Today I watched the episode “The Dark Age”, and it was mainly based around Giles’ past. Buffy and her friends joke around during the beginning and talk about how Giles has never done anything fun in his life and the only thing he thinks about is probably schoolwork. A man shows up to the library one night looking for Giles, but he wont answer the door. Some zombie comes out of nowhere and kills this man, and the police find him in the morning. It turns out Giles knew this man from his younger days and used to hang out with him. After more zombies start coming for Giles, Buffy gets concerned. He tells her about his past and how him and his friends used to summon this spirit to get a “high”. Apparently one time it got out of control and this spirit took the body of one of his friends. The only way Giles was able to take care of this was to kill his friend. Now the spirit is back and wants to kill everyone that was in Giles’ group of friends. Giles then puts Buffy and her friends in danger after they find out about this spirit. This episode takes on the idiom of having “skeletons in the closet”. Giles has one, pretty much literally. Everyone finds out about the man he killed, and the spirit he used to conjure up. This episode shows that everyone has their secrets, and many times they are not what would be expected. How do people keep such big secrets like this? Why is it such a big deal that these secrets are kept? And is it necessary to keep a secret from people that may be put in danger because of it?
I watched this episode before and was surprised of Giles past because of how tightly wound he is.
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