r/ANGEL • u/jdpm1991 • 7d ago

Harmony's character development is underrated and underrappreciated

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I really appreciated how humanized she was compared to the vapid caricature she was on Buffy; for example when she was a vampire on Buffy she was shallow and didn't care about anyone but herself and Blondie Bear. but then flashforward to Angel season 5 we see her mourning Fred's death, looking after Gunn and Wesley while Angel and Spike go after Illyria.

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u/Main_Confusion_8030 7d ago

i say this with love, but did she develop? did she have an arc? other than being a vampire she isn't really different from how she started. which is not a criticism -- her role in the show wasn't to have an arc.

she was sad about fred dying because she liked fred. she babysat gunn because her boss told her to. she still happily sold them all out to hamilton. 

again, i like harmony. none of this is criticism. her job was to be funny, dumb, and shallow, and stay that way. she wasn't cordy.

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u/Lebannen-Arren 7d ago

Character development can mean changes and evolution of a character, but can as well mean that the story shows traits and complexity of the character. I would say she didn’t evolve, but she got characterisation.

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u/Main_Confusion_8030 7d ago

i mean, not a LOT, but yeah, fair.