How will "Angel" end?

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Okay, assuming it doesn’t get picked up by some other network, this is the final season of Angel. The articles I read mentioned that the WB wanted to give the show enough time to slap together a series finale. So what should occur?

I’d say that one absolutely necessary plot development would be for Angel & the Fang Gang to have a face-to-face encounter with the “Gods”-honest, actual Senior Partners of W&H. Not some little girl or black panther in that white room. And wouldn’t it be just the most ironic twist if one of the Senior Partners turned out to be Angelus? I’m not sure how they could justify that plotwise, but it would serve as a nice little bit of metaphor - Angel has been fighting against his dark side for the course of the series.

I would guess that it came down to a moment with Angel & Spike fighting side by side against the Senior Partners in the head office. Wes of course is conducting some sort of spell to keep a gateway open to the Senior Partners’ home office, but that portal is rapidly shrinking. There is only time for one of the vamps to get out alive. Angel tosses Spike through the portal, and continues fighting the Angelus & the SP’s until the bitter end.

Spike, as a reward for helping utterly defeat the Senior Partners, becomes the subject of the Shansu prophecy - he is reverted back to human form. Buffy shows up for a surprise cameo appearance…only to reject Spike; in the past year she’s fallen in love (& married) Xander! “Oh bollocks!” Spike cries. Thus, he lets Harmony to RE-vamp him. Harm & “Blondie Bear” take off to kill Vampire Slayers, and cause general mayhem.

Meanwhile, as his reward for killing the Senior Partners, is reunited in the afterlife with Cordelia. “You’re dead” she reminds him, “You killed your evil self,” and so are no longer subject to any gypsy curse. Thus, Cordelia shows him a moment of true happiness…the first of many. :slight_smile:

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Everybody’s dead after a major battle except Spike and Angel. W&H is in pieces at their feet, the SP are destroyed, but evil still looms around every corner. Angel picks up a sword, Spike wipes the dust off his jacket and shrugs, and they wordlessly agree to keep up the good fight, despite their heavy losses.

Roll credits.

Note: I love all the characters and I hate to think of any of them being dead, but…I like the idea anyway…

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I would never show the senior partners, once the monsters are out of the box, they’re not scary anymore. Remember rubber suit monster in S4? It was a cool monster, but still a guy in a rubber suit.
Also, killing the senior partners would not work. There has to be a devil or God’s ineffible plan doesn’t work, because freedom of choice is blown out of the water.

Angel has always been alone, even as Angelus. He’s formed friendships and loved in both his personas, but he’s always been alone. So the end shot should be him leaving, alone, with that long black coat flapping in slow motion, down some dark alley. This because Spike got the shan-shu. So Angel starts over again. Alone.

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Well, considering that God’s ineffable plan, as far as the Buffyverse is concerned, is whatever Joss says it is, I’m not impressed with that argument. And which God are we talking about? And how many dimensions do the SP cover anyway? Are they just evil in our dimension? Are they evil in every dimension? There’s been no real proof either way that there is a Christian God in the Buffyverse, and there’s no real proof anyway that the SP is the devil. If Angel destroys W&H or the SP…there will probably be something to step up and take its place…

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I agree that the senior partners shouldn’t be seen.

It turns out that the SP and the PTB are actually one and the same, well sort of. See, there has to be balance in the universe, so the PTB and the SP aren’t really at war with each other as in trying to destroy each other, because if either side finally wins, the universe would be destroyed only to be replaced by something even more wildly inexplicable.

The Shanshu prophecy turns out to be a hoax, something planted by an agent of the PTB as a fishhook in Angel’s nostril, to keep him fighting on “their” side, because even though both sides know that they can’t ultimately prevail, they still want the balance tipped as much in their own favor as possible. Both VWASs are royally pissed, but Angel more than Spike because if Spike doesn’t become human, he’s still not precluded from having the occasional moment of happiness. Yes, the SP’s have known all along it was a hoax, but they still wanted Angel on their side because of that balance tipping thing, so they let Angel believe that the reason they wanted him working for them was to manipulate the Shanshu into fighting on the side of evil (remember, in the prophecy, it isn’t known what side the Shanshu will be fighting on.)

The W&H building isn’t sitting on a Hellmouth, but, um, you know that White Room thingy? Portal to major cosmic unpleasantness that you really don’t want unleashed on this dimension. Not on the scale of a Hellmouth, but nasty nonetheless. Angel and Co. find out that the SP’s are planning to open the door on the other side of the White Room and let the unpleasantness into “our” dimension. They decide to blow up the building to keep it from happening. Gwen shows up and helps short out the electrical systems in the building so the surveillance cams can’t detect what the MoG are doing.

After the dust settles, Angel and Nina progress beyond having breakfast together and are now going to have lunch as well, and maybe coffee later in the afternoon, Wes and Fred decide to get married, Gunn and Gwen get a 'ship of their own sailing, and everybody moves back into the Hyperion to get AI started up again. Well, everyone except for Spike, who decides to move to Cleveland. He heard there’s a Hellmouth in Cleveland, and figures he’s the one most qualified to keep an eye on it and fight any evil that it attracts or spits out.

Then there’s a movie.

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However, I can’t think of a single tv show or movie set in Cleveland. Is it a location that’d be attractive?

PLG, God was a shorthand way of saying ‘the good side’. I do think there is an ineffible plan, in the sense that TSP adn TPB play a game, trying to tip the scales. They’re clearly bored waiting for the plan to play out by itself - in fact, they were bored from day 1.
I can’t help but superimpose the kind of universe described in Terry Pratchett’s ‘Good Omens’. It fits with Joss’ sense of humor.

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The Drew Carey Show

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OK- here’s my take- in last season’s AtS finale, Angel & Co shifted into a slightly alternate dimension, which 95%+ overlaps the prior one, but with the exceptions that the Jasmine stuff & Connor never happened, SO…

Angel finds out Connor, in another overlapping dimension, is targeted by some evil forces as he has a heroic destiny in his dimension, Angel & Co must save him but needs to be able to jump into the dimension. First of course, Angel has to convince the rest of Connor’s significance and then he has to find the way to jump dimensions- and so a call to Sunnydale is made, Angel & Co asks for a “Key”…

Specials guests- Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head, Michelle Trachtenberg & Tom Lenk, with sundy Slayerettes… and SMG can tag along if she wishes.

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It will end. Isn’t that all that matters?

That’s one wish come true, If anyone needs me I’ll be right here, on the edge of my seat, waiting for Family Guy and Ren & Stimpy to return… And I thought that gypsy was full of BS… :smiley:

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I’ve missed a few episodes from this season (I thought somebody had promised to tape them. They claim they said no such thing. My tv has no video out jack. I have no cable so I can’t just hook the vcr to that. And my computers are to old for me to download the episodes)

Anyway

So far, you’ve all left out my favorite denizen of the Buffyverse, Dru. I want a happy ending for Dru.

She feels a compulsion to go to the South Pole. There, she feeds off the occasional penguin and spends the 6-moth-long nights chatting with the Southern Lights and snowmen she’s made in the images of Angel, Spike, Jesus etc.

Or Dru joins the Jim Rose travelling sideshow. She continues to be insane and feed on blood, but is no more bizzare than any of the other members.

Or- Dru’s vision begin to include a grotesque clown who informs her that the world will end. At the urging of the clown, she burns down a bunch of buildings, and kills several slayers. Buffy and the gang try to hunt her down, accidentally killing Spike in the process. Then Dru allows herself to be killed by a falling jet engine, restoring the timeline and saving the world.

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How will it end? “Grrrr. Argh”