Teaser
7A) "I will send the Three." (00:00:57) FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT: "Three BAD-ASS GANG TYPES hang out on a deserted corner. You wouldn't want to meet any of them on a dark street--or a sunny one...Never slowing, break into enough light to see their faces. They're vampires (dressed alike in a kind of medieval uniform)--the gang-types are bad-asses, these guys are stone killers and did I mention, they're vampires."--"Angel" by David Greenwalt, available from Pocket Books, Inc. as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season One, Volume 2
7B) "Ah, the fumigation party." (00:01:21) BUG BE NIMBLE: This episode is littered (no pun intended) with references to bugs, vermin, and disease, the Fumigation Party only being the icing on the cake. Other examples include Cordelia's remark that Xander will be squashed like a bug, Xander referring to Cordelia as a hooker, and, later, as a "breath of vile air."--Rahael, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:11:36 See 7YY.
7C) "Oh, yeah." (00:02:15) FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT: "THE DANCE FLOOR--WHERE XANDER is working out, dancing next to a RATHER PRETTY GIRL. Xander smiles at the girl. She nods (rather than smiles) back. He dances closer to her, shows her his best moves, then sees THE RATHER LARGE GUY who is, in fact, dancing with the girl. Without skipping a beat, he dances out of their lives and off the floor nearly colliding with...CORDELIA."--"Angel" by David Greenwalt, available from Pocket Books, Inc. as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season One, Volume 2
Act One
7D) "Good dogs don't bite." (00:05:33) FIRST TIME: This is the first time we, the audience, and Buffy herself sees Angel fight. Buffy seems very impressed by his ability, although the reasons for it become clear when she learns of Angel's true nature.
7E) "Get in, come on!" (00:06:13) BUFFYVERSE MYTHOLOGY: "In Buffyverse vampire mythology (as in a great deal of other vampire mythologies), a human's home has a mystical barrier against vampires that can only be broken if that vampire is invited inside. Demons do not abide by that same rule, perhaps because vampires are a demon-human hybrid, and the fact that they cannot enter a human abode without permission is meant to completely separate them from their former lives. Yes, at one time they could have done so, but no longer. It also separates them from other demons, which is why there are cases on the show where we see demons looking down on vampires, as impure creations. The complete (as of now) rules for a vampire being allowed into a building are:
"1. A vampire can enter a public building--i.e., library, hospital, school, office building, retail store--no invitation necessary.
2. Vampires can only come into private residences if they are invited...[Therefore, a vampire may enter an apartment building, since it is public, but cannot enter a particular apartment unless invited by the resident.]
3. In addition, the inviter does not have to know they are giving an invitation to a vampire...[which is why Buffy's "Come on, come in!" to Angel works, as does Joyce's invitation to Darla later in this episode.]
4. The inviter must be a resident, but not necessarily the owner...[which is why a tenant of an apartment can do the inviting.]
5. Once the invitation occurs, the vampire is always welcome (assuming he or she can unlock or break down the door), unless a specific ritual is followed...
6. If they try to enter a residence uninvited, a mystical invisible barrier prevents this...
7. The necessity of an invitation does not hold for frat houses...dorm rooms...or hotel rooms...This might have something to do with the occupants' privacy and proprietary rights relative to these different kinds of residences. In The Trial, Angel explains that hotels are not invite-protected because they are public accommodations.
8. It also does not hold for private clubs...
9. Invitations only seem to work with living humans. In...[the Angel episode,] Lonely Hearts, Doyle says that vampires can enter the private residence of someone who's died...
10. ...[E]ntering into residences belonging to another vampire isn't a problem...
11. Likewise, 'Demon lairs. No invitation necessary...'"--Masquerade, "Vampires" Analysis at http://www.atpobtvs.com, with some additions by Rob
12. The invitation must be verbal. Willow's hand gesture to Angel to invite him in does not work in Lie to Me (see 19II).
