If I thought the main thrust of the larger arc was about Buffy being part demon I might agree that it's not terribly well executed but I don't think it is. I think the demonisation of powerful women and the insidiousness of that belief will feed into it but the main story arc will be about exploring what it means to have power and not hidden power that your enemies invariably underestimate but if anything the reverse.
As I tried to convey at the end of the post I think what the comics mainly aim to address is the next stage in Buffy's growing up arc in a way that I haven't seen any fanfic attempt. I have read a few that look at the demon/human issue. Some seem to use it as a way of having demons stand in for innocent Other types, which always strikes as having an inadvertant element of implying that such groups are comparable to murderous souless types. Others treat the issue more in a Jungian style as a metaphor for having to integrate your darker impulses which just confuses me as analytical psychology always has. I think my collective unconciousness is broken.
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Date: 2007-06-07 07:08 pm (UTC)As I tried to convey at the end of the post I think what the comics mainly aim to address is the next stage in Buffy's growing up arc in a way that I haven't seen any fanfic attempt. I have read a few that look at the demon/human issue. Some seem to use it as a way of having demons stand in for innocent Other types, which always strikes as having an inadvertant element of implying that such groups are comparable to murderous souless types. Others treat the issue more in a Jungian style as a metaphor for having to integrate your darker impulses which just confuses me as analytical psychology always has. I think my collective unconciousness is broken.