Everytime I've thought about bringing this up my dumbass forgot to actually do it for the past like, serveal months
But considering it's been been serveal months, and yet I still haven't seen a single other person mention this, I guess I gotta finally break the ice and be the one to start this discussion.
Baxter and Sir Pentious' former partnership/friendship is so obviously meant to be a parallel to Alastor and Vox that I immediately caught it on my first viewing of this episode. I even said it out loud during my reaction.
While Pentious is meant to be more of a parallel to Alastor and Baxter is more similar to Vox. You still can't truly say it's one to one. There's parts where I get the inverse vibes from both. I doubt Vox would find Alastor's profession "boring" back then since he was so enthusiastic with his partnership offer about combining radio and video.
While he prefers more modern things, he was willing to be open to Alastor's outdated interests at the time. And in return, Alastor was somewhat willing to be open to Vox's more modern POVs. When Vox says he's much more forward thinking, Alastor responds with a relaxed, "I'm listening, pal."
Baxter comments that Pentious was obcessed with fighting turf wars with Cherri, and with his tone it seemed to imply Baxter did not approve of this.
Baxter became more successful and while it seemed to hurt, he was willing to let Pentious go. Pentious also seemed to be completely past Baxter in the present since he barely even brings him up. However he still harbors resentful feelings for Baxter basically just leaving him behind so he could advance his career.
Meanwhile, Alastor doesn't really seem to give a shit about how Vox became more successful without him. But Alastor does still care about Vox enough to not kill him even after 70 years. And... do I even need to talk about how Vox views Alastor?
Another parallel Baxter has with Vox is finding someone new to hang out with that matches his crazy side more then his previous best friend. Baxter found Niffty, Vox found Valentino and later Velvette.
Pentious was seemingly completely alone trying to improve his scary and feared reputation all the way until the Hotel took him in. The difference is Pentious was open and willing to try to start over with one simple act of true kindness from Charlie.
Alastor is still essentially alone as he keeps pushing away any and all of others attempts fo befriend him. It's really only Niffty who he is truly comfortable with, while Charlie seems to be growing on him, her caring way more about Pentious, someone Alastor considers a nobody, when she thought he was gone compared to him, the radio demon, has clearly hurt him enough where his behavior and attitude towards her and the rest of the Hotel has become much more cold and distant.
However, there are still way more than enough parrells for this to obviously be intentional Baxter is younger and interested in newer technology, Pentious prefers older technology and doesn't want to change what he likes to work with.
Baxter also heavily pushed Pentious boundaries and advanced his techniques to the point where Pentious began to find his methods "Too violent and cruel." That part is interesting to me because unlike Baxter and Pentious, we don't have the entire Radiostatic story. We just saw the ending from Vox's POV.
Another point is Alastor speficially refers to Angel as a "Tragic viticim of circumstance," in the season 1 recap song. That means he doesn't blame Angel at all for the situation he's in and shows some level of pity. Sort of a "damn dude that fucking sucks." thing imo. Alastor won't do anything about it, nor will he lend a open ear, but somehow it's Alastor of all fucking people is the person who viticim blames Angel the least compared to basically the rest of the cast and most of the critics and even the fucking fans lmao.
It's this scene for why I hold on to the idea the fact that Alastor thinks Vox goes too far with his cruel and violent methods, too far even for him.
Since people are still debating Alastor calling Vox a "creep." I'll put my two sense on here. Vox and Alastor are both creeps and while it is a obvious plot point that Alastor IS a hypocrite, Vox is still a completely different kind of creep compared Alastor.
Alastor is sort of more the scary halloween monster sort of creepy. He's got more of a evil cryptic legend sort of creepy engery.
Vox has next to none of that. His physical appearance is much more goofy and silly the vast majority of the time. Honestly the most creepy thing about him is his full demon form. Most of his creepy aspects his from his behavior, not his physical appearance.
Vox perverted kind of creep. Vox has an excessive and obsessive surveillance setup not just on on his turf but in all of Hell. Angel says he 'gets off' watching others pain and suffering. To put it this way, not only has Vox covered pentagram city in Flock cameras, Vox also actively watches and stalksall the flock cameras, gets off to some of the stuff he sees, Vox is the CEO of the Flock company, and he can become a fuckin flock camera himself to target people.
Both of them are creeps, but in different ways.
Anyway, I'm getting off track here, but what I'm getting is that the Madsnake backstory is something that I wish more peoplent talked about, especially considering it's so obviously a parrell to the radiostatic backstoru. There's way more to the radiostatic backstory than what we currently have. And I think the madsnake backstory can be worth noting for theory crafting and speculation.