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Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
At the point he did so, I think Buffy was definitely more important. Given everything that happened after that, with Darla's rebirth, the attempts to save her, Angel's dark period and ephiphny, and Connor's birth, I think that might not hold.
My 2 cents: Angel would say Buffy was more important to him, but he wouldn't be a reliable narrator when he did so. I think Darla was a more important force in his life.
(By the way, I think this has been fun, and I have more "who is more important" questions I would like to see discussed, so I'm going to ask a few more of them from time to time, unless someone asks me not to.)
(nicely)
(and then gives me a cookie.)
(withholds cookie)
Ask away. If the question is a good one, then you get the cookie.
I think Perkins' take on it is mine. Angel's love for Buffy may have burned a little brighter in that first year, while they were a couple, but I don't think it was sustainable. And by the time he really got into the mission instead of skulking around and helping occasionally, they weren't really a couple anymore. I see his heroic actions from that point on as more guilt/making amends-motivated than inspired by Buffy.
Buffy.
Angel killed Darla for her.
Remember how very near a thing that was at the time, despite Angel being nominally committed to fighting evil at that point.
Darla. Her turning him set the course for his entire (un)life. Without Darla, he's Liam, an obscure 18th century Irish squire. Maybe he grows up/into his role in society, maybe not.
Without Darla, B/A never happens.
Who do you think was more important to Angel, Darla or Buffy?
I'm having a preposition issue. TO Angel or FOR Angel? Because I think that the answer is different.
I was wondering if someone would, Vortex. I think you can make it one or both, as you see fit.
If it's who was more important TO Angel, I'd say Buffy, hands down. If for no other reason that he staked Darla to save her. When Buffy needed him, he was there.
When you say FOR Angel, that's a tossup. On the one hand, Buffy made him want to be a better man. OTOH, we wouldn't be where we are if it wasn't for Darla.
Darla.
After he left Darla, he spent a hundred years eating rats in gutters. After he left Buffy, he sulked for a year or two and then started looking for a new sweetie.
Only 'cause he had a TV show.