*nods* I agree with everything you say, but... hasn't Joss destroyed a lot of brilliant opportunuties by depicting Angelus as the absolute evil?
I'm recapping here what I said upthread in Russian. Art thrives on conflicts; human\demon interactions have bigger potential for conflict than human\human interactions. But if all vampires and demons are 100% evil, interaction seems improbable. Writers could rewrite their original set-up as Watcher Council's propaganda; but with the introduction of Angelus it became impossible. Or, at least, very hard.
it gives really unpleasant (to say the least) racist undertones to certain of the reactions of their characters towards demons (thinks about season 6 for example
Recently I read a very interesting discussion on this issue here
and I have to admit that I'd cheer if writers dared to go there and question the very paradigm of Buffyverse. Then again, I live in a country where such paradigm happened recently in front of my eyes (and it brought a lot of good and quite a lot of bad). So I can self-identify with characters in a similar situation.
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I agree with everything you say, but... hasn't Joss destroyed a lot of brilliant opportunuties by depicting Angelus as the absolute evil?
I'm recapping here what I said upthread in Russian. Art thrives on conflicts; human\demon interactions have bigger potential for conflict than human\human interactions. But if all vampires and demons are 100% evil, interaction seems improbable. Writers could rewrite their original set-up as Watcher Council's propaganda; but with the introduction of Angelus it became impossible. Or, at least, very hard.
it gives really unpleasant (to say the least) racist undertones to certain of the reactions of their characters towards demons (thinks about season 6 for example
Recently I read a very interesting discussion on this issue here
http://beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com/72634.html?thread=1204666#t1204666
and I have to admit that I'd cheer if writers dared to go there and question the very paradigm of Buffyverse. Then again, I live in a country where such paradigm happened recently in front of my eyes (and it brought a lot of good and quite a lot of bad). So I can self-identify with characters in a similar situation.