1.7 Angel

Plot Synopsis (Display)

Highlights

• Buffy's classic "merry-man" type pose, leaning on her quarterstaff, as she looks down at the defeated Giles, prostrate on the floor in his heavy padding.

Pop Culture References

When Giles suggests Buffy train with a quarterstaff, she says "Giles, 20th century? I'm not going to be fighting Friar Tuck!"
This is a reference to the jolly, worldly monk who was a member of Robin Hood's band of "merry men". Interestingly, it is actually Little John, another member of the band, who is generally associated with the quarterstaff, due to his famous first encounter with the then unknown Robin.

What We Learn

• The name of the Anointed One is Collin
• A vampire can't come in to your home unless it's invited
• Angel is a vampire
• Buffy's address is 1630 Revello Drive
• Angel, once he became a vampire, killed his own family and friends
• Darla is the one who made Angel into a vampire, his "sire".

Rationalising the Impossible

Joyce doesn't seem to question the fact that she inexplicably fainted, and injured her neck on a barbecue fork, even though she knows they don't own one.

Mythology

Angel tells Buffy: "When you become a vampire the demon takes your body, but it doesn't get your soul. That's gone! No conscience, no remorse..."

Nitpicks

• Why did Buffy tell Angel to stay at her house all day? She doesn't know he's a vampire yet, so why wouldn't he be safe going home after sunrise?
• Also, later in hospital Buffy berates herself "I invited him into my home. Even after I knew who he was, what he was". No, she didn't, she invited him in before she knew.