maggie2

I just don't see the text as saying he was good. There's a lot of explanation about why he's doing what he's doing, but that's not the same thing as saying it's good. We'll see. I was responding to Eilowyn's fear of the big whitewash, but I'll have to get all the way through Last Gleaming before I'll believe that's what's intended. Not only would Buffy have to 'instincitively' know he's good; we'd have to buy a story line where our heroine had to be manipulated into becoming powerless by her all-knowing wonderhoney in order for the world to be saved. We'd have to believe that what you do doesn't matter so long as it gets the right results. We'd have to think that it was reasonable for Angel to want to stay in paradise even though the world was being destroyed.

Like I said, I'd have to see it to believe it.

That leaves the problem of Buffy's choice to boink him. I really don't know what they're going to do with that. It's a no-win situation as far as I can tell. But I'm going to give them a chance to explain it by Last Gleaming.