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| The forsaken couple. Angel and Buffy. |
“Within the paradigm of moral rightness of characters…good and evil are ever shifting qualities”. (Baum
Buffy the teenage Vampire Slayer is a TV show filled with ethically challenged characters (as if having a soul cursed vampire ironically names ‘Angel’ isn’t hint enough). Although Angel was initially this reformed vampire, having sex caused him to return to his vampire roots of killing and brutalising people. Something that Buffy then has to deal with, a blood thirsty murdering ex-lover. The TV series, takes something as straight forward as love and hate, and manages to subvert the two so they are almost inseparable, therefore deconstructing these two familiar emotions in a way so that the viewer has to second guess themselves and they way this/these emotions are perceived.
This sort of Good/Evil Love/Hate binary has been reused in many tv shows (notably Charmed), perhaps drawing inspiration from the Buffy storyline. I think it adds dimension to these characters, instead of having these stereotypical 100% bad or 100% good characters; they have the ability to switch between the two. Although this may be out of their control, it does make for an interesting watch.
Buffy the teenage Vampire Slayer is a TV show filled with ethically challenged characters (as if having a soul cursed vampire ironically names ‘Angel’ isn’t hint enough). Although Angel was initially this reformed vampire, having sex caused him to return to his vampire roots of killing and brutalising people. Something that Buffy then has to deal with, a blood thirsty murdering ex-lover. The TV series, takes something as straight forward as love and hate, and manages to subvert the two so they are almost inseparable, therefore deconstructing these two familiar emotions in a way so that the viewer has to second guess themselves and they way this/these emotions are perceived.
This sort of Good/Evil Love/Hate binary has been reused in many tv shows (notably Charmed), perhaps drawing inspiration from the Buffy storyline. I think it adds dimension to these characters, instead of having these stereotypical 100% bad or 100% good characters; they have the ability to switch between the two. Although this may be out of their control, it does make for an interesting watch.
References
Braum, B. (2000) The X-files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The ambiguity of evil in supernatural representations. Retrieved 18 October, 2005 from: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0 412/is_2_28/ai_64688900
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