Angel 4x22 FULL Reaction
Added 2025-11-15 15:13:44 +0000 UTC
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The whole concept of Lilah still working for W&H beyond her death is not a new thing. This was already explained in season 2 by Holland Manners who came back to take Angel on that elevator ride to the "Home Office". Thats why they showed that scene in the "Previously On".
Ariel17
2025-12-08 03:59:20 +0000 UTCAs problematic as this season can be (and that’s all been discussed plenty) I actually really enjoy this season and a major part of it is that last scene with them. The acting between David Boreanaz (heartbreaking) and Vincent Kartheiser (also heartbreaking) is some of the best of this show I think. But more beautifully tragic is how the last scene of this season perfectly bookends with the very first scene of the season: a family sitting together at the dinner table. Even the parallel of the toast (“To family.”) where in ep1 it’s Wesley who says it and now in the finale it’s Connor. It’s what Angel and Connor both needed and wanted with all their hearts. And this has been sprinkled throughout this season through Connor, like when he got so affected by the Svear family massacre, and in this episode where he gets so mad at that cop who was gonna kill himself and leave his family behind. In the end they were both fighting for family but unfortunately Angel came to realize that in order to give that to Connor he couldn’t be the father he needed. Ultimately, the same theme we’ve seen before in Buffy and even earlier in this season of Angel is that love is sacrifice. And he literally had to kill his son in order to have him essentially be reborn to a new family and happy life. Also the ending music in this episode......so beautiful too, on par with the Buffy season 5 finale (interestingly titled ‘Sacrifice’).
Ariel17
2025-12-08 03:56:55 +0000 UTC