7F) "...his tattoo of a griffin straddling a large "A" below his right shoulder." (00:06:52) REALVERSE MYTHOLOGY: "Angel's tattoo appears to be a metaphor for his own nature. A griffin is a combination of two animals, lion and eagle. Angel himself is a complex mixture of vampire and human."--Sophist, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:58:54
7G) "He's a student. First year community college." (00:08:25) BUFFY GOOD LIAR?: Although this may at first glance seem to be an example of Buffy telling a good lie (which we know from Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, is near impossible--see 5S), it actually is not, since Sunnydale doesn't have a community college! "For those outside the US, community college is a junior college, a two-year school, which is located in an urban or suburban setting that usually has generous entrance requirements and that frequently offers 'trade' courses as well as academic programs. There has been no further evidence that Sunnydale actually has a community college. In fact the events of season six, where Buffy clearly could have used a community college to get back into school part-time, indicate there is none." Unless Buffy is mistakenly referring to UC Sunnydale as a community college.--Cactus Watcher, Tues, 07/09/02 at 08:41:47
7H) "Was it vampires?" (00:09:59) USE THE FORCE, LUKE: Angel's remark to Buffy that vampires killed his family, when in fact he is the vampire who did it, is reminiscent of a similar exchange in the first Star Wars film, A New Hope, directed by George Lucas in 1977. Luke Skywalker, a young man, has grown up not knowing how his father died, until an old man, Obi-Wan Kenobi informs him that his father was murdered by a Dark Lord named Darth Vader. In the end of the next film, The Empire Strikes Back, we, however, learn that Darth Vader is Luke's father. In the third film, Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan clarifies to Luke that he had not lied. When Luke's father, Anakin, was taken over by the dark side, all of the last vestiges of his personality were destroyed, leaving only Vader. In that sense of the word, Vader had, indeed, murdered the good, kind man his father had once been. Here, Angel separates himself from his own vampiric actions, although at other times he makes no distinction between the two. Is Angel, though, responsible for those vampiric actions? Or is the vampire a totally separate being? See 7OO.
7I) "So, this is a vengance gig for you." (00:10:12) SLAYER POWER: This line "highlights how much...[Buffy's] own 'gig' is separate from vengeance and hatred. She tells the Warrior Vamps that she doesn't want to fight them 'unless I have to'. She even continues to love Angel, to think about how wonderful his kiss was, after finding out he was a Vampire. Her mind is having its own 'civil war', as Willow tries to teach her about the historical Civil War (see 7BB). In contrast, the Master comments that Darla's bloodlust for the Slayer is personal. 'You have a personal interest in this'--Darla replies, 'I don't get to have any fun.'"--Rahael, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:37:22
7J) "He spent the night?!?" (00:11:08) XANDER JEALOUS: "Xander sees Angel as that older teacher or college kid who takes his girl friend away from him. Willow...[sees Angel] as the romantic older man."--Shadowkat, Tues, 07/09/02 at 11:48:20
7K) "I once drank an entire gallon of Gator-Aid without taking a breath." (00:11:35) POP CULTURE TIME: Quite a remarkable achievement, indeed! "Gatorade" is a non-carbonated, refreshing soft drink that is very popular among athletes. Gatorade flavors are mostly light, although there are some with a bigger kick.
7L) "With power comes responsibility." (00:12:50) THAT'S MY MOTTO: Interestingly, the Master's advice to Collin is not bad at all--if used correctly, that is, which the Master, of course, does not do. The Master certainly inteprets "responsibility" as something very different than a good human would. Thus the inversion of human morality in the vamp world continues (see 7V). When used in normal reference, this phrase refers to the fact that one should beware of absolute power corrupting oneself absolutely, something in which the Master specializes. This is also the motto of the classic Marvel superhero, Spiderman, who many uphold as the "Hamlet of superheroes (see 8AA)." He is an extremely philosophical hero, who constantly struggles with the conflict between his human side and his superhuman strength, his inability to prevent every catastrophe, and his inability to ever have a normal life. Friends of his, for example, become targets. Buffy is a strong believer in her necessity in respecting her powers and their source, and not abusing them. Two characters who almost succuumb to the lure of their own powers are Faith, in the second season, and Willow, in the sixth.--Scroll, Tues, 07/09/02 at 07:37:04, paraphrased by Rob
7M) "I'm not gonna be fighting Friar Tuck." (00:14:03) MEN IN TIGHTS: Friar Tuck was a "real-life chaplain turned criminal, Robert Stafford...[who] used the alias Friar Tuck in 1417." He has been immortalized as the chaplain in the legend of Robin Hood, the outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, along with his band of outlaws, who lived in Sherwood Forest. They fought against the injustice of Prince John, a dictator-type usurperer, until the throne was reclaimed by his brother, King Richard the Lionheart. In most likelihood, the legendary Robin Hood is a composite of many different figures of the time.--Vickie, Tues, 07/09/02 at 16:37:47, with some additions by Rob
7N) "Good. Let's move on to the crossbow." (00:14:44) BUFFY VS. TRADITION: Once again, Buffy laughs in the face of tradition. Giles now, though, is getting more used to Buffy's style. It is also important to note that, although these traditions have been passed down by Watchers for countless ages, the fact that Buffy is able to so swiftly bypass the quarterstaff, without being trained, proves that, although she doesn't follow the rules the way classic cookie-cutter Watchers would expect, she usually, as in this case, is a better Slayer for it (see 1RR). See 12YY.
