6/30/2023 0 Comments An angel deserve to die![]() ![]() I'm still trying to find the words for what happened to Cordelia Chase.Ĭordy ( Charisma Carpenter) was introduced in the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And yet, as unjust and infuriating as Fred's death was, it wasn't as upsetting as the death I skipped over, the second and by far the most offensive of the show's three maternal mortalities. Mostly, it gives the primary male characters an extra helping of grief, rage, and guilt to carry into the season's final battle. It's not the resolution of a character arc or even particularly relevant to the season's main plotline. ![]() And when Illyria comes forth into the world, Fred is obliterated. A foreign life form is placed inside her body by a man with whom she was briefly romantically involved. Fred doesn't literally give birth to Illyria, but the parallel is obvious. The last of the three was Fred Burkle ( Amy Acker), whose body was hijacked and used as an incubator to bring the ancient god Illyria back to life. With each of the next two, her death looked less like a tragic sacrifice and more like the beginning of a disheartening pattern. Unfortunately, Darla was only the first of three Angel characters to die in childbirth. Julie Benz said in 2013 that she found the exit of her character profound, a final selfless deed by someone whose character had primarily been defined by self-preservation. Finally, afraid she won't be able to love the baby once it's born, Darla stakes herself in labor, dissolving to ashes and leaving her infant son, Connor (played as an adult by Vincent Kartheiser), lying on the pavement. Just as improbably, she finds herself feeling love for her future child, which she credits to the influence of its human soul growing inside her. Darla becomes pregnant, which is supposed to be impossible for vampires. He tries to save her, then to destroy her somewhere in there they have sex. Darla, brought back to life as human and then reborn as a vampire, attempts to pull Angel back into evil. Their relationship is the axis of the show's second season. Though the spin-off featured several nuanced, compelling female characters, too many of them met the same predictable end, sacrificed for male characters' emotional arcs.ĭarla ( Julie Benz) was Angel's partner in the century-long killing spree that came before his reformation she was also his vampiric sire, the woman who literally turned him into a monster. But after two decades, Angel's feminist legacy doesn't hold up to a rewatch. For a long time, Whedon himself was lauded as a feminist ally and icon. Buffy and Angel were both formative for millennials like me, who came of age on their quippy, ass-kicking version of girl power. Octomarks twenty years since the first episode of Joss Whedon's Angel, a spin-off from his acclaimed Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which David Boreanaz played the eponymous vampire cursed with a human soul. ![]()
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