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It was early on in Buffy the Vampire Slayer that the character Angel ( David Boreanaz ), the enigmatic love interest to Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), was actually a vampire who was cursed with immortality and seeking redemption. Although Angel became an ally to Buffy over the course of the first three seasons, it quickly became clear that the “will they or won’t they” dynamic was holding both characters back. It was at the same time that Buffy and her friends went off to college in Season 4 that the first season of Angel relocated to Los Angeles , where Angel starts his own detective agency helping fend off supernatural threats. Angel may have begun as a slightly darker, neo-noir version of the “monster of the week” series that Buffy the Vampire Slayer had originated as, but it steadily became a more ambiguous and demanding show about the complications of morality. Buffy the Vampire Slayer struggled to reach the same degree of excellence that it had attained in its first three seasons, but Angel got more compelling and interesting as it went along.
Adding to this, Angel benefits from containing a more complicated set of protagonists who had matured since their time on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ) began her time on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a vain, self-absorbed teenager with a grudge against Buffy, but Angel turns her into a deeply empathetic, intelligent ally to Angel whose strength is seeing the good in people. Similarly, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce ( Alexis Denisof ) was introduced in the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an immature, inexperienced member of the Watchers, and Angel shows his growth into a leader who sees the importance of sacrificing personal pleasures for the sake of retaining balance. The biggest shift in Angel came in the characterization of the titular hero , as Angel himself grows beyond the somewhat humorless, detached anti-hero he was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Although Angel begins the series with the express goal of doing good, he steadily realizes that no amount of lives saved will make up for the lifetime of atrocities he committed as the soulless vampire “Angelus.”
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Angel is a step up from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in terms of filmmaking artistry because the flashback scenes add greater depth and offer a complete timeline of the different lives Angel has lived. Showing how his past comes to haunt him is critical in making the redemption arc compelling, especially since Angel has to constantly wrestle with his own dark side. The most profound idea in the entire series is established in Season 2, in which Angel realizes that evil can never be truly vanquished, and that there might not be a way to prevent hell on Earth . It’s a radical maturation from the “good versus evil” mentality in most genre stories, but it's not entirely cynical; the fact that Angel and his allies realize that their fight is never-ending makes the sacrifices they make more resonant.
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