Jag är tveksam;
Angel fick, med tanke på förutsättningarna, den absolut bästa avslutning jag kan tänka mig. Väldigt bra artikel som jag på det stora hela håller helt och hållet med
här. Hela är mycket värd att läsa, men kort utdrag:
And the fans, well...
...for some reason, many of them wanted to know what happened next. For some reason, many still do. They say they need to know.
Which is to say they're missing the point.
(...)
(T)here might be more stories to tell in the Angel universe, and maybe Joss Whedon really does have more to say with and about those characters, but the narrative of Angel is done. Angel himself might have done more, but the story entitled Angel ends in an alley. The events afterward weren't really supposed to exist, not even in fictional representation; they were supposed to be implied, and that's all. They exist in the viewers' minds for a purpose, and that purpose is only to heighten the drama of the final moments of 'Not Fade Away'.
No one needs to know what happened in the alley. To make that claim is to (understandably) dismiss what Joss Whedon calls the 'holy emotion' of confrontation with the unknowable. That's not an unfortunate side effect of cancellation; we're not fans of the institution that produced the story of Angel, we're temporary occupants of the fictional world. When the story's done, the reader is owed absolutely nothing, and the contract between reader and author is opt-in.
(...)
Art is a surprise.