I'd like to ask : is it a real attempt at making the killing of vampires a morally grey area or is it an attempt at making it appear like a morally grey area, all the killings being there to point at it only being only an appearance
I'm honestly not sure. The entire "everyone loves vampires" arc has been set up so badly that it's very difficult to tell what's fuzzy on purpose and what's just bad storytelling.
you'll find in the show several examples of newly risen vampires staked on the spot. And isn't Buffy shown at least one time waiting near a grave for a vampire to rise?
Absolutely, which makes perfect sense since we see exactly 0 vampires being able to not kill people without outside help (soul, chip, stake through the heart). It's what they do: they live by killing the living, and there's very little they can (or want to) do to change that. "Spike didn't have free will and you did." "You betrayed me. You are betraying me now, even as we are talking. ...No, because you have no soul."
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Date: 2009-07-08 08:25 pm (UTC)I'm honestly not sure. The entire "everyone loves vampires" arc has been set up so badly that it's very difficult to tell what's fuzzy on purpose and what's just bad storytelling.
you'll find in the show several examples of newly risen vampires staked on the spot. And isn't Buffy shown at least one time waiting near a grave for a vampire to rise?
Absolutely, which makes perfect sense since we see exactly 0 vampires being able to not kill people without outside help (soul, chip, stake through the heart). It's what they do: they live by killing the living, and there's very little they can (or want to) do to change that. "Spike didn't have free will and you did." "You betrayed me. You are betraying me now, even as we are talking. ...No, because you have no soul."