av Mr Chase » lör mar 13, 2004 14:31
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19. Lie to Me
The title of this outstanding episode is very apt. Almost everyone is lying to Buffy one way or another. Angel lies to her about his past with Drusilla, Ford lies to her about his intentions, Willow lies about digging up information about Ford etcetera.
Buffy's childhood crush Ford shows up in Sunnydale with a very sinister plan. He wants to become a vampire, and so does a sorry collection of Goth persons who actually worships and idolizes vampires, which they refer to as "the lonely ones". They have so bought into the Anne Rice routine, as Spike would say. Ford offers the slayer (and the pathetic cultists) as a price so that his wish can come true.
In true Whedon fashion there are layers beneath layers. Ford's wish stems from the fact that he has incurable brain cancer and wants to die young and live forever before the tumours begins to eat him away. It is all very tragic but that doesn't change the fact that Ford is the villain, albeit not an absolute evil, and what he plans is wrong. Something happened to his moral compass as the cancer grew.
In the end he delivers Buffy to Spike and the vampires but Buffy manages to save herself and the cultists, except Ford. Spike actually keeps his word and grants Ford's wish. But since Buffy awaits Ford's awakening by the tomb he gets staked immediately.
Afterwards Buffy asks Giles to lie to her and he does so memorably.
Giles: "What do you want me to say?"
Buffy: "Lie to me."
Giles: "Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after."
Buffy: "Liar."
We also get to learn the interesting background of Angel and Drusilla. Just in case you didn't realize how wicked Angelus was this information should set you straight. It was Angelus who vamped (or should I say "sired") Dru, but only after having tortured her mentally and devoured all her family and fiends. He turned her into a demon the night before she was going to take holy orders in a nunnery. No wonder that she became completely insane. Well, Buffy asked for the truth and she got it in the end.
There was also a cute interaction between Angel and Willow when he seeks her out in her room and wants the Net girl to dig up dirt on Buffy's newfound childhood friend. Willow seems that she can't decide which is the more disturbing part -- having a man or having a vampire in her room. But she manages to do it perfectly even if she forgets that she's in her nighties and fuzzy slippers (nice legs by the way!).
Angel and Xander has also developed a more respecting relationship even if they probably doesn't like each other.
Xander: "Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with Dead Boy on this one."
Angel: "Could you not call me that?"
It is nice that Jenny Calendar is taking Giles out, but monster trucks? What was she thinking? Still I don't think he's going to run away anytime soon. I sure wouldn't!
And Cordelia in history class identifying with Marie Antoinette rather than with those cranky peasants was so Queen C-ish. Xander's facial expression was one of utter disbelief (the peasants were oppressed, not depressed, Cordy).
Funniest was Angel complaining that the vamp cultists has no sense of what vampires actually wear, and then he immediately shuts up when a wannabe walks down in a very Angelish outfit. ROTFL. At least he knows when he's lost an argument.
Rupert Giles: "I'll be back in the Middle Ages."
Miss Calendar: "Did you ever leave?"