you think that Buffy's mind was completely clear when she stopped attacking Angel.
Completely clear in the sense that she was in full control of her faculties and able to make decisions freely: yes. She wasn't emotionless and coldly logical, if that's what you mean.
She stopped because she believed Angel when he said that he did it for her own good.
Yes; or at least, she believed that he thought he was doing it for her own good, and therefore his intentions were coming from the right place. As 8.35 shows, she didn't necessarily agree with his decision and certainly wasn't going to go along with it just for his sake.
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.
Yes, exactly.
As a person who lived in a communist state the first half of my life, I see a direct reference to the communist ideology.
Me too. Do you remember the review I wrote of 8.35? I directly compared Angel's behaviour to either a True Believer in Marxism-Leninism and the Proletarian Revolution, or alternatively to a fundamentalist Christian who believes in the End Times and the Rapture. Both are ideologies that claim that a better world is coming, and that any suffering which might happen in the meantime is a regrettable necessity, but everything will be made better once the Revolution (or Rapture) comes. At least for the chosen ones. The Twilight prophecy is a pretty blatant metaphor for that.
I don't blame you at all for being repelled by Angel's logic, given your experience; but there have been millions of oeple throught ut history, and still today, who believe like he does. And they don't normally think of themselves as evil; most times, they think their opponents are the evil ones for trying to stop the better world from being created.
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Date: 2010-08-29 07:00 pm (UTC)Completely clear in the sense that she was in full control of her faculties and able to make decisions freely: yes. She wasn't emotionless and coldly logical, if that's what you mean.
She stopped because she believed Angel when he said that he did it for her own good.
Yes; or at least, she believed that he thought he was doing it for her own good, and therefore his intentions were coming from the right place. As 8.35 shows, she didn't necessarily agree with his decision and certainly wasn't going to go along with it just for his sake.
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.
Yes, exactly.
As a person who lived in a communist state the first half of my life, I see a direct reference to the communist ideology.
Me too. Do you remember the review I wrote of 8.35? I directly compared Angel's behaviour to either a True Believer in Marxism-Leninism and the Proletarian Revolution, or alternatively to a fundamentalist Christian who believes in the End Times and the Rapture. Both are ideologies that claim that a better world is coming, and that any suffering which might happen in the meantime is a regrettable necessity, but everything will be made better once the Revolution (or Rapture) comes. At least for the chosen ones. The Twilight prophecy is a pretty blatant metaphor for that.
I don't blame you at all for being repelled by Angel's logic, given your experience; but there have been millions of oeple throught ut history, and still today, who believe like he does. And they don't normally think of themselves as evil; most times, they think their opponents are the evil ones for trying to stop the better world from being created.