Long-range plan? (was re: FIC A New Day 4/?)

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

It's-been-a-long-week Dept.:

On Sunday, Bionic Slayer wrote:

>It really seems like ME has been setting up a >possible B/W 'ship since
Season 1

(btw, this reminds me of when we had our "when did you first become a
B/W fan?" thread on JAABAW, and Alicia posted that she always had been,
"if you watch Season 1 you can tell Buffy and Willow are made for each
other." Loved that.)  

<<fights off urge to watch DVDs>>

Well, since you bring it up, I guess I haven't posted the "slow build"
theory in a while. Here it is [again]

Season 1: Buffy and Willow meet and bond, deeply and instantly.

Season 2: B/W lose their "innocence" about the men of their dreams (in
the same episode, yet). Slayer-as-gay metaphor made prominent in
season-ending "coming out" scene.

Season 3: More slayer/gay metaphor in "Dead Man's Party" and "Faith,
Hope & Trick". The B/F subtext-fest, which begins in "FH&T", an episode
that (perhaps not-so-coincidentally?) has as its central focus Buffy's
need to move on after Angel and find someone else in her life. Between
the people who heard Buffy and Joyce's "you found out what I was and you
couldn't deal!" argument in "DMP" and those who saw Faith lure her out
of Chem class in "Bad Girls", Buffy's whole school probably believes
she's gay. Meanwhile, Willow pitches a jealous fit over B/F and finds
out from her vampire-alternate that she's "kind of gay". Buffy tells
Willow she loves her, for the first time.

Season 4: Lesbian relationship introduced, albeit in the background and
in the closet for most of the year. Mutual declarations of B/W love.  

Season 5: Lesbian relationship out and open and extremely stable.
Meanwhile Buffy's het relationship goes down in flames and she spends
the second half of the year teaching herself to not reflexively grab the
next cute intern who comes along.

Season 6: W/T breaks up, essentially over "selfish" spells that Willow
did because she needed Buffy back and happy. Buffy, having run through
"First love", "nice and normal guy", and "just sex, please", appears to
have hit rockbottom on m/f relationships, and eventually strongly
affirms her closest friends', and her closest friend's, primacy in her
life. First explicit mention of possible B/W pairing. Establishment of
B/W/D household/family?

So, maybe we're trending where we want to trend? Or maybe we're
dreaming, but it's a niiiice dream, no?

Dan

PS--have you noticed that each new guy in Buffy's life, she loves less
and less? She loved Angel, talked a good game (without ever saying the
word) with Riley, and hates ("Normal Again", stated when she had no
reason to lie, even to herself) Spike.

Time to "wake up and smell the hottie", methinks. Well, mehopes, but
also thinks. :)