So, there's this picture in the fight scene where Angel flicks both hands and two wooden stakes appear, ready for stabbing action. With my being a fan of this particular game series (mentioned in but a moment), of course the first thing that I think of is ...
Ezio has two hidden daggers harbored in wrist sheathes (aka Angel's wooden stakes) that are used for assassinations; he functions as a vigilante, freeing Rome from the Borgia, the bad guys (aka Angel's vampires); Ezio willingly gives up a woman he loves, Cristina (who could be compared to both Buffy and Tina) and his pushing her away (as Angel does Tina in the very first episode) and manipulating her life leads to her death (so here, Cristina = Tina).
Both Angel and Ezio have a home base from which they work, in Ezio's case it's a large house on an island within Roma, and within those strongholds they each maintain a collection of weaponry and such (Ezio's hideout has separate rooms for sets of weapons and sets of armor, as there is so much that he can choose from to use). I await information to further my comparison, as I know not if there is a particular "leader bad guy" in Angel that directly compares to the "leader bad guy," Chesare, in AC:B.
I cannot express how much silly satisfaction it brought me to see Angel sporting assassination-ready wooden spikes, as I am quite enamored of Ezio's character in the game. To truly appreciate the games, however, one must have played or heard a great deal about them - the game designers did their research to make the setting of Renaissance Italy as accurate as they could and incorporate in a fictional-esque storyline so seamlessly with history. But I digress ...
1 comment:
I thought the exact same thing when I saw his "hidden" blades pop out in the episode.
I didn't draw the comparison through the entire episode like you did, but I can see how that works.
All that was missing was a slow motion swan dive off of a tower.
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