Why did you move Angel's headquarters to a hotel for season two?
Well I can tell you a very simple reason why we moved from the location of the first year.
Our initial idea it was a little film noir / Raymond Chandler notion of "I’m in this kind of cool downtown LA, brown wood place."
But it was an oppressive set. It was physically hard to move around in that set and we said "We’ve got to blow this thing up."
So, the end of year one we blew the thing up to smithereens [and] we put them in a big, beautiful old hotel, because we wanted a new prettier set. Frankly, I was just tired to being in these horrible [sets], these short ceilings. There were pillars everywhere, it was just impossible.
it was a very beautiful set, it was really coolly designed, but just impossible to work in. He’ll stay in the hotel, he doesn’t really need to move on from the hotel, unless Wolfram and and Hart burn him out or something happens to him.
I like the idea of Angel in this hotel where there’s a hundred rooms, and he’s just in one of them, I like the feeling that he’s just a guy alone. I grew up living in funny old hotels because my father was in the funny old hotel business, so I have a special kind of feeling for what it’s like to be not quite a resident and not quite a guest.
That’s sort of what Angel is, he’s got one foot in the human world and one foot in the demon world. His goal like - I think - all of us, [is that] he just wants to be whole and some day he wants to be human.
