Very, very interesting bit of speculation regarding that other Buffy fantasy threesome panel of the season. I feel like I'm not really well equipped to comment on the resonances to Little Women or Reign of Fire, though what you say about RoF in particular makes it sound very interesting as a method of reading season eight
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At any rate, I think there is real effort (possibly) to parallel Buffy/Spike with Dawn/Xander going into the final drama-at least, the early pages in 37 are several pages of Spuffy followed by a page of Dander, and the two covers of 38 are Buffy & Spike and Xander & Dawn. I’m not sure if I’d agree that Xander is a stand-in for Spike, but maybe he is insofar as Buffy & Spike and Xander & Dawn (Double Duchess’ point about how Xander rides Dawn and Spike says that Buffy is a good ride) are two big, paralleled relationships. And the split is between the Others (Buffy & Spike) and the ordinary humans (Xander & Dawn). I like to think that both relationships are actually potentially very healthy, and aside from encouraging/enabling Buffy’s bank robbery I’ve felt that Xander has behaved very well this year, ditto Spike in his limited time. I’m obviously very worried about Dawn, so I kind of love the idea of Spike, Xander and Dawn going off together having adventures in season nine. Dawn’s complete discomfort with the bugs is a real plot
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the only two characters who wear the British Flag are Giles and Buffy - the title of baron was first created by William of Normandy when the conquered England and divided up the land and created barons to government the divisions. The Harry Potter Train, if I remember right had 1066 with I think a 2 before - first thing I thought of was the power struggle over the throne.
"duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron" are the ranks in descending order.
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Normandy when the conquered England and divided up the land and created barons to government the divisions. The Harry Potter Train, if I remember right had 1066 with I think a 2 before - first thing I thought of was the power struggle over the throne.
"duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron" are the ranks in descending order.
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