both of them are the Cain in this respect, but if you take.as gospel that Faith tried to kill Buffy, she is at best a Failed Cain. Buffy is the actual Cain, who succeeded in killing her "little sister".

Buffy is then put into the Cain role again in S5. This parallel is not explicit, but in this season Buffy becomes an elder sibling, who immediately is jealous of the attention and protection that Dawn receives, especially from Joyce (the God figure here I suppose). She is put in a position to kill her younger sibling, in a way that parallels the killing of her other sibling figure. She refuses, but it's another instance of Buffy as the Cain figure.

The other Cain/Abel dynamic that I can see in the shows is Angel and Spike, particularly on AtS S5. There is jealousy in both directions at all times, but in this season we focus more on Angel's side, and his growing isolation from his mission as he becomes jealous of Spike seeming to be the Powers' favoured Champion. The fight in Destiny can be seen as Angel's attempted Cainhood, but the version of the story when Abel overcame Cain, and survived to surpass him.

[alfapratt]

favourite Angel episodes featuring Spike fom last to first

#10 ● A Hole in the World | S5E15

#9 ● Time Bomb | S5E19

#8 ● Underneath | S5E17

#7 ● Harm's Way | S5E09

#6 ● Damage | S5E11

#5 ● Destiny | S5E08

#4 ● In the Dark | S1E03

#3 ● Smile Time | S514

#2 ● The Girl in Question | S5E20

#1 ● Life of the Party | S5E05

[wikiangela]

ngl I could see Fred with Spike before I'd even wanna look in the direction of Fred with Wesley lmao

like, I don't think I ship it, but Fred and Spike are having some moments rn and arguably having more natural chemistry than Wes and Fred ever had sns

[dailyats]

"Okay, this is getting us nowhere, Angel, torture her." 5.12 You're Welcome | Angel [1999 - 2004]

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

ANGEL THE SERIES | 5.08 "Destiny"

[charmedslayer]

ANGEL (1999-2004)

[sskk-manifesto]

The fact that Akutagawa was exactly there when Atsushi needed him is both sweet, and funny. How long has he been tailing Atsushi? Did he watch Atsushi seemingly rob a bank? Did Akutagawa infiltrate the Sky Casino? Was he panicking when Atsushi would disappear to Anne's Room, and he lost him? And most importantly: how did Atsushi “tiger senses make me spot an enemy in a fifty meters radius” not realize? Could it be that the tiger doesn't consider Akutagawa an enemy?

[thepunkmuppet]

if you don’t like me at my “quickly, I'm the very spirit of vexation, what’s another word for gleaming?” then you don’t deserve me at my “what can I tell you baby, I’ve always been bad”.

[traumatizedsam]

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[kitkatdrawwss]

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[genericaces]

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[alexjcrowley]

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Chapter 110 is 13 pages long welcome to hell!!! so in a lot of ways this is just more fuel for a theory that I've had for a few weeks now, that's only gotten stronger with each recent season 5 episode, which is that the last episode of the season is gonna end on 110, and that Asagiri/Harukawa and Bones have been collaborating to make this happen, specifically because it's a major turning point that would be the only good place to end the season on.

When we started getting especially long chapters again (like from 25-35ish pages, with the exception of 107.5, the last two being some of the longest we've ever had), at first I just assumed that Asagiri/Harukawa got freed up from some other obligations they'd been having to cause the extremely short/half chapters, like promotional stuff for the anime/Beast movie, or working on light novels. But then 109 happened, with the "supposed" death of Dazai, and heavy emphasis at the end on how literally everyone is at their lowest point right now, and I got to thinking. 11 episodes is a strangely specific number for an anime season -- why not 12, or 13, or even 10, like you'd usually see? Why have we gotten suddenly gotten two 35 page chapters out of nowhere, that's almost unheard of at this point? They're both beautiful chapters, don't get me wrong (as always), and maybe A/H simply just didn't want to cut them in halves because they felt like the full emotional impact wouldn't hit/that there were no good cutoff points in them, but you can't deny that it's surprising, after all the shorter chapters we've been getting. Why has the anime been going at such insanely breakneck pacing for the most part ever since around the Sunday Tragedy chapters, even more so than it has in the past? So much so that it feels dangerously close to overtaking the manga?

Well, maybe, just maybe, it's because..... Asagiri decided a long time ago that whatever happens in 110 is the only point that feels "season finale"-worthy enough, in an arc that still isn't anywhere close to being completely wrapped up, and so both the manga and the anime have been specifically coordinated to reach that part within 2 and a half weeks of each other?

