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@Grace you we’re right. What a joke.
Well, I wasn't really. I definitely began to believe something was coming. I'm the one who went back and read the whole season over, looking for clues! I even took notes! ::cry laugh emoji::
I am so incredibly disappointed. The mirror meant nothing. So it was a mistake then? If a mistake why didn’t they at least address the mistake in Slay the Critics?
I am kind of wondering if it was intentional, in the same way that Fred's shadow at the end looked like Old One Illyria. Fred is Illyria is Old One Illyria. Angel is Angelus is Liam. I don't know.
@Grace you we’re right about the ring. If what about their past selves? Did they go travel in time after all?? What about all of the “we changed time” no consequences? Are they saving it for next Season, because I really don’t want anymore of this.
So, unless we get evidence to the contrary, my head canon is going to be that killing the flower restored the timeline to its factory default settings. So Angel, Illyria and Fred remember their journey but all of the consequences were wiped out, so their past selves don't remember meeting their future selves. That's the only way I can make sense of it right now. I think the only thing that would contradict it is if Arev turns up in the future, and then my brain might explode. So we'll see.
- why did Illyria say “you aren’t a God, at least not anymore” huh? When was he a god?
That's a Twilight reference. But I think Twilight was actually a sentient reality, right? I don't expect Illyria to get that right, though. She doesn't even remember that she's a genderless god-king and not a goddess.
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- Angel asks “is it my fault” and Illyria says somewhat and says something about being in a time and place. But umm no it’s clearly not heir faults if at least on accident they brought back stuff with them that made the flower monsters grow. But we never get an answer to why the flower monsters were there to begin with do we? Or did I miss that? I mean the reason they left was because Angel got a vision that he needed to change something in his past... and then we just don’t resolve that?
It is *super* unclear, and I welcome other thoughts on this, please! But my initial take is that Angel going back to Ireland, where he also lived as Liam and Angelus, somehow cracked reality/time, as Fred said in #11, and that allowed the flower monster to creep in. I'm not sure if they could have killed the flower when it was a bud (as Fred originally suggested, I think?), or how they could have otherwise healed the crack in time. Illyria was the one who made the decision to travel back in time, but that seems to have been motivated by her own guilt over the volcano eruption more than anything. And I guess the swashbuckling arc was actually about healing the problems they created by stopping the volcano erupting in Illyria's kingdom and letting off the pressure with a different eruption? But it was all ultimately a mistake, since meeting up with Angelus especially made things worse? I have no idea what the bugs were all about.
It does seem like they needed to visit Angel's past as Liam and get Kathy's ring to ultimately destroy the flower monster. As in, Angel had to make peace with the other parts of himself to like unify himself and ultimately heal the crack? Maybe?
- So at the end of the panel is Fred admitting she has feelings for Angel? With the “It’s complicated” statement?
I definitely took it as a thrupley ending, yes. That Fred could have but didn't stop things with Angel and Illyria because she wasn't really opposed to it.
