Thank you so much for this! You've managed to articulate so many of the reasons I think Season 6 is a strong season with a coherent arc and theme. I often struggle to articulate what you're saying when defending this season to others, so thank you!
Also, is it okay if I link this post on my own journal as part of a links roundup?
Of course it's OK to link to this - I feel honoured and delighted that you want to! I feel S6 is hugely complex and even when it fails does so in really interesting ways. (Willow slaying a penis monster? ::snigger::)
Honestly, Willow going dark is probably the most foreshadowed and one was one of the most natural and well played arcs on BTVS, at least it was until they tried to delay it with the magic=crack crap. Which as you said, was just another excuse for Willow to blame her issues on.
From making Cordelia pressing the delete button, to jumping to magic to make her and Xander's feelings just ... disappear, without even asking him first, to trying to curse Oz to...
Willow's always wanted to matter, to be the most important person in the room. She never respected magic like Tara did, and when Tara started to stand up for herself, Willow raped her. Repeatedly. Hell even after Tara found out, she did it again (and hit the entire gang along with her)
This is a very cool piece of analysis! I really like your discussion of the Trio. I had thought of their banality as villains was an excellent way to refract Buffy's depression; she ain't got that swing, and threats that might have been fairly easy to difuse at a differnt time in her life become insurmountable in a way that felt familiar to me as a person who grappled with a serious bout of depression at one time, But there's more happening there, and you've articulated what I had sort of half-bakedly thought on Andrew in Season Seven in a very elegant way. It really makes me want to go back and give Season Six another watch now that I have had a series of Adult Disappointments in the rear-view mirror with your framing in mind
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Thank you so much for this! You've managed to articulate so many of the reasons I think Season 6 is a strong season with a coherent arc and theme. I often struggle to articulate what you're saying when defending this season to others, so thank you!
Also, is it okay if I link this post on my own journal as part of a links roundup?
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From making Cordelia pressing the delete button, to jumping to magic to make her and Xander's feelings just ... disappear, without even asking him first, to trying to curse Oz to...
Willow's always wanted to matter, to be the most important person in the room. She never respected magic like Tara did, and when Tara started to stand up for herself, Willow raped her. Repeatedly. Hell even after Tara found out, she did it again (and hit the entire gang along with her)
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