Although I'm still very optimistic about the season as a whole, I really didn't like this issue.
I agree with you that the notion that vampires are regret personified is incoherent. shadowkat67 wants to say that regret isn't remorse, but rather unfulfilled desire (or something like that). But I don't see how you can fit that with the fact that the demon apparently could chow down on Faith and Giles precisely because they do have regrets.
But it's not worth thinking about. I just don't believe Krueger has a handle on the verse, so I'm not going to spend time trying to look for deeper meanings here.
And not following up on Faith and Giles in any kind of interesting way? Criminal.
I like your idea about the metaphor on falling birthrates. But I rather doubt that Krueger was thinking about that. It's a very low visibility issue here in the states, and to the extent that people care about it, they are conservatives in the so-called culture wars.
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I agree with you that the notion that vampires are regret personified is incoherent.
But it's not worth thinking about. I just don't believe Krueger has a handle on the verse, so I'm not going to spend time trying to look for deeper meanings here.
And not following up on Faith and Giles in any kind of interesting way? Criminal.
I like your idea about the metaphor on falling birthrates. But I rather doubt that Krueger was thinking about that. It's a very low visibility issue here in the states, and to the extent that people care about it, they are conservatives in the so-called culture wars.
Here's hoping that #24 is just an outlier.