Re: Buff and Will in S6

["bighotvirgo" <bighotvirgo@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I wasn't trying to imply that it should have been 
> B/W in the slashy sense (tho yay!). 

I  didn't think you were, I just realized in the middle of my post 
that  it was time for me to leave work, so I stopped 
abruptly.without addressing the other stuff


> images of Willow wielding power from on high, bringing Buff 
back 
> from the grave (Willow=subject, Buffy=object), some subtle 
control 
> stuff in After Life, and Buffy checking out -- all of these things 
> sort of pushed the narrative in a certain direction IMO that 
> suddenly vanished.  Plus, Buffy's Big Thing was that she 
couldn't 
> deal with being back.  Yet there's no conflict with the person 
most 
> responsible for that?  How does that work?

My reading of s6 is that Spike and Willow were revolving around 
Buffy, never really in the same place at the same time, yet 
equally connected to her, not really in direct opposition to each 
other, Buffy's survival in a weird way dependent on both of them. 
I think it would have been entirely realistic to have the conflict  be 
between Spike and Willow (light vs dark, and of course, all 
points in between as both of them could easily be both villain 
and hero at varying points) AND have Buffy sort of in the middle 
fighting them  both and also wavering between each side-but of 
course there's no clear black and white anywhere.  In the early 
part of the season, IMHO, SPike really was Buffy's lifeline.  he 
was the only character that showed anything approaching 
consistent compassion for her, IMHO.  The others, even though 
we can all argue that their hearts were in the right place at one 
time, were so freaked out by what they had done and over Buffy's 
melancholy that they couldn't deal.  I'm not going to go so far as 
to say Spike's motives were pure, but the script suggested that 
in the beginning, he simply reacted to her plight, not plotting 
ahead to his advantage.  

so that was the maybe.  In a perfect world, I too would have loved 
to see a B/W conflict but in a realistic world, they could have 
pulled off , if not a classic triangle, at least a three way struggle 
between B/S/W, all of whom were pretty much trashed by the end 
of the season.  

But all we got was the lame DMW - Buffy fight.  That should have 
been riveting and gutwrenching and  just wasn't....

all just MHO, other's mileage may vary.  



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