THE TERMINATOR. BtVS Intertext/Allusion.
"When She Was Bad" opens with Willow and Xander playing a game of "Name the Movie," quoting famous lines from movies:
Xander: It's your turn.
Willow: I, alright, okay, uh... 'In the few hours that we had together, we loved a lifetime's worth.'
Xander: Terminator.
Willow: Good! Great.
And in "This Year's Girl" Buffy describes Adam to Willow as "the Terminator without the bashful charm."
The
Terminator is a 1983 science fiction film directed by James
Cameron which tells the story of a
cyborg-assassin (played by Arnold
Schwarzenegger in the role that would make him a star)--the hired-gun of the ruling machines
of a future, post-nuclear holocaust Earth, intent upon extermination of
their creator, teleported back to the present in order to murder Sarah Connor (Linda
Hamilton), the mother-to-be
of a man who, in the next century, will lead a successful human revolt
against the planet's total mechanization. The line quoted by Willow, spoken by
Sarah Connor, speaks of her relationship with Kyle Reese (Michael
Biehn), the soldier also sent back in a time machine to protect her against
The Terminator. They make love in their few hours together, resulting in the
birth of John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance against the
machines.
