Choices - remind not to try writing linearly ever again I keep going back and forth between paragraphs adding new thoughts and sentences and suddenly my smooth flowing post reads like an acid-flashback
I'm stupidly excited about this. I didn't catch on to Buffy until season 6 so I never got to read fresh, in-depth discussion about the previous seasons.
First: I teared up when Willow told Buffy she was going to stay. I didn't do that any of the other times I saw the episode so I wonder - was it really that emotional of a moment, or am I only that effected in hindsight? Willow does become a badass wicca but at a pretty heavy cost.
I got someone. I got him. The Mayor and Faith
Cue the handkerchiefs. Faith broke my heart and continued to break my heart the moment she stole Buffy's French fries and crammed them in her mouth faster than she could chew and swallow. How is it that NO ONE saw what a lost, frightened, lonely, little girl in need of adult love and supervision except The Mayor? Angel got it eventually but the others never did. Yeah, Faith carries a chip on her shoulder the size of Mt. Everest and projects a tough-girl image but aren't those things usually hallmarkers of 'at-risk' kids?
One could argue that it wasn't Giles' place - Buffy was his Slayer and later on he didn't work for the Council. Which brings us straight to Wesley.
Oh Wesley. You may have eventually become a smooth operator but one thing about you that never changed was Wesley's "the good of the many outweigh the good of the one" stance. Wesley right. He may have been willing to pay a price no one else was, but he WAS right.
Are there similarities to other episodes where these characters are faced with tough choices?
Please to be seeing The Gift, Giles, Dawn, and Buffy. Also Bargaining Part II with Willow, Xander and Buffy (albeit unwittingly). Not to mention Prophecy Girl "I don't want to die." but goes off anyway to do just that while Giles and Angel watch. Only Xander seems to think she doesn't have to die. I'm sure there are countless others. Poor British guys always having to be the meanie.
Which takes me to Oz
Oh Oz. There was never a moment you were on-screen that I didn't love you more than anyone else. Ever. Which makes me wonder why I can't read fic about you. Or why I don't have any icons devoted to you. My usual answer is Oz is too cool and can not be defined by such paltry things as fic and icons - that's pretty stupid though.
I realize I should be answering some of Sue's discussion questions or something but I'm not. I'm such a rebel.
do you feel that his action swayed the final decision, or just added emotional omph?
I like to call it the period at the end of Buffy's declarative sentence.
Or because they couldn't not fight alongside her, knowing what they knew? This one.
Do you feel that it was necessary for this to be an ensemble mission? Or does the action seem stronger when it's Buffy mano-a-mano with the Big Bad?
In the saving of Willow? It is necessary for the ensemble. General episode to episode, either works.
Was the Mayor's "bumpy road ahead" speech to Buffy and Angel a distraction, as Buffy later believes, or a knowing assessment of the facts as he saw them?
Both. He is evil, and evil almost always tells the truth, except for when it lies.
And I will stop there. Thank you Sue for doing this, it brought Joy to a bad football weekend.
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Date: 2006-12-11 03:12 pm (UTC)From:I'm stupidly excited about this. I didn't catch on to Buffy until season 6 so I never got to read fresh, in-depth discussion about the previous seasons.
First: I teared up when Willow told Buffy she was going to stay. I didn't do that any of the other times I saw the episode so I wonder - was it really that emotional of a moment, or am I only that effected in hindsight? Willow does become a badass wicca but at a pretty heavy cost.
I got someone. I got him.
The Mayor and Faith
Cue the handkerchiefs. Faith broke my heart and continued to break my heart the moment she stole Buffy's French fries and crammed them in her mouth faster than she could chew and swallow. How is it that NO ONE saw what a lost, frightened, lonely, little girl in need of adult love and supervision except The Mayor? Angel got it eventually but the others never did. Yeah, Faith carries a chip on her shoulder the size of Mt. Everest and projects a tough-girl image but aren't those things usually hallmarkers of 'at-risk' kids?
One could argue that it wasn't Giles' place - Buffy was his Slayer and later on he didn't work for the Council. Which brings us straight to Wesley.
Oh Wesley. You may have eventually become a smooth operator but one thing about you that never changed was Wesley's "the good of the many outweigh the good of the one" stance. Wesley right. He may have been willing to pay a price no one else was, but he WAS right.
Are there similarities to other episodes where these characters are faced with tough choices?
Please to be seeing The Gift, Giles, Dawn, and Buffy. Also Bargaining Part II with Willow, Xander and Buffy (albeit unwittingly). Not to mention Prophecy Girl "I don't want to die." but goes off anyway to do just that while Giles and Angel watch. Only Xander seems to think she doesn't have to die. I'm sure there are countless others. Poor British guys always having to be the meanie.
Which takes me to Oz
Oh Oz. There was never a moment you were on-screen that I didn't love you more than anyone else. Ever. Which makes me wonder why I can't read fic about you. Or why I don't have any icons devoted to you. My usual answer is Oz is too cool and can not be defined by such paltry things as fic and icons - that's pretty stupid though.
I realize I should be answering some of Sue's discussion questions or something but I'm not. I'm such a rebel.
do you feel that his action swayed the final decision, or just added emotional omph?
I like to call it the period at the end of Buffy's declarative sentence.
Or because they couldn't not fight alongside her, knowing what they knew? This one.
Do you feel that it was necessary for this to be an ensemble mission? Or does the action seem stronger when it's Buffy mano-a-mano with the Big Bad?
In the saving of Willow? It is necessary for the ensemble. General episode to episode, either works.
Was the Mayor's "bumpy road ahead" speech to Buffy and Angel a distraction, as Buffy later believes, or a knowing assessment of the facts as he saw them?
Both. He is evil, and evil almost always tells the truth, except for when it lies.
And I will stop there. Thank you Sue for doing this, it brought Joy to a bad football weekend.