Home

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What with this and that, I've been having a hard time lately remembering why I love Angel as a character, so I rewatched Home, and...



...ended up bawling like a baby, as always. I'm not keen on season 4 of AtS. It has some great set-pieces and some terrific character interaction (Wes/Lilah, the return of Faith etc etc), but overall I think the plot sucks and the ickiness of ConCord casts a pall over the whole season. But I've always thought Home was a terrific season finale that sets up the change of pace/outlook in season 5 really well. Plus, it heralds the very dark turn that Angel's story was to take and the reasons for it. And it contains the one scene in the whole of AtS that always makes me cry. This is the exchange between Angel and Connor in the sports store, right before they fight, when Connor says how even his own mother couldn't love him, and Angel protests that Darla died for Connor because she loved him so much, and all the time looks on the point of tears himself. Dammit, DB knocks it out of the park with this one.

I just don't see how anyone, watching this, couldn't think that Connor was the most important thing in the world to Angel. He gave up everything for him. He even gave up Connor himself for him, if you see what I mean. It's all about Connor.

:gets all weepy again:

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[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

"Home" makes me cry too, every. single. time. and that's saying something, considering I dislike Angel about 80% of the time.

I just don't see how anyone, watching this, couldn't think that Connor was the most important thing in the world to Angel.

I agree.

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"Home" makes me cry too, every. single. time. and that's saying something, considering I dislike Angel about 80% of the time.

It's a great episode and that scene is just...I tear up at the mention of Darla and again when Angel protests that he loves Connor - has always loved him - and Connor says, "Not enough to hang on to me," because ironically the reason why Angel let Holtz take the baby was because he loved him so much.

Wah!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Connor saying that is part of what makes that scene so damn heart-breaking. Up until then, he'd never given any real indication that he'd realized the wrong that Holtz had done by taking him. But in that moment, you knew that he knew and it was the one thing that made the Jasmine arc bearable in the end.

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But in that moment, you knew that he knew and it was the one thing that made the Jasmine arc bearable in the end.

Poor kid! He was a hard character to like, but I felt so sorry for him in that episode.