At the moment, i'm waiting for the streaming video to load. Kagome has, once again, been kidnapped by a demon... she gets kidnapped far more often than Sango does, or any other character for that matter.
i've been thinking about it for a while, how to reconcile the fact that Inu-Yasha is a half-demon himself, and the fact that there are nearly as many demons on this show that are good as there are that are evil. And then today it finally occurred to me: demon is just another name for angel. In Genesis, there were angels that slept with women called the Nephilim (or Nephilites in the NLT version of Genesis 6:2-4), and though i never understood the significance of the passage, i also never got the feeling that they were fallen angels. So on Inu-Yasha, all of the "demons" could just as easily be called "angels"... if the creators of the show actually meant the word demon in the Biblical sense.
Which makes you think... how many angels are walking among us (a la Hancock)? How many humans are half-angel, or half some angel blood in them from hundreds of generations earlier? Maybe all these really good athletes in the Olympics (especially the tall ones) are descended from an angel? Or even the short ones, think about how those tiny gymnast vault themselves through the air, have extraordinary balance and strength... is that completely human? How can they be so thin and strong when so many of us are struggling not to be fat? Even the Bible says that "they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times" (v.4), so maybe all or most of the ancient myths are based on these very offspring! Those heroes and warriors were worshiped as gods themselves (interesting to think about).
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