Re: FF: Two Steps Back (1/1)

[JDMeans@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/20/02 3:38:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
danspector@xxxxxxxxx writes:


> PS—The best excuse I came up with for the back massager is that Willow
> figured Buffy, by not even really asking her about Tara, was insisting
> on Willow making it up with Tara—and, in service of that, Willow
> deliberately didn't give Buffy a great gift because she thought Tara
> might see her doting on Buffy and get the "wrong" (i.e., right) idea.
> Ah, 'shipper contortions, great for working out the kinks in your back.
> :)
> 
I'm assuming that we're on the past one week rule for spoiler space, and 
besides, what kind of spoiler is 'Willow gave Buffy a cheap gift' anyway?

I have a different theory regarding the back massager; pure desperation on 
Willow's part. In past years, Willow had given Buffy magical gifts. Recall 
in 'Gingerbread' when she told Buffy that she and other members of her cult 
were working on a protection spell for Buffy's birthday. Perhaps she had 
some sort of spell prepared for Buffy's gift this year, which she 
subsequently nixed when she decided to Just Say No to Magic in 'Wrecked'.  
After that she only had a couple of months (and not a lot of money, I wager) 
to find a gift, and couldn't think of anything that Buffy really wanted.  
Given her general aversion to birthdays anyway, this is not unlikely. She 
probably found it at the Sunnydale Walgreens at the last possible minute, and 
it was a choice between the back massager and the glass Galileo-style 
thermometer.

Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Kirayoshi


"Once, years ago, I saved the life of a wise old priest. 
Grateful, he made a gift to me of these few precious words: 
If you find yourself on a cliffside, trapped, 
with a hungry tiger waiting above 
and a hungry tiger waiting below, 
and by chance you spy a single strawberry 
growing from the cliffside... 
pluck the strawberry... 
and bite into it... 
and taste it." 
--Frank Miller 
"Ronin"