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Well, that was interesting.
It seemed to me that we got theMary Sue Platonic Ideal of Cordelia Chase, and everybody got to experience her exactly how they would have wished to remember her. The Powers that Be gave her a gift.
In the meta-sense, it's exactly as the fan would want to have remembered the character - the PtB at Mutant Enemy giving the fan a gift.
But, of course, it wasn't real. The real Cordelia Chase never left her bed, never awoke from her coma, never talked to the MoG, and died quietly offscreen.
Take her out of every scene, and nothing in the episode changes. Cordelia only voices ideas they're each thinking, but would need to hear from another source. Things we'd want them to acknowledge, but have told to them, rather than hear them say it themselves. But again, it's not Cordelia. It's a fantasy.
But I'm left asking once again - how much, if any of this, is real? Were the "Powers that Be" that benevolent force that Angel, Doyle, Cordy and Wes wanted to believe they were back in S1 - or are they something far murkier - as Jasmine led us to question?
It would have been interesting to see Cordy confront what her life was, rather than everyone else's life. But this episode was never really about Cordy's story. It was all about Angel & the MoG holding on to the fantasy that they can be confident in doing the PtB's mission while running W&H. And getting to remember Cordy exactly the way they (and we) would want to remember her. Except that the PtB is bogus, and W&H isn't really under their control. And that's not really what Cordelia's life was like for the past few years.
And you can't be saved by a lie.
So is "Cordelia" setting Angel on his path, or is this a new manipulation down the primrose path?
It seemed to me that we got the
In the meta-sense, it's exactly as the fan would want to have remembered the character - the PtB at Mutant Enemy giving the fan a gift.
But, of course, it wasn't real. The real Cordelia Chase never left her bed, never awoke from her coma, never talked to the MoG, and died quietly offscreen.
Take her out of every scene, and nothing in the episode changes. Cordelia only voices ideas they're each thinking, but would need to hear from another source. Things we'd want them to acknowledge, but have told to them, rather than hear them say it themselves. But again, it's not Cordelia. It's a fantasy.
But I'm left asking once again - how much, if any of this, is real? Were the "Powers that Be" that benevolent force that Angel, Doyle, Cordy and Wes wanted to believe they were back in S1 - or are they something far murkier - as Jasmine led us to question?
It would have been interesting to see Cordy confront what her life was, rather than everyone else's life. But this episode was never really about Cordy's story. It was all about Angel & the MoG holding on to the fantasy that they can be confident in doing the PtB's mission while running W&H. And getting to remember Cordy exactly the way they (and we) would want to remember her. Except that the PtB is bogus, and W&H isn't really under their control. And that's not really what Cordelia's life was like for the past few years.
And you can't be saved by a lie.
So is "Cordelia" setting Angel on his path, or is this a new manipulation down the primrose path?