sc rose knows everything, I guess

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

Trying real hard to avoid snippyness, but that rather adamant tone
didn't go down that well.   

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Actually, your analysis of the situation has been propounded, as far
back as four weeks ago, by Casandra. She thought perhaps that's what
the "Bargaining" title meant. I think she's wrong, but I could be
wrong. Unless you've seen the scripts, you might want to admit the
possibility you might be wrong.

Dawn called on Osiris in "Forever" to resurrect Joyce. Her soul seems
undamaged. Yeah, Joyce wasn't a Slayer, but she died a natural death,
so resurrecting her was MORE of an offense against the natural order.
And I still tend to doubt that we'd be right back at gods after doing
that last year, it's repetitious. And using actual Egyptian gods after
the fictitious Glorificus last year seems to taint the mythology
(Egyptian, not Jossian).

Willow doesn't seem psycho to me. Bad choices, and bad writing to make
the stuff seem to come out of left field, but not "I sold my soul to
Osiris and am now his slave although why he wants to create party
decorations I don't know" stuff.

Yes, addicts are neither blameless nor fun, but it is a condition that
engenders a certain amount of sympathy, which is better than the Psycho
Who Must Be Destroyed route I've been fearing.

Hey, I like animals too, but it's not odd to hope that man might have
deeper emotions than a penguin. The concept of the soul as particular
to humanity is rooted in Western religion, and this show is drenched in
Christian allegories, plus everyone talks about souls in it, and the
single most important arc was about Angel losing his soul, so it's kind
of likely that souls ARE important in the Buffyverse. And just because
people go around talking about love without really knowing what it is
(hellooooo, Spikehey, I gotta bash), that doesn't mean it doesn't
exist.

Hey, got through it without huffing and puffing. Calm is good.
Honestly.

Dan

Side note on Mad-Hamlet and actor changes: Also Mr. Trick was not
supposed to dust so soon, but K. Todd Freeman got a movie and so it
goes.

And Oz came back twice (don't forget the cameo in "Restless").