Actually, not so much from my point of view. I really prefer stories that at least make sense on their surface level, even if I'm going to fanwank about alternate interpretations. As a piece of storytelling craft, season seven was one long Idiot Plot. I was able to come up with what I think was a plausible motivation for the Baddie. To explain the 'thinking' of the *protagonists*, I think I'd have to resort to giving the Baddie an intelligence-dampening field.
The idea of Evil investing for the future is a strong one, and appears in many other forms of literature....definite precedent.
Oh yeah. Moreover, plenty of precedents in the Buffyverse, though the most obvious ones were all "next door", in Angel. Most foregrounded, the way that Wolfram & Hart are willing to let Angel do immense damage to them rather than kill him, in the hopes that he will eventually be 'turned', and gain them more than they have lost.
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Date: 2004-12-06 01:42 am (UTC)Actually, not so much from my point of view. I really prefer stories that at least make sense on their surface level, even if I'm going to fanwank about alternate interpretations. As a piece of storytelling craft, season seven was one long Idiot Plot. I was able to come up with what I think was a plausible motivation for the Baddie. To explain the 'thinking' of the *protagonists*, I think I'd have to resort to giving the Baddie an intelligence-dampening field.
The idea of Evil investing for the future is a strong one, and appears in many other forms of literature....definite precedent.
Oh yeah. Moreover, plenty of precedents in the Buffyverse, though the most obvious ones were all "next door", in Angel. Most foregrounded, the way that Wolfram & Hart are willing to let Angel do immense damage to them rather than kill him, in the hopes that he will eventually be 'turned', and gain them more than they have lost.