Agree. Obviously I haven't found the rights words to explain. I wasn't talking about token Big Bads. I was talking about practicing magicians. We don't know how strong Ethan Rayne was, but he mostly annoyed Giles. Rack was a magician and a very strong one but he wasn't interested in conquering the world. I suppose Coven people are very strong too.
Do you remember that little moment in Smashed when Willow says to Amy "I just keep thinking there's gotta be someplace, like, bigger than this." Tо me, it was the scene when the show - for a moment! - balanced on the verge of shifting its paradigm (I apologize for sounding like an arty-farty snob, but I can't find more appropriate words). But either due to budget issues or because Joss wasn't interested in such type of story, magiс became bad, period.
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Date: 2007-11-12 06:15 pm (UTC)Do you remember that little moment in Smashed when Willow says to Amy "I just keep thinking there's gotta be someplace, like, bigger than this." Tо me, it was the scene when the show - for a moment! - balanced on the verge of shifting its paradigm (I apologize for sounding like an arty-farty snob, but I can't find more appropriate words). But either due to budget issues or because Joss wasn't interested in such type of story, magiс became bad, period.
And today magic is in vogue again.