By Chris Snellgrove
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer showrunner Joss Whedon is legendary for planning main storylines years prematurely…for instance, foreshadowing the existence of Buffy’s sister Daybreak in Seasons 3 and 4 earlier than her introduction in Season 5. Nonetheless, there’s one blatant instance early within the present about how little Whedon had considered Angel’s love life. Within the season 2 episode “Halloween,” Willow assures Buffy (to not point out the viewers) that the vampire would by no means date Cordelia, however the two find yourself falling in love on the spinoff present Angel.
Why was the Slayer speaking about Cordelia and Angel hooking up within the first place? At first of “Halloween,” she was late to a date together with her bitey beau as a result of she needed to put down a few of his fellow bloodsuckers. This offers Cordelia time to hit on Angel at The Bronze, inflicting Buffy to fret that she isn’t the form of lady that her centuries-old boyfriend actually likes.
When watching “Halloween” for the primary time, it’s arduous to disagree with Willow when she says that “Angel would by no means fall for [Cordelia’s] act.” Buffy’s witchy bestie assures her that “she’s not his kind,” however Buffy begins to fret that she’s not his kind. They find yourself researching how ladies dressed and acted when Angel was a human, inflicting Buffy to put on a fancy dress befitting an 18th-century tradwife.
After Buffy’s third season, Cordelia left Sunnydale to hitch Angel in Los Angeles. The Angel spinoff introduced its titular character with a number of girlfriends over time, however none extra shocking than Cordelia. She started working alongside Angel in Season 1, and their enterprise relationship shortly blossomed into an precise friendship.
For many of Angel, our title character and Cordelia merely had a pleasant relationship, however that modified after Buffy died. Cordelia helped Angel course of the trauma of the Slayer’s demise they usually realized (frustratingly, frustratingly slowly) that they had emotions for one another. Sadly, the present by no means actually explored their relationship, as she was yoinked into the Greater Aircraft and returned possessed by Jasmine, a villain made all that a lot scarier by a number of the worst writing in the entire Whedonverse.
From a tv standpoint, it’s not that shocking that Angel and Cordelia fell in love, if solely briefly…in spite of everything, there are solely so a few years a TV present can dangle scorching lead characters in entrance of us earlier than making them a pair. Nonetheless, it’s a bit surprising that Willow, a clever and magical character, was so improper about the opportunity of Angel and Cordelia ever hooking up. Much more surprising is that Joss Whedon dismissed out of hand the very risk of what would develop into the spinoff’s most notorious relationship.
In fact, the Angel spinoff didn’t exist when Willow made her predictions, so neither she nor Whedon might guess that the vampire and Cordelia would develop into lead characters destined for sloppy romance. One more reason to go simple on Willow’s incorrect prediction is that even a witch like her can’t see the long run…certain, the Angel pining for Buffy in Season 2 was by no means prone to fall for the airheaded Cordelia, however each characters had modified dramatically by the point they fell in love. And Willow herself adjustments dramatically in even much less time, popping out as homosexual and falling in love with Tara.
Because it seems, it’s simple for Joss Whedon to foretell little sisters, however not as simple to foretell the affairs (magical or in any other case) of the guts.