I've seen a lot of people now think season 5 will end with 109, and as much as my sadistic side would find that hilarious, I honestly don't think they'd do that and realistically don't want it to happen; it'd be so cruel to cliffhanger the anime for years like that, and just doesn't feel like a season cliffhanger BSD would do, a series that is ultimately hopeful and uplifting. Seasons 2 and 3 had a positive, conclusive ending; the only reasons seasons 1 and 4 didn't was because they're technically not really full seasons of their own, and are more like the first cour of another "season" that also came out that same year (seasons 1 and 2 both aired in 2016, so they're more like one big season, and seasons 4 and 5 have both aired this year, so they're also more like one big season, again taking into account how episodes 12 and 50 are not satisfying finales like episodes 24, 37, and hypothetically, 61, are). I really can't see season 5 ending with Dazai and Fukuzawa's supposed deaths, Sigma being unconscious and maybe close to death, Atsushi being vulnerable and limbless again, everyone we love still vampires, and the entire world being basically doomed; that's just too depressing and not like BSD at all. However, having said that, if it doesn't end there, there really isn't any good place to end the season before that, either, that feels in any way satisfying or like a finale at all. And so, to me, that only leaves after 109: chapter 110.

I think things are really gonna turn around next chapter. Like I said, everyone is at their lowest point right now, it cannot possibly get any worse, the framing of Dazai, Fukuzawa, and sskk at the end of 109 is telling us that; this is the time for the heroes to finally start winning again, with Aya being so close to pulling out the sword, and for all the thematic reasons other people have talked about to death that I don't need to go into here again. This upcoming chapter being so short again makes a part of me wary of 110 being "the one", so to speak, I won't lie, but at the same time, it's very possible that it needs to be that short because that's all the final episode of the season will be able to reasonably fit in, since it's already gonna be VERY close if they do make it all the way to 109. And at the end of the day, I don't doubt at all that Asagiri and Harukawa can make these the most monumental and game-changing mere 13 pages ever if they wanted to; a chapter does not at all need to be extremely long in order to be an important and impactful one, even if short ones we've gotten in the past haven't felt the most important.

An additional thought I've had, though this is much more crack territory than all this already is, is that since we know from Anime Expo that a Stormbringer movie at some point is highly likely (judging from Asagiri's reaction when someone brought it up), it's possible that chapter 110 and thus the final episode will involve the long-anticipated return of Verlaine and/or Adam, or at least some other major reference to Stormbringer, that would naturally and smoothly lead into a Stormbringer movie to explain things to people who haven't read the novel. It would make a lot of sense, especially since the s4 OP has the Old World sign behind Chuuya, which might be a hint that this has been in the works ever since seasons 4/5 were first in planning with Asagiri. We also know that Dazai and Chuuya's voice actors apparently struggled to record their lines together this season, which probably relates to 101 and possibly 109, but it could be 110 too.... I could be very wrong, as I'm no expert on this kind of thing, but I kinda doubt they would bring Chuuya's actor in for just the vampire growls, and Asagiri placing heavy emphasis on Chuuya's importance this season in that one interview gives me the impression that he's talking about much more than just 101/109. But that's the least solid evidence I have, that's just mostly based on vibes I get.

So basically, I think a lot of factors -- the unusual episode count, how close the anime is to catching up to the manga with three whole episodes left, the seemingly arbitrary recent chapter lengths, and the climactic events of 109 -- can tell us that 110 might be a very, VERY big deal. Again, there's of course no way this arc is anywhere near close to being finished, with so much left to address and resolve, but since it is currently incomplete in the manga, unlike the previously adapted arcs, if the anime was going to adapt it at all, they'd have to find a place that feels satisfying enough to end this season, knowing there won't be more anime for a long time after this, and so I think they specifically planned for that, from both Bones' and A/H's sides. 10 episodes might not have been enough to reach that point, but 12 or 13 might have been too many it wouldn't have been if Bones actually decided to slow down and let the story breathe the way it needs to, but this post isn't meant to criticize the anime, so maybe 11 was just right. And maybe Asagiri and Harukawa specifically pushed to make recent chapters longer than usual, in order to make sure that the manga reached the story content in 110 the monthly release right before season 5 was to end.

Is this just copium? Absolutely. Am I going to look like an absolute clown in two days when this post ages like milk? Probably. But the evidence is There, so let me just enjoy my delusions until Sunday, okay 🥂🫡

[justafriendofxanders]

it is a little bit wild that by virtue of ats s5 being the last canon tv installment of the buffyverse, spike and angel's arcs culminate in... each other. like spike isn't allowed to rest after his sacrifice because the network needs to pull more viewers his new hero status has to be put to the test against angel. angel can't comfortably rest on his laurels as the vampire with the soul because spike is there. their arcs with buffy shape them into the people they eventually become, but canon deliberately leaves the future of those relationships ambiguous! ats is where they go to figure out how to lead lives without buffy but with the other vampire-with-a-soul in them. and i don't even mean this in the way where spike/angel is somehow more meaningful or romantically endgame than their other relationships, i just mean like... those two old dudes are never gonna escape each other, for better or for worse. like there's literally a whole prophecy to that effect. wild stuff.

[dailyats]

"We plan on being big players in this town, Dru and I."  ∟ Angel [1999 -2004]