I feel like you're able to see things more clearly because you seem to love all the characters. Even your marked preference (Spuffy being your ship) doesn't seem to affect your point of view.
Sometimes I feel that I look at the show through Spuffy-colored glasses. Sometimes I make attempts to write Buffy with other characters, and every time I return to Spuffy. But you're right - I love them all!
The only way I see your viewpoint being shaped is by your Russian heritage which you've admitted tends towards the cynical. ;-) I'm very cynical about politics, about corporate business. To me, Angel has lost the moment he agreed to work in W&H; his attempts to fight the system from the inside were doomed from the start, no matter what he did
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I appreciate your argument that the reason comic!Buffy is a logical continuation of BtVS Buffy is because of this new role of general and how she's not cut out for it and that's why all her seemingly OTT and OOC actions (robbing banks, etc.) are understandable within the story's context. I don't agree, but it helps me understand others' opinions, and I appreciate that.
I'm glad we can disagree without losing the respect to eaxch other. After all, it's just comics. Like I aready said, I'm grateful for the Seed that I can use now in my fics as the ultimate deux-ex-machina - and the rest is just something we can either ignore or adapt to. :)
Wonderful review, Elena. I'm right there with you. :)
Funnily, everybody else - Willow, Aluwin, Xander, Giles - knew that breaking the seed will banish all magic on Earth. But nobody told Buffy.
The only person who was told that breaking the Seed would banish magic was Willow by Aluwyn. Everyone else intuited this information. The General's words urged Xander to break the Seed and neither are an expert on magic. Giles intuits that breaking it will end it, too.
Buffy, who has incredibly good intuition, does the same. I find it funny that people are raising eyebrows when Xander did the exact same thing, only he has less of a good record when it comes to intuition on how to fight battles.
Could she save the world by joining her magic with the Seed's power? Xander and Andrew think that they're losing the war - but they can't know for sure. Willow definitely doesn't think they're losing until the Seed is broken.Willow'd been reduced to calling humanity the "little things that crawl" on the surface. So her definition of
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The only person who was told that breaking the Seed would banish magic was Willow by Aluwyn. Everyone else intuited this information. The General's words urged Xander to break the Seed and neither are an expert on magic. Giles intuits that breaking it will end it, too.
You might be right. It's logical to presume that if you destroy the source of all magic, then all magic will disappear - including the demons. I can accept the idea that Buffy acted intuitively.
Willow'd been reduced to calling humanity the "little things that crawl" on the surface. So her definition of winning could include all of humanity dying as long as Mother Earth and magic survived.
One can say in Willow's defence that she could say it to frighten her enemies. But I agree - Willow's attitude is quite frightening/
Willow and Xander have switched roles. Where as in Season 2 Willow was ever loyal and supportive, now it's Xander.
Hmm. Interesting observation, I have to think about it.
It's like a painful rebirthing process for the story itselfOhhh, I
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You might be right. It's logical to presume that if you destroy the source of all magic, then all magic will disappear - including the demons. I can accept the idea that Buffy acted intuitively.
I certainly think that it's possible Buffy worked out what she needed to do intuitively.
On the other hand, I wonder if it's just that the Seed was the thing everybody was fighting for, the prize they all wanted to win - and in a rage of grief and anger and despair after Giles died, she decided to smash it so that nobody could have it. It wasn't a considered action; it was a fit of pique. Buffy's own anger betrayed her.
By the way, great review - I pretty much agree with everything. Even your view of Angel where you say you're in the minority. :-)
On the other hand, I wonder if it's just that the Seed was the thing everybody was fighting for, the prize they all wanted to win - and in a rage of grief and anger and despair after Giles died, she decided to smash it so that nobody could have it. It wasn't a considered action; it was a fit of pique. Buffy's own anger betrayed her.
I thought about that option, too. Not sure Buffy could act only out of rage and grief. Maybe it was a combination of rage and instant illumination. Maybe Joss has intentionally left it open to interpretation. I hope Allie will agree to answer questions one more time...
By the way, great review - I pretty much agree with everything. Even your view of Angel where you say you're in the minority. :-)
Thanks, Stephen - your encouragement means a lot. Sometimes I read my f-list and wonder if I'm completely delusional. :)
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Sometimes I feel that I look at the show through Spuffy-colored glasses. Sometimes I make attempts to write Buffy with other characters, and every time I return to Spuffy. But you're right - I love them all!
The only way I see your viewpoint being shaped is by your Russian heritage which you've admitted tends towards the cynical. ;-) I'm very cynical about politics, about corporate business. To me, Angel has lost the moment he agreed to work in W&H; his attempts to fight the system from the inside were doomed from the start, no matter what he did ( ... )
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Funnily, everybody else - Willow, Aluwin, Xander, Giles - knew that breaking the seed will banish all magic on Earth. But nobody told Buffy.
The only person who was told that breaking the Seed would banish magic was Willow by Aluwyn. Everyone else intuited this information. The General's words urged Xander to break the Seed and neither are an expert on magic. Giles intuits that breaking it will end it, too.
Buffy, who has incredibly good intuition, does the same. I find it funny that people are raising eyebrows when Xander did the exact same thing, only he has less of a good record when it comes to intuition on how to fight battles.
Could she save the world by joining her magic with the Seed's power? Xander and Andrew think that they're losing the war - but they can't know for sure. Willow definitely doesn't think they're losing until the Seed is broken.Willow'd been reduced to calling humanity the "little things that crawl" on the surface. So her definition of ( ... )
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You might be right. It's logical to presume that if you destroy the source of all magic, then all magic will disappear - including the demons. I can accept the idea that Buffy acted intuitively.
Willow'd been reduced to calling humanity the "little things that crawl" on the surface. So her definition of winning could include all of humanity dying as long as Mother Earth and magic survived.
One can say in Willow's defence that she could say it to frighten her enemies. But I agree - Willow's attitude is quite frightening/
Willow and Xander have switched roles. Where as in Season 2 Willow was ever loyal and supportive, now it's Xander.
Hmm. Interesting observation, I have to think about it.
It's like a painful rebirthing process for the story itselfOhhh, I ( ... )
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I certainly think that it's possible Buffy worked out what she needed to do intuitively.
On the other hand, I wonder if it's just that the Seed was the thing everybody was fighting for, the prize they all wanted to win - and in a rage of grief and anger and despair after Giles died, she decided to smash it so that nobody could have it. It wasn't a considered action; it was a fit of pique. Buffy's own anger betrayed her.
By the way, great review - I pretty much agree with everything. Even your view of Angel where you say you're in the minority. :-)
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I thought about that option, too. Not sure Buffy could act only out of rage and grief. Maybe it was a combination of rage and instant illumination. Maybe Joss has intentionally left it open to interpretation. I hope Allie will agree to answer questions one more time...
By the way, great review - I pretty much agree with everything. Even your view of Angel where you say you're in the minority. :-)
Thanks, Stephen - your encouragement means a lot. Sometimes I read my f-list and wonder if I'm completely delusional. :)
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