This one isn't even a contest, I think - this is the ONE issue that seems to unite the entire fandom. (Maybe the only issue on which everyone can agree?)
The irony about the ending is that Willow can't dust VW in this world, so she is sent back to be dusted anyway in her own world. there's something about Willow not wanting to kill a part of herself, an acknowledgement of her own dark side - especially when she embraces VW; she's more intrigued by the possibilites implied than she lets on, I think. But there's also the part of her that perhaps doesn't want to take responsibility for the action, to have that dust (blood) on her own hands, and shifts it to someone else. It's a bit like when Buffy told her in The Gift "You're my big gun" and refused at first "I can be a pointy stick! Or maybe a cudgel!" But fast-forward exactly one year later and she kills a man and tries to destroy the entire world.
She just may have the most interesting arc of any character on the show.
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Absolutely.
Also, I agree with everything else :)
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The irony about the ending is that Willow can't dust VW in this world, so she is sent back to be dusted anyway in her own world. there's something about Willow not wanting to kill a part of herself, an acknowledgement of her own dark side - especially when she embraces VW; she's more intrigued by the possibilites implied than she lets on, I think. But there's also the part of her that perhaps doesn't want to take responsibility for the action, to have that dust (blood) on her own hands, and shifts it to someone else. It's a bit like when Buffy told her in The Gift "You're my big gun" and refused at first "I can be a pointy stick! Or maybe a cudgel!" But fast-forward exactly one year later and she kills a man and tries to destroy the entire world.
She just may have the most interesting arc of any character on the show.
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