I think they’re telling a story about what happens when you grow up and begin to show up on other people’s radar. As I tried to point out the show already has a precedent for what to do cases of self-defense when human opponents know what they’re up against and continue to use lethal force. However, if such attacks become systematic and the cold war turns hot that will present a new kind of problem and, as Buffy says, she doesn’t yet know what she should do.
Back in Sunnydale days demons had lesser ambitions... But I may be wrong. Even mid-term demons like the ones in Doomed were forever trying to open the hellmouth and unleash hell on earth. Hence Buffy saving the world a lot. We’ll have to agree to differ on that one.
I suppose your "yet" implies he a big player and will take an important part in the future developments. On the contrary I rather suspect that Roden is going to turn out to be more or less what he says he is, a bit-part player who stumbled across a book. His chest-revealing shirts haven’t yet revealed any sign of the twilight mark we saw carved on the General. Giles and Trafalgar may not be able to break through the barrier by force but Giles on his own is no Willow. I think we need to wait for the conclusion to this arc to find out why he needed Faith to on take this mission
I just don't understand how much suspension of disbelief we should apply to season 8. No more than usual, BtVS has always traded world-building for emotional realism, genrewise I find it plays like magic realism as much as straight sf or fantasy.
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Date: 2007-11-12 08:46 am (UTC)I think they’re telling a story about what happens when you grow up and begin to show up on other people’s radar. As I tried to point out the show already has a precedent for what to do cases of self-defense when human opponents know what they’re up against and continue to use lethal force. However, if such attacks become systematic and the cold war turns hot that will present a new kind of problem and, as Buffy says, she doesn’t yet know what she should do.
Back in Sunnydale days demons had lesser ambitions... But I may be wrong.
Even mid-term demons like the ones in Doomed were forever trying to open the hellmouth and unleash hell on earth. Hence Buffy saving the world a lot. We’ll have to agree to differ on that one.
I suppose your "yet" implies he a big player and will take an important part in the future developments.
On the contrary I rather suspect that Roden is going to turn out to be more or less what he says he is, a bit-part player who stumbled across a book. His chest-revealing shirts haven’t yet revealed any sign of the twilight mark we saw carved on the General. Giles and Trafalgar may not be able to break through the barrier by force but Giles on his own is no Willow. I think we need to wait for the conclusion to this arc to find out why he needed Faith to on take this mission
I just don't understand how much suspension of disbelief we should apply to season 8.
No more than usual, BtVS has always traded world-building for emotional realism, genrewise I find it plays like magic realism as much as straight sf or fantasy.