Re: my thoughts on Willlow

[JDMeans@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 10/5/2002 8:07:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
greywolf@xxxxxxxxxx writes:


> You know after thinking a long time about "Veiny Willow" I can only come to 
> one conclusion and that it's Giles's fault Willow went all Evil on us.
> 
> I mean here is Super smart watcher dude who apparently went thru his own 
> evil period back in his history. He sees Willow perform a extremely high 
> level spell (pulls Angel's soul out of the ether and put it back in him). A 
> spell that took a whole clan of gypsies to do it the first time. What does 
> Giles do? Pats willow on the head. Then we come to resurecting Buffy All 
> G-man can do is piss and moan at Willow regardless of the fact that she 
> survived the trials of Osirus to do it. Now why the hell didnt Giles yank 
> Willow out of sunnydale or send for someone to train her there after the 
> Angel soul deal? Instead of letting the most powerful little wicca ever 
> wonder around aimlessly untrained.... Stupid witing by all involved...
> 

Personally I was always of the opinion that Giles had let his own experiences 
with Ethan and his mates, when he was Ripper, color his prejudices against 
Willow's magic training. If he's guilty of anything, it's of blindness. As 
long as Willow was merely floating pencils around, he figured she was safe. 
Personally I'm surprised he didn't try to tutor her after she accidently made 
him go blind (and launched the Buffy/Spike ship) in "Something Blue". Maybe 
he figured that Tara would keep her honest. He didn't realize how powerful 
she had become, until it was nearly too late. Incidently(shameless 
self-promotion ahead!), this is a point that we hope to address in the 
MegaWitches Round Robin story, "Rising from the Wreckage". One of the many 
mistakes of Season Six that we intend to correct. 

Kirayoshi