Re: Re: "Lies Joss Whedon Told Me" - LONG

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

Rainne,

Joss is running things; he said before the seasson started that he had
already written the climax of the finale, and all the other writers have
said that he makes all the decisions. Goddard would not be able to make
these character and plot points without his approval, so let's not
whitewash Joss, please.

Buffy DID grow up. I saw it myself, in Seasons 1-3. The forced
reversions for the sake of making this show into "Spike: Heroic Rapist"
do not retcon Buffy into some immature child who can't deal with
problems--rather, they cast her as an intelligent woman, who for some
unknown reason has decided to make Spike the most important thing on the
planet and 

SPOILER SPACE

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....would kill her sister, but not him.

Excusing Buffy's decisions because the First Evil is just so dangerous
won't fly for me. How is the FE dangerous? It can't touch you. It
hasn't attacked the general populace. Its ubervamps are easy to kill
and the seal is deactivated. It hasn't even been around for a while.  

If Buffy's afraid of this blowhard (which she sure wasn't in "Amends",
btw), a hangnail must reduce her to a sobbing wreck.

About the only thing the FE can do that's dangerous is mind-control
Spike. Which puts the lie to the "we need Spike" argument. Spike isn't
as strong as Buffy. He isn't as strong as Faith. He isn't as strong as
Angel. And he's being mindcontrolled by the enemy, against whom
physical strength doesn't matter anyway.   
He also thinks that murdering defenseless humans is perfectly right and
his not killing Wood is some act of great generosity on his part. Dust
the bastard, now.

Any moral equivalency being drawn between Spike (who hunted down Nikki
purposefully and killed her for pleasure) and Nikki (who slew vampires
to defend herself and others) is a vile idea to me. It's like saying
that the cop is no different from the serial killer he arrests.
Ridiculous. And Nikki's death wasn't just a random vampire fight.
Spike premeditatedly stalked and killed her for his own pleasure, so
Robin has every right to be angry.

Finally, I'd love to believe that Buffy's belief in Spike is just
Angel-transference that's going to bite her in the ass, but the show
isn't saying that. They had Buffy repeat Nikki's line (which Buffy
didn't know anything about) to show that she's thinking how a slayer
should think, that she understands what's important, that she's right
and Giles and Robin are wrong, and that therefore her veneration of
SouledSpike, despite the fact that he's proven to be a mass-murdering
jackass, is the right thing to do.

Any thoughts that Buffy's deluding herself are merely US deluding
OURSELVES. Spike is God. Buffy is completely right. This is what the
show is saying to us.

And those are the Lies Joss Whedon Told Me.

Dan