idle thought #278

[madimpossibledreamer]

okay, but, like...were they setting the US government up to be a Big Bad or what?  they never went into too much detail but someone had to put the stamp on the Initiative thing and there were a few other touches, most of which I don't remember, but there was the Collecting Invisible Kids thing from the episode with Marcie.  We know the Sunnydale officials are corrupt, incompetent, or both, but what about on the national scale?  (I mean, it definitely had an X-Files feel almost so what, is the CSM just going to pop out of somewhere?)

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[gillo]

I think Government without controls is potentially a Big Bad in the Buffyverse, and too much at risk of corruption. There's the Senator near the end of AngelS5 too. Mob rule (as in MOO) is also dangerous. Jasmine might be considered a warning against populism. The Mayor and Snyder misuse their power. On the whole individuals have a duty to take a share in the responsibility of running the world as well as possible:

When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do.

Chanterelle/Lily/Anne is a good example of a trajectory across seven years from helpless, inert and gullible to strong and determined to make everything she does count. Without even superpowers.