With Buffy gone Angel is now completely cut off from society, every day getting closer and closer to giving in to his vampiric hunger. Angel is now living in the big city of Los Angeles. Cordelia Chase, also from the original Sunnydale crew, joined Angel and Doyle.Īt the end of the third season of Buffy, the 242-year-old, re-ensouled vampire Angel left Sunnydale to give teenage Slayer Buffy Summers the chance to live a normal life. If they had called, I would have probably accepted because it was a great experience and I think Joss is very original and talented." Instead, the producers created a Whistler-like character, Doyle. In an interview, Perlich said, "I never got called again. This is way too dark.' We were able to break a new idea, we had to turn it over in three days." Instead the tone was lightened, and the opening episodes established Angel Investigations as an idealistic shoestring operation.Ī first draft script reveals that Angel was originally intended to include the character Whistler, played by Max Perlich, who had already featured in the two-part Buffy season two finale. Writer David Fury explains, "The network was shocked. The episode that was originally written to be the second episode, " Corrupt" was abandoned altogether.
For example, scenes were cut from the pilot episode, "City of," in which Angel tasted the blood of a murder victim. Įarly during the life of the series, some effort was made to slightly soften the original concept.
Some shots from this short were later used in the opening credits. Whedon and Greenwalt prepared a six-minute promotional video pitch, often called the "Unaired Angel pilot" for the WB Network. It's those two things that creatively make the shows different." Buffy is always the underdog trying to save the world, but Angel is looking for redemption. We also wanted to take the show a little older and have the characters deal with demons in a much different way. It is set in Los Angeles because there are a lot of demons in L.A. While the central concept behind Buffy was "High school as a horror movie" in small-town America, co-creators David Greenwalt and Whedon were looking to make Angel into a different "gritty, urban show." Whedon explains "we wanted a much darker show, darker in tone.
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Whedon believed that "Angel was the one character who was bigger than life in the same way that Buffy was, a kind of superhero." Whedon has compared the series to its parent, "It's a little bit more straightforward action show and a little bit more of a guys' show." In Buffy's season three finale, he leaves Sunnydale for L.A. Angel eventually set out on a path of redemption, hoping that he could make up for his past through good deeds. After being turned into a soulless, immortal vampire, he became legendary for his evil acts, until a band of wronged Gypsies punished him by restoring his soul, overwhelming him with guilt.
Several years before Angel debuted, Joss Whedon developed the concept behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer to invert the Hollywood formula of "the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie." The character Angel was first seen in the first episode of Buffy and became a regular, appearing in the opening credits during seasons two and three. Series co-creator David Greenwalt points out "there's no denying that Angel grew out of Buffy". 5.1 Crossovers with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.So, keeping friends close and foes closer, Max and a fleet of her fellow fugitives make peace with their former tormentor and march into a battle that could lay waste to Lydecker's life's work - including one of his beloved "kids. Betrayed by Madame X, "Deck" is now a wanted man willing to join Max's crusade against his murderous boss. After falling into the hands of her creepy creator, it fast becomes clear that Lydecker needs her help more than she needs his.
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