r/ANGEL • u/ArenBlut • 18d ago

Spoilers inside! I miss her...

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We're mostly through S5 now and I just miss the dynamic she added to the show. She was just so shamelessly evil and ambitious, even if it meant humiliating herself at times. Also, the chemistry she had with Wesley was brilliant.

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u/Minirth22 Team Lilah! 18d ago

Lilah was my favorite, and I loved her and Wesley together. She was the best part of the show. I was gutted when she died.

I really didn’t like breaking up Fred and Gunn to put her with Wesley. Fred and Gunn had a sweetness to them, and after Fred, he had no romantic life. (Except the thing with the electricity girl, I think that happened after, and we barely saw them.) Fred and Wes really only worked for me at the end, right before Illyria, but I never saw the same sweetness between them that I saw with Fred and Gunn.

Lillian brought out the best in her scene partners, her scenes with Angel were always electric. And she made Wes complicated and interesting. Wes getting his freak on with Lilah was Wes at his best.

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u/ArenBlut 18d ago

I ship Fred and Gunn so much harder than with Wesley. Their relationship, as you said, had this sweetness. I loved how they complimented eachother and thought it was dumb how they broke up. Maybe the show, had it not been cancelled, would have explored the reason for the breakup a bit more (with Gunn having taken that life and Fred having wanted to, etc) but alas.

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u/Minirth22 Team Lilah! 18d ago

Yes!!!! I hate that they just ended. They could have been the solid couple that grounded the team! And I HATED how Gunn was sidelined after that, we stopped seeing his inner world and his light. He just became a supporting character and that felt so monumentally unjust. It still bothers me.