Trivia / Angel S 02 E 07 Darla

• Creator's Favorite Episode:
  • Joss Whedon stated this episode as his all-time favorite episode, during an "Attack of the Show" interview.
  • Composer Robert J. Kral says this is his favorite episode to have scored, as he was able to write several different themes for the character of Darla. He was asked by Tim Minear to write music that was "epochy. Something with horns...something Wagnerish." Kral and Buffy composer Thomas Wanker deliberately choose not to collaborate, so that the cross-over scenes would "maintain a different perspective," Kral says.
  • Julie Benz says the flashback scenes are "the high points" of playing Darla; her favorite scene is the Boxer Rebellion.
• What Could Have Been: When Wesley finds Angel drawing multiple sketches of Darla, in the original script he spotted a nude drawing and this exchange ensued:
  Angel: I’ve been …thinking. That’s all.
  Wesley: Thinking?
  Angel: Yes. It helps me sometimes to think with my hands.
  Wesley: And occasionally...just the one hand.

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