Re: Break out the........

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--- In buffywantswillow@y..., montevallo64@h... wrote:
> Break out the jungle juice, because after tongiht's ep I need it.
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> DOn't go any further if you haven't seen the halloween ep
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> Okay enough, that has to be absolutlety THE fastest amount of time 
> they have changed a character!!! Willow was using magik for 
> everything!! And her little rant about witches, never ever seen 
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> that worked up. And the forgeting spell, i knew it was coming but 
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> was just hoping for a miracle apparently. WIllow would never, ever 
> do a spell on soemone she loved!!!! what is worng with joss??!!! 
> what was up with tara calling her will now?? She always calls her 
> willow, is this some kind of like buffer for when they break up?? 
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> Tara: Will, pass the demon's of the fifth dimension book please.
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> How lame.
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> p.s. dawn's story, and buffy's little pity party sucked.
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> -Angel (who is now about to go and consume WAY to much jungle 
juice 
> in attempts to forget this episode.)
Cough. Well, while i am definately not happy with Willow's about 
face, and the very heavy-handed writing they are using to do it in, I 
think that Something Blue did show that she was willing to basically 
use a love spell on Oz to get him back. She was more upset in that 
situation. 
Just to show that i throw rocks at everyone, Tara did much the 
same thing when she cast her 'dont see demons' spell, and they all 
forgave her pretty easily. Again, greater circumstances, but still. 
I feel like this injunction against magic just kinda sprung up out 
of the grass all of a sudden so they could do this (lame) story arc. 
Magic has been talked about for the whole show, and i feel that it 
was like any tool, the use determined the morality. we have heard of 
wizards etc who have sealed demons, and witches who have made 
artifacts, were they all working with a fundamentally evil force, 
because that is what they say it is if it can only be used to fight 
evil directly, and then its still bad. Magic is dangerous, yes, but 
in the same way as a gun. Make a mistake, and someone can get hurt, 
and it can give people a sense of power which encourages them to act 
poorly, but a strong moral character and control and determination 
can prevent this. And I think that we all agree Willow has always 
had the moral character and determination, and over the course of the 
show she has been learning control. 
Now all of a sudden we have any magic use other than church-
sanctioned monster killing is bad. And don't use magic to violate the 
laws of nature? Isn't that basically what magic is for? Maybe not 
to bring the dead back to life, which has great significance past the 
mere physical, but to float, and throw lightning, or to conjure a few 
decorations to make a friend happy. Speaking of decorations, if the 
party was planned, then it is indeed poor form to magic up 
decorations instead of putting forth the effort to show that you care 
about the people involved enough to spend effort on them. But if its 
a surprise special occasion, and it is within your ability to make it 
more special for those you love, then do it. 
Bad pathways and rationalizations aside, I have to admit to 
being somewhat intruiged by the evil willow possibility. Vamp willow 
touched on it, but I don't remember Buffy running up against any 
really competent evil (or really otherwise) magic users. It could be 
an interesting battle, pitting the purely physical slayer against a 
mental force, who can prevent you from even approaching you. (let 
alone a sigh, former, best friend. 
And if the power willow draws on is a dark one, lets think about 
what Dracula revealed to buffy about her power. Hmmm. Two 
warriors, both drawing increasingly on the power of darkness to fight 
the darkness, spiraling together deeper into the night. I'd love to 
have a good writer go at that one. 
Damn that was the biggest rant ive ever gone off on. it must be 
that fact that its five thirty. Anything else?

Well i must say i liked what i heard of tara's voice im looking 
forward to hearing her sing. and of course giles. 

speaking of dawn, she definately overreacted. Sure she was necking 
with the cute guy, (who looked about 5 years older than her) but to 
get that broken up about someone who she'd 'seen at parties' !!!!! 
please. 

I promise, thats it. 

It really is. 

you can stop reading.