Re: OT rambling

["ebailey140" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, danspector@w... wrote:
> >>>The main conflict within the group was that 
> >>>Buffy had grown into THE leader, 
>  
> >>Buffy was always the leader.  She made the >>decisions, from Day 
1.
> >And Willow started having issues with it in >Season 4.  
>
> Kind of an OT answer, no?  You said there was S7 conflict because
> Buffy's role had changed, I said her role hadn't changed and you 
start
> talking about how Willow felt about the S4 dynamic?
>
> (I also have a large dispute with your interpretation of  "I'm not 
your
> sidekick!", which I think is one of the most misinterpreted quotes 
in
> the series, but I took that out on the second edit because you're 
right
> that we don't need to branch farther afield.)

Willow's issues built and built over the years, over a lot of 
things, but the roots go back to S2, where we first really saw a 
very negative element of her otherwise utterly lovable personality.  
I'll expand on that in a bit, and how it strained things between her 
and Buffy, but that'll be a whole separate post.  It may even end up 
being a FEW posts, as I tend to go on a bit when analyzing Willow  :)

Basically, it all began with Cordelia Chase.  

> In the "Buffy Bestiary" featurette on the Season 2 DVDs, which were
> recorded during S4, David Greenwalt talks about Spike, and he's 
still
> talking up the "Cockney brawler" backstory, which was the general
> impression most folks had gotten of the "bad, rude man" up to then.
> Your alternate hypothesis may have better served the coming Spuffy 
story
> (should we blame you? Get the torches! <g>), but it was not the 
original
> intent.  

Originally, he wasn't supposed to last past six episodes.  He was 
originally going to die in What's My Line, setting up Dru to be the 
main villain for Season 2.  But, characters often develop in ways 
not originally expected.  Spike ended up being more than his 
original conception, so he survived beyond when he was supposed to.  
It's like how it's a safe bet that a certain shy hacker wasn't 
intended to wind up as, in Andrew's words, Buffy's "lesbian witch".

Speaking of which, Andrew needs to watch who he's assigning 
ownership to.  I don't think Kennedy would be too happy to hear 
that.  :)

E  



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