Problem is that in doing so they totally destroy Buffy -- if it takes pages to explain to us that he's really not as bad as he seems, what does that say about Buffy who took all of two lines from Angel to go from trying to stake him to boinking him out of this world?
That's the lesser of two evils. Either she instinctively knew he was still good, and the text then works to prove to us he's good with many pages to be more convincing. Or she just boinked a guy thinking he's good when he is in fact an evil son of a bitch sometimes--path to hell has been paved with spacefrakking--up, up and away!
The other option I see that would actually salvage Buffy's character would destroy her dignity and bodily autonomy--that she was overcome by the glow. But recent sane!Angel pages are making this appear questionable.
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Date: 2010-08-29 04:03 am (UTC)That's the lesser of two evils. Either she instinctively knew he was still good, and the text then works to prove to us he's good with many pages to be more convincing. Or she just boinked a guy thinking he's good when he is in fact an evil son of a bitch sometimes--path to hell has been paved with spacefrakking--up, up and away!
The other option I see that would actually salvage Buffy's character would destroy her dignity and bodily autonomy--that she was overcome by the glow. But recent sane!Angel pages are making this appear questionable.