Whedon tends to reward patient readers and viewers. His tales never start off at a fast clip, and it is often not until the middle of the tale that you start to realize what he is doing and how well-plotted characterwise it truly is. Each character's actions and motivations deftly affect another's as well as the plot's yet - the character's themselves remain unaware of it - they don't see the thread unfolding the way we do - this makes the story more real.
I think one of the larger themes of the work is Buffy's strength - a strength I'm not sure she is aware of. It's why Angel, Riley, and Spike fell in love with her and were to an extent inspired by her. They all tell her much the same thing - "you're a hell of a woman, Buffy" or "you're the one". But she doesn't know why and that is part of her appeal.
And the writer is doing a good job of showing us what that is, and how difficult it is. It's not easy to forgive, to show mercy to one's enemies, to console and comfort someone during a battle or after a battle that you lost and got severly hurt during, to admit one's mistakes, and to give someone who tried to kill you on numerous occassions a chance to redeem themselves. That's not easy to do. Buffy has done it. Nor is it easy to know when to do it. It's also not easy to try and understand someone else.
Yet, by the same token, Buffy is imperfect, she's deeply flawed, which makes her all the more interesting. Whedon creates flawed characters, who are incredibly complex. His heroes are far from perfect. And his villains are not always simplistic. Twilight certainly isn't.
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Whedon tends to reward patient readers and viewers. His tales never start off at a fast clip, and it is often not until the middle of the tale that you start to realize what he is doing and how well-plotted characterwise it truly is. Each character's actions and motivations deftly affect another's as well as the plot's yet - the character's themselves remain unaware of it - they don't see the thread unfolding the way we do - this makes the story more real.
I think one of the larger themes of the work is Buffy's strength - a strength I'm not sure she is aware of. It's why Angel, Riley, and Spike fell in love with her and were to an extent inspired by her. They all tell her much the same thing - "you're a hell of a woman, Buffy" or "you're the one". But she doesn't know why and that is part of her appeal.
And the writer is doing a good job of showing us what that is, and how difficult it is.
It's not easy to forgive, to show mercy to one's enemies, to console and comfort someone during a battle or after a battle that you lost and got severly hurt during, to admit one's mistakes, and to give someone who tried to kill you on numerous occassions a chance to redeem themselves. That's not easy to do. Buffy has done it. Nor is it easy to know when to do it. It's also not easy to try and understand someone else.
Yet, by the same token, Buffy is imperfect, she's deeply flawed, which makes her all the more interesting. Whedon creates flawed characters, who are incredibly complex. His heroes are far from perfect. And his villains are not always simplistic. Twilight certainly isn't.
Curious to see where this goes.