My problem, is ultimately the aristocratic and anti-democratic direction Whedon takes the premise. (Actually, it's more Leninist than Aristocratic, though - for the excluded, both governing forms are functionally similar in the end.) The way the general population (male and female) is defined out of the halls of power.
It's a net win that there are more slayers than before. But fundamentally, it's troubling. Imagine if, suddenly, 400,000 cops miraculously are empowered in some city. Save that there's no Internal Affairs Division. No civilian authority or oversight. From a governance/society, that's the concern. Civilians are just as excluded from the corridor of power as they were twenty years prior. Except for the expanded numbers of civilians that will have a new slayer in their nuclear family or familial unit.
That's what bugged me. That the relation of the slayer to the watcher bureaucracy had changed (which is good) but that the relation of the bureaucracy to non-slayer society was no different. Presuming one is supposed to hold value to the society existing outside ones living room. (Which is a questionable assumption in S7 BtVS.)
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It's a net win that there are more slayers than before. But fundamentally, it's troubling. Imagine if, suddenly, 400,000 cops miraculously are empowered in some city. Save that there's no Internal Affairs Division. No civilian authority or oversight. From a governance/society, that's the concern. Civilians are just as excluded from the corridor of power as they were twenty years prior. Except for the expanded numbers of civilians that will have a new slayer in their nuclear family or familial unit.
That's what bugged me. That the relation of the slayer to the watcher bureaucracy had changed (which is good) but that the relation of the bureaucracy to non-slayer society was no different. Presuming one is supposed to hold value to the society existing outside ones living room. (Which is a questionable assumption in S7 BtVS.)