As soon as you choose to engage actively with the world, you get your hands dirty.
Or, to be more precise, as soon as you choose to engage actively with politics and war, you get your hands dirty. (people who work in the Red Cross are also engaged actively with the world).
Re Yamanh: I don't see him as a victim. I rather see him as a leader of a small Middle-East or African country. He has to be cruel because in a non-democratic society cruelty is the most effective power. His neighbors with quirky reproductive cycle should be kept in check because Hoht's people don't want to becomes fairies' incubators and won't respect the leader who can't guarantee the safety of their ears. :)
Now imagine that a big country like Russia or USA or China decides to increase it's influence in the region. As a rule, the situation becomes worse, no matter what politicians say. The balance of power is disrupted and civil war starts.
As you have mentioned in your LJ, Soviet invasion in Afganistan had had some positive results - f.ex. local women had got more rights. But the ultimate result was catastrophic for the country.
Let me specify again: I don't think that it's fair to judge magic world by RL standards. But I have a feeling that Joss wanted us to question the nature of Buffy-2's mission. What if she chose to support the wrong side? After all, Jossverse Santa disembowels children. Could Joss intentionally mention fairies' parasitic reproduction to make us think about them or did he do it just for laughs?
Oh by the way, ntshpp, who commented after you, compares Buffy-2 with Lawrence of Arabia and conjectures that by the end of her journey Buffy-2 was suicidal because she has started to realise the ambivalence of her mission.
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Date: 2007-08-12 03:22 pm (UTC)Or, to be more precise, as soon as you choose to engage actively with politics and war, you get your hands dirty. (people who work in the Red Cross are also engaged actively with the world).
Re Yamanh: I don't see him as a victim. I rather see him as a leader of a small Middle-East or African country. He has to be cruel because in a non-democratic society cruelty is the most effective power. His neighbors with quirky reproductive cycle should be kept in check because Hoht's people don't want to becomes fairies' incubators and won't respect the leader who can't guarantee the safety of their ears. :)
Now imagine that a big country like Russia or USA or China decides to increase it's influence in the region. As a rule, the situation becomes worse, no matter what politicians say. The balance of power is disrupted and civil war starts.
As you have mentioned in your LJ, Soviet invasion in Afganistan had had some positive results - f.ex. local women had got more rights. But the ultimate result was catastrophic for the country.
Let me specify again: I don't think that it's fair to judge magic world by RL standards. But I have a feeling that Joss wanted us to question the nature of Buffy-2's mission. What if she chose to support the wrong side? After all, Jossverse Santa disembowels children. Could Joss intentionally mention fairies' parasitic reproduction to make us think about them or did he do it just for laughs?
Oh by the way,