ATS 510 - Soul Purpose

We open on Angel's perspective from Destiny, which was the episode before last, because Harmony was the last episode.

Yeah.

So yeah, it was last episode that we talked about it because Harm's way is super camp.

And I thought it was interesting that it feeds that whole unreliable narrator idea with the way Angel recalled that scene.

because he's down on the ground.

In the scene that we saw, he gets up and blah, blah, blah, and he has different words, and Spike has different words, but in this one, Angel's fully victimized, where he's like, Spike, please no, and Spike's like, fuck you, I don't give a shit, and takes a drink, which is ultimately what happened, but the way it's shifted makes it so much more meaner on Spike and so much more helpless on Angel,

Yeah.

So let me ask you something.

Do you think that this is an unreliable narrator or do you think this is already like the demon twisting it up in his head?

So that part, that's where I am a little confused on when the demon was on him because it clearly wasn't.

I don't think it was on him when he was in the office, but he was clearly super tired.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I can't tell when it started because it was also on his shirt when they revealed him.

So it crawled on.

Because there was a ton of shots of him just with his shirt open and him being in the bed and it wasn't revealing it.

Like when he was rolling around in bed.

Sure.

And so I felt like he was super tired.

Maybe they gave him something to make him tired.

But...

It was just something about that scene with him and Spike where I was just like, oh, even if it was part of the demon thing, it kind of fed into that whole this is kind of how he sees himself.

Because a lot of the dream sequences that he has are obviously enhanced by the thing and they're supposed to be bad dreams and supposed to kind of keep him trapped in this hell.

But they are his deepest fears.

Yeah.