::Nods:: A female rebel is a hard thing to be, for sure. To be written in the first place but also to be read as such by the audience. I wonder if Holden Caulfield had be a girl he would have been interpreted as being all about his sister. Similarly Sarah Connor, she's doing what she does to save the world not just to support her son but people read it all as twisted mother love all the same. Buffy had as many funny lines as Spike but he gets thought of as the snarky (not bitchy) one.
It's been interesting the reactions to Buffy robbing a bank in the S8 comics, a lot of people seem quite outraged at the very idea of it as if with one act she's sunk in their eyes from hero to ultimate villain. Much quoting of 'because it's wrong' even through that was a Faith line on the show, parodying what she thought was Buffy's stance.
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Date: 2008-02-03 01:05 pm (UTC)It's been interesting the reactions to Buffy robbing a bank in the S8 comics, a lot of people seem quite outraged at the very idea of it as if with one act she's sunk in their eyes from hero to ultimate villain. Much quoting of 'because it's wrong' even through that was a Faith line on the show, parodying what she thought was Buffy's stance.