I Love Lilah

[Chosen Enemy]

Not a big fan of hers. I just don't like her style. Of an evil lawer... doesn't do it for me villian wise.

 

[LadyLavinia]

While reading this article about the femme fatale in fiction, I came across the following passage:

"The phrase femme fatale is French for "˜deadly women' and was created to project a social democratic revolt against the oppressiveness of the Victorian age, where women were constricted in a corset and pushed into claustrophobic ideologies and a shrunken introverted world. She took an avatar of a female who has been created to break men's heart and to lead herself into a sunlight world. These femme fatales are allowed to have it all; power, sexuality, femininity and wealth, but they keep hankering for love and would often face a bad end because they defied the conventions. The astonished man, who had earlier created an ideal woman from his own wishful imagination, suddenly meets someone whom he cannot control or understand. He labels her as the "˜bad woman'; the woman who must die or be banished because she is not the representative of his idealistic image."

Reading this made me wonder about Whedon's portrayal of Lilah. I don't deny that he had created a strong character. But does he harbor similar opinions of such women - especially those older than the age of 25 - that he had allowed Lilah to have a typical ending for a femme fatale, instead of breaking the stereotype and giving her another ending?