I've felt ever since BtVS Season 7, that something very intrinsic about the overall attitude of the universe had been altered. For better or worse, it does seem a reflection of the post-9/11 American mindset (S7 Buffy's ticking timebomb-esque nation-under-siege plotline and desperate-times-require-desperate-measures attitude had a lot more in common with the likes of 24 than I would have previously expected from someone of Joss's political leanings).
Agree. I suppose it has started even earlier, in season 6, albeit on a subconscious level. If you check the dates on the scripts, you notice that Life Serial is the last pre-9/11 episode; All the Way has been delivered September 17, Once More, With Feeling - September 18, Tabula Rasa - October 5. But I suppose these three episodes had been on different stages of completion by 9/11 so the writers were finishing the stories started in a pre-9/11 mindset.
But with Smashed (delivered October, 17) the tone had radically changed and the show became much darker.
now that I think about it, makes Connor's multi-species gang sort of symbolic of that fusion.
Connor's gang intrigues me. In a barbaric world cruelty is the ultimate strenth - so, if a civilised person deals with barbarians he has to be cruel to be taken seriously. At least that's how it works in RL. I wonder if Connor also had to make some hard choices.
Of course writers could use him as a "white hat" opposition to Angel's grayness (as a compensation of his behavior in season 3-4), but I hope they'll make him as complex and controversial as his father. After all, Connor has spent the first 16 (?) years of his life in a barbaric world.
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Agree. I suppose it has started even earlier, in season 6, albeit on a subconscious level. If you check the dates on the scripts, you notice that Life Serial is the last pre-9/11 episode; All the Way has been delivered September 17, Once More, With Feeling - September 18, Tabula Rasa - October 5. But I suppose these three episodes had been on different stages of completion by 9/11 so the writers were finishing the stories started in a pre-9/11 mindset.
But with Smashed (delivered October, 17) the tone had radically changed and the show became much darker.
now that I think about it, makes Connor's multi-species gang sort of symbolic of that fusion.
Connor's gang intrigues me. In a barbaric world cruelty is the ultimate strenth - so, if a civilised person deals with barbarians he has to be cruel to be taken seriously. At least that's how it works in RL. I wonder if Connor also had to make some hard choices.
Of course writers could use him as a "white hat" opposition to Angel's grayness (as a compensation of his behavior in season 3-4), but I hope they'll make him as complex and controversial as his father. After all, Connor has spent the first 16 (?) years of his life in a barbaric world.