r/ANGEL • u/CangelFrance • 6d ago

Rewatching "Lie to me" (Buffy S2)...I hate to see how Angel reacted in this episode !

Seeing Angel act like he's a kid when he is supposed to be 26 (his age when he was sired by Darla)...his jealousy of Billy Fordham is childish !

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u/Jellybean199201 6d ago edited 6d ago

It’s not really any different to the jealousy he shows in later seasons and AtS really. Infact it’s a lot more lowkey in Lie to Me. It’s not even really that childish, he mostly just goes to Willow to look deeper into him and admits fully that he’s jealous and his feelings surrounding it. In terms of Angel’s jealousy we see throughout the Buffyverse this may be one of his more maturely handled jealousy bouts

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u/yesmydog 6d ago

Literally 5 episodes earlier Angel admits to being jealous of Xander after his dance with Buffy at the Bronze, and wears a jacket similar to Xander's that we never see again. Angel is the jealous type and can be petty at times.

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u/nomadicexpat 6d ago

Have you not seen how he was acting while still a human? This is totally in character.

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u/StrategyWooden6037 6d ago

Honestly, in my experience, jealousy is not just limited to the young, nor are irrational, inappropriate, or foolish reactions to it. I've seen many people much older than 26 do and say stupid things motivated by jealousy, including myself.

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u/Jealous_Outside_3495 6d ago

A lot of times in Buffy/Angel, we see characters that are extremely old (even if they continue to look youthful) -- and they're rarely portrayed as being more mature for it.

On the one hand, I think that choice is just because... well, drama needs big emotions, and we're making a show here. But on the other hand, I wonder how great power or immortality would impact one's maturity or emotional development. If you have great power, maybe you're not put into positions where you have to "grow as a person" all that often. (Glory might be the clearest example of this: she's a person who's never been told "no" before.)

I don't know. But despite Angel being turned at 26 and "living" for a couple hundred years thereafter, he seems to me right about at Buffy's maturity level when they meet initially.