Great post. Your last paragraph really nails the ambiguity of the status of the vampire-characters sufficiently developped to be perceived as persons, or with visible human sides. One has to remark that Buffy was never never shown killing one of these (Dru escapes, Dalton is killed by the Judge, Spike... we know), except for the vamp prostitute, but then it was shown as problematic (and perhaps Holden, but the comedic aspect of the scene brushes any seriousness away).J Espenson's interview makes clear that it is also an angle that has to be taken into account.
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Date: 2009-01-12 02:08 pm (UTC)Great post. Your last paragraph really nails the ambiguity of the status of the vampire-characters sufficiently developped to be perceived as persons, or with visible human sides. One has to remark that Buffy was never never shown killing one of these (Dru escapes, Dalton is killed by the Judge, Spike... we know), except for the vamp prostitute, but then it was shown as problematic (and perhaps Holden, but the comedic aspect of the scene brushes any seriousness away).J Espenson's interview makes clear that it is also an angle that has to be taken into account.