Willow's petty contempt for Buffy and her insistence that she's right about the seed is rather yucky
I'd agree but I generally get the impression we're supposed to agree with her. It wouldn't shock me if it does turn into one of those storylines where Joss doesn't see that the side he's attempting to validate is just as self-centered (if not moreso) as the other. See Dead Man's Party.
The police storyline is ridiculous. It borders on idiot plotting. The police have no reason to suspect Buffy and Buffy has no reason to run from them. I really don't get why the writers don't give us the characters' thoughts or do a better job of playing up a miscommunication. Have a stake found near one of the bodies or something. Would work better than seeing Buffy standing in an alley one night and automatically assuming she's connected to the bodies which they don't even know were vamps. Give Buffy a thought-procession so we know why she escapes instead of just to drive the plot.
I get the feeling we're supposed to agree with her, too, but I'm not so sure Willow had a better option with her mother goddess SAVE THE SEED SO I CAN FUCK THE SNAKE LADY-ness.
That's just it, Willow doesn't even deny that the world was ending and Buffy did what she had to do. The whole thing is bizarre. If it were another character, I wouldn't think for a minute that the writer would think we're to agree with them. But this is Joss and Willow.
Considering I never said that, I'm not even sure what that comment is supposed to mean. I said he made that mistake before and he has. I said he's sometimes blind to how his stories come across and he is. I said what we've seen so far comes across that this might be another instance of it because it comes across that this might be another instance of it. Joss has, in the past, made those mistakes with Willow so it's possible he could make them again since Joss doesn't learn from mistakes.
Well, I don't know which mistakes you're referring to. I don't remember Willow being used as a spokesperson for the views we're supposed to agree with. I don't think that there is a 'show character' whose views we're obviously meant to agree with just because of who they are. So I don't see why you think that 'the writer would think we're to agree with them' just because it's Joss and Willow?
This would also be a good time to point out that she's been definitely wrong about the mythology in the past (thinking that Buffy was drawing strength from the dead Slayers in season 8).
Willow's petty contempt for Buffy and her insistence that she's right about the seed is rather yucky
I'd agree but I generally get the impression we're supposed to agree with her. It wouldn't shock me if it does turn into one of those storylines where Joss doesn't see that the side he's attempting to validate is just as self-centered (if not moreso) as the other. See Dead Man's Party.
The police storyline is ridiculous. It borders on idiot plotting. The police have no reason to suspect Buffy and Buffy has no reason to run from them. I really don't get why the writers don't give us the characters' thoughts or do a better job of playing up a miscommunication. Have a stake found near one of the bodies or something. Would work better than seeing Buffy standing in an alley one night and automatically assuming she's connected to the bodies which they don't even know were vamps. Give Buffy a thought-procession so we know why she escapes instead of just to drive the plot.
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That's just it, Willow doesn't even deny that the world was ending and Buffy did what she had to do. The whole thing is bizarre. If it were another character, I wouldn't think for a minute that the writer would think we're to agree with them. But this is Joss and Willow.
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Considering I never said that, I'm not even sure what that comment is supposed to mean. I said he made that mistake before and he has. I said he's sometimes blind to how his stories come across and he is. I said what we've seen so far comes across that this might be another instance of it because it comes across that this might be another instance of it. Joss has, in the past, made those mistakes with Willow so it's possible he could make them again since Joss doesn't learn from mistakes.
Hmmm.
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This would also be a good time to point out that she's been definitely wrong about the mythology in the past (thinking that Buffy was drawing strength from the dead Slayers in season 8).
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