See, now I've always thought I should investigate Xena if only for the pretty, and you're not really discouraging me here.
But she retained a vague sense that there were other ways to live, and emulated them mainly because she had someone else right next to her (Gabrielle) to whom living like that came naturally, which it never did for her. One of the reasons I (mostly) prefered Spike's redemption arc in middle-series Buffy was because of this. He's mostly being good for her, and because he runs out of other options, and it kind of turns into a habit. Which I, personally, found more interesting than the light-at-Damascus never-gonna-want-to-do-the-bad-thing-ever-again. So that sounds really interesting now! Conflict, I guess, is nice - if all the leads believed the same thing, TV would be really dull...
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But she retained a vague sense that there were other ways to live, and emulated them mainly because she had someone else right next to her (Gabrielle) to whom living like that came naturally, which it never did for her.
One of the reasons I (mostly) prefered Spike's redemption arc in middle-series Buffy was because of this. He's mostly being good for her, and because he runs out of other options, and it kind of turns into a habit. Which I, personally, found more interesting than the light-at-Damascus never-gonna-want-to-do-the-bad-thing-ever-again. So that sounds really interesting now! Conflict, I guess, is nice - if all the leads believed the same thing, TV would be really dull...