Very, very interesting article on Slayage.

[candleanfeather]

For these interested, have a look at this article  , by J R Loftis on Slayage. It examines the moral complexity of the Buffyverse and tries to analyzes it as an incoherent artwork,  meaning by this notion an artwork who contains a variety of philosophical and ethics approaches and let them conflate.

Go read, there'll be details you won't necessarily agree with, but it's the best analysis of the verse as a whole and of its mechanics I've ever read.