Re: Slightly OT; Something that just occurred to me about Season Two...

["ebailey140" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@y..., JDMeans@a... wrote:
> Spoiler space, just to be on the safe side.
> 
> A Slayer's Haiku
> 
> Chosen 
> 
> One
> 
> Take
> 
> Heed
> 
> <<>>
> 
> If
> 
> You
> 
> Seek
> 
> Your
> 
> True
> 
> Soulmate
> 
> <<>>
> 
> Seek
> 
> The
> 
> Red
> 
> Haired
> 
> Friend
> 
> 
> 
> Anyway, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but with all this 
talk about 
> whether Willow wil recover from having killed a human being, I 
found myself 
> thinking of one little detail from a second season episode that 
always 
> bothered me. 
> 
> In the episode "Lie To Me", Billy 'Ford' Fordham, a friend of 
Buffy's from 
> Hemery High, betrays Buffy to Spike(Ah, the good ol' days, when no 
one 
> thought of Spike as a potential love interest!), in exchange for 
being 
> Turned. Buffy escapes, taking the vamp-worshiping cultists with 
her, and 
> locking Ford. in the warehouse with Spike. She says something 
about 
> returning tomorrow to clear out the body.
> 
> Bottom line, she knew what Spike would do to Ford, and didn't even 
shed a 
> tear. She and Giles spoke about forgiveness, Buffy justifying why 
she would 
> never forgive Ford for his betrayal.
> 
> Buffy didn't shoot Ford. She didn't knife him, stab him, or do 
anything 
> resembling physical harm to him. But she essentially signed his 
death 
> warrant, by locking him in the same room as an irate Spike. Does 
that make 
> her a murderer? Or was that seen as vengence? If you answer the 
latter, 
> does that mean that perhaps she might find it easier to forgive 
Willow her 
> own moment of madness?

Well, in Ford's case, it was more she COULDN'T rescue him without 
risking the lives of everyone else. That said, she didn't shed a 
tear for him, or Warren, for that matter. Her primary concern was 
always for Willow, as she made clear to the surviving nerds. 

E