Episode in Focus: Power Play
Next week we are looking at Power Play, in which we see where Angel's been heading, through this season of moral murk. So from Monday your time, get sharing whatever you have to share on this week's penultimate new Episode in Focus. Meta, vids, art, poems, fic, whatever you got, we want it.
Episode in Focus: Power Play
Yes, there really are only two more episodes left, for Angel and for us. All those shades of grey (surely more than fifty) that have piled up this season, they seem to be layering together thicker than ever to show us... what? Angel on the side of the demons and devils and Sebassises of this world, prepared to sacrifice Fred and Drogyn to get on their side? Or Angel prepared to go further than you ever thought to take them down?
We also, to my lasting joy, get to see Illyria play Crash Bandicoot. But that, of course, isn't the point at all. ("I play this game... it's pointless and annoys me... and yet, I'm compelled to play on.")
ANGEL
You're still missin' the point.
(walks toward his desk)
GUNN
That Angel talking? 'Cause it sounds a lot more like Angelus.
ANGEL
Oh, if I were Angelus, half of you would already be dead, just for the fun of it.
(sits on the edge of his desk)
SPIKE
One of us already is. We havin' fun yet?
ANGEL
You want to know the truth? The truth is there's only one of us who ever understood how things really work. Lorne.
LORNE
Whoa. Hey, hey, hey. Can I not be the poster child for your nervous breakdown here?
ANGEL
You didn't judge. You didn't spend your life obsessed with good and evil. You do that, you get swallowed, lost in the minutia. Good, bad, Angel, Angelus- None of it makes a difference. I wish it did, but, you know, an ant with the best intentions or the most diabolical schemes is just exactly an ant. There is one thing in this business, in this apocalypse that we call a world that matters: Power. Power tips the scale, power sets the course, and until I have real power, global power, I have nothing. I accomplish nothing.
WESLEY
And how you get this power...
ANGEL
Isn't pretty. Isn't fun.
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Still have something to share about previous episodes in this season? We're running an ongoing catchup amnesty for anything relating to previous episodes of AtS season 5. We can always stand a little more of the good stuff.
Episode in Focus: Power Play
Yes, there really are only two more episodes left, for Angel and for us. All those shades of grey (surely more than fifty) that have piled up this season, they seem to be layering together thicker than ever to show us... what? Angel on the side of the demons and devils and Sebassises of this world, prepared to sacrifice Fred and Drogyn to get on their side? Or Angel prepared to go further than you ever thought to take them down?
We also, to my lasting joy, get to see Illyria play Crash Bandicoot. But that, of course, isn't the point at all. ("I play this game... it's pointless and annoys me... and yet, I'm compelled to play on.")
ANGEL
You're still missin' the point.
(walks toward his desk)
GUNN
That Angel talking? 'Cause it sounds a lot more like Angelus.
ANGEL
Oh, if I were Angelus, half of you would already be dead, just for the fun of it.
(sits on the edge of his desk)
SPIKE
One of us already is. We havin' fun yet?
ANGEL
You want to know the truth? The truth is there's only one of us who ever understood how things really work. Lorne.
LORNE
Whoa. Hey, hey, hey. Can I not be the poster child for your nervous breakdown here?
ANGEL
You didn't judge. You didn't spend your life obsessed with good and evil. You do that, you get swallowed, lost in the minutia. Good, bad, Angel, Angelus- None of it makes a difference. I wish it did, but, you know, an ant with the best intentions or the most diabolical schemes is just exactly an ant. There is one thing in this business, in this apocalypse that we call a world that matters: Power. Power tips the scale, power sets the course, and until I have real power, global power, I have nothing. I accomplish nothing.
WESLEY
And how you get this power...
ANGEL
Isn't pretty. Isn't fun.
*
Still have something to share about previous episodes in this season? We're running an ongoing catchup amnesty for anything relating to previous episodes of AtS season 5. We can always stand a little more of the good stuff.