"Monsters are more dangerous as concepts and metaphors than they are as actual physical beings". Oh, yes!
On me being harsh about Willow -- I completely agree she gives her desire for power more noble motives. She's not even lying. It's just not the whole truth. The argument all the way through is going to be that folks have multiple motives for what they do. Willow really wants to help. She's also jealous. (And you're right that a lot of Willow's real difficulty is because she doesn't really know how to be good.)
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Date: 2010-09-16 04:02 pm (UTC)"Monsters are more dangerous as concepts and metaphors than they are as actual physical beings". Oh, yes!
On me being harsh about Willow -- I completely agree she gives her desire for power more noble motives. She's not even lying. It's just not the whole truth. The argument all the way through is going to be that folks have multiple motives for what they do. Willow really wants to help. She's also jealous. (And you're right that a lot of Willow's real difficulty is because she doesn't really know how to be good.)