Sorry to disappear, life has been... too busy. Anyway, just wanted to come back to this (very momentarily):
I think Melody/River has more in common with Faith than with Connor actually. Although that's not quite a good fit either There are story-parallels with Faith, but basically I think River starts out Connor-like (there are more parallels than you give the show credit for), and then turns into Spike (the Spike-parallels are off the chart. *g*) I'm intending to write a post (at some point...) so I'll not go into too much detail right now, but that's my basic position. Faith just happens to be a woman (and she chooses to go to prison) but character-wise she's nothing like River. All her motivations are vastily different. :)
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I think Melody/River has more in common with Faith than with Connor actually. Although that's not quite a good fit either
There are story-parallels with Faith, but basically I think River starts out Connor-like (there are more parallels than you give the show credit for), and then turns into Spike (the Spike-parallels are off the chart. *g*) I'm intending to write a post (at some point...) so I'll not go into too much detail right now, but that's my basic position. Faith just happens to be a woman (and she chooses to go to prison) but character-wise she's nothing like River. All her motivations are vastily different. :)