that bank robbery changed the basics of Buffyverse so profoundly I don't know what to expect next.
Would it still be an interesting story if you did always know what was going to happen next, though?
Anyway, from my point of view Buffy robbing a bank is much less of a shocking change than Angel going to work for Wolfram & Hart. I mean, can you imagine the mockery and massed cries of "WTF is Joss smoking?" if that change had happened in AtF insted of S5?
Buffy, on the other hand, has never hesitated to violate the law if it means saving innocent lives... starting right back when she burned down her school gymnasium. Now she's committing bigger crimes in order to be able to save lives in general on an ongoing basis, rather than specific individual lives. I'm not denying that she's crossed a line somewhere, but it looks to me that she's falling down a slippery slope rather than waking up one day and deciding to become a supervillain.
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Date: 2008-01-30 05:20 pm (UTC)Would it still be an interesting story if you did always know what was going to happen next, though?
Anyway, from my point of view Buffy robbing a bank is much less of a shocking change than Angel going to work for Wolfram & Hart. I mean, can you imagine the mockery and massed cries of "WTF is Joss smoking?" if that change had happened in AtF insted of S5?
Buffy, on the other hand, has never hesitated to violate the law if it means saving innocent lives... starting right back when she burned down her school gymnasium. Now she's committing bigger crimes in order to be able to save lives in general on an ongoing basis, rather than specific individual lives. I'm not denying that she's crossed a line somewhere, but it looks to me that she's falling down a slippery slope rather than waking up one day and deciding to become a supervillain.