FX is rerunning them for the zillionth time. We are near the end of the season, where Buff has to kill Angelus. We got Angel’s backstory in Dublin. There was the scene where still-human Druscilla goes to church, and Angelus - pretending to be the priest - tells her she is indeed wicked because of her psychic visions. Now, in practically the very next scene, we see the dead gypsy girl covered in rose petals, and then the old gypsy gent curses Angelus and gives him his soul.
My question - is the dead gypsy girl - ‘the most beautiful and beloved of her tribe’ -was that Dru? It sure looked like her in that quick shot. They never mention it but it makes sense. Did everyone know this all along and did I just now figure it out?Or did I manage to forget Dru’s real back story.
BTW, my first thread. Discuss.
No, it wasn’t Drusilla. As you saw in the flashback, Drusilla was a young English noblewoman, not a gypsy. We do a scene somewhere which expands a little on what Angel did to her and how he eventually sired her, turning her into the nutty dominatrix we all know and love but, do you know, for the life of me, I can’t remember where it is. Could be second or third season Buffy, or maybe even somewhere on Angel.
~Mr Tambo, vast knowledge of BtVS, very poor grip on linear memory
Well, in Angel S1 (don’t know the episode number) “Darla” we see how he turned Dru, and later, the night Dru turned Spike, and then the night in China during the Boxer Rebellion. I don’t know what year he turned Dru, but Dru turned Spike in 1880, and they didn’t kill the Gypsy girl until after Spike was with them…
I noticed that, too, the first time I saw the episode. It sure looked like her, and it would make a certain amoung of sense for it to be her, but it’s not. Spike was sired by Drucilla, and knew Angel as Angelus. If he had been cursed in revenge for turning Drucilla, Spike and Angelus would never have met.
Besides, if the gypsies knew enough to re-soul a vampire, they’d have known enough to chop the head off of his victim so she couldn’t rise herself.
I’m just going to post this here, since it doesn’t really warrant its own thread, this is the only active Buffy thread in CS, and the OP’s question has been answered, so a hijack shouldn’t be a big deal:
Remember the psycho lunchlady from the episode where Buffy can read people’s minds? I just saw what I’m sure is the same actress, playing a food worker, in a MacDonald’s commercial! If MacDonald’s starts offering jello, for God’s sake, don’t order it!
Was she adding the rat poison to the jello or to something else? I think she was mixing it into the hot lunch special. The jello bit was just Xander’s unhealthy eating habits.
Just checked the DVD, and you could be right: she’s pouring it into a big metal pot, but there’s no telling what’s in it. I prefer to think the dessert was poisoned, too, just because it makes the expression on Xander’s face as he’s about to eat the handful of Jello that much more priceless.