Maybe Im Just Out Of My Mind But The Thought Of Professor!steven Grant Being Smart, Funny And Kind And

maybe im just out of my mind but the thought of professor!steven grant being smart, funny and kind and having a platonic relationship with the reader is making me cry tears of joy

i want to wear dresses in the way little sick victorian children did (/j)

i literally cannot function properly if i don't eat my little daily bread like a medieval peasant

im a sue sylvester apologist first and foremost

There any way to make the Master like . . . good? Interesting? Anything other then a knockoff Graf Orlok?

Buffy's main arc in S1 is her struggling with growing up - accepting her destiny and therefore her metaphorical adulthood. This is why all the villains are in a state of arrested development - the Master stuck in place like a cork in a bottle, the Anointed held forever as a child. They represent, as vampires do in general at this point in the show, the danger of Buffy never growing up, never accepting adulthood and the transformation that comes with it.

Villains in this show are always metaphorical representations of some struggle Buffy is facing. The problem is that in this pre-Spike&Drusilla era, they are only metaphorical representations, and not, y'know, actual characters. Which is why the Master feels so flat and uninspired compared to the villains of later seasons.

I think the most interesting angle would have been to really dig into the Anointed One and the Master's relationship to him. Perhaps developing a father/son dynamic between them. This would have added humanity to both of them, and also highlighted the parallels between Buffy/Colin and Giles/the Master. The Chosen/Anointed with a Watcher/Master who, in a quasi-paternal way, guides then to a fatal destiny. The Master/Giles parallels are hinted at, but digging into them a little more could have been really interesting.

this is downright dystopian

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