So that nice boy you brought home turned out to be a vampire. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was helping teenagers handle this problem long before Twilight. Before whats-her-name and . . . is it Edward? there was Buffy and Angel.
Mostly what I'm thinking about when watching the episode now is how much older than Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) Angel (David Boreanaz) really is. Over two hundred years older. And why is he in love with her? Because he follows her. Maybe he likes the twist of her wrist as she stakes his soulless brethren. I really do love how inevitably perverted the very concept of vampirism makes any character who happens to be one.
The episode I'm talking about, a first season episode appropriately called "Angel", also fleshes out Darla (Julie Benz) for the first time only to unwisely kill her off immediately.
She's resurrected later, of course, but one has to wonder at the short-sightedness of the writers in killing off Angel's maker and former lover so quickly. Otherwise David Greenwalt does a fine job with the episode. I like Buffy and her friends trying to puzzle out Angel's motives now that they've find out he behaves utterly unlike any vampire they've even heard of. I even like Darla's underhanded set up to make it look like Angel tried to kill Buffy's mother (Kristine Sutherland). I like even more that Buffy doesn't get too ensnared in such ploty foolishness. It ends up saying more about Darla than anyone, another reason her death was premature.
Go for it, Giles, drink the whole coffee!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is available in a lousy cropped format on Amazon Prime.
No comments:
Post a Comment