Warning! This post contains spoilers

So today in class we talked about humanism and how zombies are made into monsters. In turn, we forget who they really were as a person. I feel like this doesn't just apply to zombies. What about vampires?
No, I am not going to go on a Twilight fandom rant, mainly because I had already graduated high school by the time the movies came out and the series became as popular as Harry Potter.
As a 90s kid, I was far more into Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To this day I am still not sure, if I were in Buffy's place, if I would have chosen Spike or Angel. However, her relationship with the vampires brings me to my point. This is where the spoilers follow if you have not seen the series.

I have watched very episode numerous times, and many times in order in binge sessions during my days of shift work. I will watch it anytime it is on TV (my poor husband!) and recently I watched an episode from later on in the series. For some background: Angel is LONG gone, Spike was "declawed" by the military making him unable to hurt humans, Buffy had already broken up with the military member she was dating, died and was brought back to life by a magic obsessed Willow.


Buffy has begun a relationship with Spike and she is worried that she came back from the dead with evil in her because Spike is able to hurt her. She is constantly crying over this and shutting her friends out. But why, when she knows that she can see the good in vampires (she has already slept with two of them) is she so concerned that she may not be fully human; that she herself may be a monster?
I think that her reasoning is very similar to the article that we read for today. Buffy has spent most of her life fighting monsters and is able to distance herself from them because they are evil and need to be killed. When Buffy begins to see some of that evil in herself she can no longer justify herself as a hero.

So who would you chose?
Angel, tall, dark and handsome, who has always tried to do the right thing
or
Spike, the British bad boy, desperately in love with Buffy, who saves humanity in the end?