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.

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[elisi]

I got the email for the comment and it made me laugh!
Oh good! :)

And wanted to add, your shortcut put into light the weakness of the premise of the show on this particular point.
I seem to remember Joss(?) saying at some point [in reply to a question about souls] that 'the soul means whatever we want it to mean at any particular point' (or, you know, words to that effect) which really is spectacularly unhelpful when trying to get coherent meaning out of the show(s).

Sorry about the convolutedness of this, btw.