Angel: 5x11 Full Reaction
Added 2025-11-03 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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I remember when the "Next Time on Angel" trailer aired after the previous episode on TV. Everyone was super excited about "the psycho slayer!" and then it turns out to be this character-driven psychological horror about child abuse and the nature of evil, and madness. Awesome. Occasionally this show goes dark, and it hits hard. We all had the same horrified look seeing Spike on the floor without hands. This was episode 99. Episode 100 next.
spikeysnack
2025-11-05 09:33:13 +0000 UTCOh, you think you have your bearings do you ok ok
Sam Alexander
2025-11-04 20:01:48 +0000 UTCI love that they brought the whole potential-made-slayer event over to Angel. Still, an actual possession could have been fun. Angel: Dana, I need to talk to you Dana: THERE IS NO DANA! ONLY ZUUL!
Steve Quast
2025-11-04 18:08:12 +0000 UTCAre you planning to read the comics for Buffy and Angel after you finish Angel? 💖
MaggieStormborn
2025-11-04 15:45:57 +0000 UTCI was very excited for this reaction, I knew Andrew would be a fun surprise ❤️
MaggieStormborn
2025-11-04 15:44:29 +0000 UTCSomething tells me Xander wouldn't want to get a new eye from Wolfram and Hart, especially once he learns about what happened with Lindsay's new hand, and that other guy that stabbed his "new eye" with a kitchen knife (S2 episode "Dead End"). That's also why Fred was strongly against using cadavers for Spike's hands, and good thing they picked up his actaul hands to re-attach them, cause otherwise.....😱
Ariel17
2025-11-04 02:05:26 +0000 UTCOh, and I am predicting that Cass will have Very Strong Thoughts about "You're Welcome".
JBK405
2025-11-04 00:29:21 +0000 UTCThis episode is full of callbacks to previous episodes and Spike's history. His line "Sorry love, I don't speak Chinese" when Dana spoke to him is the SAME thing he said when he killed the Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion. Plus the more obvious ones like remembering Nikki and Robin. Andrew's recap was actually very helpful to me when I first saw this episode, because I HADN'T seen the finale to "Buffy" so I didn't know that there were now many more Slayers. I do love everything about how Spike never did anything to Dana specifically, but he realizes that he's done the equivalent over and over again to other people. We've seen the fallout of Angelus a lot throughout the franchise -- Spike himself and Drusilla and the legendary stories -- but not much of his fallout. It's a very interesting way of confronting him with the results of his actions.
JBK405
2025-11-04 00:28:19 +0000 UTC"82% more manly." Yeah, sure you are, Andrew. Before the final twist with him bringing in the Slayers, did anyone else have the image of Giles dispatching Andrew ("he sent in his top guy") just to get him out of his hair? The final scene with Our Boys ruminating on their pasts is probably bigger for Spike than Angel. After all, ruminating on his past deeds is what Angel has done constantly since regaining his soul. Spike, as he has said and shown since we met him, is a creature of impulse, not thought.
DanielOrme
2025-11-04 00:12:15 +0000 UTCSeen that too!
Rey R
2025-11-03 22:18:58 +0000 UTCOne of my fav convos and scenes in the whole series
Rey R
2025-11-03 22:18:32 +0000 UTCI really like the monster vs innocent victim “so were we once” conversation about how Angel and Spike were innocent victims, and turned that suffering around onto others, before they turned that pain into a desire to be better and help people is great. The Buffyverse has long explored how hurt people can turn around and be monsters but I feel that this is the some great character dialogue about it and it absolutely relies on Spike and Angel’s stories of villainy and redemption that started being shown to the audience in BuffyS1E7 over seven years earlier.
James Smith
2025-11-03 20:01:12 +0000 UTCLots to say but that cop from around the 9 minute mark in the convenience store - Mr Johnson from Abbott Elementary????
Jon D Arthur
2025-11-03 19:55:30 +0000 UTC
