I suppose that's true. I'm just more attached to the Angel characters in general these days (something that came as a surprise to me because I really, really didn't like Angel when he was in Buffy and I haven't seen a huge amount of the show really, chunks of the last and first seasons mostly) so I looked at it entirely from Angel's POV. He was just so defeatist in the last season at times, like he'd really given up hope of redemption, and then bang he gets it.