Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D1

On Mar 25, 12:00 am, "One Bit Shy" <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Perhaps the greatest evil is holding people down (or holding oneself
down)
> so that they cannot or will not choose to be the best they can. 
Slavery.
> Repression.  Even conformity.  All conspiring to hold people back.  I
don't
> care to argue the point of what's actually the greatest evil, but
resistance
> to being held back is almost primal in people, and has been the
foundation
> of cultural movements - including ones that appear to have influenced
Joss.
> Especially the particular feminist idea of women's empowerment in the
face
> of a patriarchal society that BtVS as a whole and this season especially
is
> founded upon.  So it makes sense to me that something along those lines
> would be the first evil that The First represents.
>
> If so, The First would probably be less interested in destroying the
world
> than in enslaving it.  Which certainly would be a grand exercise in
power.
> And about controlling everybody's power.  (Though killing is OK too - as
The
> First has conceded multiple times.  After all, that also takes people's
> power away.  It's just better when he gets to control it too.)

Let's try to hold that thought.

-AOQ