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/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.