Look, I had a *thought*!

[elisi]

First though, I must wish the Happiest of Birthdays to earth_vexer! May you continue to vex the earth for many, many years to come! :)

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But! The Queen of Polls, gabrielleabelle, made a poll about which show is more adult/mature/dark - Buffy or Angel? Now it's tempting to go for Angel, but otoh there's few things as dark as S6 of BtVS... So, instead of doing the poll, I started turning the problem over in my head, because the shows are both dark, but in different way. And then I had a minor epiphany - the main character of each series is a reflection of the show overall:

BtVS is about a good person who's had darkness forced upon her.

AtS is about a bad person who's had goodness forced upon him.

I think everything springs from this.

Comments

[zimshan.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Way to boil down twelve seasons into two sentences! But that might just be the best simple contrast summation I've ever seen about the two shows. I think it definitely rings true. Thanks for sharing your little epiphany! :)

[elisi]

Whoa. Way to boil down twelve seasons into two sentences! But that might just be the best simple contrast summation I've ever seen about the two shows.
*beams* I'm feeling clever today! :) Thank you for commenting!

[elisi]

::frowns::

Where did my reply go? LJ is *really* playing up. Let's hope it turns up again...

[zimshan.livejournal.com]

...That's so strange! I definitely got the email for the comment. Weird, LJ. Really, really weird...