I'm really not sure how this Angel could be from the future or even a different future. After all, he's clueless about everything, as we see here, and also in the other preview panels from a month or so ago where things are being explained. Whistler tells him that he's seen the outcome of other futures, not Angel himself. I really think this is just going to a flashback to how it started and this picks up right after AtF at some point, perhaps. Otherwise it's a pretty big narrative fail, I think. Of course he does seem to have powers already...
Angel is twitchy about "chosen".
What I find interesting about that line isn't that he was chosen, but why he was chosen. To me it reads like an insult, that Angel is malleable. It fits along with the other preview pages where the voices are telling him Buffy did this great thing, but as we learn from the Twilight arc, the Universe really doesn't seem to think so. I take this to suggest Angel is being played by the PTB or someone posing as the PTB.
Certainly the preview reminded me of the un-joy of watching LOST where questions piled up faster than answers were granted.
I actually think this might be the point of the Lost shoutouts. There just isn't enough time to explain all the hanging threads and this might be Whedon's way of acknowledging it. Sort of like the Third Act joke in Chosen.
We've seen pretty much 1/3rd of the issue so far and it looks like it will be all exposition. There has to be at least 2-3 more pages of Angel stuff and then the Spike stuff. Whatever isn't answered in this issue regarding all Twilight setup probably isn't going to get an answer, IMO.
What's sort of irksome is that the summary for this or the next issue says Spike knows the source of all Buffy's trouble--and it's not Angel. So in the end, all this is really about whitewashing him after the fact. Within the story itself, it really doesn't matter what his motivation was, no one knew it. It bothers me as a Buffy fan to see her character inexplicably being chucked under the bus for the sake of the story and then Joss going to such lengths to slap a white hat on the bad guy.
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I'm really not sure how this Angel could be from the future or even a different future. After all, he's clueless about everything, as we see here, and also in the other preview panels from a month or so ago where things are being explained. Whistler tells him that he's seen the outcome of other futures, not Angel himself. I really think this is just going to a flashback to how it started and this picks up right after AtF at some point, perhaps. Otherwise it's a pretty big narrative fail, I think. Of course he does seem to have powers already...
Angel is twitchy about "chosen".
What I find interesting about that line isn't that he was chosen, but why he was chosen. To me it reads like an insult, that Angel is malleable. It fits along with the other preview pages where the voices are telling him Buffy did this great thing, but as we learn from the Twilight arc, the Universe really doesn't seem to think so. I take this to suggest Angel is being played by the PTB or someone posing as the PTB.
Certainly the preview reminded me of the un-joy of watching LOST where questions piled up faster than answers were granted.
I actually think this might be the point of the Lost shoutouts. There just isn't enough time to explain all the hanging threads and this might be Whedon's way of acknowledging it. Sort of like the Third Act joke in Chosen.
We've seen pretty much 1/3rd of the issue so far and it looks like it will be all exposition. There has to be at least 2-3 more pages of Angel stuff and then the Spike stuff. Whatever isn't answered in this issue regarding all Twilight setup probably isn't going to get an answer, IMO.
What's sort of irksome is that the summary for this or the next issue says Spike knows the source of all Buffy's trouble--and it's not Angel. So in the end, all this is really about whitewashing him after the fact. Within the story itself, it really doesn't matter what his motivation was, no one knew it. It bothers me as a Buffy fan to see her character inexplicably being chucked under the bus for the sake of the story and then Joss going to such lengths to slap a white hat on the bad guy.