Anyway, on to the episode...Buffy's friend from LA, Ford, has moved to Sunnydale to attend Sunnyvale High. Ford and Buffy were friends until she left LA and he has figured out she is the Slayer. We never find out how but we see that he has a weird obsession with vampires. Instantly Angel is suspicious of him, and we are too. He's a little too obsessed and after pretending to kill a vampire, it turns out he let her get away. Willow, Angel and Xander track down Ford later to a group of humans who are I guess worshipping vampires or at least infatuated with them. I guess they want to be like them or at least think they are misunderstood. Angel calls them fools... Ford, however, wants to be a vampire. He ends up making a deal with Spike to trap Buffy, thereby providing the Slayer, if Spike turns him.
Buffy ends up trapped but questions why Ford would want this or trust Spike? Turns out Ford is dying of brain cancer and wants to become immortal. Buffy tries to explain that thats not really how it works, a vampire demon possesses a vampire victim, but Ford doesn't care. In the end Ford gets what he wants, but in the final act Buffy stakes him as he awakes from his grave. The episode has a nice twist on Ford as the villain. Also, the title comes from Buffy at Ford's grave (before staking him) asking Giles if life ever gets easier. Giles says "Do you want the truth?" and Buffy says, "Lie to me". I thought, while it wasn't an amazing episode, the dying twist with Ford made it a good episode.
Separately, still not buying the Angel-Buffy romance. We do get a little insight into Angel's past though after Buffy questions him about seeing him with Drusilla. In the past, Angel made Drusilla a vampire by turning her after driving her mad by killing her family in front of her first...
Hey Laurel here...not much to add about the episode. No one really got to shine, especially not Angel who continues to be super boring. When Mark and I were talking earlier he made a good point that they are trying to build suspense about Angel, so we are not supposed to know too much about him yet but geez, get a personality, 253 year old person. I feel like it's a missed opportunity but Mark makes a good point about us not knowing too much about him too soon.
What I do want to add is holy moly this Tagine was super good. I have been struggling (and I think Mark has too) to some up with vegetarian ideas that are fully satisfying as an indulgent weekend main meal, but this one really fit the bill. It was actually a blue apron recipe that I will definitely save and make again. Between the chickpeas, almonds, and "holland" eggplant that has an especially hearty texture it was super satisfying and we didn't miss the meat at all, even for a weekend meal. I think this will inspire us for future bloodless episodes!
Over all we give this episode 3 stakes. We would maybe consider 3 1/2 if we had a graphic for that, but we don't so 3 will have to do.
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