Comments on this trivia

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   Meghann on April 30th, 2007 at 6:47 pm

   Was that the Powers or the Oracles doing?

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   alwaysthebest on April 30th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

   I thought the Oracles were a line for Angel to communicate with the PTB, just as Skip is in Birthday.
   But maybe the Oracles turned back the time themselves, now I’m doubting it too. Sorry! :P

3. 

   Jess on April 30th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

   I’m not sure either. I thought the Oracles were the PTB’s mouthpiece too.

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   Meghann on April 30th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

   Oh, I agree that they speak for the Powers. However, I wasn’t sure whether or not the decision was based on them Powers. The female and male Oracles didn’t see eye to eye and it seemed to be a decision between the two of them if it should be done. So was it their disagreement or the Powers disagreement, but the words came out of their mouths? Do the Oracles have powers or are their sole purpose speaking for the PTB?

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   Mel on April 30th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

   I always thought that it was The Oracles that were responsible for turning back time.

   Male Oracle: “Why are you here, lower being?”

   Angel: “The Mohra demon said the end of days had begun. That others were coming, soldiers of darkness. I need to know if he was telling the truth.”

   Male Oracle: “As far as such things can be told.”

   Angel: “What happens to the Slayer when these soldiers come?”

   Female Oracle: “What happens to all mortal beings. Albeit sooner in her case.”

   Angel: “She’ll die? Then I’m here to beg for her life.”

   Oracle: “It is not our place to grant life or death.”

   Angel: “And I ask you to take mine back. Look I can’t protect her or anyone this way, not as a man.”

   Female Oracle: “You’re asking to be what you were, a demon with a soul, because of the Slayer?”

   Male Oracle: “Oh, this is a matter of love. It does not concern us.”

   Angel: “Yes, it does. The Mohra demon came to take a warrior from your cause and it succeeded. I’m no good to you like this. I know you have it in your power to make this right. Please.”

   Male Oracle: “What is done can not be undone.”

   Female Oracle: “What is not yet done can be avoided.”

   Male Oracle: “Temporal folds are not to indulge at the whims of lower beings.”

   Female Oracle: “You are wrong. This one is willing to sacrifice every drop of human happiness and love he has ever known for another. He is not a lower being.”

   Male Oracle: “There is one way. But it is not to be undertaken lightly.”

   Female Oracle: “We swallow this day, as though it had never happened. Twenty-four hours from the moment the demon first attacked you, we take it back.”

   Angel: “Then none of this happened and Buffy and I.. What, what’ll stop us from doing the exact same thing again?”

   Female Oracle: “You. You alone will carry the memory of this day. Can you carry that burden?”

   From this piece of dialogue, I would take it that it was the Oracle’s decision to swallow the day as Angel proved that he was a hero who was willing to deny himself Buffy for the greater good.

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