Unaired Angel pilot

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Known to fans as "Unaired Angel pilot", this six-minute production by Joss Whedon was never intended to air, but used in 1999 to show the WB Network the potential of Angel. See also List of Angel (series) episodes.

Plot synopsis

:''The pilot can be downloaded below

Summary

Angel stands on a skyscraper over night-time Los Angeles. He explains key moments in his history that eventually brought him to L.A.. Angel has not been in the city long. He promises to stir the waters and challenge powerful forces that have made great business out of people's despair.

Expanded overview

Angel stands on the top of a building block. He explains his remarkable history. He was born 244 years ago in Ireland. He describes his life as "Small town, good family". Twenty-seven years into an "unremarkable life" Angel met Darla, who turned him into a vampire. Angel admits that living as a vampire was a thrill, enjoying power, danger and fashion, but most of all "the kill". Angel goes on to explain the gypsy curse he was given. When he killed a gypsy, the Kalderash clan cursed him with a soul so that he might suffer with guilt for his crimes. He acknowledges that it was Buffy who finally showed him that his life was important one hundred years after the curse. Angel explains how he discovered that the curse meant he could not experience a moment of "perfect happiness" without losing his soul and becoming a monster.

Angel announces he recently moved to L.A. and formed Angel Investigations. Cordy emphasises that the business must charge to make rent. Doyle gave Angel the focus he needed, Doyle points out that "Sometimes it's not so easy. Not all demons have horns. Not every damsel wants to be rescued.". Angel seems ready for the challenge. The two speak of the powerful forces that have made great business out of people's despair. Doyle wants to know if Angel is really up to it, Doyle asks the vampire if he is ready for stirring up the waters? Angel replies, "I'm counting on it."

Writing and acting

Cast

• David Boreanaz - (Angel)
• Charisma Carpenter - (Cordelia Chase)
• Glenn Quinn - (Allan Francis Doyle)

Production details

• Much of the footage featuring Boreanaz, Carpenter and Quinn was reused in "City of", "Lonely Hearts", and in the opening titles.
• The presentation used archived clips from Buffy including flashbacks in this order: "Becoming I", "Amends", "Passion", "Becoming I", "Anne", "The Harvest", "Enemies", "Becoming II", "Surprise", "Graduation Day II".

Music

• VAST - "Here". This track would later be used again in the fourth season episode "Release".

Quotes

• Powerful forces

::ALLEN FRANCIS DOYLE: "There's powerful forces out here. Agents of pure evil. They've made great business out of people's despair."

Doyle is referring to powers like Wolfram and Hart.

• Stirring waters

::ANGEL: "They're not going to like me stirring up the waters."

::ALLEN FRANCIS DOYLE : "What, and you're afraid of that?"

::ANGEL : "I'm counting on that. "

Whilst having good intentions all along, Angel foreshadows his obsessive challenge against the system during Angel Season 2, that will almost cost him all his links to humanity.

Continuity

Canonical issues

The canonicical status of the presentation is unclear. The showing is shot by Whedon, and doesn't contradict anything established by canon. However Angel appears to be speaking to the camera, and possibly breaking the Fourth wall. Alternatively he could be telling his story to an unseen character.

Timing

• The continuity takes place after Angel has left Sunnydale, and has been living in L.A. shortly. It appears that it is after he has met Doyle, and also after Cordelia has joined Angel Investigations. More specifically it would be set after "Lonely Hearts", but before "In the Dark".
• Other stories taking place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

See also

Buffyverse oddities

In chronological order of Buffyverse continuity:

• History of the Slayer
• Unaired Buffy pilot
• Lydia Chalmer's "Thesis on William the Bloody"
• Christmas Buffy promo
• Corrupt (unaired Angel episode)
• Unaired Angel pilot
• Buffy Season 6 UPN promos: Scooby Gang talk about Buffy

External links

Angel - Unaired Pilot Streaming (Youtube)

• [Youtube.com - View by pressing the play button.]

Angel - Unaired Pilot Download (wmv file, 9.25MB)

• [Rapidshare.de - LQ version of 6-minute Angel unaired pilot. To download for free, scroll down, click on 'free' button, wait 30 seconds, then click on download link.]

Angel - Unaired Pilot Download (mpeg file, 60MB)

• [Rapidshare.de - MQ version of 6-minute Angel unaired pilot. To download for free, scroll down, click on 'free' button, wait 30 seconds, then click on download link.]

Screenshots (.zip 4MB)

• [Rapidshare.de - 88 low-resolution screenshots compressed into one 'zip file'. To download for free, scroll down, click on 'free' button, wait 30 seconds, then click on download link.]

Transcript

• [Cityofangel.com - Transcript of the pilot.]

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