Demons are very similar to people, you got good ones and you got bad ones. Just because you’re a demon doesn’t necessarily mean you’re bad and just because you’re human doesn’t necessarily mean you’re good. That’s the way I look at it.
What I think is great about Buffy the show is that it can take all those archetypal characters and everything’s a metaphor. You can have a really hideous-looking person being one of the kindest, funniest people on the show, and then there are some people who have been very attractive who have been the most heartless and cruel. The whole Faith character is a beautiful girl who slipped into the dark side.
So I think the great thing about Joss and about the show and the writing is that it blurs all those lines, there’s no black and white, there’s all sorts of shades of grey. Just like life.
That’s the James Leary philosophical hour for the moment.
Demons, are they bad guys or just misunderstood?
