Spike's chip said not post-resurrection. Before that she registered as perfectly human
Well, kinda.
"She's uncomfortable with certain concepts. It's understandable. Aggression is a natural human tendency. Though you and me come by it another way." "We're not demons." "Is that a fact?"
"Your craving goes deeper than that. You think you know. What you are, what's to come… you haven't even begun. Find it… the darkness… Find your true nature."
"You're afraid that being the Slayer means losing your humanity." "Does it?" "You are full of love. You love with all of your soul." (Not from the scene)"Um, you avoided answering my question. I'm full of love, that's nice and all, but you haven't said if i'm losing my humanity. Yes or no?"
Living Warren was a parallel to Buffy from her perspective, because she's confident that she's basically human. But as aycheb remarks in her own review of TLWH, one of the themes of seaosn 8 is that the Slayer can no longer hide in the shadows; with thousands of them, they're exposed to public view in a way they never were before. And so from an outsider's perspective, the contrast isn't between Buffy and Warren as two humans, but between Buffy and Warren as two monsters.
Forget Warren and Amy for a moment, because after all they're just Voll's minions. Is Buffy justified in declaring war on humanity? Is Voll justified in seeing her as a greater threat to the world than any skinless corpse could ever be?
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Date: 2007-06-27 10:16 am (UTC)Well, kinda.
"She's uncomfortable with certain concepts. It's understandable. Aggression is a natural human tendency. Though you and me come by it another way."
"We're not demons."
"Is that a fact?"
"Your craving goes deeper than that. You think you know. What you are,
what's to come… you haven't even begun. Find it… the darkness… Find your true nature."
"You're afraid that being the Slayer means losing your humanity."
"Does it?"
"You are full of love. You love with all of your soul."
(Not from the scene)"Um, you avoided answering my question. I'm full of love, that's nice and all, but you haven't said if i'm losing my humanity. Yes or no?"
Living Warren was a parallel to Buffy from her perspective, because she's confident that she's basically human. But as aycheb remarks in her own review of TLWH, one of the themes of seaosn 8 is that the Slayer can no longer hide in the shadows; with thousands of them, they're exposed to public view in a way they never were before. And so from an outsider's perspective, the contrast isn't between Buffy and Warren as two humans, but between Buffy and Warren as two monsters.
Forget Warren and Amy for a moment, because after all they're just Voll's minions. Is Buffy justified in declaring war on humanity? Is Voll justified in seeing her as a greater threat to the world than any skinless corpse could ever be?