“You’ve been reading too much Anne Rice”
This episode is evil. I love it. The trials may be a bit of
a cliché; in fact, they’re even an Angel cliché, given the number of times that
this has popped up. But this is different. I love the butler with his
unflappable attitude to the nastiness, and the twist is deliciously evil. Angel
goes through hell and yet it’s all for nothing. Darla has already had a second
chance, so she doesn’t get a third. I laughed out loud.
We have another interesting flashback showing Angelus and
Darla once again afraid of the mysterious Holtz. Watch this space. But the
episode primarily concerns the revelation that Darla is dying of the same syphilis
as her previous life. This, in itself, is an evil twist. As if things couldn’t get
any more evil, the episode ends with Darla accepting her fate and realising
that Angel loves her and is only refusing to sire her because he cares for her
soul. Finally she has closure. Deliciously, it is at this point that Wolfram
and Hart, those rascals, send in Drusilla to once again turn her into a soulless
vampire. As I say EVIL!
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