Re: OT: Writers for final three eps

[jeepy91@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 4/18/2002 12:59:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
MarlonRichmond@xxxxxxx writes:


> just remember, the world needs a slayer, and just as Buffy was selfish
> to turn herself in in dead things, she was also selfish to commit
> suicide at the end of the gift,

Well the thing is, from the ending of 'Spiral' on Buffy wasn't thinking as 
the Slayer, she was thinking as Buffy. Not as a superhero who needed to save 
the world, again, but as a person who lost their mother and was about to lose 
their sister. So when Buffy leapt off the tower, she wasn't being selfish, 
she was just being Buffy, not the Slayer. She was saving Dawn, and in turn, 
saving the world. I think Joss really wanted us to think of Buffy as a hero 
in 'The Gift', and then the whole arc about her friends ripping the 'hero' 
out of heaven, pulling her away from the place that was her retribution for 
saving the world so many times. The problem is that it never was elaborated 
on this season, and it really should have. We're left with alot of questions 
about both sides of the fence that probably will never get cleared up :(

Casandra
~~~~~~~
Buffy:"I could wrestle naked in grease for a living and still be cleaner than 
after a shift at the Doublemeat."
Willow:"Plus, I'd visit you at work every single day."