I love that. It's actually a great way of putting it too, since the audience is rather like a bunch of aliens with whom you're trying to communicate. Assume too much, don't make your meanings clear enough, and they're seeing rude gestures when you're flashing them a thumbs-up symbol. Cultures in collusion.
all I can think of is if Angel and Spike both survive NFA, Buffy isn't going to recognize what Angel's become at all - but Spike has remained true to himself.
Yeah, that kinda seemed to be the idea to me, consciously planned that way or not. Spike never questions himself so much as what he's doing (the last big self-question would have been when he went to get the soul and came back all self-hatey... which was then more or less cancelled out by Buffy's "I believe in you"). So we see him adjust his actions in S6 - he starts thinking, well, maybe I have something to make up for after all, post-"Damage" and hangs around to help fight Big Evil post-Fred's-gone. But you never hear him wonder to himself, "am I a bad person"? Which Angel does all the time... until he decides that it doesn't matter anymore, because he'll never manage good, so he might as well use his own evil. It's really depressing viewed in that light, actually.... he walks away from redemption because not only does he believe that he's not good enough, but that saving his own soul doesn't matter in the "big picture."
Damn, now I'm back to being sad for Angel again. I'm kinda having a hard time imagining what he might be like post-NFA.
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I love that. It's actually a great way of putting it too, since the audience is rather like a bunch of aliens with whom you're trying to communicate. Assume too much, don't make your meanings clear enough, and they're seeing rude gestures when you're flashing them a thumbs-up symbol. Cultures in collusion.
all I can think of is if Angel and Spike both survive NFA, Buffy isn't going to recognize what Angel's become at all - but Spike has remained true to himself.
Yeah, that kinda seemed to be the idea to me, consciously planned that way or not. Spike never questions himself so much as what he's doing (the last big self-question would have been when he went to get the soul and came back all self-hatey... which was then more or less cancelled out by Buffy's "I believe in you"). So we see him adjust his actions in S6 - he starts thinking, well, maybe I have something to make up for after all, post-"Damage" and hangs around to help fight Big Evil post-Fred's-gone. But you never hear him wonder to himself, "am I a bad person"? Which Angel does all the time... until he decides that it doesn't matter anymore, because he'll never manage good, so he might as well use his own evil. It's really depressing viewed in that light, actually.... he walks away from redemption because not only does he believe that he's not good enough, but that saving his own soul doesn't matter in the "big picture."
Damn, now I'm back to being sad for Angel again. I'm kinda having a hard time imagining what he might be like post-NFA.