Julie Benz said in that she found the exit of her character profound, a final selfless deed by someone whose character had primarily been defined by self-preservation. Unfortunately, Darla was only the first of three Angel characters to die in childbirth. With each of the next two, her death looked less like a tragic sacrifice and more like the beginning of a disheartening pattern. 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.
Fred doesn't literally give birth to Illyria, but the parallel is obvious. A foreign life form is placed inside her body by a man with whom she was briefly romantically involved. And when Illyria comes forth into the world, Fred is obliterated. It's a crushing, painful, ugly death. It's not the resolution of a character arc or even particularly relevant to the season's main plotline. Mostly, it gives the primary male characters an extra helping of grief, rage, and guilt to carry into the season's final battle.
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.
I'm still trying to find the words for what happened to Cordelia Chase. She was a teen drama archetype: the hot, rich, mean girl with a slew of sycophantic followers. But instead of stagnating at 17 like so many pop culture high school queen bees before and after, Cordelia blossomed into someone dynamic and fascinating. She was self-centered, with a mean streak that never entirely went away, but she was also brave, generous, and surprisingly tender.
She wasn't always likable, but she was wholly her own person. Cordy's growth over three seasons of Buffy and three seasons of Angel is one of the most engaging character arcs on either show and in the whole of the Whedonverse. She begins as a reluctant ally against evil, bemoaning the stains left on her clothes when she's held hostage by vampires, and develops into a daring, capable fighter. What tethers Cordy to the fight on Angel are the visions of people in trouble. In the season 2 episode "Lie to Me," it's explained that when Angel was the evil Angelus in , he became obsessed with Drusilla, after Darla introduced her as the perfect new victim.
Before turning her into a vampire, Angel killed everybody she loved, and mentally tortured her. She fled to a convent, but on the day that she became a nun, Angel turned her into a demon. By Tatiana Tenreyro Published Jan 11, Share Share Tweet Email 0.
Director Tim Minear. Top credits Director Tim Minear. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. David Boreanaz Angel as Angel. Julie Benz Darla as Darla. Juliet Landau Drusilla as Drusilla. James Marsters Spike as Spike. Tim Minear. Storyline Edit. She offered to kill the Slayer as an offering for her sire, but he sent The Three , a trio of ancient vampire warriors, instead.
However, the Three failed due to Angel 's intervention. As penance, the Three offered their lives to the Master, and he allowed Darla to dust them, a task she gladly completed. Understanding that brute force wouldn't be enough to kill Buffy, Darla devised a plan to turn her against Angel, and force one to kill the other, though she hoped Angel would kill Buffy in self-defense and, having experienced killing once again, then return to her side.
Darla pretended to be a classmate of Buffy's in order to be invited to the Summers residence. Once inside, she attacked Buffy's mother , biting her and leaving her in Angel's arms. As Darla had planned, Buffy arrived to see her injured mother held by Angel in vampire face, and concluded that Angel was killing her mother. The vampire and the Slayer faced each other in the Bronze, but Buffy eventually realized that Angel was not responsible.
Darla, carrying a pair of pistols with her, arrived to ensure Buffy would die. However, Darla's plan turned against her, as Angel staked her in order to protect the woman he loved. During her short time as a human, Darla found it increasingly difficult to live with a soul and desperately wanted to be a vampire again.
It made her even more desperate to be turned into a vampire, but instead, Angel, through acts of bravery and nobility, finally convinced her to live out her remaining days as human, and he reassured her that would be there for her. Added by Ozzel Darla and Drusilla began fighting, with Darla initially being upset over becoming a vampire again. However, she quickly embraced it once more.
They then turned around and gave Wolfram and Hart the massacre they'd requested, but instead of killing randomly, Darla and Drusilla slaughtering most of the staff attending a party out of revenge for being used as pawns. Afterward, Darla went on another killing rampage with Drusilla that nearly ended when Angel, after descending into a dark state, set her and Drusilla on fire.
But this failed to kill them. It's possible she also exploited Lindsey's romantic interest in her. Returning home, he realized Darla was laying in wait for him. He roughly grabbed her and then they had sex, the expectation on Darla's part, as well as his own being that he would lose his soul as a result of "a moment of perfect happiness"--but he had just stopped caring, or feeling anything.
The next morning, Angel still had his soul; sex with Darla was perfect despair, rather than perfect happiness. Apologising to Darla for his 'failure' to save her, Angel admitted that a part of him had seen it as part of his efforts to save himself—since she had created him, he had hoped that redeeming her would prove him worthy of redemption—but he now recognised that she was nothing to him, unable to even hate her.
Surprised, angry and upset, Darla attempted to stake Angel after he rejected her offer of a 'repeat performance' to 'get it right', only for Angel to grab the stake, informing Darla that he would allow her to live for now in gratitude for what she had done for him, but vowing that he would stake her next time he met her. As a result, Darla left Los Angeles, supposedly forever. However, the unthinkable had happened: Angel had impregnated Darla.
Darla visited every shaman in the Western Hemisphere, all of whom told her that her pregnancy was inherently impossible, but also impossible to abort. With nowhere else to turn, Darla went to Angel. Various theories emerged about the child; from a cult of vampires who worshiped it as a miracle, to the fear that it was the evil spoken of in the Tro-Clon prophesies.
It turned out the child was simply a healthy human baby boy , with whom the pregnant Darla was sharing a soul, allowing her to feel genuine love for the child and prompting her to seek innocent blood to feed it.
This did not matter to Daniel Holtz , who had been brought through time by the demon Sahjhan to kill Angel and Darla. Added by NileQT87 Darla realized that she would lose her soul after giving birth and be unable to love her child, or even remember she had ever loved him. She did not want to forget.
0コメント