Giles and the "Wild Woman"
Giles and the „Wild Woman“
Preface 1: No fic, sorry. These are some meta-y thoughts about Giles, his role on the TV show and his relationship with different women. It is a bit incoherent, jumping from point to point and not restricted to Giles-thoughts. The Master, Wesley, Angel/us, Caleb, Snyder, … all make a short appearance. Oh, and the women, of ( Read more... )
Preface 1: No fic, sorry. These are some meta-y thoughts about Giles, his role on the TV show and his relationship with different women. It is a bit incoherent, jumping from point to point and not restricted to Giles-thoughts. The Master, Wesley, Angel/us, Caleb, Snyder, … all make a short appearance. Oh, and the women, of ( Read more... )
Maybe here we can parallel Willow with the story itself. The writers can push her very close to the edge of breaking out of the role given to her, but if they push her far enough then the story just *is* broken, forever. I mean, you can keep the tension in a story if you're doing "Duck Amuck," but it's much harder in BtVS where ultimately we ARE supposed to care about the characters as people and as people-representatives as well as abstractions. The show is postmodern, but not THAT postmodern, you know.
So OMWF precurses the Willow/Xander ending with Buffy/Spike. Sweet wants to see Buffy dance till she burns, and Buffy does, because life is but a song. But Spike tells her it isn't a song, and he sort of sings it but sort of speaks it. LIFE isn't a show, but the show is a show. So the show both reaffirms itself as being nothing but narrative, and then reaffirms that it is narrative which is about life, and not about narrative. Something similar happens, I think, with Willow and Xander: the (for lack of a better term) most abstract and most concrete characters come together, she recognizing the boundaries of the program itself closing in, and he affirming that real emotions are possible within the closed boundaries. Interesting too, since Xander and Spike are probably the most TV-savvy of the cast. I lost track of where I was going. It is late for me too, and it's only 7 p.m.! So maybe the process for Buffy and Willow is:
1) it's life! (yay)
2) no, it's only a story, and an unpleasant one! (end the misery!)
3) but it's a story about life! (uh...okay, I guess let's keep going).
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
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