~~ morality-playerama.

Er, right then. For some reason, I want to make yet -another- post on BtVS. This is getting out of hand. Sooo... I'm thinking of making a Buffy filter. That would be good. So um... if you want in, just comment or something. 'Cause it seems silly to make a poll just for this. Right then. If no one says anything, I guess I'll filter this to Erin alone from now on, eheheheh.

Reading `Still Life in Sunnydale', which is a Season 6 AU where Spike gets Warren to take his chip out & then kills him, post `Seeing Red'-- it hits me once again. I can't seem to see Warren as a Big Bad. As someone worthy of hatred and revenge.

It's easy to write off people who're impossible to empathize with-- clear-cut villains, people who're deeply stupid and violent, people who get off on torturing children, that sort of thing. It just bothers me that so many people like vampires (blood-sucking demons, etc) and seem to have this huge issue with Warren. I mean, maybe this means that Warren hits too close to home-- is less of a fantasy. But I just keep thinking that everyone's "slaying" and good/evil concepts are based in a type of fantasy-- Buffy's and the vampires' and Warren's. Buffy has this whole savior complex and Warren has this whole supervillain complex and the vampires have this whole "we're demons, aaaayyyyyy" thing going on. They're all insane, technically, outside of their own context.

( Blah-blah-Buffy-morality-play-blah. And to think I just wanted to defend Warren. No love! ...And I have a feeling there'll be no love for my Warren-is-Draco parallel either. Heh. )