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Redemption
is one of the main themes on both series. Several of the main characters
have fallen from 'grace' and in some cases have risen once again
or have at least tried to.
Some
of the Fang Gang that have fallen and have either redeemed themselves
or are at least starting down the path
are:
Angel,
Wesley, Cordelia,
Gunn, Fred and Connor.
There
are also non-Fang Gang members in the Buffy/Angel universe that
are also 'fallen angels':
Faith, Lindsey,
Drusilla and Darla.
Attention:
Many sections have Season 4 spoilers!
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Angel:
Nothing in the world is the way it aught to be. It's harsh. And
cruel.
That's why there's
us. Champions. Doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done,
suffered, or even if we make a difference, we live as though the
world were as it should be. To show it what it can be.
"This
show is really about redemption and seeing a man come to grips
with his own fate and accepting that rather then masking it
and becoming,
you know, human again, having a chance because it was taken away
from him at such a yound age. He's been around for 250 some years
now, so and he's been living with this curse and it was forseable
when he was not this evil, demon person and because I think that
if he had a second chance then maybe he'd have been different.
So I think he's actually looking for some salvation, some worth,
some
cause to try to give back what he's taken."
David Boreanaz in an interview on HyperSpace, December 2003
“It's
a big arc for us,” says David Boreanaz about Faith (Eliza
Dushku), showing up for several episode of AtS. “It's been
great. The two characters (Angel and Faith) really get along
well together. They owe each other a lot. Because of that there's
a lot of understanding. That's why, when she hears Angelus is
out, she automatically breaks out of prison. She doesn’t
even think it, she's out. Because of what he's done for her.
And they share that common bond. So it's going to be interesting
to see how Angelus relates to Faith, because he's never met her
before and this is going to be fun for him. So we're in the Faith
arc right now, which is going to lead us to another arc with
Gina Torres [formerly of Whedon’s FIREFLY] coming in. So
that's going to be even bigger.”
Ultimately,
Boreanaz’s main hope for the show is for the characters to
continue to grow and change.
“That's
the area we want to focus on,” he says. “We got so
thick into so much exposition, and such heavy angles for each character
that when you look at what works for our show it’s that you
see that each character has so many dimensions. And that's what
really makes Angel work.” (Source) |