To add one of my own gripes about "Angel" and the argument of "more adult": That's only true if one considers it more adult to commit "evil" (crimes) as necessity to make your point/life. More adult? Wha...how?
True. Although, I think part of that came from the marketing. Buffy was aimed at teenage girls and shown in a earlier time slot. It also was set in high-school and then college, really wasn't until the last three seasons that it drifted a bit away from that. A lot of people see "high school" settings as young adult or juvenile, but it's not really. Adult themes are explored in those settings all the time.
Angel didn't necessarily deal with more adult themes, it just had a more adult setting (LA, detective agency, business world). But the themes about power, and horrible things we do for power were ageless.
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Date: 2011-08-16 09:10 pm (UTC)True. Although, I think part of that came from the marketing. Buffy was aimed at teenage girls and shown in a earlier time slot. It also was set in high-school and then college, really wasn't until the last three seasons that it drifted a bit away from that. A lot of people see "high school" settings as young adult or juvenile, but it's not really. Adult themes are explored in those settings all the time.
Angel didn't necessarily deal with more adult themes, it just had a more adult setting (LA, detective agency, business world). But the themes about power, and horrible things we do for power were ageless.