7O) "My diary? You read my diary?" (00:15:15) PERSONAL THINGS: This is the "first appearance of Buffy's diary...It will be mentioned again, most notably in...[the second season's] Ted (see 23CCC). Buffy's bedroom is where she hides her secrets--diary, her drawer of slaying implements, and, in this episode, Angel. She never seems to do a really good job of it though: the diary's always left out, the drawer is easily accessible, and Angel mentions that he had to hide in the closet to avoid Joyce. Perhaps Buffy is hoping that her mother will take the time to snoop and find her out. The closet mention seems significant too, especially since Buffy's revelation of her Slayerness...[to Joyce] in Becoming and Dead Man's Party has...[a great deal in common with what a gay teenager deals with when he or she comes out of the closet to his or her parents. Many such people] consciously or unconsciously leave clues...[about] their...[sexual] orientation, hoping their parents would pick up on...[them] and...[thus] spare them a dramatic...[and possibly too shocking] revelation."--Ponygirl, Tues, 07/09/02 at 11:15:20 See 7Y for more on diaries
7P) "'Hunk' can mean a lot of things..." (00:15:25) BUFFY BAD LIAR: And, as if to prove that that community college line was definitely a fluke (see 7G), Buffy is back with a bad lie (see 5S)!
7Q) "I'm older than you, and this can't ever..." (00:16:04) LITERATURE CORNER: "In...[Vladimir] Nabokov's [classic Russian novel, Lolita,] the teacher...[Humbert Humbert]...tutors...a...[12] year-old girl...[in history.]" He soon falls in love with her, and devises a plot by which he could have the girl to himself by getting rid of her mother. This eerily mirrors later in this episode, when Angel is framed for attempting to murder Buffy's mother, Joyce. The possibility that this Lolita allusion, both in reference to the attack on Joyce and to the forbidden love between Angel and Buffy, is intentional is strengthened by the fact that Joss Whedon is a fan of the great film director, Stanley Kubrick, who directed the film version of Lolita in 1962, starring James Mason. "Angel is the taboo older man, the teen idol who, if the teen girl got him, would be convicted of statutory rape (for sex with...[an underage girl]). Plus he acts as a teacher or instructor...[with his warnings to Buffy, throughout the early episodes of the season,] but unlike Giles...[who has a similar function, Angel] is shadowy and sexual." Perhaps, therefore, the reason Angel "backs away from Buffy...[is] his soul tells him this is wrong."--Shadowkat, Tues, 07/09/02 at 11:48:20, partly paraphrased by Rob See 18SS, 25LL, and 33Px5.
7R) "What is it? What's wrong?" (00:16:45) WHY DID ANGEL VAMP OUT WHEN HE KISSED BUFFY?:
"1. It was an absolute high for him, after 90 years of self-wallowing pity, almost like a moment of happiness, which caused temporary demon ascension...One could then see this as a foreshadowing of his season two turning.
2. Kissing the slayer made his demonic soul so angry that it struggled viciously against his human soul. (...[This was an idea by]...Cleanthes...)
