With the talky.
I was lying in bed last night when it hit me.
Good for the Soul is about basic human decency and respect.
Which is so incredibly obvious, yet I hadn't thought of it quite that way. The story is about Fraser saying that no one has the right to insult another person, no matter how 'important' they might be.
No one person is more important than any other.
Which led me to thinking of Buffy and why our woman is so screwed up as of late. She's been basing people's worth on their supernatural gifts. And she was doing so well at the beginning of the season, too.
But then the First came and Buffy's been running on fear.
I lost sight of who Buffy was in First Date, that's really why I wrote the trio of drabbles. I was trying to find her again.
And I found her. And she's terrified. "It's not enough." And she's stopped thinking outside the box. She's letting the First dictate the rules.
She started thinking again in Storyteller. Both Willow and Buffy started using their brains again. Willow was smart, Buffy was strong, and Xander is either dealing or denying. It can be hard to tell, with him.
A lot of people are saying that Faith showed herself to be a true Slayer in Salvage. Faith was certainly a breath of fresh air. She seems to have really grown. Good for her.
She's spent the last three years in jail. And she seems to have spent her time keeping in shape and out of trouble. Again, good for her.
Faith's big plan: Take the ones who can fight and go fight. And if the strongest fighter gives you backchat, send him home.
Now, I'm not saying that she should have let Connor stay, I'm just saying that retreat and regroup would have been valid there. Especially since she decided that Gunn should take him back. Leaving her with just one other fighter. She could have gone back to the hotel, left Connor there, and then gone back to the scene with Gunn and Wesley.
It's very symbolic, the Watcher/Slayer duo, but it also isn't the most brilliant idea ever. There's a reason Buffy has the Scoobies. There's a reason that she always ends up in trouble when she goes it alone. Giles wasn't enough. Wesley isn't enough. Not to keep the Slayer alive for any long period of time.
Buffy is fighting something she can't touch. And while that also means that it can't touch her, it can reach her in other ways. In Storyteller, she uses the First's methods against it with Andrew. While she does take action in that scene, the important things are the words and the feelings.
And Buffy shouldn't be hard at all, but should be strong. The Slayer forges strength from pain. Not power. Strength.
Good for the Soul is about basic human decency and respect.
Which is so incredibly obvious, yet I hadn't thought of it quite that way. The story is about Fraser saying that no one has the right to insult another person, no matter how 'important' they might be.
No one person is more important than any other.
Which led me to thinking of Buffy and why our woman is so screwed up as of late. She's been basing people's worth on their supernatural gifts. And she was doing so well at the beginning of the season, too.
But then the First came and Buffy's been running on fear.
I lost sight of who Buffy was in First Date, that's really why I wrote the trio of drabbles. I was trying to find her again.
And I found her. And she's terrified. "It's not enough." And she's stopped thinking outside the box. She's letting the First dictate the rules.
She started thinking again in Storyteller. Both Willow and Buffy started using their brains again. Willow was smart, Buffy was strong, and Xander is either dealing or denying. It can be hard to tell, with him.
A lot of people are saying that Faith showed herself to be a true Slayer in Salvage. Faith was certainly a breath of fresh air. She seems to have really grown. Good for her.
She's spent the last three years in jail. And she seems to have spent her time keeping in shape and out of trouble. Again, good for her.
Faith's big plan: Take the ones who can fight and go fight. And if the strongest fighter gives you backchat, send him home.
Now, I'm not saying that she should have let Connor stay, I'm just saying that retreat and regroup would have been valid there. Especially since she decided that Gunn should take him back. Leaving her with just one other fighter. She could have gone back to the hotel, left Connor there, and then gone back to the scene with Gunn and Wesley.
It's very symbolic, the Watcher/Slayer duo, but it also isn't the most brilliant idea ever. There's a reason Buffy has the Scoobies. There's a reason that she always ends up in trouble when she goes it alone. Giles wasn't enough. Wesley isn't enough. Not to keep the Slayer alive for any long period of time.
Buffy is fighting something she can't touch. And while that also means that it can't touch her, it can reach her in other ways. In Storyteller, she uses the First's methods against it with Andrew. While she does take action in that scene, the important things are the words and the feelings.
And Buffy shouldn't be hard at all, but should be strong. The Slayer forges strength from pain. Not power. Strength.