Is it okay to mistreat a metaphor? A Jossverse poll.

Okay, so we all know (I think) that BtVS is not a show about vampires and that if Joss Whedon had been left to follow his own instincts there might well have been no vampire characters in the show, beyond disposable villain of the week/season. Vampires were there to be staked by Buffy as comic relief or as metaphors for parts of her growing up process.

We weren't supposed to care about them, and to make sure we didn't fall into that trap, Joss introduced the vampires-are-soulless-and-therefore-can-never-be-anything-but-evil idea to differentiate between the characters we were supposed to care about and those we weren't.

More behind cut, with a poll.

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Is it okay to mistreat a metaphor? A Jossverse poll.

Okay, so we all know (I think) that BtVS is not a show about vampires and that if Joss Whedon had been left to follow his own instincts there might well have been no vampire characters in the show, beyond disposable villain of the week/season. Vampires were there to be staked by Buffy as comic relief or as metaphors for parts of her growing up process.

We weren't supposed to care about them, and to make sure we didn't fall into that trap, Joss introduced the vampires-are-soulless-and-therefore-can-never-be-anything-but-evil idea to differentiate between the characters we were supposed to care about and those we weren't.

More behind cut, with a poll.

( Read more... )

Is it okay to mistreat a metaphor? A Jossverse poll.

Okay, so we all know (I think) that BtVS is not a show about vampires and that if Joss Whedon had been left to follow his own instincts there might well have been no vampire characters in the show, beyond disposable villain of the week/season. Vampires were there to be staked by Buffy as comic relief or as metaphors for parts of her growing up process.

We weren't supposed to care about them, and to make sure we didn't fall into that trap, Joss introduced the vampires-are-soulless-and-therefore-can-never-be-anything-but-evil idea to differentiate between the characters we were supposed to care about and those we weren't.

More behind cut, with a poll.

( Read more... )