3. Also, his human soul struggles to hold the demon in check. Perhaps he was so caught up in the moment that the demon manifested."--Caesar Augustus, Mon, 07/08/02 at 22:28:01
4. "...[G]enerally, sexual things and feeding are very connected for vampires, and to a vampire who has experienced neither for an extremely long time, and who has just had the first intense physical contact with what will be (what is?) his star-crossed lover, a kiss might trigger that reaction. Kind of like an inexperienced guy getting prematurely aroused."--Yuri, Tues, 07/09/02 at 07:28:39
5. "...I think...[the writers] wanted to set up a link between a vampire's sexuality and...[his or her] demon, but then didn't want to have to worry about Angel vamping out every time he and Buffy kissed so downplayed it in subsequent episodes. To explain Angel's vamping within the context of this particular show though, I wonder if he did it deliberately. He seemed quite conflicted about the possibility of a relationship with Buffy, and in their conversation before the kiss was saying that he should stay away. The kiss certainly seemed to stem from mutual attraction but maybe the switch to gameface was an attempt...[perhaps even a subconscious one] to scare Buffy away. To end their flirtation before it got too serious."--Ponygirl, Tues, 07/09/02 at 08:04:02
5a. "...[I]t is also interesting to note that the theme...[of someone vamping out while kissing] has not entirely vanished...[Season Six's All the Way] had Dawn's date...Justin...vamping out while they were making out. Very nice continuity touch."--Rattletrap, Tues, 07/09/02 at 18:27:39
6. "I think the Vamp face also happens as a part of the 'stripping away' from disguise into truth that occurs in this ep. From the minute that Buffy invites Angel into her home, both protagonists start to 'disrobe' emotionally. Angel takes off his shirt, Buffy notices (along with some of the viewers!) that Angel's rather fit. She notices the tattoo [see 7F]...which will identify who he used to be in the library/exposition scene. Buffy undresses while he is there (but he turns his back, like a gentleman). They are also undressing emotionally. Angel tells Buffy that his family...[was] killed by a Vamp [see 7H]. He tells her that she looks pretty even when she goes to sleep (she retorts that it's a different story when she wakes up, a piercing reminder that next season, the Sleeping Beauty myth will be invoked - but an Angelic face will go to bed with her, and an ugly beast will wake up). After she returns, that evening, more revelation. She thinks he has read her diary, and inadvertantly reveals some of her feelings. They kiss. Even more disguises fall away. And his true face is revealed. But the question we are left with is, what is truth? What is his true face? This question becomes even more important when it later 'appears' that Angel has tried to drink from Joyce. In reality, appearances lied. He had saved her. So the notion of 'true' is introduced, only to be undercut."--Rahael, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:37:22
7. "Kissing Buffy was probably the closest Angel had been physically to a human being in many years (since he had been lurking in alleys and avoiding humans except for that little trip to the Hyperion in the 1950s). I expect he was overwhelmed with blood lust. He could hear her heart racing and the blood coursing through her veins, and the demon rose to the surface. Luckily, his soul was able to keep the demon in check so he didn't feed off of her. This theory can be supported by the scene later in...[this episode] when Darla hands the still bleeding but unconcious Joyce to Angel and he tries to resist drinking (even turns his head away from Joyce while he struggles for control), but still vamps out. And the later scene at the Bronze when Buffy drops her weapons and taunts him with her exposed neck, where again, he physically fights for self-control. Other eps along the same line: Amends, where the First Evil taunts him to drink from Buffy by encouraging his demon impulses, Graduation Day, Part II where Buffy pummels Angel to bring the demon to the surface so he will drink from her, City of..., [the first episode of Angel]...where Doyle tells him he has to get involved with the people he helps or eventually they're going to start to look like dinner (and later when Angel discovers and touches the dead Tina, he has to struggle to not put his bloodied fingers in his mouth)."--Zargon, Tues, 07/09/02 at 12:45:11
Act Two
7S) "...[t]here is no halfway." (00:17:28) WHAT IS A VAMPIRE?: "We feel like there's a ghost of the person you once were inside them -- a philosophical ghost, not an actual spirit. It is, in fact, a demon, but the demon is infused with some of the characteristics of the people that they possess."--David Fury, Zap2it.com, Feb 9, 2001; Information taken from Masquerade's "Vampires" Analysis at http://www.atpobtvs.com See 2LL.
7T) "Angel's a vampire, you're a Slayer. I think it's obvious what you have to do." (00:17:50) CUT & DRIED: "This is similar to Faith's argument in...[the third season's] Revelations: 'Vampire. Slayer. Dead vampire' (see 41Dx4). If taken as an absolute moral principle, contingencies of a particular situation (e.g., that Angel has a soul) do not matter. However, notice that killing Angel goes against the principle that slayers should not kill those who have souls. Unless this principle applies to living humans only."--Masquerade's analysis of "Angel" from http://www.atpobtvs.com
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE: It's also important to note that Xander's completely black-and-white view of the world with regards to vampires and demons (demons always bad), which was forged with Giles' explanation of vampires in The Harvest, compounded with Jesse's death (see 2LL), remains a constant throughout the entirety of the series and has been dealt with in Xander's reaction to Anya becoming a demon again in the sixth season's Entropy (although he didn't learn this until a few episodes later) and in his negative reaction, in that same episode, to finding out Buffy had had a sexual relationship with Spike, a vampire.
