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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