Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D1

"Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsmtsm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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.

I'm a big fan of losing my thoughts.  That way I can re-invent them as I 
choose.

OBS