interesting review
Jul. 26th, 2003 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI read another review of the Buffy finale:
http://www.stakeme.com/episodes/episode_722.html
I don't agree with a lot of it, but some of the comments about Spike's sacrifice I found thought-provoking:
As a nifty side effect, Angel, the original souled vampire seeking redemption, suddenly gains new resonance. If Spike, whose simple goals of wanting to love and be loved led him to "follow his blood" into a state of selfless grace that Angel, who has been intentionally looking for redemption all along, has yet to reach.... what does that say about the entire idea of redemption? That Angel himself provided the fateful talisman only amplifies this question, and gives food for thought until the next season of Angel's own show, in which we're already being told that Spike will reappear. Is fate playing a cruel trick, or is Angel, the much-lauded vampire of prophecy, not really so special after all?
The point of Angel, who seeks redemption but has yet to find it, indirectly _providing_ the tool by which his protege (because that's what Spike is, in a way) achieves his final redemption, hasn't really occurred to me. I guess that would have interesting philosophical implications.
http://www.stakeme.com/episodes/episode_722.html
I don't agree with a lot of it, but some of the comments about Spike's sacrifice I found thought-provoking:
As a nifty side effect, Angel, the original souled vampire seeking redemption, suddenly gains new resonance. If Spike, whose simple goals of wanting to love and be loved led him to "follow his blood" into a state of selfless grace that Angel, who has been intentionally looking for redemption all along, has yet to reach.... what does that say about the entire idea of redemption? That Angel himself provided the fateful talisman only amplifies this question, and gives food for thought until the next season of Angel's own show, in which we're already being told that Spike will reappear. Is fate playing a cruel trick, or is Angel, the much-lauded vampire of prophecy, not really so special after all?
The point of Angel, who seeks redemption but has yet to find it, indirectly _providing_ the tool by which his protege (because that's what Spike is, in a way) achieves his final redemption, hasn't really occurred to me. I guess that would have interesting philosophical implications.
