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.