he was given a clear mission in regard to Buffy - help her reach the next plane, together create a new world, and end all suffering "He was given" ergo this reflects the ideology of the dogmasters but not necessarily Angel's. Riley accepted the mission to place the world over the girl but was still working for the girl. We don't yet know whether there's a distinction between what Angel's would-be masters thought he was doing and what he thought he was doing or whether either of them screwed it up entirely. However, in this instance none of that is particularly relevant because the question is what Buffy thought Angel was doing and the alternative to "I have randomly turned into a good old, evil because I'm evil, tie-metropolis-to-the-tracks, OOC (which everybody criticising this storyline seems to agree on) comic book villain" that Angel gives her is not that he was killing thousands to save billions. He denies that he's killed anyone (as far as we know and certainly as far as Buffy knows that's literally true). He's pointed out that governments and demons were hellbent on slayercide with or without his involvement and claims that while he hasn't been able to stop them, he has diverted them so that far fewer slayers were killed than would have been without him. He's not (at this point) claiming to have killed to create a better world, he's claiming not to have been able to save everyone. The while I push side of the equation hardly seems to register with her it gets lost in the argument that her powers don't come from her dead.
To sum it up, you think that Buffy's mind was completely clear when she stopped attacking Angel. She stopped because she believed Angel when he said that he did it for her own good. She made the decision to have sex with Angel on her own free will, because was happy to leave her worries behind and enjoy herself. I would phrase it quite differently. Buffy stopped because she believed that Angel had not undergone some random personality transplant and that he had intended if not good then least worst as far as he was able. As had she when she changed the world. Her good seemed less at issue than everyone else's good, she raged sat him for her girl's deaths and putting "us" through hell. She's less self involved than in the days when "nobody messes with my boyfriend" was her sine qua non. She made the decision to kiss Angel and follow where that led not our of heedless hedonism but because there was nothing else she could do for her people. She'd failed them utterly, they were dying because of her. There was a chance Angel was right and if he wasn't she'd got nothing.
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"He was given" ergo this reflects the ideology of the dogmasters but not necessarily Angel's. Riley accepted the mission to place the world over the girl but was still working for the girl. We don't yet know whether there's a distinction between what Angel's would-be masters thought he was doing and what he thought he was doing or whether either of them screwed it up entirely. However, in this instance none of that is particularly relevant because the question is what Buffy thought Angel was doing and the alternative to "I have randomly turned into a good old, evil because I'm evil, tie-metropolis-to-the-tracks, OOC (which everybody criticising this storyline seems to agree on) comic book villain" that Angel gives her is not that he was killing thousands to save billions. He denies that he's killed anyone (as far as we know and certainly as far as Buffy knows that's literally true). He's pointed out that governments and demons were hellbent on slayercide with or without his involvement and claims that while he hasn't been able to stop them, he has diverted them so that far fewer slayers were killed than would have been without him. He's not (at this point) claiming to have killed to create a better world, he's claiming not to have been able to save everyone. The while I push side of the equation hardly seems to register with her it gets lost in the argument that her powers don't come from her dead.
To sum it up, you think that Buffy's mind was completely clear when she stopped attacking Angel. She stopped because she believed Angel when he said that he did it for her own good. She made the decision to have sex with Angel on her own free will, because was happy to leave her worries behind and enjoy herself.
I would phrase it quite differently. Buffy stopped because she believed that Angel had not undergone some random personality transplant and that he had intended if not good then least worst as far as he was able. As had she when she changed the world. Her good seemed less at issue than everyone else's good, she raged sat him for her girl's deaths and putting "us" through hell. She's less self involved than in the days when "nobody messes with my boyfriend" was her sine qua non. She made the decision to kiss Angel and follow where that led not our of heedless hedonism but because there was nothing else she could do for her people. She'd failed them utterly, they were dying because of her. There was a chance Angel was right and if he wasn't she'd got nothing.