I think you and I have a very fundamentally different opinion of Angel. I think he's an adult, you don't agree. You exempt him from personal responsibility while I hold him to it.
He didn't know about the curse, but HE KNEW HE WAS A VAMPIRE. Forming an intimate relationship with a much younger person he could emotionally destroy simply by being himself was, in my opinion, utterly selfish.
Buffy didn't know about the curse, but SHE KNEW ANGEL HAD MURDERED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. She knew that she had the responsibility to destroy vampires. If she was a normal teenage girl, I wouldn't blame her at all. However, she knew very well what he had done and what he had the potential to do again.
To me, it's akin to a naive kid falling in love with a killer just out of prison. He/she may be rehabilitated, he/she may have all the best intentions, but there's no guarantee that the factors that caused him/her to be a killer in the first place will not cause him/her to return to old ways.
If the situation had been reversed, if Angel was the teen aged slayer, and Buffy was the 300 year old vampire, I would reverse my opinion as well. Buffy would be to blame for her own fate, and Angel would hold the minor blame of letting youthful emotions overcome sense.
Sexism has no place in my argument, execpt where you try to insert it.
I'm done here, at least for tonight. I've wasted too much time arguing a TV show anyway.
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Date: 2008-08-05 04:28 am (UTC)He didn't know about the curse, but HE KNEW HE WAS A VAMPIRE. Forming an intimate relationship with a much younger person he could emotionally destroy simply by being himself was, in my opinion, utterly selfish.
Buffy didn't know about the curse, but SHE KNEW ANGEL HAD MURDERED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. She knew that she had the responsibility to destroy vampires. If she was a normal teenage girl, I wouldn't blame her at all. However, she knew very well what he had done and what he had the potential to do again.
To me, it's akin to a naive kid falling in love with a killer just out of prison. He/she may be rehabilitated, he/she may have all the best intentions, but there's no guarantee that the factors that caused him/her to be a killer in the first place will not cause him/her to return to old ways.
If the situation had been reversed, if Angel was the teen aged slayer, and Buffy was the 300 year old vampire, I would reverse my opinion as well. Buffy would be to blame for her own fate, and Angel would hold the minor blame of letting youthful emotions overcome sense.
Sexism has no place in my argument, execpt where you try to insert it.
I'm done here, at least for tonight. I've wasted too much time arguing a TV show anyway.