That's not quite what I was getting at... see, in the case of a superhero comic such as the JLA titles, we tend to assume that the heroes are trustworthy because that's part of the genre convention. And the story is told from their point of view, as you said.
Watchmen does this a little bit differently, but its messages are somewhat mixed... the public is suspicious of the superheroes, but it's mainly a knee-jerk reaction to their "otherness", and the public is mistaken about what the nature of the threat (if you can call it that) is.
But with BtVS we don't have much of a genre convention to rely upon, so we, the viewers, have to choose and balance the perspectives. Which makes the interpretation very, um, interesting...
It occured to me when reading your post that the First Evil might be your preferred reference point, and hey, there's nothing wrong with that.
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Date: 2005-05-26 11:09 pm (UTC)Watchmen does this a little bit differently, but its messages are somewhat mixed... the public is suspicious of the superheroes, but it's mainly a knee-jerk reaction to their "otherness", and the public is mistaken about what the nature of the threat (if you can call it that) is.
But with BtVS we don't have much of a genre convention to rely upon, so we, the viewers, have to choose and balance the perspectives. Which makes the interpretation very, um, interesting...
It occured to me when reading your post that the First Evil might be your preferred reference point, and hey, there's nothing wrong with that.