I've read grudge fanfic writers that fans have targeted as masters of character assignation and bashing that didn't do it quite this well.
So much this. It's not just in this arc or the last either, it's pretty much throughout the whole series. I'm not sure what Whedon is doing other than making the characters as unsympathetic as possible and barring some outside influence (still possible, I guess), I don't think either are redeemable. The things Buffy has been doing aren't just wrong or mistakes, she *knows* they're mistakes which is why they're OOC. Maybe they're done the way they are so fans stand up and say "Whaaaa? Something is wrong here!" but that game got old a long time ago with no follow-through.
If this is a commentary on Twilight, etc, I strongly believe he's going about it the wrong way. Making your characters repugnant only makes people stop reading, it doesn't teach them anything.
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Date: 2010-09-06 02:13 am (UTC)I've read grudge fanfic writers that fans have targeted as masters of character assignation and bashing that didn't do it quite this well.
So much this. It's not just in this arc or the last either, it's pretty much throughout the whole series. I'm not sure what Whedon is doing other than making the characters as unsympathetic as possible and barring some outside influence (still possible, I guess), I don't think either are redeemable. The things Buffy has been doing aren't just wrong or mistakes, she *knows* they're mistakes which is why they're OOC. Maybe they're done the way they are so fans stand up and say "Whaaaa? Something is wrong here!" but that game got old a long time ago with no follow-through.
If this is a commentary on Twilight, etc, I strongly believe he's going about it the wrong way. Making your characters repugnant only makes people stop reading, it doesn't teach them anything.