In episode 2 (interestingly called The Harvest) we get told that everything we thought we knew about pre-history is probably wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if that included the Bronze Age being an Acrylic Age.
In S7 Buffy not being a General is more anti-hierarchy than anti-war and I'd say S8 is more about the problems with stardom than with Generaldom. I think reading individual demons as personalities works, it just Russian dolls the fighting your demons theme. But I think it gets problematic to shift story perspective from the personal to the political. Partly in an "I wouldn't have started from here way." Jossverse demons and vampires don't just kill people for self-defense or ignorance or cultural difference, they do it for fun, because they get off on it. They still are in S8. Start focussing on them as representations of the other and the story as a coy allegory for some form of identity politics and all too soon you wind up implying that there's nothing wrong with representing black/gay/disabled people as literally (not allegedly) bloodthirsty demons. Even without that, any story about Buffy & Co discovering that demons are just like them would only be heart warming from the white/straight/able-bodied audience viewpoint. Watching them come to the brilliant realisation that othered people are really people would (and does) evoke at best a big duh! from any less privileged position.
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That Buffy. Such a cow!
In episode 2 (interestingly called The Harvest) we get told that everything we thought we knew about pre-history is probably wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if that included the Bronze Age being an Acrylic Age.
In S7 Buffy not being a General is more anti-hierarchy than anti-war and I'd say S8 is more about the problems with stardom than with Generaldom. I think reading individual demons as personalities works, it just Russian dolls the fighting your demons theme. But I think it gets problematic to shift story perspective from the personal to the political. Partly in an "I wouldn't have started from here way." Jossverse demons and vampires don't just kill people for self-defense or ignorance or cultural difference, they do it for fun, because they get off on it. They still are in S8. Start focussing on them as representations of the other and the story as a coy allegory for some form of identity politics and all too soon you wind up implying that there's nothing wrong with representing black/gay/disabled people as literally (not allegedly) bloodthirsty demons. Even without that, any story about Buffy & Co discovering that demons are just like them would only be heart warming from the white/straight/able-bodied audience viewpoint. Watching them come to the brilliant realisation that othered people are really people would (and does) evoke at best a big duh! from any less privileged position.