Black Magic White Lies, chapter 19

[moscow_watcher]

Title: Black Magic White Lies
Chapter 19 - Buffy Cringes. Buffy Helps. (Well, She Mostly Cringes)
Timeline: BtVS, alternate season 5
Genre: drama, mystery, action
Characters, pairing: general, Xander/Faith
Rating: R (for intense situations).
Summary: Alternate BtVS season 5. Xander thinks he has a little secret. He doesn't know that his little

Comments

[draconin]

I'm waiting to see how Spike's ability to remember that Ben is Glory plays out this time around. :-)

[moscow_watcher]

Yes, it will definitely be a factor. I wonder if writers just forgot to explain why Spike could see what other characters couldn't; or they just hadn't enough screentime to insert an explanation. :)

[angearia]

I think they just took it for granted that it was implied. He was a vampire and was the first to be able to detect the shift in the magics dropping around the spell to make everyone forget Glory's transformations. I think it's easy to come to the conclusion why as the only difference is that he's a vampire. They probably thought it wasn't important to explain why he could. Enough that he simply could and the audience could clearly guess why. No need to spell it out.

[moscow_watcher]

You may be right. Sometimes I wonder if the writers started to develop the mythology around Glory, Knights and monks, but realized that it may become too complex and distracting from the main arc. So they have left it to the audience to connect the dots.

[draconin]

There's a lot of stuff like that which probably ended up on the cutting room floor, or in the writers' waste paper bin. Makes you wish you could hide invisibly and grab it all for posterity eh?

[moscow_watcher]

You bet. When season 6 outtakes started to emerge, I hoped there will be more stuff from all the seasons.
But,apparently, the person who managed to turn invisible and grab these outtakes, worked there only one season.

My dream is to grab Joss, tie him to a chair and ask him a lot of questions about his intentions, the reasonings behinds his controversial decisions, etc... :)