Remember this is a horror series. Not only that but a television horror series. The characters can't be that fully developed. Also romances cannot last. We can't have Buffy and Angel getting married, having kids, and fighting demons - well, we could, but that would go against the nature of the series, plus I'd probably be bored. But if you like that sort of stuff? I highly recommend Moonlight and Tanya Huff's Blood Ties and Charlian Harri's Sookie series. Also you may enjoy the Twilight novels a great deal. Not my cup of tea I'm afraid, although I'll admit to liking Blood Ties.
I guess what I loved most about this series was the anti-romance aspect. It's populated with metaphors and images dictacting how romances like Buffy/Angel fall apart and cannot be sustained. I'm not saying that they can't be sustained, that it is impossible, I'm saying the series is depicting the opposite.
If Buffy was a romance novel = you would get what you depict above. But it's not, it is a horror show - you get the opposite.
It is showing how romances go badly, how things go wrong. A similar argument could be made for B/X, B/S, etc and be just as true as yours above. I've read them. But, that's not the story the writer wants to tell and it is not the story that is being shown, nor should it be. The story on air is satirizing what you discuss above. It is making fun of it. Undercutting.
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Remember this is a horror series. Not only that but a television horror series. The characters can't be that fully developed. Also romances cannot last. We can't have Buffy and Angel getting married, having kids, and fighting demons - well, we could, but that would go against the nature of the series, plus I'd probably be bored. But if you like that sort of stuff? I highly recommend Moonlight and Tanya Huff's Blood Ties and Charlian Harri's Sookie series. Also you may enjoy the Twilight novels a great deal. Not my cup of tea I'm afraid, although I'll admit to liking Blood Ties.
I guess what I loved most about this series was the anti-romance aspect. It's populated with metaphors and images dictacting how romances like Buffy/Angel fall apart and cannot be sustained. I'm not saying that they can't be sustained, that it is impossible, I'm saying the series is depicting the opposite.
If Buffy was a romance novel = you would get what you depict above. But it's not, it is a horror show - you get the opposite.
It is showing how romances go badly, how things go wrong. A similar argument could be made for B/X, B/S, etc and be just as true as yours above. I've read them.
But, that's not the story the writer wants to tell and it is not the story that is being shown, nor should it be. The story on air is satirizing what you discuss above. It is making fun of it. Undercutting.