Why was it okay for Xander to love a demon?

As a human, she always speaks of her past with a certain kind of detachedness, because that's not her anymore and she understands it never will be again.

We saw her becoming a demon again immediately after the opportunity for that presented itself. She whined about missing her powers, the way she could eviscerate people and so on. She was not detached at all. She didn't feel guilt or indifference, she felt pride.

If human Anya was just as much of a sociopath as vengeance demon Anya, why isn't she trying to exact vengeance and murder other humans as a human? Even if she can't eviscerate people with her mind any more, she's smart and resourceful and if she gets out of Sunnydale, there's really nothing stopping her from just plain eviscerating people.

Because the plot said so. Very little of Anya's character makes sense, she is a mess of contradictions because she is barely even a character, she is more of a walking talking comic relief. But if I have to explain it away, I would say it's because she was proud of the creative ways in which she punished people. Doing it with a gun or a knife is just not Anya's style. She is an artist, as far as murder goes. And she enjoyed tricking the women who made those wishes.

I do agree that the writers played the Anya stuff for comedy a LOT, often at the expense of Anya herself (how many of the jokes are about how ridiculous she is, not how horrifying her crimes were?), but I still think she was more than that. Feeling isolated and reintegrating yourself into the world is still a pretty compelling story.

It is, but in the case the premise is completely unbelievable. Anya should have known the world of humans far better than say Spike. She has been manipulating them for 1100 years. You can't manipulate people if you don't understand their world at all, the way Anya of S4-7 didn't. Anya of The Wish was cunning, blended among other people easily, was also a good liar and played Cordelia like a fiddle. By The Prom she is retconned into "the funny foreigner".

Also, just like Spike's story, Anya's happened at the expense of the Scoobies because allowing her into their midst was wildly OOC for all of them.
 
Back
Top Bottom