7U) "This is a one of a kind Todd Oldham." (00:18:17) POP CULTURE TIME: Todd Oldham is a clothing designer known for selling jeans, bath products, buttons, colorful dresses, and skirts. Amazon.com describes Todd Oldham as "one of today's most important young fashion designers."--Vickie, Tues, 07/09/02 at 16:37:47, paraphrased by Rob
7V) "What's with the Catholic schoolgirl look?" (00:19:07) DEGRADATION MOST HOLY: Once again, on Buffy, Christian symbols are inverted in the vampire world. Wearing this Catholic schoolgirl outfit, Darla's "aping both religion and innocence and youth, something which Buffy pointedly shows up...[Darla] has none of these characteristics."--Rahael, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:11:36, with some additions by Rob See 1AA, 1BBB, 2B, 2C, 2Z, 2NN, 7XX, 15L, and 25BBB.
7W) "Remember Budapest? Turn of the century? You were such a bad boy during that earthquake." (00:19:25) ANGEL & DARLA: "The timeline suggested in the episode Angel is somewhat misleading when compared with Angelus' story as presented later in Becoming...in Fool for Love, and in the Angel series. But, it isn't necessarily incorrect. If we take Darla's words about the 'turn of the century' in a general way, then Angel's rampage in Budapest occured in 1897 or early 1898 just before his misadventure with the gypsies in Rumania. We know that shortly after Angel's soul was returned, Darla abandoned him, but within a year or two they were back together. Darla soon noticed that during this period Angel was only killing evil doers. So it is doubtful that she would remember Budapest fondly if it happened after Rumania. In the same conversation Angel says the last time he saw Darla she was 'into' kimonos. We learn in Fool for Love that they were in China for the Boxer Rebellion when Angel and Darla broke up for good. Although a kimono would have been out of place in China, there is no reason she couldn't have indulged herself while passing through Japan on the way there."--Cactus Watcher, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:13:26
OR PERHAPS...: "Japan isn't exactly on the way to China through Europe...But maybe Angel just doesn't know the difference between a kimono...[and similar outfits that were worn] in China around the time of the Boxer Rebellion. After all, Spike tells the Slayer he doesn't speak Chinese; most likely Angel didn't either."--Anom, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:13:26
7X) "You're living above ground, like one of them." (00:19:41) DARLA HYPOCRITE?: "The explanation of why Darla said 'You're living above ground like one of them' in Angel, even though she and Angelus had lived above ground after she left the...[M]aster...[is that w]hen she went back to the Master, she returned to his...[older] ways." The two other vampires in Angel and Darla's troupe, Spike and Drusilla, we will see, continue to defy the ancient vampire authorities and traditions, as Angel and Darla had done, before he lost his soul.--Lucille, Nov 15 8:00 2000, with some additions by Rob; Quote taken from Masquerade's "Darla" Analysis at http://www.atpobtvs.com
7Y) "There's mention some 200 years ago in Ireland of Angelus, the one with the angelic face." (00:21:38) DEAR WATCHER'S DIARY: "Diaries are mentioned in two contexts...[in this episode--The Watchers' Diaries and Buffy's diary (see 7O)--] both with references to Angel, but with markedly different truths. Buffy's diary, her own heart, if Angel read it, would tell him that she is falling in love with him. The Watchers' Diaries tell another truth, that he is a murderer and a killer. Which is true? Are they incompatible? And here, for the first time, we get a subtle opposition between the duties of a Slayer, and Buffy's own emotional yearnings, an opposition which will climb to a crescendo in...[the first season finale, Prophecy Girl,] where Buffy taunts Giles about his books and his Watching."--Rahael, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:11:36
7Z) "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly." (00:22:39) SHOW TUNE TIME: Here "Xander ironically quotes a well known Kern/Hammerstein love song...[from their classic musical, Showboat]... Interestingly, he means it in a non-romantic context--that Angel just does what is in his nature; he kills. But the song tells us that Buffy and Angel can't help loving each other. Their 'unnatural' love is heightened by the fact that the song tells us that love is as natural as fish swimming and birds flying. And it's 'one' man, echoing the idea that Buffy and Angel are each other's true loves. The song says that there is only one reason for such an illogical instinctive feeling: the angels must have planned it. Both ironic meanings are there: that Buffy and Angel's love is both natural, and unnatural, and there is that constant ambiguity once Buffy finds out that Angel isn't a natural man. Is he a natural Vampire, or an unnatural one? [See 7OO]
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Chorus:
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly
I gotta love one man 'til I die
Can't help lovin' dat man of mineTell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow.
