Re: OT--"As You Were" discussion (DEM)

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> >> Did you enjoy it, or not?
> 

> Your lips to Marti's ear. Say, I saw Anya hugging Buffy and Willow
> simultaneously in the promo--do you think there's any chance B/W might
> accidentally touch during that?

GUFFAW! Well, they do make extended and pointed eye contact (and it 
actually made it to the screen), so it's possible! I mean, they seem 
to be *sharing* a moment, as opposed to one of them having a moment and 
the other dissociating, so let's count that as progress.

 
> Perhaps Buffy's trying to make up for the whole "neglect" thing from
> the last ep? (And where have Child Protective Services been since 
> "Gone", anyway?)

Gone. CPS only shows up when they need a plot. Dawn only goes insane 
when it serves the plot. I mean, Petrie goes out of his way to remind 
us of how horrible Buffy's life is and how absent she is, as if we 
haven't seen all this stuff in several eps already. Yet despite very 
little difference in Buffy, Dawn is perky as a bunny.
 
 
> >Willow would NOT let the house go like 
> that. The whole, "I'm running this whole household all by myself"
> schtick is wearing thin. It just doesn't fit with my conception of
> Willow and of B&W's friendship.  
> 
> Willow's always been way more domestic than that (plans all those
> birthday parties, for example). I almost wonder if the W/D scene was
> to make them look like two irresponsible kids, and Buffy the long-
> suffering mom--which is just silly.

That was exactly the impression I got from that sequence. And it was 
silly. Even if we conveniently ignore that HS!Will must have taken 
care of herself for significant periods of time while her parents were 
off at wherever, and even if we speculate that Tara was doing all the 
work while Buffy was dead (*I* wouldn't speculate that, but...), we 
still know that even when she was magick sick, Willow dragged her ass 
out of bed to try to make Dawn breakfast before school. Ugh! What 
will happen later is that Tara will pay them a visit and instruct them 
all on how to run a household. Everyone will be eternally grateful.  
Heavenly hosts will sing.

Whatever happened to developing more than one plotline at a time?  
Instead of stupid speeches from Mary Sues, why not quietly underscore 
Willow's progress by showing her returning to pre-sickness levels of 
competence? In Gone and Doublemeat, we see Willow kicking back into 
slayerette mode. Supposedly she's also gotten back to school. Well, 
here was the perfect op to show another example of recovery in another 
realm of her life. But nooooo, Dougie's got to hammer home that 
Buffy's life is haaaaard. Another S6 Writer's Dictate: If it's too 
hard to figure out how to make Buffy's home life suck while Willow's 
living there, simply ignore that Willow is living there.
 
> >And, c'mon, Buffy can't catch a semi-slow-moving garbage truck?!
> 
> Heck, I'm pretty sure she could just heave the bags in there from
> that distance.

*I* could have heaved those bags from that distance!

Ya know, I just can't stand this incompetent and ineffectual Buffy of 
S6. I can't help but think that there had to have been a better way of 
showing Buffy struggling or whatnot. The way they've done it has 
looked more like beating up on Buffy than commiserating with her. Does 
that make sense?

DEM