That's why Cordelia is there in AtS-1 - because without people pulling him, he's sooner or later going to get so depressed by a failure that he's going to crawl in a dark hole for a few decades rather than try and fail again.
Exactly. That's why I like AtS S3, despite all the suckiness that season. Connor was a really big force pulling him, and again, despite the utter crap of most of those baby!Connor episodes, Angel's the happiest then we've ever seen him.
I like how you note that a lot of his groth points revolve around him deciding to make the effort anyway.
He does make those decisions realizing his efforts might be in vain, but I'm just not sure he ever believes that. He leaves Buffy, the one thing he wants--but the snow seems to suggest he has Purpose. He gives up his humanity--but he still thinks he can save Buffy. He realizes in "Epiphany" there's no big Win--but he still thinks killing himself and his whole crew in NFA will accomplish something? I don't know.
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Exactly. That's why I like AtS S3, despite all the suckiness that season. Connor was a really big force pulling him, and again, despite the utter crap of most of those baby!Connor episodes, Angel's the happiest then we've ever seen him.
I like how you note that a lot of his groth points revolve around him deciding to make the effort anyway.
He does make those decisions realizing his efforts might be in vain, but I'm just not sure he ever believes that. He leaves Buffy, the one thing he wants--but the snow seems to suggest he has Purpose. He gives up his humanity--but he still thinks he can save Buffy. He realizes in "Epiphany" there's no big Win--but he still thinks killing himself and his whole crew in NFA will accomplish something? I don't know.