What I would have appreciated from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is those questions being asked.
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I probably started watching BtVS for the exact opposite reasons you did - I do like vampire flicks, and I loved it when Spike started to call into question the moral underpinnings of the 'verse. That was what made me a fan rather than just a watcher. I was naive enough to think that this was deliberate on the writers' parts - how could it not be? How could they not see the implications of what they were doing with the character? And so I was deeply disappointed when it turned out that they'd never meant anything of the kind, and it all got swept under the rug.
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YES.
I probably started watching BtVS for the exact opposite reasons you did - I do like vampire flicks, and I loved it when Spike started to call into question the moral underpinnings of the 'verse. That was what made me a fan rather than just a watcher. I was naive enough to think that this was deliberate on the writers' parts - how could it not be? How could they not see the implications of what they were doing with the character? And so I was deeply disappointed when it turned out that they'd never meant anything of the kind, and it all got swept under the rug.