To sum it up, you think that Buffy's mind was completely clear when she stopped attacking Angel. She stopped because she believed Angel when he said that he did it for her own good. She made the decision to have sex with Angel on her own free will, because was happy to leave her worries behind and enjoy herself.
Okay. This is not how I see these panels, but maybe it's my shipper's bias. ;-)
Which appears to be that the bad guys wasted a year in elaborate schemes to "undermine Buffy's moral certainty" rather than just launching an all-out attack on her in issue one, like General Voll originally wanted.
See, the problem with this kind of logic is that, eventually, it stands behind all totalitary regimes. Fascists, communists - they all justified killing as a necessity to create a better world.
Angel's goal was to juice Buffy up with power at the expense of lives of 200+ slayers. I quote from the #38 blurb: "he was given a clear mission in regard to Buffy - help her reach the next plane, together create a new world, and end all suffering". As a person who lived in a communist state the first half of my life, I see a direct reference to the communist ideology. That's exactly what communists were telling to peasants and workers in 1917 when they were stirring them up to start a revolution.
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Okay. This is not how I see these panels, but maybe it's my shipper's bias. ;-)
Which appears to be that the bad guys wasted a year in elaborate schemes to "undermine Buffy's moral certainty" rather than just launching an all-out attack on her in issue one, like General Voll originally wanted.
See, the problem with this kind of logic is that, eventually, it stands behind all totalitary regimes. Fascists, communists - they all justified killing as a necessity to create a better world.
Angel's goal was to juice Buffy up with power at the expense of lives of 200+ slayers. I quote from the #38 blurb: "he was given a clear mission in regard to Buffy - help her reach the next plane, together create a new world, and end all suffering". As a person who lived in a communist state the first half of my life, I see a direct reference to the communist ideology. That's exactly what communists were telling to peasants and workers in 1917 when they were stirring them up to start a revolution.