Giles: Cordelia, have you actually ever heard of tact?
Cordelia: Tact is just not saying true stuff. I’ll pass.
Season 2: Killed By Death
Giles: Cordelia, have you actually ever heard of tact?
Cordelia: Tact is just not saying true stuff. I’ll pass.
Season 2: Killed By Death
So I’m halfway through season 5 of Angel, and so far Cordi hasn’t shown up at all. Am I to believe that that coma she is in is permanent, that she’s effectively been killed off? What gives?
As for tact: I tend to agree with Cordelia, though I think what is more interesting is that her response reveals a little something about the writing in the Whedonverse. It was easy early on to dismiss Cordelia as a stereotypical cheerleading/bimbo type. But the fact is that statements like this actually hint at a deeper intelligence, which really came out in Angel as she matured and mellowed. Season 2, though: the wheels were already in motion.
You’ll just have to wait and see if Cordi comes back, but as for the early writing, you are right; Joss was brilliant in making her blunt shallowness turn out to be intelligence later. On the episode where Buffy hears what people are thinking, she is the only one that is always saying just what she is thinking. I love it.
“Killed by Death”
They named an episode after a Motorhead song? Interesting.