I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment. I mean, the Master says flat-out in S1 that he and Luke have souls, not "the demon," not "demonic essence," but souls. I can't ignore that, and I can't ignore that while saying the very word soul disgusted Darla later when in S1 she's practically having an orgasm while the Master talks about binding his soul with another vampire's soul. Just because Joss shrugged and said, "Oh, that? Yeah, we didn't really know what we were doing, so ignore it." doesn't cut it with me.
If the actors and other writers felt like things could be changed on a whim to fit the story's needs, then I have to sort of believe that one could believe everything and nothing as possibilities. Vampires age but they don't if the writers need them to stay pretty. Vampires don't breath but they can be drowned yet they can't. Vampires don't sweat unless Joss gets frustrated with how long the constant reapplication of make-up was taking. Vampires were the result of the last Old One leaving this reality, yet not all the Old Ones left this reality... some are in the Deeper Well and some can be called forth into a human vessel through Ascension. At first, it seems like Slayers were part of the nature order of things, but then you find out that they were just engineered from demon dust by a bunch of people too scared to fight on their own so they pick a young girl. And then there's the Guardians that do absolutely nothing. Oh, my head is starting to hurt. Is it really so hard to pick a mythology and go with it?
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If the actors and other writers felt like things could be changed on a whim to fit the story's needs, then I have to sort of believe that one could believe everything and nothing as possibilities. Vampires age but they don't if the writers need them to stay pretty. Vampires don't breath but they can be drowned yet they can't. Vampires don't sweat unless Joss gets frustrated with how long the constant reapplication of make-up was taking. Vampires were the result of the last Old One leaving this reality, yet not all the Old Ones left this reality... some are in the Deeper Well and some can be called forth into a human vessel through Ascension. At first, it seems like Slayers were part of the nature order of things, but then you find out that they were just engineered from demon dust by a bunch of people too scared to fight on their own so they pick a young girl. And then there's the Guardians that do absolutely nothing. Oh, my head is starting to hurt. Is it really so hard to pick a mythology and go with it?