Tell me I'm crazy, maybe I know.
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.Oh, listen sister, I love my mister man and I can't tell you why.
There ain't no reason why I should love that man.
It must be somethin' that the angels done plan.Chorus
When he goes away, that's a rainy day.
But when he comes back,
The day is fine, the sun will shine.He can come home as late as can be.
Home without him ain't no home to me.
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine...--Rahael, Tues, 07/09/02 at 09:11:36
7*1) "Angel kills her and comes back to the fold." (00:23:18) DARLA WRONG: Darla obviously doesn't know about the "happiness clause" in the Gypsy curse, that if he ever reached a moment of perfect happiness (i.e. having sex with a woman he truly loved) he would lose his soul, or she would realize that the best way to get him back to the fold would not be to get Angel to kill Buffy, but to push him to be even closer to her than he already is!
7AA) "Angel. He was the most vicious creature I ever met. I miss him." (00:23:25) ANGEL & THE MASTER: "In 1997, The Master seemed to regard Angelus highly...In 1760, however, the young and disrespectful 'stallion' wanted nothing to do with a heavy-establishment type like the Master. The Master gave him a beating, but allowed Angelus to leave undusted and let Darla go with him. I think it can partly be explained by the Master not being in the same desperate situation as he was in Sunnydale -- where every moment of incompetence jeopardized his freedom. Allowing Angelus and Darla to depart caused him no inconvenience and proved to be the right choice -- as Darla eventually returned to him, more devoted than ever (Malandanza, 16-Nov-00 11:06). By 1880, Angelus was much more conservative himself, chiding a young Spike for his impetuous behavior. He tried to teach Spike some lessons in vampire decorum, even though Spike wasn't ready to take them to heart. Angelus rose in the Master's estimation when he lasted more than a century while causing such havoc and clever atrocities (LenS, Nov 14 21:50 2000). Or maybe during [the Master's] imprisonment in the Hellmouth, as he was pouring over prophecies, he found out that Angel/Angelus was going to be of great import (Cosmic Bob, Nov 15 13:09 2000).--Masquerade's analysis of "Darla" from http://www.atpobtvs.com
7BB) "Uh, reconstruction began after the... construction, which was... shoddy, so they had to reconstruct." (00:23:58) BUFFY GOOD STUDENT?: "Buffy isn't a whiz at school, but she may have picked up something in passing during class. During the Reconstruction period of American history, getting rich on government contracts was a high art. So much money was made by unscrupulous construction contractors through scrimping on building materials, that the period is also know as the 'age of shoddy.'" Either that, or it was a really big coincidence.--Cactus Watcher, Tues, 07/09/02 at 08:41:47
7CC) "No speaking up." (00:24:28) CARPE DIEM...NOT!: After having followed Buffy's "seize the day" advice in Welcome to the Hellmouth (see 1NN), Willow (perhaps wisely) decides to go for the other option this time--doing nothing.
7DD) And it is kind of novel how he'll stay young and handsome forever--although you'll still get wrinkly and die..." (00:24:51) AIN'T IT THE TRUTH: And thus, in one short paragraph, Willow encapsulates all of the major problems of Buffy and Angel ever having a real relationship that are known up to this point--age difference, the fact that he will never age, and the fact that they won't be able to have children. The fact that they will not even be able to have sex will not become apparent to them until the second season's Innocence, after they have, of course, already had the sex (see 26F).
7EE) "Just say yes." (00:28:01) POP CULTURE TIME: This is a pun on the almost-unbearably quaint and trite "Just Say No to Drugs" campaign, headed by First Lady Nancy Reagan in the mid-1980s. The program's critics labelled it as too simplistic and unrealistic--a teenager turning down peer pressure is rarely as cut and dry as these rosy scenarios paint them. Later programs such as DARE (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) were far more successful, and helpful.--Vickie, Tues, 07/09/02 at 16:37:47
7FF) "I'm home." (00:28:23) HOME THWEET HOME: "The home isn't just a place of safety, but a place of acceptence and welcome. When Darla says 'Welcome home,' she means that Angel has returned to her world, the vampire way of living...[and] thinking. But he resists this world. When Buffy throws Angel out of her house, she's saying that he doesn't belong in her world, the human way of living...[and] thinking. So Angel doesn't belong anywhere."--Scroll, Wed, 07/10/02 at 22:52:57