The episode I chose to watch next was “Surprised” from season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I chose to jump backwards so that way I could get some of the pieces that I missed. This episode was about Buffy having nightmares about Angel dying and other bad things happening. It also takes place on Buffy’s birthday and all her friends decide to throw her a surprise party. Then, the party is interrupted by vampire who is trying to bring the Judge back to life to kill Angel and Buffy.
The main problem that can be related back to the real world is the problem of humanity. The Judge is known for taking peoples’ humanity, or human nature, away from them by touching them. When a vampire is stripped of their humanity, they become awful soulless creatures. This relates to the real world because people often relate humanity to sympathy, kindness, and goodwill, and without these features a person is considered to be coldhearted or evil. In today’s world, a creature cannot take the humanity of a person but it can be “lost” through a traumatic event. I think what this episode is trying to convey is that the humanity of person is what makes them and that without it the person is completely different.
Buffy will have to move on from Angel because he is now an uncontrollable vampire. This will be very hard for Buffy to do since she loves Angel, and they had just “made love” for the first and last time. This is related to real world because it is very difficult to give up someone that you love, even if they “lost” their humanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
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