This just occurred to me, which should tell you how slow I can be to pick up on stuff. Is Anne the teen shelter person from yesterday’s Angel the same character that was on the opening episode of Buffy a couple of season ago?
The episode I’m thinking of is when Buffy has run away, and she finds that other runaway teens are turning up missing. They were being taken to a demon dimension where time ran differently, and forced to work until they got too old. Anyway, Buffy meets a girl in that episode who recognises her. At the end of the episode that girl asks if she can use the name “Anne” (which Buffy had been using).
I don’t recall if the actress was the same, but it’s probable. The characters seem to have a bit in common. “Anne Steele” (as it said on her driver’s license) sounds like a made up name to me. They both said that they were “into vampires” when younger until they met one. And obviously, they both are concerned with runaway teens.
I bet that this was obvious already to all you true Buffy fans out there, but I wouldn’t mind some confirmation anyway.
In the first show of season 3, Buffy is living in LA and going by her middle name, Anne. She runs into “Chantarelle”, and they have their trapped-in-hell adventure. At the end of the episode, Chantarelle asks if she can borrow Buffy’s name; that’s how she becomes Anne.
During Angel last night, the green informer demon mentioned that she’d changed her names a couple of times, but for completely legal reasons.
I was watching with my best friend, who missed the first couple of seasons. When I saw her I screamed “mushroom girl” because I couldn’t remember Chantarelle. My friend now thinks I am completely insane. Well, I’m sure she’s thought it for a while now, but it’s going to take a lot to disprove it after last night.
Strictly speaking this is an Angel question, not Buffy, but I’m trying to be less anal in 2001, so I won’t bring that up.
It was great to see Anne again, especially in her new role as a helper and leader of other people who are just like she used to be.
This continues the underlying theme of the entire show: redemption. Angel, Cordelia and Wesley are all on a long road to redemption from their shameful or embarrassing histories.
Then we have Anne, who we first saw as a foolish teenage member of a cult of vampire-worshippers. Next, as a helpless little-girl-lost ill-equipped for taking care of herself or her boyfriend. She needed Buffy to step in and save the day.
But now we see her three years later, determined, smart, capable, doing good. Her story is the show’s story in microcosm. Her redemption happened offscreen, but we saw the genesis of it in the Buffy episode “Anne.” Excellent work. Are there any better shows on TV right now than Buffy and Angel?
IIRC Lily/Anne never met Angel with Buffy so she wouldn’t connect them and short of coming out and saying “I used to know a vampire slayer…” I don’t think they could work in the relationship TOO easily. (She did meet Spike though.)
The one continuity problem I had was that Lilly had a big old heart tatoo on her arm from Anne. Even if she’d had it removed, wouldn’t there be some scarring from something that large?
Technically speaking it would be both since it would mean a sort of Buffy-Angel crossover. Then Five added…
I’d say that at least some of that redemption included the genesis we saw in “Anne” - fighting her way out of that hellish place, not just for her but for the others, getting a job and taking a new name which she associated with a strong role model.
Have to hope that Wesley and Cordy weren’t watching the news coverage of the charity event though…
Then Five added…